Nostalgia Critic Real Thoughts on - Monster Squad
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- How is this somehow the worst and best movie for kids?
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That's kind of what makes this timeless, the fact the kids are written like real kids. Goonies, Explorers, Super 8, The Gate, Stranger Things, ET, Stand by Me... when you write kids as they really are instead of this perfect amalgam of what people imagine them to be, it really resonates with how you remember your own childhood. We cursed, we explored, we talked about crazy stuff... and if we ever saw a wolfman we'd have kicked him in the nards just to prove a point.
I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the daycare I went to. Which was in a church. "They call me... Tim," will always be the best line from my childhood
Rob - 'I think the perfect age for this film is' (cut to adverts) Me - (screaming at computer) WHAT! WHAT IS THE PERFECT AGE ROB? TELL ME ! I NEED TO KNOW !
"Dracula called that little girl a bitch!"
"She had it coming."
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People not understanding the Holocaust reference in the comments just killed me back when you first released the video. That was sad.
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The x men movies had it.
I'm kinda sad that OP edited his typo.
Now Mike Bushnell and I just look like assholes.
So this paved the way for movies like Deadpool and Sausage Party? Something parents put on to distract the kids, but freak out when they actually see what's on it.
shizuwolf um, this has nothing to do with Deadpool or Sausage Party. All 3 are radically different from each other and Deadpool and Sausage Party were R while Monster Squad was PG-13
The Gift Of Jericho well, this movie pretty much has more in common with Sausage Party than with Deadpool. Both look like something aimed at six year olds, but are actually made for an older audience.
As long as their good. More power to him. Would like PG-13 Animated movies too.
As long as they're better than fucking Sausage Party. That movie is so fucking overrated.
theAngryscotman what's wrong with it?
I don't remember kids swearing when I was in elementary school. I certainly didn't swear before I was a teen. Then again, I did grow up in Utah...
Imagine Goonies being released today as is. It would never happen. It would be edited according to the PC Police straight to hell. Monster Squad is exactly the same thing. We were way more adult back in the 80s than those today. We got the jokes. We weren't scarred. Monster Squad is a hard shot of vodka to someone still using a sippy cup. And we LOVED IT!!!
Julio Colon i wish people nowadays didn't treat kids like fragile little flowers.
Exactly. The problem today is that all these 'adults' are all still children who were never ever held accountable for anything in their lives. They all need time-outs & spankings.
… I really don’t think that’s the problem. I agree we’ve gone overboard on protecting children, to the point where I would argue it represents an unsustainable societal pattern, but it’s nothing new.
It’s been a steady march pretty much since we got out of the dark ages.
Yes and this is why I let my 4yo watch it with me last year when I bought it on Amazon Prime Video and she made me watch it like 3 more times that night and I was like heck yes let's do it lol. Man I love my kids they r like me want to watch the scary stuff but still can have fun with the scare part or at least root the kids on love it. 😎
The fuck are you talking about? Did you not see the IT remake? It was basically goonies with an evil clown and it got like 94% on RT. Stop making shit up
super 8 had kids swearing
Wasn't super 8 that film that had a game teaser with portal 2?
Jkop Yes
wasn't that for adults in their 30s
It was PG13 wasn't it
It's was a condensed and bloated Stranger Things before Stranger Things
The review was one of my later faves. I love the ones where there's a lot of characters, and of course Tamara saving the day by destroying reality was awesome.
There is nothing harmful about Monster Squad. Dracula calls the little girl a bitch and it has a guy who was in the holocaust... so what? If a kid hasn't heard the word 'bitch', then that kid and family need to be a museum as they are a strange artifact that needs to be studied. This is squarely a kids' movie, no question about it. Doug's thoughts on this are why kids' movies are so bland these days.
Kids know that people die, but you wouldn't show them a holocaust documentary. You also have to think of when this was made, people were a lot more sensitive about these sorts of things. It isn't hard to understand.
