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| TitanPa |
Posted - 04/13/2007 : 04:35:30
i bought my daughter 'Happy Feet' for Easter. Thats all she could talk about. She loved watching the penguins on the ads. She also loves movies with music. I sat down and watched it with her. It was cute and adorable and had great music. Then we started to get to the end. Does this movie have a hidden agenda? Is this an Al Gore movie in disguise??? Any kid who watches this wont get the ending at all. They will just see a big group of penguins dancing. What I see?????? Adult scolding. No wonder this movie won an Oscar. 'Cars' was way better than happy feet. But if Al Gore's movie won an Oscar..then of course this movie had to. |
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| Sean |
Posted - 05/08/2007 : 05:59:04
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by Conan The Reporter
I can understand why some were underwhelmed but it cheered me up anyway.
How could penguins not cheer up someone who's feeling down? 
When they are KILLERS!
 
 Poor wee penguins.
But I got my own back by not shooting any and letting them take over the earth. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 05/08/2007 : 05:37:47
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Originally posted by Se�n
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Originally posted by Conan The Reporter
I can understand why some were underwhelmed but it cheered me up anyway.
How could penguins not cheer up someone who's feeling down?
When they are KILLERS!
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| Sean |
Posted - 05/08/2007 : 01:26:19
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Originally posted by Conan The Reporter
I can understand why some were underwhelmed but it cheered me up anyway.
How could penguins not cheer up someone who's feeling down? |
| Conan The Westy |
Posted - 05/07/2007 : 22:19:53
Saw it last night and really enjoyed it.
I was feeling a bit down and a colleague lent me her copy. It was cute, I enjoyed the in-jokes for the adults (Loved the HAL reference) and didn't find the environmental message too dischordant.
I can understand why some were underwhelmed but it cheered me up anyway. |
| silly |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 14:40:01
I think y'all had pretty high hopes for a film that was basically designed to sell toys. |
| MisterBadIdea |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 05:43:20
Right on, Blevins, and on top of that I'd like to add that I had real problems with the have-cake-and-eat-it-too ending. That pushed me over the edge on this film; it's very simple-minded. |
| Joe Blevins |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 00:50:16
So, uh... never saw Happy Feet. Can't comment on it directly. My sister took her three kids to see it (ranging in age from 3 to 7). They were psyched beforehand, but the movie (apparently) was underwhelming and the environemental message was entirely lost on them. They all loved -- and continue to obsess over -- Cars.
I thought Cars looked great -- too good to be casually dismissed as "terrible," even if the script was lacking. Was I the only one who felt like the residents of Radiator Springs were kind of ***holes? They're needy and bossy and just generally more creepy than endearing. Also, I'm tired of movies about city slickers going to "charming" small towns full of "loveable" eccentrics. I've lived in small towns and found the residents to be no more charming or eccentric or loveable than anyone else. I'll quote from Roger Ebert's review of Sweet Home Alabama:
Among the pieties that Hollywood preaches but does not believe is the notion that small towns are preferable to big cities. Film after film rehearses this belief: Big cities are repositories of greed, alienation and hypocrisy, while in a small town you will find the front doors left unlocked, peach pies cooling on the kitchen window sill, and folks down at the diner who all know your name. "Sweet Home Alabama" is the latest, admittedly charming, recycling of this ancient myth.
I only disagree with the part about Alabama being charming. It isn't. It's a crock. Cars isn't as gallingly false as Alabama, but it's in that category. |
| silly |
Posted - 04/19/2007 : 14:59:59
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Originally posted by redPen
Haven't seen "Happy Feet." Nor "March of the Penguins." It's penguins . . . walking.
Sometimes they swim!
But they never fly.  |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 04/19/2007 : 09:42:19
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Originally posted by Tori
I was led to believe that it was a stronger message than "Don't destroy the Earth" can anyone confirm?
Like Sean says, it is not even such a general message as that. The message is just that huge trawlers take too many fish, meaning that there aren't enough left for the penguins. The conclusion is extremely positive, i.e. that human beings and penguins can live in harmony. In other words, the film just says that greed has bad consequences.
You could think of it this way (and I promise that I don't mean this as a personal judgement - it's just what I think in general) - showing children only films with falsely cleansed versions of the world equates to lying to them. Further, I reiterate that the message in this film does not in any way take away from children's fun. I would simply suggest that you view the film first yourself, and then you can decide whether they ought to be allowed to see it. |
| redPen |
Posted - 04/19/2007 : 07:15:08
Haven't seen "Happy Feet." Nor "March of the Penguins." It's penguins . . . walking.
