Is Furngelly kino?
Is Furngelly kino?
Gabriel Nguyen
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Ryan Long
Absolutely! Cosy as all fuck!
Remember the 90s ultimate villain was “man” but it was kind of funny. Think the bad guys from Captain Planet. Not terrorists, just dogey geezers who like fucking up the environment
Daniel Watson
I loved the oily monster in the machine.
Noah Green
It was always “man” clearing forests for cattle. Always.
Eli Mitchell
Yeah I got that
Dominic Thomas
I call its ilk 'panflute schlock', that area of 90s popular schlock that starts to have kind of a benevolent middlebrow progressive message, in that Star Trek: Next Generation kind of way. Don't get me wrong, I'm fully environmentalist, I'm just referring to that whole Lion King / cinematic jungle drums / Yanni / Pocahontas aesthetic. The most recent example would be Avatar.
Anyways there is something kind of comfy and cute about this stuff.
Isaiah Harris
It was educational but not pushy, right?
Ryder Kelly
Someone said Avatar ripped it off, is that true?
Jason Smith
I want to FUCK that fairy.
Nolan Edwards
Kinda Mr Dubble Dubs
Easton Wright
Well, what I would say for 90s liberal movies is that they had maybe a kind of new agey sanctimonious vibe - think Dianna Troi from Star Trek - they weren't literally telling you you are bad and you should feel terrible and check your privilege every few minutes.
More like they just followed typical hackneyed Hollywood story structure with a hero and villain but in these the villain would be like a corporate fatcat or embodiment of pollution or something.
Xavier Clark
I loved it as a kid, made me want to grow up and work on a tree cutter, then I realised they weren't really like the leveller. The leveller was still the coolest thing in the world when I was < 10.
Ayden Hall
Yeah she's hot. Fairies in these movies usually are. Tinkerbell was the hottest Disney character by far.
Chase Wilson
I think the key is that when one of those 90s movies lectured a character, it didn't feel like the character was an audience stand in that should be bowing their heads.
They actually bothered putting the legwork in to make it fit in context, rather than just having random *looks directly at the camera* moments.
Hudson Gonzalez
Yeah, and it never felt petty or like it was trying to just point-score or bash working class people for being stupid or unenlightened.
Cameron Reed
Movies have been around for like 100 years now. Why isnt there even one, ONE about the wanton violent rape of pixies? Its fucking bullshit.
Julian Morris
My Pan Flute Schlock list so far is:
The Lion King
Star Trek: The Next Generation (the Dianna Troi moments)
Pocahontas (Disney)
Tarzan (Disney)
Dances with Wolves
Titanic
Mulan
Braveheart
Dinotopia
Ferngully
Jumanji (90s)
Emperor's New Groove
Hercules and Xena series
Cameron Cooper
Toxic Love is metal af
Gavin Wood
>'Ay Tone
Gavin Allen
>Star Trek: The Next Generation (the Dianna Troi moments)
Also the Whoopie Goldberg parts. She's pretty key to this aesthetic. Also, Yanni and Michael Flatley.
Thomas Long
Oh, I'm sure there's some European 70s movie, or early porn movie from the 1910s about that.
Ryder Edwards
Hexxus up in this motherfucker
Jonathan Martinez
lol, yes. perfect. i had been thinking the same thing with star trek. it's a dead giveaway when you can see the same influence in a show about space travel as one about forest frolicking.
Sebastian Taylor
LOL and the cake was good too
Andrew Rodriguez
By that point new age influences and environmentalism had filtered out into the mainstream enough to become a prominent theme and vibe in big blockbuster movies. Of course by then it was in full Yanni mode with big wooshing orchestras and pan flutes and Greek women singing AAYYYAAYAYAYALOLOLOLOLEEEE