+Kairu Hakubi
I think it is the natural progression of life that effects many people. You get older and instincts make you want to keep things safer for the children, forgetting that it didn't harm you as a child and therefore there is no reason to think it will harm anyone else.
+BucketSS
Why wouldn't you? I wasn't more than 10 when I learned what the holocaust was and watched documentaries about it. Hell, I was 9 when I first watched the original Robocop. Kids aren't fragile little flowers that have to be shielded from all the bad things in the world. In fact, it is the opposite, they need to learn about the bad things so they can grow up smart and strong and try to fix them. Bubble wrapping kids leads to adults that are temperamental wimps that can barely function in society, just look at the deluge of whiny safe space kids that are so prevalent these days.
Jay Jeckel The idea is that a "kids movie" is not the same thing as "a movie that kids are able to see without going insane". A holocaust movie is not a kids movie. Kids can watch it, yes, but it isn't a kids movie. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_film
+BucketSS
I didn't say that a holocaust movie is a kids' movie. I said Monster Squad, which is not a holocaust movie, is a kids' movie and that showing documentaries about the holocaust to kids wasn't necessarily a terrible thing. Your comment doesn't make any sense as a response to mine.
Jay Jeckel The only thing that doesn't make sense here is how you replied to a single sentence in my argument. First, If you had paid attention, or had a valid argument, you'd know that my talk of a holocaust movie is an analogy and I am not directly talking about one. Second, when I say "A holocaust movie is not a kids movie. Kids can watch it, yes, but it isn't a kids movie" that doesn't mean that I ever said that you directly called it one. Again, it's simply an analogy that I kept running with. Everything I have said can be summarized in one sentence.
A kid's movie does not mean that children are physically and mentally unable to process what they are seeing, it simply means that it is meant for a younger audience. Idiot.
*fuck that's two sentences*
I had a "taped off of HBO" VHS tape of Monster Squad followed by The Lost Boys. This was quite a double feature and I watched that whole tape a lot as a kid.
Real Thoughts on Rocky & Bullwinkle.
Wait, people don't know what the numbers on the arm mean? I .... I have no words.
BoyNamedSue4 It's a subtle reference, all things considered. It took me a moment to recognize.
This movie used to scare the shit outta me when I was really young. The wolfman transformation is really well done
*There needs to be Avengers style movie with Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, Thing from Black Lagoon and the Mummy...*
do you know one of the scariest movies I saw? The Brothers Grimm, it had a horse swallowing a child, trees killing dozens of people,, a bloody frozen river that showed victims, a blood moon, a tar monster erasing a kids face....need I go on
The problem with modern kids movies (and comedies), in my opinion, is that they don't try hard. They don't. They play to the laziest of plots and use only three types of jokes: toilet humor (so, fart and poop jokes), cursing, and sex jokes. It wouldn't be so bad IF these weren't the majority of these films but, sadly, that's all we get. I mean, I can understand if slapstick isn't your thing, but, there's a reason why a movie like Home Alone or Planes Trains and Automobiles are considered classics compared to movies that will quickly disappear like Die Hard or Neighbors. Thankfully those movies will be forgotten but it doesn't change the fact that modern movies in those areas are so sub par and so boring that it really seems like there are only ever two or three good movies a year and the others just suck. I'm hoping we start to see more stuff like Zootopia because we need to bring back the effort.
HICMGUN did you mean to say "Die Hard", or something else? I think a lot of people consider that a classic, Doug even included it in one of his top Christmas specials lists. Also it's not a comedy.
SadistModeOn I can't get behind it. I also don't have to agree with Doug on everything. But, the humor falls into the same tropes of modern humor that really irks me. It's fine if you like it but I just wish there was variety in the comedies of today. Like, have some movies be a lot of sex and curse humor but have others be humorous like the older ones. That's not asking much.
