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I normally hate those who begin any conversation with "guys, this is really scary." We already know what's scary and what isn't, so someone saying this is saying "guys, you are too stupid/ignorant to know what is scary, so I am going to come right out and say it." And then it turns out that it was not scary to you, only to the speaker, who obviously needs to get a life.

However, as with just about everything I hate, I end up doing it. crying

Guys, this is really scary. There are messages in kids' films teaching them utter crap. It's no wonder they are so brainwashed by the time they are in high school - the moral messages pumped out by the media seem OK from the outside, but when you examine them, they are the most mentally castrating, conscience-killing, humanistic shite imaginable.
I am interested in filmmaking, and since I'm too old for "adult" films such as National Treasure and Because I Said So, with their expectation that everyone's at a sex-crazed 5th grader mentality - I watch some kiddie films, most recently Happy Feet, Night at the Museum and, while standing in line at a hospital pharmacy, 45 minutes of The Ant Bully.

Happy Feet - the elders of your tribe follow a diseased religion. F*** religion, f*** tradition. Just do what you want because you're not a conformist, man, they just don't understand your true talent. F*** all preachers too, they are just out for money and power. When you successfully defy everyone, it's OK, you will be rewarded with the most popular girl in your tribe.

Night at the Museum - Men suck because men like to fight. Capturing territory is your duty as a fighting man? Then you're a little man. The giants of the enlightenment, where all fighting is a no-no, will rub your little-man status in your face until you are humiliated and decide to cease your violent activity. And, with enlightenment, all violence turns into a worldwide (what's the magic word? Diversity!) dance party! That's right, everything turns into an a-religious, morals-existing-in-vacuum, dance party. But what's this? Hidden under the blanket of movie action, human relationships and dance party, is the underlying theme that once everyone is united under the rule of an authority figure, *that's* when the dance party can start. Now, in this movie the authority figure is a god-king of Egypt, with magical powers derived from a golden object, but even with this heathenness, so palatable to the anti-Judeo-Christians, he's just too central an authority figure to be good for the message, so his significance is covered up and we still end with the main character being nominally in charge of the museum menagerie.

The Ant Bully - Conformity, not to your own tribe (humans) but to the natural world (of ants.) Deny your individuality. Don't have any ideas of your own except what comes from nature. Do what is good for the colony. Surrender your will. Remember, male authority religious figures = bad, treacherous. Female authority figures = good because they are nuturing.

On the surface, this is a rant, but beneath, I'm troubled. If I have kids, I don't want them watching this crap and sucking in all the hidden messages. I am still re-educating myself and trying to get liberal feminist messages out of my head, and it looks like they will get worse than that.

Supposedly in Alladin there's a part with Jasmine that if you turn the sound up all the way, you can hear someone shout "whoo! take it off".

I remember there is a missing lyric in the opening song to Aladdin...that Arabia was a place where "they cut off your nose if they don't like your face" that was taken out.
Also, that the exact curvature of the princess's nose was hotly debated and they finally settled on something close to Northern European rather than Persian or Arab...to avoid racist comments. Ironic!

Interesting. xd

hah.
that was fun.

I recently watched "The Spiderwick Chronicles" with my brothers. The next day they were trying to look through rocks with holes because they thought little goblin would come and attack the house. We now have a big circle of rocks and all that other stuff around the house.