So, The New Disney Film Is Not As Heartwarming As Advertised- Page 2

[strummergirl]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 10:28pm

Confession, I remember crying when Elle got her LSAT results back in Legally Blonde. Not snot-filled hysterics crying, but very happy tears.

I also remember hearing so much word of mouth from people complaining about The Family Stone not being advertised correctly that I prepared myself for not the most usual Christmas movie flare. Still cried.

The messiest tears I can recently remember, or that compared to my reaction to Disney films in my younger years, were Toy Story 3 and the ending to The Bicycle Thief.

Updated On: 8/20/12 at 10:28 PM

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 10:28pm

The dinner scene too, when Diane made sure that her gay son knew she was so proud of him. She threw silverware at him, which sounds like it may contradict the previous statement but it does not.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 10:30pm

Show them Brian's Song too. Though, the ending of that just pissed me off. But, that's just me.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 10:31pm

I'm also a mess during Click. Adam Sandler movie where the Hoff thinks he ate sh!t, and I cry every time during this one scene.

Updated On: 8/20/12 at 10:31 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 10:36pm

I cry in Pink Flamingos when Divine does eat the shlt.

[jv92]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 10:39pm

Disney films are sad and devastating? This is news?

Just reading the Wikipedia synopsis of THE FOX AND THE HOUND makes my cry.

[bethnor]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 10:45pm

as annoying as it is to sit through the whole video, the parents also seem to think the kids are overreacting too.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 10:59pm

I feel like the one kid starts playing to the camera at the end.

Stepmom and The Family Stone make me crazy and for similar reasons. I just find Susan Sarandon's character and Diane Keaton's whole awful so family so evil, it forces me to sympathize with two actresses that I don't usually like, Julia Roberts and Sarah Jessica Parker.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 11:07pm

When Susan Sarandon gives her kids those presents at the end of STEPMOM, I totally lose my shlt.

Oh, and FIELD OF DREAMS. Don't get me started on that one. I hadn't seen it since my Dad died in 2005 and i saw that it was on HBO about a month ago and watched it. It took me about a day to recover from it.

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 8/20/12 at 11:30pm

Let's not forget Bridge to terebithia.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 12:35am

We should just face it. A lot of children's movies are sad in some way. Others I remember feeling sad about were All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Land Before Time, and one from ABC called Scruffy.

And oddly, I think I remember crying over Ice Castles too.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 12:41am

I cry at everything. Seriously. I remember my friends making fun of me for a year because I cried during the TEXAS CHAINSAW remake.

[Almira]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 2:36am

That video is some funny sh*t.



Thanks, TDiva!

Updated On: 8/21/12 at 02:36 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 4:10am

I could only watch that once. I just don't understand why the fox and the puppy couldn't be friends!!!!!!!

Oh Jordy, I couldn't be more with you on that one.

I can't even think about that horrible film without getting upset.
It is a one sad event after another capped off with the most depressing ending possible for a non-violent movie.

Seriously, I'm not even being snarky, that effin' movie scarred me for life.

And the other 2 kids movies that just reduce me to a puddle of tears are Charlotte's Web and Snoopy Come Home.

Updated On: 8/21/12 at 04:10 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 6:55am

But kids can't be sad anymore. We've advanced since then and know better.

We have to keep the wee ones in a perpetual state of happiness, high on high fructose corn syrup.

This is America!

Fat and protected children are the only true sign of real success for loving parents!

[Patash]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 9:38am

Reminds me of me when I first saw Bambi, and again when I saw Old Yeller.

Except that my mother comforted me and talked about death instead of filming and posting it for the whole world to laugh at.

[jv92]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 9:47am

One thing I'll never understand, and perhaps there's some book or doctoral thesis on this I should read, is why so many Disney movies have only one parent. I can think of ONE where there are two present, MARY POPPINS. (And maybe LION KING, but SPOILER ALERT, Mufasa dies.) Other than that, there's a stepmother or a single dad or a single mom.

And some of the best ones don't even have an explanation for the absence of the mother-- LITTLE MERMAID, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. It's like Ariel and Belle are some sort of divine creation that came down from the heaven. Weird. But they're great movies.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 9:51am

^^^
Wow, that's a really good point that I can't believe I never even noticed.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 9:58am

Show them the Exorcist and get it over with.

Asshole parents...the scars from watching a movie where someone dies is nothing compared to the humiliation they will endure because these dbags filmed them and posted the over the top reactions.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:02am

Mulan, Rapunzel, and Aurora (I think) are the Disney "princess" with both parents, although Rapunzel doesn't know it.

[jv92]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:09am

Yes, Aurora has both her king and queen parents, but she's raised by those merry woodland fairies, and the parents are kind of a nonentity.

Of course, Tarzan has Mother and Father Ape, and two dogs DO conceive the 101 Dalmatians, but they're not quite fairy tales.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:10am

Even the Fox and the Hound have one "parent" each. The hunter and the cute old lady.

Wendy and her brothers have both parents, but that doesn't balance out all the parent-less Lost Boys. Updated On: 8/21/12 at 10:10 AM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:35am

The Family Stone is my favorite Christmas movie EVER. The cast and direction are perfect. And the music alone can bring tears to my eyes. I never get tired of watching it.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:51am

Some of these one parent or parent dying stories were taken from other sources though. Not excusing all of them, but I thought like Cinderella made it clear that both of her parents died, and so she ended up living with her step mother, who her father had gotten married to after her mother died.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 8/21/12 at 10:59am

There is definitely some literature on not just the presence, or lack of presence, of parents in Disney films but the portrayal of stepmothers that left a really deep impression on a lot of children. You can say some of it comes from the source but Walt picked those stories and considering so much of the original stories (that are indeed dark) was removed in the movie adaptation it says a lot that the stepmother roles not only remained but got played up. It, of course, got a lot more balanced after the new golden age. You had your Jaffars, Scars, and Count Frollos that were just evil male figures- though Scar in hindsight seemed to have the same drag queen inspired vamp quality as Ursula in The Little Mermaid- I also think there may be stuff written up on that in terms of 'queer' characters in the history of Disney animation.

Back to the parent roles, in Peter Pan, I thought the issue was that Peter and Wendy emerged in the parental roles for the Lost Boys but not working out for obvious reasons, mostly on Peter as a character. Since any romantic bond between them could not really ever be portrayed, her 'betrayal' of intending to leave Neverland bothered not just the Lost Boys but Peter as well since he too saw Wendy as a mother figure in some respects.


Updated On: 8/21/12 at 10:59 AM