HICMGUN sure you don't have to like it, tbh I haven't even seen it, doesn't particularly seem like my thing. Just thought it didn't fit as an example of movies that wouldn't last, seeing as it has lasted 28 years and people still like it, and it was a bit strange to group it with comedies since it's primarily action
SadistModeOn I'm talking about the one with Kevin Hart that recently came out with Will Ferrell... Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong one... Oooooh! Get Hard (did a little bit of Googling)! Sorry, my bad.
HICMGUN haha it's cool. On the plus side, you just proved how utterly forgettable it is by instead remembering the name of an actual classic movie. I don't even remember hearing about... what was it called again?
im 22, and i never swore as a kid, or any time after
Why the fuck not?
Because swear words are limiting.
Guillermo Sulvale The words themselves are limiting so you limit your vocabulary and avoid using them? That doesn't make any sense.
Swear words, from a literary perspective, are weak and nondescript. As far expletives go, you could be far more interesting. "By the exarch of Izmir!" is a favorite of mine.
Guillermo Sulvale I'm not talking about from a literary perspective I'm talking about in every day conversation.
The Gate is another movie that has a similar feel to The Monster Squad in terms of it being sort of for kids, but sort of not. That PG-13 grey area.
I saw the Gate when i was 8 or 9 and the face melting and eye in the hand i remembered until i got the dvd in 2011 and watched it again
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was a much harder PG than usual. Didn't push it as much as those movies from the '80s, but definitely more intense and adult than what we would think of as PG movies today.
I re-saw this film about 8-10 years ago, and was kinda blown away by the one kid (The older brother from the Wonder Years!) calling the other one a "Faggot" in school, and another part about not "homoing out". Back when I was a kid in the 1980s, I never noticed, but now it was like a punch to the throat. Did I change, or the times change? Hmmm.
Kairu Hakubi because homophobic bullying. People complain about having to be "pc" nowadays, but earlier that kind of shift was to help discriminated people, like gay people
Kairu Hakubi sorry for the misunderstanding. It's just, considering a living parody like Trump is actually a presidential candidate, it's hard to tell who's joking about things being better before political correctness and who's being disturbingly serious.
Kairu Hakubi I think Trump was preeeetty explicit about being a backlash against political correctness. Whether that's one of the true reasons people voted for him is debatable, but it's highly likely it is. Just saying his supporters don't seem like bastions of political correctness
Kairu Hakubi ok, you are on a way different track than where we started. I know I'm the one who brought up Trump, but it wasn't for the sake of talking about politics, it was just to demonstrate the trend of reacting against political correctness and my mistakenly taking you for being one of those people who thinks things were better before we cared whether things might be offensive. Just based on your first comment, which imo was too short and too like that aforementioned mindset to successfully identify as sarcastic. Glad you aren't like that, and you can talk politics if you want all you want, but at this point I don't really have an investment in what you're now describing, just tbh
fun fact jk Rowling was originally going to make Ron curse a lot in Harry Potter but the editor said to take it out since it was a kids book.
Elisha Foster that's a cool piece of trivia
Elisha Foster He often comes pretty close, so it makes sense. He occasionally does swear, but the real swear words aren't shown in the books
real thoughts on the the scariest movie of all time FOOD FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
Scarier than .……….....…...................................................KAAZAM??????????
The thing that bothers me about kids' films over the past fifteen or twenty years is that the vast majority of them are mostly lighthearted with some dark moments scattered here and there with only a few having that Don Blue/80s live action kids' film quality of being consistently dark throughout (Hunchback, the Laika Films, and Rango being the ones I can think of off the top of my head). Now, that's not a knock against the films we had over the past two decades, since there's quite a few such films I like such as a fair number of the Pixar films, The Lion King, How to Train Your Dragon, and Kung-Fu Panda, it's just that it's how most kid's movies are these days and it's rather boring to see the same sort of tones in these movies over and over again.
I feel the same way about animated films, the majority over the past twenty years are all lighthearted kid's stuff, with only one or two movies that are dark or adult in tone here and there. It's why I'm glad Sausage Party exists, because there's a chance it could open the floodgates for people to make darker or just more adult-oriented animated movies in same vein as a Bakshi film from the 70s and 80s.
