What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

The original trailer.

Quote: Nareed

I'd like to know if all the Herbie movies in the 70s made any money. I couldn't sit still through one....

They must have as they were popular when I was a kid. I remember that my friends who were only allowed to see G-rated movies were big fans. I remember one of them dragging me to see Herbie Goes Bananas, which I recall being embarrassed about.

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Now, has anyone ever seen or even heard of:

2) Song of the South

Yes. Isn't that the movie were Zipidy-do-da (sp?) came from? I recall accusations of it playing into certain stereotypes. Never actually saw the movie so won't take a stand on that.

I probably should block this thread from Star Wars updates for a bit.... seeing it tomorrow. Initial fan boy reports are good to great. That works for me, I'm a fan boy.

Sadly this time I can't go with my Dad.

Quote: Wizard

They must have as they were popular when I was a kid.

I recall pretty much nothing about any of them.

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Yes. Isn't that the movie were Zipidy-do-da (sp?) came from? I recall accusations of it playing into certain stereotypes. Never actually saw the movie so won't take a stand on that.

I've never seen it. I know a little bit about it because my dad spent years trying to get it on video. I don't think Disney's ever released it on any format. It was a mix of live action and cartoons, with several songs.

Quote: Wizard

Isn't that the movie were Zipidy-do-da (sp?) came from? I recall accusations of it playing into certain stereotypes. Never actually saw the movie so won't take a stand on that.

The movie was released in 1946,1956; 1972&1973,1980 and 1986 but never released in it's entirety on DVD or video. So if your parents didn't take you in the early 1970's there is no reason you would have seen it since you couldn't have bought it for your own children.

Walt Disney (age 45) wouldn't watch the premier with an audience. Presumably he thought that the light hearted story telling in reconstruction era South would overcome any controversy about race, but he was afraid that someone would say something and he would get upset. The actor who played Uncle Remus did not attend the premier in Atlanta because he would not legally have been permitted to attend any of the festivities.



The song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah won an Academy Award, and the actor won an honorary Best Actor award.

The final sequence mixes the animated and real life characters on screen, the first movie to do so. James Baskett died 16 weeks after receiving his honorary Academy Award at the age of 44.

Quote: Pacomartin

James Baskett died 16 weeks after receiving his honorary Academy Award at the age of 44.

He had untreated diabetes and died of
heart failure. Something so well understood
today was often ignored 70 years ago,
especially in Blacks.

The Reconstruction was still a touchy subject
in the 40's. There were people still living who
went through it, and many Blacks thought
Baskett was an Uncle Tom for portraying
the stereotypical Black, kissing up to the
White man. I saw this video a lot in the 50's
on Disney shows, it was no big deal. You
never see it anywhere now.

Quote: Wizard

They must have as they were popular when I was a kid. I remember that my friends who were only allowed to see G-rated movies were big fans.

On November 1, 1968, the voluntary MPAA film rating system took effect, so I was already age 11

So at age 11 or 12 I was permitted to see some PG rated films if they had familiar actors and a non-sexual story line (or no horror)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (03/26/1969) James Garner & Walter Brennan
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (10/24/1969) Robert Redford & Paul Newman

Quote: Pacomartin

On November 1, 1968, the voluntary MPAA film rating system took effect, so I was already age 11

I think the Thomas Crowne affair was
the first movie where the crook didn't
have to be punished for the crime in
the movie. I remember being shocked
that he got away with it.

1931 film

The Catholic church launched a major campaign at end of 1933 and beginning of 1934 which eventually resulted in the Code. For thirty years, virtually every film produced or exhibited in the United States had to receive a "seal of approval" from the head of the Production Code Administration. There was no ratings, and the seal was either yes or no.

Quote: Code regarding Crime

Crimes against the law naturally occur in the course of film stories. However:
(a) Criminals should not be made heroes, even if they are historical criminals.
(b) Law and justice must not by the treatment they receive from criminals be made to seem wrong or ridiculous.
(c) Methods of committing crime, e.g., burglary, should not be so explicit as to teach the audience how crime can be committed; that is, the film should not serve as a possible school in crime methods for those who seeing the methods might use them.
(d) Crime need not always be punished, as long as the audience is made to know that it is wrong.

Presumably Mr Potter's theft in "It's a Wonderful Life" was covered by (d).

Suddenly Last Summer (1959) with Elizabeth Taylor was granted a "seal of approval" but not until certain cuts were made.
Some Like It Hot (1959) was not granted a certificate of approval, but it still became a box office smash, and, as a result, it further weakened the authority of the Code. In 1964, the Holocaust film The Pawnbroker, starring Rod Steiger, was the first film featuring bare breasts to receive Production Code approval. The exception to the code was granted as a "special and unique case".

Quote: Evenbob

I think the Thomas Crowne affair was the first movie where the crook didn't have to be punished for the crime in the movie. I remember being shocked that he got away with it.

I think technically it was not so much that he wasn't punished, but he was made a romantic hero, and the audience couldn't perceive his crime as "wrong".

The Hays Code was the worst case of censorship
ever imposed in this country, how it lasted as
long as it did is mystery. I noticed the difference
in movies immediately in the 70's they, went
hog wild when they could do anything they
wanted. The Godfather would have been
impossible under Hays. As would 1000's of
other great movies of the early 70's and later.

Imagine submitting Pulp Fiction or Blazing
Saddles to the Hays council. lol