Brad Bird Part Deux

Note: Believe it or not I wrote most of this entry over a year ago and then saved it as a draft. I completely forgot about it until I was reviewing old unposted blog entries and found it sitting there. However, the rant is still apt and can be applied to lots of situations: It is too late to rant a lot or say much of anything, so just a short one. Tonight, I watched Iron Giant, Brad Bird's 1999 WB release. You can see where he started out experimenting with a lot of the stuff he did in The Incredibles. Iron Giant is, on its own, a great movie too. But, that makes things terribly frustrating. Primarily for "The Incredibles", but also for "Iron Giant", I see a lot of teen and twenty-somethings braying about how they are all "overrated" and even going so far as to say they suck. Odd, since I thought Lizzy McGuire and The Princess Diaries pretty much sucked, being that they were teen feely-goody recycled crap. There is nothing original in these reused Wonderful World of Disney / ABC Afterschool Special loads of manure. I hate to say it, but they show their complete lack of experience and knowledge of pop-culture of their childhood when they rag on The Incredibles. The whole movie is spoof, an homage - that is the point. Then, watch out if you call them on it, because you will get a double barrelled load of immature insecurity and angst launched back at you. One dipshit actually put me on ignore on the IMDB because he was losing a debate, making himself look like an ass, and blaming ME for it. It was hilarious. I remember being that age. I don't ever remember being LIKE that at that age though. The things kids have today as reference sources are astonishing, however, they seem to think that because all of this stuff has been around for over 10 years now they are somehow more "worldly" than the real adults in the world, you know, the ones who have been around for more than 2 decades... Wow, I cannot believe I am saying this, I really AM old. If you don't get The Incredibles and you are between 13 and 29, then forget it. Otherwise I have to tell you to go watch all the Moore/Connery James Bond movies, the original Star Wars trilogy, and every hero/superhero and sci-fi movie made before 1990. Then I have to go tell you to get off the Internet and read a book. A comic book, that is. Because if you don't get the Watchmen, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Batman Marvel, DC and myriad of other references (aside from the obvious that you have to be in some way mentally deficient to not understand a comic book) then you won't get something like The Incredibles any more than you would "get" a movie about Shakespeare without knowing who Shakespeare was. Just because the Internet has been around since you were a teen or a kid does NOT mean you know everything.