I actually didn't swear until I was at LEAST 13. I guess I was just weird. :/
South Park's always had childhood profanity 😄
The Bayformers movies are innocuous and Monster Squad is more violent? Either you haven't seen any of them or your memory is doing you a disservice. There is loads of explicit death of humans at the hands of the Decepticons. In particular lots of soldiers die on-screen in the first one, and the third one features Decepticons walking through the streets disintegrating civilians. There are many other instances, but put simply, no, they do not feature less graphic violence than Monster Squad.
Wait, hold on. Isn't Universal working on a sort of "Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe" with all these guys in it?
MONSTER SQUAD REMAKE CONFIRMED
The Dark Universe didn’t happen,
It was murdered by The Mummy (2017) box office. 😐
Monster Squad is a fun movie. It helps that Fred Dekker is a terrific filmmaker. Even if you don't talk about directors much, I wish you had talked about him more, considering his interesting career, and Monster Squad hurt his career, and Robocop killed it, though he's been making a comeback, specifically thanks to his friend Shane Black.
Who also co-wrote the film of course.
I wouldn't say he's terrific but he's a solid filmmaker.
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When I end up having a kid I'm gonna raise them on the Universal monster movies. Then when they get to about 8-9 years old I'll show them Monster Squad :p
I love how they said "kids need..." and then a whisky add popped up lol.
A"Halloween That Almost Wasn't" reference, LOVE it! c'mon, it ends with Dracula disco dancing.
I love this movie. Still holds up to me, just watched it again about 6 months ago
You had me at "Leggo my Eggo, bitch!"
Seriously Doug, make Rob watch Stranger Things, you'll be doing him a favor.
I want them to remake this film just to say stuff like "Monster Squad on point" and "Monster Squad goals" and piss off all the old fans in an amazing disaster.
people truly didnt understand the numbers on the old mans arm?? that is sad
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Hey! My kids Never swear! Mostly because they don't exist... Yet ;)
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I feel like a lot of kids films from the past 10 years or so, with kids, haven't had the kids swearing. I can't remember the last kids film I saw where they did that. But, if there are, chances are they do swear because the setting takes place in like the 80s or earlier. There's barely any kids movies that take place now that have kids swearing. Stranger Things works because it's such an authentic time capsule of the 80s created by people who were kids in the 80s. The filmmakers behind the bad/bland kids films now and even the chart people behind the studios are what you guys said, parents who don't want their kids exposed to stuff like that.
Can we please discuss the notion that "PG-13 movies were way more hardcore back in the day"? Because I absolutely understand where they're coming from with examples like *Temple of Doom* and the like, but then you have a film like *Little Shop of Horrors* (1986) that seems way too innocuous for the rating. And some movies like *Beetlejuice* that I could've sworn were PG-13 but were actually PG. So I don't get it.
You know another HARDCORE 80s horror movie centered around kids?
"The Gate". That film is merciless toward the kid characters.
Andre Gower aka Sean said in an interview at a convention that he hated the "Kick him in the nards" line at the time they shot it. He asked the director if he could say balls but was told no. Andre said he had never even heard of balls being referred to as nards at the time. Guess the director and writers felt balls was too offensive in a kids films, but they had no issue with Sean saying things like "If we pull this off I'm gonna shit". Not to mention all the other cursing throughout the film.
I know how kids actually talk, they almost *LITERALLY* say sentences made of curse words
What are they? Some kind of Monster Squad?
Check out Super 8. The kids swear and feel like real kids in that movie. It also has some pretty gritty stuff for a kids movie.
Now I want a real thoughts on Kentucky Fried Movie...*BIG JIM SLAAAADE!!*
and the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln.
I saw "A Fistful of Yen" several times before ever seeing "Enter the Dragon" --which made the latter absolutely hilarious to me.
ok I like that you guys are getting back into the groove. So I expect some steven universe vlogs to come back into action soon.
