• MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Ours was “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”. I don’t know why nor where but one day my step dad showed up with this movie for us. It was the only “kids” movie we ever own and we watched it a 1.000 times. looking back it wasn’t as inocent as I thought at the time, but it was the 90s. Another movies we loved?! Howard the Duck ( the movie where Marty Mcfly mom fucked a duck) So yeah the 90s were kind of weird and had a lot of inapropriate movies for kids.

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      Haha I was just talking to someone the other day about how much I loved Howard the Duck growing up. She was like “uhh… that wasn’t really a kid’s movie, was it?” Maybe not. Maybe it and similar movies are the reason us millennials are the way we are.

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        We’ll never again have such insane inapropriate movies! the 90s were a special moment in time lol

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        For some reason, I had the book version at a young age and I’m not sure if it was a weirder experience than actually watching the movie.

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        And cartoons based on even less appropriate movies! It’s a wonder there was no Terminator adaptation airing between Starship Troopers and Robocop. Ghostbusters was at least deliberately goofy, but the movie was nnnot for kids.

        I blame advertising. There was no fine-grain data on demographics, and minimal control over when a station would air your blip of corporate propaganda. So anything big was plastered everywhere. Naturally, anything targeted at men aged 18-35 with disposable income also sounded cool as fuck to boys of any age. Why not cash in and make a beloved Saturday-morning distraction out of the movie where Michael Keaton plays a vulgar corpse?

        … oh god, they’re doing a sequel now. At least Keaton’s getting work.

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      Oh come on, Down and Dirty Duck, by The Turtles, was a masterpiece that literally didn’t show any possible nudity, since it was animated. That was a totally appropriate animated film for families. The main character was specifically interested in creating his own offspring as soon as possible!

      /Do I need this?

      Also: Who Framed Roger Rabbit was totally a documentary about the oil companies forcing the US into a car-centric society.