Quote from: Chieftain Suom on Dec 19, 2023, 09:53:27 PMThese metaphors, as dark as they may be, are a reality for us all that even our sons and daughters will ultimately see in films, read about in books, then confront in their own lives. Is it so bad to find a way to step them into the pool slowly instead of throwing them into the deep end years later?
That being said, it makes me warm inside to find a way to safely share my love for a horror movie franchise with my toddler son in a format (little golden book) thats 100% nostalgic for me as well!
I am not condemning the book, far from it. But I just cannot help but feel flabbergasted that something like this is actually happening. I get that it's for kids, and if Mom's and Dad's wanna have it to share time with their loved ones, more power to them.
It's... more the concept that we go from one extreme to the other.
I NEVER expected it to happen to ALIEN.
Quote from: Chieftain Suom on Dec 19, 2023, 09:53:27 PMIs it so bad to find a way to step them into the pool slowly instead of throwing them into the deep end years later?
Just this one bit here... Funny story from my life, and I'm pretty sure this happened to many of us. But when I was a toddler, I was very much big into Star Wars, I watched ROTJ so many times, the tape worn out because I loved the Ewoks.
So one day, my Dad came home from work and got a video from West Coast Video (remember that video store?). Anyway, he said "You wanna watch a movie with Daddy? It's a space movie like the one with the teddy bears you like!" and me, being the blissfully ignorant toddler I was, happily obliged. Now... I was a toddler, had no idea what the movie was about or understood the dialogue but I remember... Kane spasming on the table, and his chest being ripped open by the chestburster.
Yup! My Dad kinda throw me in the deep side of the pool! Hah hah hah hah!
Quote from: Xenomrph on Dec 19, 2023, 09:59:24 PMYeah it's a little weird kiddifying a psycho-sexual rape monster, but that kind of stuff has happened to "mature" franchises for decades. Robocop, Terminator, Rambo, Predator, nothing is immune.
Except in the case of Terminator and Predator, it was largely restricted to just the toys. Mind you of course, I saw the movies first when I was young... like... really little. At an age R rated movies are not recommended to young kids kind of little.
Robocop on the other hand, well... the Marvel-Sunbow pretty much stayed true to MOST of the 1987 original movie with Murphy's origin. Albeit they downplayed the message of consumerism. Alpha Commando? The less said, the better.
Rambo? That was an odd case. They didn't even touch his origins in the Vietnam war. I only saw one episode of that.
The 90s was a weird time. Weird but good time.
Quote from: Xenomrph on Dec 19, 2023, 09:59:24 PMMaybe it's just because I literally got involved in the Aliens franchise due to the Kenner toys when I was 9, but I've always been able to see past the "adult" stuff because it felt like there was a deliberate toyline made just for me, a kid, to enjoy.
I saw the movies first before the toys came out, as I was a kid that watched A LOT of movies, especially R rated ones. I was introduced to the Kenner toyline in either... '92 or '93 with their ALIENS line, so I was five or six then. I didn't REALLY into Alien-Predator until Kenner did their AVP line.
But, the movies ALWAYS came to mind for me first.