Colin Dickey: Once again, in case you’re wondering why Gen Xers are “like this,” watch any Disney movie between Walt’s death & The Little Mermaid, the shit we were raised on. Tried to rewatch The Rescuers last night and it is utterly Bananapants that a single soul thought this was acceptable kids’ fare

Once again, in case you’re wondering why Gen Xers are “like this,” watch any Disney movie between Walt’s death & The Little Mermaid, the shit we were raised on. Tried to rewatch The Rescuers last night and it is utterly Bananapants that a single soul thought this was acceptable kids’ fare

Can't remember if they've successfully suppressed The Black Cauldron or if they'll admit it exists.

I think it’s back on Disney+! Another absolute batshit experience, which I saw when I was, what, 7?

Never saw the Rescuers but I was definitely the Hammer Horror watching target audience for the both the Black Cauldron and The Black Hole.

They admit the Black Cauldron exists. Characters show up in games, but you will rarely find merch.

Black Cauldron teacups ride at Disneyland

I think we might have a VHS of that somewhere 😂 I’m curious about the version that Tim Burton supposedly worked on in his younger days as an animator for Disney… his concept art was deemed too creepy apparently 🫠

Still getting over how the mouse UN delegates had signs for their countries and the mouse with the afro’s said “Africa”

Because I was a fan of the original book as a kid, I refused to watch the movie all the way through when it came out. (For similar reasons, I was carried out of a showing of Disney’s “Jungle Book” in outraged hysterics.)

“KAA IS HIS FRIEND! BALOO ISN’T STUPID! THIS IS *WRONG*!”

“Why would anyone ever want an ugly little girl like you?” Burned into my memory.

My elementary school once had a double feature of Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows just to make sure we were all completely aware of the inevitability of death.

that teacher/administrator was a sadist👀 tangential but related, in 2nd grade we had a rest period that was supposed to be a nap +our teacher read horror stories to us while we put our heads down😭

That's one way to get y'all to stay under the desks.

🤭yep

Whoa. That is messed up. I had a lot of good teachers, but there were always a few people who got into the profession for the chance to wield power over helpless kids.

I should add, in the defense of my grade school, the selection was just the lack of kids' movies at the time. This was pre-VCR -- I'm old -- and that's what passed for family-friendly movies in those days. I know for a fact my principal regretted it when faced with a gym full of weeping kids.

Midwest by any chance? My school had the entire 6th grade read Where the Red Fern Grows, and then we watched the movie in the gymnasium all together at the end of the year. Nothing like a couple hundred 12 year olds bawling their eyes out together.

Close! Idaho. Sort of the Upper Midwest.

But I count anyplace we use mayo in salads as the Midwest.

MN for me. Perhaps an epicenter of mayo use in salads.

The Last Unicorn is GENUINELY a movie that should only be watched by adults tripping on acid, and yet!

So like…

In the ‘90’s people complained about Batman’s costume having nipples. Meanwhile in the ‘70’s.

Disney rereleased Bambi sometime around its 30th anniversary in the ‘70s. I was about 7 or 8. I ugly-cried so much it became that sobbing where there’s no longer sound coming out your open mouth and you get the hiccups after. “Hey kids, your grandparents cried at this movie. Now you can too.”

omg THIS i had to be carried out i was crying so hard i think i hyperventilated😭 +that mf was rated *G* (yes im still mad!)

Right? Why would they do that to us? *And* it was already an ancient movie at that stage. My parents weren’t even born when it was first released. Goddamn you, Disney.

Don Bluth stuff, The Last Unicorn, even live-action Disney like The Black Hole. They really did a number on us poor kids.

Haaa. I had a mental breakdown over The Fox & The Hound.

If the movie gave you a mental breakdown, *don't* read the book. It's trauma therapy material.

Wondering when we'll get a Journey of Natty Gann remake.

I was obsessed with that movie. I, too, wanted a friendly wolf as a pet, and the tree-topping scene is gorgeous.

Although, the original Little Mermaid story is so, so much worse. But no glorious drag queen!

This was the first movie I saw in a theater and I was inconsolable about Penny being trapped in the cave with the water rising.

I continue to resent the fact that ducktales came out when I was too old for it

I guess I don't see the connection. The Rescuers is great, Black Cauldron is great, The Last Unicorn is weird but great etc etc. Gen X's has problems but I don't think thing Disney caused them.

Wokeness Won.

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Anyway, this isn’t all bad—for me, quite the opposite. Some number of years ago I tried to lay out why I thought my childhood of being constantly exposed to terrifying things was actually a good thing… bombmagazine.org/articles/201...

When I was 6 my parents took me to see „Lady Sings the Blues“, a biopic about Billie Holiday with drug use, sexual abuse, etc. In 2nd grade one of my classmates went to see The Exorcist. We all watched Jaws when we were 8 or 9 years old. I don’t think Disney is the issue.

At 6 my mom decided it would be good to take us to see A Bridge Too Far, but it was sold out, so we ended up seeing March or Die. If seeing a dude hang himself to avoid dying in combat doesn't inform one's Gen X nihilism, I don't know what does.

And here I thought y’all were just traumatized by Cordelia leaving Buffy

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