Just watchin' Lilo&Stitch

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
I knew MichaelD would be in here - and I agree. Lilo needs some serious Ritalin, a muzzle, and psychological help.
That, and a healthy serving of good old-fashioned discipline.

Lilo and Stitch does not give you teh ghey...

- M4H

LMAO!!!!!!! That's classic. You just made my QOTW. BRB.

 

[slikmunks]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
I knew MichaelD would be in here - and I agree. Lilo needs some serious Ritalin, a muzzle, and psychological help.
That, and a healthy serving of good old-fashioned discipline.

Lilo and Stitch does not give you teh ghey...

- M4H

LMAO!!!!!!! That's classic. You just made my QOTW. BRB.

should he be ecstatic now!?

 

[MichaelD]

Yes, silkmunks, he should be ecstatic now.

Getting your words forever etched in the archives of my Quote of The Week is quite the accomplishment. You must try harder to get there, silkmunks....only then, will your life on AT be complete.

 

[mztykal]

Lilo & Stitch 0wnz j00. That movie was good. I liked it, infact I watched it numerous times.

"Ohana means family, family means never getting left behind or forgotten".

Or something like that.

 

[MichaelD]

More like "Ohana means being a bratty little kid that needs an ass-whipping."

I wanted her to get taken away by the guy from the Child Agency. I would've enjoyed that.

They should make a movie just about Stitch...rate it PG-13..."Stitch takes on MIT in laser-wars" or "Stitch goes on Spring Break"

 

[Toasthead]

Lilo and Stich is great. It deals with real life issues and is true to the Hawaiian sense of Ohana. If Lilo hadnt been such a handful, the concept of Ohana or family above all else would not have made a much of an impact in the movie.

 

[Queasy]

Don't most Disney animated movies revolve around some family dysfunction in the beginning that is resolved by the end of the movie though?

Sword & The Stone - orphan
Cinderella- evil step-mother and step-sisters
Snow White - dysfunctional all around
Lion King - father dies, running away from home
Little Mermaid - rebellious daughter, running away from home
Beauty & The Beast - akward, socially distant daughter + beast is bratty/selfishness personified
Jungle Book - Orphan
Dumbo - Orphan
Fox & The Hound - Plenty of dysfunction on the hound's side
Emperor's New Groove - Bratty, selfish Emperor
Mulan - socially akward daughter
Pinnochio - boy that runs away with penchant for lieing
Tarzan - orphan
The Rescuers - orphan
Oliver and Company - orphan
Bambi - C'mon, do I have to get into this one?!

It has been a consistent theme in Disney movies that there be some kind of challenge revolving around a family and/or its members. But, at the end of the movie those challenges have been overcome and the family is stronger and better for it. I think Lilo & Stitch is no different in this. By the end of the movie Lilo and her sister love each other, Stitch is relatively well-behaved, and they've added new members to their family.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Yes, silkmunks, he should be ecstatic now.

Getting your words forever etched in the archives of my Quote of The Week is quite the accomplishment. You must try harder to get there, silkmunks....only then, will your life on AT be complete.

Not just Quoted ... not just Sig-Quoted ... but MichaelD "Quote-Of-The-Week"ed

- M4H

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Don't most Disney animated movies revolve around some family dysfunction in the beginning that is resolved by the end of the movie though?

Sword & The Stone - orphan
Cinderella- evil step-mother and step-sisters
Snow White - dysfunctional all around
Lion King - father dies, running away from home
Little Mermaid - rebellious daughter, running away from home
Beauty & The Beast - akward, socially distant daughter + beast is bratty/selfishness personified
Jungle Book - Orphan
Dumbo - Orphan
Fox & The Hound - Plenty of dysfunction on the hound's side
Emperor's New Groove - Bratty, selfish Emperor
Mulan - socially akward daughter
Pinnochio - boy that runs away with penchant for lieing
Tarzan - orphan
The Rescuers - orphan
Oliver and Company - orphan
Bambi - C'mon, do I have to get into this one?!

