Kid's movies.......

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

Is it just me or in the past 5 years have kids movies been stupider and worse than ever?

I mean when I was young we had cool kids' movies. Like TMNT and Disney was always churning out something good.

But these days the movies seem to have an incredibley annoying plot, annoying characters(and actors), and seem sometimes to take themselves way to seriously.

Is it just me or have kid's movies gotten worse lately?

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Call me crazy, but I think that this is just an older generation not getting what a younger generation is into or vice versa. Its just like they would probably go nuts trying to play NES games, calling us silly for playing them.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Disney went from Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, to FUCKING Treasure Planet.

 

 

Its not just a generational thing.

[Guest DawnBTVS]

Yeah...I mean I grew up watching Rugrats and damnit, now they turn fucking Spike into a talking dog!?! Jeez...come up with something good or don't bother trying

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Yeah it is. Most kids liked that movie (Treasure Planet). We don't. It is a generational gap. Its only going to get worse..

[Guest bob_barron]

It's because you're growing up

[Guest Karnage]

Disney's afternoon cartoons went from Ducktales and Talespin to the Weekenders.

[Guest razazteca]

Disney musical movies were very lame. Pixar productions is a huge improvement.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Yeah it is. Most kids liked that movie (Treasure Planet).  We don't.  It is a generational gap.  Its only going to get worse..

No, its because the quality is so low.

 

I can appreciate films made for kids so don't give me the bullshit, ok? I LOVE Pixar's stuff, and Batman: The Animated Series, along with others. I recently watched most ofthe Disney movies and could tell there was a sharp decline that had nothing to do with my age. (I hated ALL of them when I first saw them because I was too macho.)

 

Plus the critics were adults for most of them and even THEY are saying its going downhill.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

It's a generation gap. I can talk to people only a couple years younger than me, and stuff they loved as a kid and look back on with fond nostalgia seems incredibly stupid to me. There's a handful of stuff in any generation that's good enough to transcend that though, like the Pixar movies are now.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

Man I'm 19 years old and I still love classics like The Jungle Book and Aladdin.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

It is not a generational gap. Stuff like Harry Potter and the Pixar movies are new, and they are great. It just happened that the mid-80s to early 90s were ruled by kids. Back in the 70s things were terrible too.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

Maybe we're forgetting how much crap was around in the 80s and 90s. We just remember the good stuff. I still maintain there was a handful of good stuff and a great deal of crap in every generation, and I like most of the stuff from when I was a kid, because I was a kid.

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

Lilo and Stitch and all the Pixar movies are evidence that it's not that bad. And like IDRM said, you only remember the good stuff. I don't see anyone reminscing about Dinosaucers or Denver the Last Dinosaur.

[Guest Mik at Cornell]

EDIT: Whoops Double Post

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Lilo and Stitch and all the Pixar movies are evidence that it's not that bad. And like IDRM said, you only remember the good stuff. I don't see anyone reminscing about Dinosaucers or Denver the Last Dinosaur.

I agree with the Generational Gap thing. I loved thundercats, but seeing old episodes, the show was absolute crap.

 

It's just a part of growing up, I guess.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Yeah...I mean I grew up watching Rugrats and damnit, now they turn fucking Spike into a talking dog!?! Jeez...come up with something good or don't bother trying

Spike isn't a talking dog. The Wild Thornberry chick (forget her name) can talk to animals. So no one else is actually hearing Spike talk. See? Makes sense after all.

[Guest mesepher]

Lilo and Stitch and all the Pixar movies are evidence that it's not that bad. And like IDRM said, you only remember the good stuff. I don't see anyone reminscing about Dinosaucers or Denver the Last Dinosaur.

I agree with the Generational Gap thing. I loved thundercats, but seeing old episodes, the show was absolute crap.

 

It's just a part of growing up, I guess.

ah man... I still watch the show all the time. I am probably a bigger fan nowadays than I was back then.

 

Silverhawks is a different story though.. awesome toys, BAD show.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

Did you have to go an insult Dinosaucers? I thought that show ruled. Course I haven't seen it since I was 7.

[Guest hardyz1]

I stopped watching Rugrats around the time Dill came in.

 

I agree about the generation gap. I was HUGE into TMNT when I was a kid. I loved the first two movies. A few weeks ago, I happened to catch TMNT 2 on one of the premium channels. I found myself thinking, "Damn, this sucks. Now I know what my parents had to go through."

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

Personally, I'd say it's because that stuff you watched as a kid entertained you, as a KID.

 

Then you grew up. You still remember such-and-such a movie being good, so you can probably still enjoy it, even though it IS geared towards children.

 

But then you come across stuff made for kids that you DIDN'T see as a kid. It's made for kids, and you're not one. So you don't find it as entertaining, and have no fond memories of it.

 

It's like the Princess Bride Rule. If you saw the movie as a child, you can probably still watch and enjoy it today. If you didn't see it until you were older, then you probably don't like it much at all.

 

EDIT: And yeah, reading closer, I'm noticing this is pretty much what IDRM said, only I wasted more time saying it then he did.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Not true, it is quality. I remember watching The Little Mermaid when I was just learning how to wipe my own ass, and I can still watch it today. But all of the unnecessary sequels, the crap that bombs (Pluto Nash), and the movies by the staff of "9 y/o #1" and "9 y/o #2"...they just suck.

[Guest Vyce]

It's maybe a bit of a generation gap, but truly, I think it has more to do with quality. Some really quality stuff comes down the pike, like "Iron Giant", but a lot of stuff that comes out now is just not as good as what it once was.

[Guest spiny norman]

Isn't Finding Nemo meant to be really good?

[Guest godthedog]

as long as pixar exists, i'll have a positive opinion of kids movies, cause frankly they're the only guys that matter right now.

[Guest subliminal_animal]

Lilo and Stitch and all the Pixar movies are evidence that it's not that bad. And like IDRM said, you only remember the good stuff. I don't see anyone reminscing about Dinosaucers or Denver the Last Dinosaur.

Then I must be invisible, you faggot, because dinos are cool and all I do is reminisce about those awesome shows.

[Guest subliminal_animal]

And what the hell was "Dinosaucers"?

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Denver the Last Dinosaur was awful. Even as a kid I knew it was crap. Of course, I did like Widget or rather watched it because nothing else was on.

 

Dinosaucers was Transformers but with Dinosaurs and no transforming. It was okay. Nothing too special, IMO.

[Guest El Satanico]

the 80's weren't as amazing as we 80's kids like to think.

 

There was just as much trash in the 80's as there is now.

 

Other than stuff like Beethoven 3 and Air Bud 3 there's nothing that offensive about kids movies now.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

**hands Satanico a copy of The Land Before Time IV**