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| Sean |
Posted - 04/19/2007 : 00:14:03
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Originally posted by Downtown
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Originally posted by Tori
No, no I meant that they should have done it accurately and if they had done so you would have known what to expect and then chosen whether your child should have seen it or not. Versus taking them to see Happy Feet without expecting a political environmental message.
Why is "don't destroy the Earth" such a "political" message???
The more I try to understand this objection - and the more people try to explain it - the more confused I get.
Can someone please just tell me - in simple, plain English - why entertaining little kids while teaching them to respect the world God gave us is bad? Where are the objections stemming from?
I'm the wrong person to be talking about this issue (as a devout atheist) but I've heard it postulated by various people over the years that looking after the planet isn't necessary. Some reasons given by various people I've met include:-
- We don't need to look after the planet as the purpose of existence of the universe is for we humans to create as many human souls for heaven as is possible, so what happens to the planet in the meantime doesn't matter. <this was my uncle>
- The planet was created for the use of we humans, and everything else on the planet is ours to use as we see fit, so if there is competition between humans and another species for a resource then humans get priority. So if humans and penguins compete for fish then that's just tough for the penguins.
- Humanity's destruction of the planet isn't part of the creator's plan, so it couldn't possibly happen, hence we don't need to worry about it. So it isn't possible for humans to wipe out fish through over-fishing, or wipe out penguin species through taking their fish, or change the climate through CO2 emissions etc, as this clearly wasn't part of god's plan for the planet so it can't happen.
There is some kind of logic in all of the above, once one makes certain assumptions. My opinion is that penguins have as much right to fish as humans. In fact they have more right to fish than humans as they will die without fish, whereas humans can simply eat something else (or a better idea; eat less fish and leave enough for other species to survive and be healthy). As logical as it sounds, some people simply don't agree that penguins have birthrights. |
| Tori |
Posted - 04/18/2007 : 19:57:53
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Originally posted by Downtown
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Originally posted by Tori
No, no I meant that they should have done it accurately and if they had done so you would have known what to expect and then chosen whether your child should have seen it or not. Versus taking them to see Happy Feet without expecting a political environmental message.
Why is "don't destroy the Earth" such a "political" message???
The more I try to understand this objection - and the more people try to explain it - the more confused I get.
Can someone please just tell me - in simple, plain English - why entertaining little kids while teaching them to respect the world God gave us is bad? Where are the objections stemming from?
I was led to believe that it was a stronger message than "Don't destroy the Earth" can anyone confirm?
When it all comes down to it I want to teach my children and let their movies be fun. |
| Downtown |
Posted - 04/18/2007 : 18:18:16
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Originally posted by Tori
No, no I meant that they should have done it accurately and if they had done so you would have known what to expect and then chosen whether your child should have seen it or not. Versus taking them to see Happy Feet without expecting a political environmental message.
Why is "don't destroy the Earth" such a "political" message???
The more I try to understand this objection - and the more people try to explain it - the more confused I get.
Can someone please just tell me - in simple, plain English - why entertaining little kids while teaching them to respect the world God gave us is bad? Where are the objections stemming from? |
| Sean |
Posted - 04/17/2007 : 23:51:49
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
However, you must admit that the environmental side of Happy Feet was pretty obvious, and if someone objects to that bit being shown to their kids, but didn't know about it before hand, I can see that they might be upset by it.
A "Warning: Contains Greenie Philosophy" disclosure perhaps? The difficulty of course would be catering for everyone's philosophy/censorship requirements. E.g., "Warning: Contains Capitalist Philosophy" would apply to a lot of movies. And Finding Nemo would need a "Warning: Contains Insensitivity Towards Addicts" etc. Not to mention that The Village would need a "Warning: Not A Horror Movie" warning. Etc etc.
Movies sometimes contain surprises, but a quick look around the web before watching can eliminate surprises. Which of course is why I wouldn't do it. 
Salopian, I'm glad you had fun at that site. Part of the reason for providing that link was for people's entertainment. |
| silly |
Posted - 04/17/2007 : 22:05:31
Warning!! SPOILER!!!
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Originally posted by Rovark
[quote]Originally posted by Salopian
THEY SHOT BAMBI'S MUM fercrissake.
Okay, I'm taking that one off my Netflix queue.
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