FreshCyborg seconding that
FreshCyborg Wolf man's got nards!
FreshCyborg "expect" because they owe you something, right
You want to be that guy huh? Ok I'll play your I want attention game. I... meh I don't care.
FreshCyborg I'm just saying that it's unfair to expect anything from a free service. These guys work hard and vlogs aren't very important when compared to their other videos. However, I can admit that I too am patiently waiting for more of them.
The Ray Harryhausen Medusa scene from the 1981 "Clash of the Titans" scared the fuck out of me when I was 5.
Old PG: Parental Guidance suggested
Modern PG: Practically G
People didn't get the holocaust number print on the arm thing? Wow...that was the first thing I thought of when he said it.
I saw Alien, Aliens, Robocop, Die Hard, and Predator when I was around 10-12. Monster Squad is on the same level as Goonies to me, nothing adult about it.
It was funny because for the longest time before your guy's review of Monster Squad I remembered as a kid being terrified of this one movie where Dracula tried to murder this little girl and was and was attacked by Frankenstein's monster; and for the life of me I couldn't find it or remember anything else from it. Even my older brother who grew up watching it and loving it couldn't remember when I asked him a few years back. When I saw the review it was my "holy shit that's the movie" moment. Obviously now it doesn't terrify me at all, more or less is highly amusing to me, but I will never forget being actually terrified of this movie when I was a kid XD
Veroxen
A kids movie shot like Leathal Weapon, with a dash of Hardy Boys mystery, meta humor that's actually good, oh and EVERYONE HAS DYNAMITE.
Kid films need to be a little more edgy nowadays but do it properly. They can't just through in random swear words and mature subject matter it has to be thought out and smart. Like Mel Brooks said when you use swears in a movie it should really hit hard and be used for emphasis on something big, weather it be comedy or drama or action and especially in kids films. I think if this film was made to day and marketed towards kids parents would be in an uproar even though they shouldn't be as they grew up with movies like this. Actually no I take that back the parents of the kids wouldn't be freaking out all the SJWs and arm chair psychiatrists would be going after if thinking they know what they are talking aboot and not letting the parents decided for themselves. Our generation was the last of actually good edgy stuff for kids. So shameless pull here. Hey I'm the NC JR I remember ABOOT it because I need reassurance I'm not the only one EH. Wishing NC senior would review things form your generation(1999-2010s). Never fear your friendly Neighborhood Canadian Critic is here. LATEST REVIEW-TEEN TITANS
I KNOW RIGHT! People think we need to protect our kids from everything we see is dangerous but if we don't teach them the things that are dangerous are dangerous how will they learn, and movies are the best way to do that. Also love the channel idea totally just subbed.
Nostalgia Critic Junior what even is a sjw?
Hleghe sjws are people who want to censor every that offends them. And are giant crybabies
Donnie Dewitt ok, so what exactly does that stand for?
Hleghe It stands for Social Justice Warriors. Just look up some compilation videos of them they are really funny but cringy
"You know any virgins?!"
“If we ever have kids.” Ha!
Hillary spanked Trump in the debates
Meat Dragon what does that have to do with this video?
ChuggleDBugl Games it has to do with life my friend
They're both terrible and no matter who wins, we lose.
No YOU'RE the puppet.
Did he achually admit that he would only claim the voting is rigged if he loses?
Monster Squad is the kid's movie kids actually want to see. It's a lot like Goonies which is an 80's film that wouldn't be made as a kids movie today. Monster Squad is a movie that grows with you. It's silly when you're a kid, but you notice the more mature moments as you get older. Fun side note, written by Shane Black of Lethal Weapon fame.
If the 80s generation can have Monster Squad as their 80s guilty pleasure, then why can't the 90s generation have Hocus Pocus as their 90s guilty pleasure?
Though each movie is quite different from each other. But each movie is ridiculous (and doesn't always work) but its generation, usually, thinks it's AWESOME and both films have a cult following!
But I love both films.
