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2005-10-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Tragedy Strikes - Aardman Animations Studios Incinerated!

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Posted by Mister Rogers 2005-10-10 19:54|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Here's the link:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1820035,00.html

In my distress, I neglected to enter the link or even my correct monicker. This is a tremendous loss of priceless animation history. Again, I welcome others to post their own impressions of Park's work.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-10 20:35|| 2005-10-10 20:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Oops, sorry, thought it was a Smurf hideout.

Posted by UNICEF 2005-10-10 20:52|| 2005-10-10 20:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh no! Aardman's stuff rocks - the best of the best animators. Ouch!

Posted by .com 2005-10-10 23:47|| 2005-10-10 23:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Stunned adults and weeping children watched a preview in disbelief as Papa Smurf and Smurfette were blown to bits when bombs rained down on their village.

Oh, be still my heart!

I SMELL OSCAR!

Only baby Smurf survives the carnage,

far worse than anything dished out by their usual enemy Gargamel.

Final argument for massive defense R&D spending increases towards optimizing Throw Weight to Kill Ratios in all categories of conventional munitions.

Now, if they'd only go after that purple dinosaur

That last line is what I come here for. Apologies in advance ...

[Airline Steward Voice]The maximum ranting light is ... on.[/ASV]

What you read is posted by a man who most often features Bugs Bunny upon his "Informal Friday" necktie at work. I wouldn't have it any other way. Mel Blanc, Chuck Jones, (and the entire vintage Warner Brothers cartoon crew) produced some of the most beautifully intelligent, artistic and irreverent animated film ever.

That said, The Smurfs and Barney the Dinosaur represent some of the most hideous animated character manifestations of all time. I will cite two very specific and utterly unredeeming ways both of them revolt any sort of common sense.

1) Per the Smurfs: Note carefully how frequently the plot line pivots upon individuals who often fail where groups instead succeed. A cast of unvarigated skin tone homogenizes any denominator of accurate cross-cultural identification and instead enters upon a world utterly lacking in credible individuality.

2) Per Barney: This Lobotomized Lizard Â© should never be permitted within the least hearing range of your children. Allowing those you love most to be incessantly bombarded with how some poorly sketched, long extinct non-gender specific imaginary companion loves them again and again is simply criminal.

FREE CLUE to MOONBATS: DO NOT let philosophically amorphous and largely featureless entities play any significant role in your child's upbringing. Especially lest these entities should have an opportunity to say such a thing as, "I love you" to your child more often than you do yourself.

Barney and the Smurfs represent a most hideous perversion of artistry and message. We lose Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Keaton, both Marx & Warner Brothers, Hannah & Barbera, Walt Kelly, Eyvinde Earle plus The Three Stooges.

We obtain a disinfectant homogeniety sufficiently prophylactic against individuality so as to render mankind immune to the rare genius (See: Jared Diamond - "Guns, Germs and Steel").

I dread and fight against such a sterile world by denouncing politically correct thought, socialistic doctrine and its endless load of least-common denominator programming pap and so-called "news.".

Please go and see any sort of Nick Park's work. You'll be transported into an artisan's world of rare and decent humor.

The inverse nature of such programming as Barney or the Smurfs does not merit further discussion.

[Airline Steward Voice]The maximum ranting light is ... on.[/ASV]

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-11 00:00|| 2005-10-11 00:00|| Front Page Top

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