It has been a consistent theme in Disney movies that there be some kind of challenge revolving around a family and/or its members. But, at the end of the movie those challenges have been overcome and the family is stronger and better for it. I think Lilo & Stitch is no different in this. By the end of the movie Lilo and her sister love each other, Stitch is relatively well-behaved, and they've added new members to their family.

Repeat after me.

"Rebellious" != "Disobiedient snot-nosed sniveling whiny little BITCH"

Your turn.

- M4H

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
More like "Ohana means being a bratty little kid that needs an ass-whipping."

I wanted her to get taken away by the guy from the Child Agency. I would've enjoyed that.

They should make a movie just about Stitch...rate it PG-13..."Stitch takes on MIT in laser-wars" or "Stitch goes on Spring Break"

Well, there's already a Lilo & Stitch II coming, but I don't think it's what you're hoping for.

Let's finish the trilogy with "Lilo & Stitch III - Stitch Goes Apesh!t" - a ninety-minute blast-fest of Stitch doing what he was designed to do - break stuff. You gotta admit, the first few minutes where the little blue ah heck broke out of a containment cell, fended off a half-dozen guards, shut down a starship, hijacked a police cruiser with a lasergun ... that had some serious potential.

- M4H

 

[ndee]

Simpsons isn't bad in my book either, just not for kids actually. I just found the movie very entertaining, I find kids who are little brats kinda funny, as long as they are not my kids

 

[SendTrash]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
L&S is one of the WORST childrens' movies ever made, period. It shows young, easily impressionable children the WRONG way to act with friends, teachers and last but certainly not least parents or authority figures.

Putting aside the freaky rat-from-space Stitch (the concept is way cool), the little girl is a case study in every anti-social, no respect for authority, no concept of sharing or group play behaivior that you DON'T want your own children displaying.

15 minutes into this movie, I was so horrified and angry that I would've grabbed my then 6-year-old son and left, had I not paid $20 to get in and another $20 for popcorn and two sodas.

This movie stinks. ZERO on a 1-10 scale.

She's keeping it real and calls no man mister...

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: SendTrash

Originally posted by: MichaelD
L&S is one of the WORST childrens' movies ever made, period. It shows young, easily impressionable children the WRONG way to act with friends, teachers and last but certainly not least parents or authority figures.

Putting aside the freaky rat-from-space Stitch (the concept is way cool), the little girl is a case study in every anti-social, no respect for authority, no concept of sharing or group play behaivior that you DON'T want your own children displaying.

15 minutes into this movie, I was so horrified and angry that I would've grabbed my then 6-year-old son and left, had I not paid $20 to get in and another $20 for popcorn and two sodas.

This movie stinks. ZERO on a 1-10 scale.

She's keeping it real and calls no man mister...

So I'm guessing here ... you're a 15-year-old male wannabe thug with no younger siblings or idea of what it's like to raise children?

- M4H

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: MichaelD
More like "Ohana means being a bratty little kid that needs an ass-whipping."

I wanted her to get taken away by the guy from the Child Agency. I would've enjoyed that.

They should make a movie just about Stitch...rate it PG-13..."Stitch takes on MIT in laser-wars" or "Stitch goes on Spring Break"

Well, there's already a Lilo & Stitch II coming, but I don't think it's what you're hoping for.

Let's finish the trilogy with "Lilo & Stitch III - Stitch Goes Apesh!t" - a ninety-minute blast-fest of Stitch doing what he was designed to do - break stuff. You gotta admit, the first few minutes where the little blue ah heck broke out of a containment cell, fended off a half-dozen guards, shut down a starship, hijacked a police cruiser with a lasergun ... that had some serious potential.

- M4H

Wurd! 90 minutes of Stitch just breaking sh1t would be way cool Especially if it was at least PG, so they could be semi-violent. But heck, Disney would never go for that...the little whining brats couldn't go see it, and the parents that did take their kids to see it would freak the hell out and boycott Disney...it would never happen. Too bad; so much potential there/!!!