THE HALLOWEEN THAT ALMOST WASN'T is weird but really innocent fun.I now gotta see it again now that it is almost HALLOWEEN!
Something like Stranger Things almost seems timeless. You get the idea about these kids having real relationships and not being perfect. Even though it's set in the 80s you get that feel of adventure and curiosity that you had at that age.
Have you guys ever seen the Sponegbob episode Sailor Mouth? Even at a young age I knew what the hell was going on lol.
Nards dude.
I think the movie was made for actual early teenagers, as opposed to "MPAA" early teenagers. Movie rating seem to want you to think that 12-year-old are like "Sex? What is this?" or "What are these strange words the characters are using?" When in reality, middle schoolers are more more vulgar than many R-rated movies. That's why movies like Stand By Me are rated R despite having young teenage protagonists: they have realistic dialogue.
Best line in the movie was the main kid when he gets Van Helsing's Journal
" This is great, this is amazing this is.......this is in German"
Yup, they replaced the f-bomb with fudge in Christmas Story, but the very next line is "but i didn't say fudge". Pretty hard to not get that one.
No one looks at the ratings now because there is relatively little difference between PG and R these days. Modern R films are more sanitized than what PG-13 films used to get away with. (In a way, PG-13 was an alternative to R. It didn't have the hard restriction, but still wanted to seriously push the idea that young kids should probably be accompanied by parents, back when families actually watched movies together.)
Which also answers the question of why kids in modern films don't act like real kids, both in swearing and other matters. That stuff is all sanitized away. If you tried to do a kids movie today with a realistic portrayal of kids, you'd most likely be running hard into an R rating (and potentially be hitting protests.)
If each pair of decades is defined by a pair of drugs, what's this decade to be paired with last decade's meth?
LordRadical MDMA (Ecstasy, Molly, XO)
randomlaughable no man that's the 70s
LordRadical Anti dipressants
MrX626 Quaaludes (Disco Biscuits, Lemons) was the original disco biscuit before MDMA was given the name. Hynotic with Sedative and Tranquilizing effects.
randomlaughable see this just shows how little I know about the history of drugs because I don't know ANY of the things you just said
There's an episode of Louie where he's visiting a book store where one of the employees, played by Parker Posey, recommends a scary book for his older daughter. She says he should tell her not to read it at night because it's too scary -- the idea is that she *will* read it at night, and that will be part of the thrill for her. I don't know if that falls into the same category of what you're talking about with Monster Squad, but that's what it made me think of.
At 20:34 when they said "Kid's need..." It cut to a car ad that opened with "Respect." Sometimes I fell like ads are self aware.
for a good dark "kids" film with kids swearing you should see Son of Rambo(2007)
What's your opinion on Sausage Party? I really respect what the movie - I think - is trying to do, trying to get animation out of the sort of ghetto it is at now, being either family friendly or completely serious (How To Train Your Dragon, Persepolis). I just wish some other people would have picked this sort of task up. It feels an adult movie with extremely childish humor, and it seems that most visual gags are sex jokes.
Spoiler-ish: except for Meatloaf, that was awesome.
I think "Attack the block" had a good representation of kids swearing like in real life.
I miss how movies where. I grew up on 80s Horror movies. been collecting Friday 13th and Nightmare on Elm street since I was 8. the only thing I didn't like about those where the night scenes where you couldn't see anything. movies are so neutered now, before Kids could be killed plenty of nudity and gore. plus films had to be more creative due to limitations.
It's a time capsule style movie for kids movies in the 80s like Goonies and Gremlins.
You two should really, really do a video on Stranger Things - it's a perfect topic for the Halloween season!
Could you please review Monster House? It was a favorite from my childhood, and I would love to hear your review of it. Thanks!
Superstar527 Yeah. It's not nostalgic by NC standards, but it's worth reviewing.
that whole "who looks at the ratings if it looks kids friendly," is how I ended up renting watership down at like age 6.
