I'm going to scream obscenities for the next 2 hours just to feel some sense of masculinity. WHAT THE FUCK?
As if the fucking movie wasn't bad enough.
YESSSS
Another person who hated that stupid movie as much as I did.
You know what I loved about fairy tales of the past? They didn't have a theme so painfully easy to recognize as it is in modern tales. They had characters who weren't exactly one dimensional, and the stories weren't watered down. Often the stories had correlations with real world happenings, and they weren't always written to leave you feeling perfectly happy, and that was ok. Villains sometimes died horrible brutal deaths, and didn't get pushed off the edge of a cliff like in ever Disney movie.
Let's not kid ourselves, they were still children's tales. But my parents bought me my fairy tales from various authors translated as close to their original form as possible. And they were fantastic.
A while ago I saw an excellent play of Peter Pan that was based on the original version of the book. It was obviously still aimed at kids, but there was plenty of stuff adults could take from it. The ending wasn't exactly happy, and even discussed the possibility of Peter Pan never having existed at all.
You know what? There were kids in the audience, and they loved it.
Anyway that's what I think.