 

[SaltBoy]

Well, if everybody here didn't necessarily enjoy Lilo and Stitch, might I recommend The Emperor's New Groove to y'all? It's much better!

 

[SuperGroove]

I loved Lilo and Stitch.

Correction, I love Stitch.

The movie would've been 100% had there been more emphasis on Stitch being stitch, isntead of the whole dysfunctional family. OH well...Stitch is the coolest DIsney character ever, and makes everyone melt.

Too bad people, evne girls, get weirded out when I do my stitch impression:-/

 

[ROTC1983]

Heck, the movie was pretty cool

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: ROTC1983
Heck, the movie was pretty cool

 

[Orsorum]

You know, it's funny, because something I was taught growing up was that television and movies are just that - fantasy. They're entertainment, not a guide for how to live or a role model, in any capacity. Regardless of what I watched, when it ended, it ended.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family, watched my family go through varying degrees of alcoholism, physical and emotional abuse, marital infidelity, yadda yadda yadda. Does that change the respect I have for my parents? No. Because in spite of the fact that they are human, they never wavered in their devotion to my sister and I, and never wavered in their expectations.

I find it interesting that any of you would ascribe to this movie such a large amount of importance or influence. It is, after all, just a movie.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Zakath15
You know, it's funny, because something I was taught growing up was that television and movies are just that - fantasy. They're entertainment, not a guide for how to live or a role model, in any capacity. Regardless of what I watched, when it ended, it ended.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family, watched my family go through varying degrees of alcoholism, physical and emotional abuse, marital infidelity, yadda yadda yadda. Does that change the respect I have for my parents? No. Because in spite of the fact that they are human, they never wavered in their devotion to my sister and I, and never wavered in their expectations.

I find it interesting that any of you would ascribe to this movie such a large amount of importance or influence. It is, after all, just a movie.

I'm sorry to hear about your parents. However, they did not fail in their upbringing because they were - quite simply - "there for you when you needed them". Even through their hardships they managed to be devoted to raising you and your sister.

Todays parent has none of those hardships, but yet has no time to devote to their 2.3 children. Instead, they plop them down in front of a television and push a video in. Kids see TV more than their parent's faces.

Thus why we're so up in arms over this.

- M4H

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

I'm sorry to hear about your parents. However, they did not fail in their upbringing because they were - quite simply - "there for you when you needed them". Even through their hardships they managed to be devoted to raising you and your sister.

Todays parent has none of those hardships, but yet has no time to devote to their 2.3 children. Instead, they plop them down in front of a television and push a video in. Kids see TV more than their parent's faces.

Thus why we're so up in arms over this.
- M4H

It doesn't matter if some parents (or even if the majority of parents) do this. Does that make it acceptable for you or MichaelD to do it?

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Zakath15

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

I'm sorry to hear about your parents. However, they did not fail in their upbringing because they were - quite simply - "there for you when you needed them". Even through their hardships they managed to be devoted to raising you and your sister.

Todays parent has none of those hardships, but yet has no time to devote to their 2.3 children. Instead, they plop them down in front of a television and push a video in. Kids see TV more than their parent's faces.

Thus why we're so up in arms over this.
- M4H

It doesn't matter if some parents (or even if the majority of parents) do this. Does that make it acceptable for you or MichaelD to do it?

"Do it?" Do what? What did I do? Please don't tell me that you take offense to my interpretation of this movie? You can't be THAT namby-pamby!

 

[Imported]

Movie was cool I got the 14" Stitch plush from the Disney Store sitting on my computer desk right now.

 

[Schadenfreude]

I liked it as well. Not as Laputa in the Sky, but I liked it nontheless.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
"Do it?" Do what? What did I do? Please don't tell me that you take offense to my interpretation of this movie? You can't be THAT namby-pamby!

Apparently so.

Do you have any experience in raising children, Zakath?
If so, then I'd like to hear about it.
If not, and you're just getting offended at my interpretation of Lilo (disobiedient snot-nosed sniveling whiny little bitch) ... well then ...

- M4H