I never cursed until around age 13 or 14. but then again I was a shy kid in the 90's. I wonder if the decade you grew up in effects how much and how early you swear.
I'd say lord of the rings would fit snugly in the pg-13 category. if the action were too much more bloody it would probably hurt the tone of the films. if it had any swearing (F grade swearing) it would completely break the immersion. you just can't have romanticized sword and sorcery fantasy with modern swearing. same goes for super hero movies. (at least the un-ironic ones)
I'm not fond of going to extremes simply for the purpose of going to extremes. my philosophy for storytelling is; form follows function. if the story you want to tell absolutely needs a character to swear or would be drastically improved by it then you have them swear. if not then you don't put it in there.
sonicloyalfan Conpletely the same here.
The kids in Stranger Things swear, I don't watch a lot of movies so I wouldn't know.
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I actually saw The Monster Squad for the first time on tv. Then I talked mom and dad to take me down to Warehouse Video to rent it. I love, love, LOVE The Monster Squad. I want a "Wolfman's got nards!" t-shirt. I will take this over that POS Hocus Pocus any day.
Edit: On the "who looks at the ratings" thing - so at the library I work at we used to have Animal Farm, which is an animated movie of the George Orwell novel. I was constantly pulling it out of the children's section to shelve with the adult movies because people saw it was animated and thought "Okay, it's like a knock off Disney movie." When I got promoted from page to clerk I had to tell a LOT of parents, "Um, you know this is a movie based on a book that was about communism and government corruption, right?" Not a single parent checked it out when I mentioned that.
Someone who added movies to the library thought that Far From The Maddening Crowd was a kid's movie just based on the cover. They never looked at the rating or the plot.
I was born in 94 and by the time me and my friends were 7 or 8 we were watching Halloween and Friday the 13th . I think are parents just thought we could be doing a lot worse then just watching horror movies.
"Adults need adult things. Sometimes, I need a hardcore..." O.O
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The War (starring Elijah Wood) had some pretty crazy kid violence.
I saw Batman (1989), Batman Returns (didn't see the intro though), Robocop and Terminator 2 when I was too young to watch them. They didn't really bother me, interestingly.
Hat Man If you are too young to fully understand the content, then of course it won't disturb you.
true. Doesn't mean I didn't enjoy them though.
Hat Man
No argument there! I loved it too, despite only being about 5 at the time. xD
Next year you should review Night of the Creeps. Same director, but while Monster Squad was a kids movie about Universal Monster movies, Night of the Creeps is a teen movie about 50s and 60s B horror movies.
Funnily enough I learned about the number on the arm thing from the X-men movies.
The new movie Gifted has Elementary School kids swearing, and it works pretty well.
The only swear in "A Christmas Story" was "Son of a bitch!" by Ralphie. Even when the Old Man goes on a profanity binge, it's just a bunch of mumbling gibberish.
I don't know if this counts as a kids movie, but I remember Super 8 being sort of an homage to dark 80s kids movies. From what I remember the kids swore and seemed somewhat natural. I'd have to see it again to remember for sure.
On the topic of horror movies that kids see that they shouldn't have seen from the 80's...Fright Night!
I guess that's what happens when you let the writer of "Lethal Weapon", "Last Action Hero" and "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" write your kids movie.
1:38 Then again, who's gonna believe you're being blackmailed with your naked pictures by a vampire?
6:10 I didn't know "light-hearted" videos could have people swearing in them, *Cough* Hypocrites *Cough* -_-
I still rarely pay attention to ratings. I went into Sinister 2 and Kingsmen thinking they were both PG-13, then got a pleasant surprise.
I hope that he reviews the movie Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys. (Yes, Rudolph actually has a sequel). Even though I didn't hate it that much, I feel like it's a MUST-REVIEW for the NC to do.
I completely agree with your pg-13 rant, everyone keeps saying "oh man Dark Knight was so brutal it should be rated R" STFU everything in that movie happens off screen there's nothing R about that movie. The original 2 TB batman had a bunch of blood
Nards indeed