TV/Movies Megathread

[jimmy olsen]

However, they fail to mention some of the most interesting aspects of the interwar years, such as the time in the mid-1930s that bears were trained to fly seaplanes and lupine air pirates ruled Southeast Asia or maybe India or something.

C

Talespin?

[Eddie Teach]

Duck Tales > all those other 90s Disney cartoons

[Syt]

Talespin was ok (I liked the episodes with that Satlinist country), but I liked the show better when it was called Tales of the Gold Monkey.

[Viking]

Little Mermaid smells like fish.

clams

[jimmy olsen]

The Little Mermaid (1989).  (Probably) the best film from Disney's renaissance, notable for its almost flawless animation and entirely flawless soundtrack, also features that movement's most relatable protagonist: Ariel, a young merwoman suffering from loneliness, an inability to relate to her peers, severe body dysmorphia, unconventional sexual desires, and illiteracy.

In one of Western civilization's best metaphors, Ariel gives up her boring frolicks beneath the sea along with her nascent mental illness, trading her voice, the thing that makes her special, to Ursula the Sea Witch in exchange for some fuckable parts and all the risk and opportunity that entails, as finding love is the only way she sees to become a happy adult person, which is in fact still true no matter how many times the stupid, delusional, and sociopathic claim differently.  In the end, the lesson is that without her uniqueness, she's nobody, but just being unique was, of course, not sufficient by a long shot.

And they sure do go out of their way to make it explicit that she's 16, given that the entire movie is about Ariel doing literally anything to get laid.  This is bold storytelling, too, but children of all ages can learn a lot about how just being yourself usually isn't good enough at all.

It does help a lot, however, if you hail from a rich and powerful family, unlike Ursula's other victims, underscoring that in many cases misery remains unavoidable, and even if due to the mysterious workings of the economically powerful you may eventually be freed, most likely it will be only back into the same life of alienation you valued so little you gambled your soul on escape from it--now dogged by the trauma of your long imprisonment and monsterification.

Oh, and I also liked the part where Ursula gets impaled with a ship and explodes like it was Jaws: The Revenge.  That part was cool.

It's better than Aladdin, even though that movie also touches on much the same essential truths from a male point of view, because the songs are better and because Aladdin introduces too many fantastic, unrealistic ideas that break the willing suspension of disbelief, such as pop culture references and class mobility.

A+

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4b7o4CJDdw

[Ed Anger]

Bachelor Party

None of the women had ever sen it, so they get a young Tom Hanks and the hair of Adrian Zmed.

4 insane Tawny Kiteans out of 6

[Ideologue]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4b7o4CJDdw

A little clunky lyrically, but the gonorrhea line was a fun subversion of the actual song.  And it's a good impression of Jodi Benson to boot.

Of course, it seems to assume a lot about mermaid physiology.  As far as anybody knows, they fuck like sharks and mantas, which is very broadly analogous to human mechanics.  The merfolk can certainly establish paternity, which suggests internal fertilization.  Or maybe Triton sits on top them eggs for like half a year, zapping other mermen with his trident for the temerity to so much as think as popping a cloud in his general vicinity.  But that's no way to run a government.

Yes, I'll ruin this joke with gusto, because the joke ruins the metaphor.

[Ideologue]

P.S. Talespin was a good show.

[Ed Anger]

I went through the entire Disney cartoon TV experience with my nephew. And Darkwing Duck was the bestest of them all.

[Ideologue]

Launchpad doesn't like to talk about the things he had to do during the war.

[jimmy olsen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4b7o4CJDdw

A little clunky lyrically, but the gonorrhea line was a fun subversion of the actual song.  And it's a good impression of Jodi Benson to boot.

Of course, it seems to assume a lot about mermaid physiology.  As far as anybody knows, they fuck like sharks and mantas, which is very broadly analogous to human mechanics.  The merfolk can certainly establish paternity, which suggests internal fertilization.  Or maybe Triton sits on top them eggs for like half a year, zapping other mermen with his trident for the temerity to so much as think as popping a cloud in his general vicinity.  But that's no way to run a government.

Yes, I'll ruin this joke with gusto, because the joke ruins the metaphor.

The singer was probably influenced by that Futurama episode where Fry married a mermaid from Atlanta.

[CountDeMoney]

and the hair of Adrian Zmed.

Oh, Adrian Zmed.  The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

[Ideologue]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).  The phrase "tone problem" was invented in 1996 too.

B

[Queequeg]

and the hair of Adrian Zmed.

Oh, Adrian Zmed.  The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Only reason I know that name is because of the time they go to Branson on The Simpsons.

[Ed Anger]

and the hair of Adrian Zmed.

Oh, Adrian Zmed.  The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Only reason I know that name is because of the time they go to Branson on The Simpsons.

Young people.