Hypocrisy to the Core

POSTED BY: Iremist
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 18:54
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IREMIST

Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:47 PM

First let me start by saying that Disney has seemed to me to be a Blue Sun type company- global marketing of all the finest feioo that rots your brain, your wallet, and your moral integrity, not to mention that old joke(?) that Hitler and Disney had the same genes, but I digress....

Yesterday my five year old and I went to go see
Disney's latest, Walle and it started out a lot like Firefly- Earth that was, too much trash,leaving on a ship, kick-butt female heroin, yada-yada very cutsy. Then IT digressed into some cheesy morals play about environmentalism and personal health responsibility. (gotta get this generation while they're young...)
And I'm thinking "Dear God I just wanna take my kid to a movie and enjoy it without listening to someone else's agenda of the day" but that's not the thing that got me. When we got there they handed out a promo package that included a Walle watch and promo cards for Hollywood Chihuahua THE MOVIE (not kidding) and I turned over the back to read the instructions and it reads "Watch batteries cannot be changed" SOOO that means eventually you will just end up throwing it away and adding to the instant gratification trash problem that THE ENTIRE MOVIE WAS PREACHING AGAINST! I half expected someone to pop a giant needle in my brain and say hocus-pocus do not focus on that marketing man behind the curtain.....

Anybody else get this?

EMBERS

Saturday, June 28, 2008 6:06 PM

well I was never planning to see Wall-E in the theaters, because the previews looks way too cutsie...
now you've given me MORE reason to not want to see it....

When you see something brilliant like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away (which were released in this country by Disney, but were entirely made by Miyazaki), which had such beautiful AND subtle messages about the environment.... you wonder what is wrong with huge corporations like Disney which hit people over the head with messages, and THEN don't practice what they preach!

*eyeroll*

New Firefly fans should check this out: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=15816
DON'T MISS DR.HORRIBLE!

TRAVELER

Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:51 PM

They are corporations. Profit is the goal of corporations. They will say anything they think you want to hear. You are to be congratuated to see through this. The sad truth is most people won't.

Thanks for the one up on this movie. You saved me the trouble of spending my cash on it.

Remember the path to success is exploit.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

IREMIST

Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:46 PM

Ya know to be fair, there was one truly great scene in the movie, where the E.V.E. bot was flying around and flew too close to an electromagnet and got stuck and irritated and she's got this overly itchy trigger finger so she blasts the EM and everything around her(whichs happens to be in a derelict shipyard) and hits one of the ships, and then the burning ship topples into three other ships and goes boom boom BOOM and they look at each other and sigh...

Just reminds me when I've had a few days I've wished for mayhem on that scale. The Irish temper part of Iremist is definately alive and kickin'.

PS Traveler- Love that exploit line!

SISTER

Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:50 PM

looks like Disney will do to Chihuahuas what it did to dalmations - end up flooding shelters with unwanted dogs that some poor animal lover will have to 'put down' by the hundreds.

CHRISISALL

Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:51 PM

The best movie concerning environmental messages was On Deadly Ground. Period. End of story.

Chrisisall

CHRISISALL

Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:57 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Iremist:
"Watch batteries cannot be changed" SOOO that means eventually you will just end up throwing it away and adding to the instant gratification trash problem that THE ENTIRE MOVIE WAS PREACHING AGAINST!

The trash-hauling conspiracy reaches all the way to Disney, obviously.
Seriously- there's a WAY to replace the battery- they just don't want you to know.

ChrisEisall

IREMIST

Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:31 PM

Unfortunately, I went to go see On Deadly Ground with my father when I was like 12 and the 15 minutes of the Gal dancin' around mostly naked and me sittin' next to my dad kinda ruined it for me...

Can you say AWKWARD?

CHRISISALL

Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Iremist:

Can you say AWKWARD?

I was referrin' to the last five minutes of the movie, actually.
But yeah, that was a nice dance.

heh heh Chrisisall

IREMIST

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 10:27 PM

Ah, just had my Firefly Moment of Zen for the day. I was channel surfing and stopped on channel 2 for just a sec- long enough to hear "...and maybe you can win $100,000- Shiny!!!!

In my best Surfer Girl,
"Dude,he said shiny! That's hot"

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