Fox Business Criticizes Studio Ghibli's Latest

[Greenstripe0]

I swear to god at this point Fox is just straight up trolling when they present this level of sheer insanity. No one actually believes this psychotic stuff right?

But then again Rick Santorum is currently in the lead for the Republican candidacy so I don't even know anymore. *sigh* and to think I used to count myself as a Republican.

 

[mattaui]

Well, it's Lou Dobbs (or at least on his show), he's said all sorts of crazy things.

All the Lorax has made me want to do is go try out the Lorax Breakfast at IHOP. Truffula pancakes!

 

[DTWolfwood]

ROFLMAO too funny.

It would be all the more funny if it wasn't for the fact that more than half of Americans actually believe Fox News is News

 

[Disasterpiece Press]

Well, I'm two for two now.
I first claimed that Glenn Beck was a fucktard back when he was on CNN
and then I claimed Lou Dobbs was only a second away from a racial epitaph every moment he was on the air on CNN (nice to see that he landed work with the Devil).
My next guess would be Nancy Grace but from what I can tell about her Whitney Houston "investigation", she is already Queen of the Cunts.

 

[verdant monkai]

These guys are bloody desperate for a story

 

[Uber Waddles]

So, teaching kids not to share and not to pollute is indoctrination?

Its brain washing us? Seriously?

They're fucking movies. The Lorax is based off of a childrens book that teaches kids that pollution is bad and nature is good. An environment that is destroyed by pollution kills the ecosystem, kills life (both wildlife and human [if you want to fight this, Ill point you to some cancer statistics]), and makes the world a bleaker place. That isn't indoctrination, it's fact. The Lorax never said that "Socialism is okay!", it just warned kids about corperate pollution, and how it affects us all. The Lorax started development before the OWS movements anyways - and while they they could sneak in some references, the team probably wouldnt have enough time to. But thats just logic.


As for TSWoA, how is teaching kids sharing a bad idea? From the clips they showed (which is admittedly all Ive heard of the movie), its a story about sharing. Sharing is something you teach children so they can grow up as rational adults. Its non-sensical to believe you can live in a world without sharing at any point - you wont always get your way. It didn't say "Corperations are bad" or "Yay socialism!", it said "sharing basic things is good.". Theres a difference between "can I have a few grains of sugar" and "lets tax the hyper rich to help the hyper poor" - both literally in within context of the movie.

I'm sorry, but this idea is ridiculous. They aren't making an agenda, they're making money. Yeah, the Lorax had a theme to it: but the theme wasn't a strong enough one to say it was politicized. As for the movie, its not trying to send an OWS message - its a message that gets hammered into kids already to help make them more conscious. Its not making them liberals, its just teaching them basic ideals.

The points hes making aren't valid. Eco Friendlyness =/= socialism, as he tried to say

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Fox, stop hiding behind silly stories and just come out and say "death to non-american non-protestant non-imperialist people". The batshit right that you are trying so hard to connect to will repect you for it.

 

[Treblaine]

Can someone explain to me in a logical smart way (without hurting my brain) WHY THE FUCK FOX NEWS IS STILL AROUND?

Because it panders to a relatively small but predictable demographic.

Rupert Murdoch does this on the other side of the Atlantic in the UK but with tack tabloid "newspapers" appealing to the lowest common denominator of right-wing paranoia.

Also, this is a bit of a taste of their own medicine, remember how many were quick to call George W Bush a fascist, even fondly entertain the through of him being assassinated. Well the boot is on the other foot and now they see how easy it is to fling shit at people.

 

[Parnage]

The majority of Studio Ghibli's films can be summed up with the phrase "Nature is good, people are jerks." This isn't new or surprising to anyone. It's why I tend to not seek out thar stuff anymore. If I wanted to be "subtly" told to stop being part of the evil mankind I'll just turn on the news. The only difference is Ghibili makes it all look very pretty while telling me I am a big bad anti nature scumbag.

 

[Electrogecko]

So now Fox's enemies include the Muppets, Nickelodian, and Dr. Seuss.....I think that says a little something.

This is laughable....the Lorax.....insidious?....they used the word "insidious" to describe the Lorax? If there's any popular media that's feeding people misinformation and bias, it's Fox.

I think concerving the environment is a message we can all agree on. Fox has taken the side of the Tragedy of the Commons on this one.

And apart from that, is the movie even out yet?....do they have any sort of educated opinion on the message that it contains, or are they calling in multiple concervative buddies and spending 5 minutes with them criticising a 90 second long preview?

 

[alandavidson]

side note, but the Japanese story seems like a copy of an older book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers]

Yep, published in 1952. I read them as a kid, along with the OZ series (Side note: Hollywood, PLEASE make movies about the incredibly fucked-up world of Oz), and the Boxcar Children, and I'm not an Occupy Child in the slightest.

Seriously, when it comes to entertainment, I'm pretty sure Fox just makes stuff up.

 

[Atary77]

I swear the people who come up with shit for Fox News are so stupid it's almost fascinating.

 

[vid87]

So the correct way to state your grievance against messages of friendship and courtesy for living things is to be buy crap you don't want, waste it, and make wage earners who have nothing to do with the film work harder than they have to. Solid values to pass to the kiddies.

 

[Swifteye]

Anyone know if Arietty is good? I love Ghibli films.

I saw it. I liked it. They don't make children's movies like this anymore. And by that I mean a children's movie that is modest about it's desire to be very demure and quiet. I like everything about it although if you desire miyzaki's more exciting movies you could go into a sleeping spell.

 

[praus]

I read The Lorax and The Borrowers when I was a kid. I saw several movies in the 80s (including the Muppets) about protecting the environment. As an adult today, I understand that logging is necessary if done responsibly and it's not evil in and of it's self. I consider my self to be fairly centered with regard to the environment and even politics so I doubt these new movies have nearly the effect they think it will.

 

[ckam]

...I hope my Fox News friend sees this. He loves anime and Ghibli films, so I can't wait to see the reaction to this.

 

[Elyxard]

I don't even know what to say anymore.

If the US turns into a totalitarian theocracy, I will know who's fault it is. Thanks Fox News, for destroying science, destroying Christianity, and destroying our country for the sake of ratings. I can only hope that traditional television collapses entirely under the weight of mediocrity before you can do your worst damage.

 

[Ethring]

Okay, I'm going to leave the new spin on, "The Borrowers" out of this for now. For Fox to just now get around to sounding the alarm about, "The Lorax" is just damned funny. What hard hitting, investigative journalism this is. "The Lorax" has only been around since 1971, so it's taken them more than 40 years to figure out the story has a, "green" message? It's not exactly hidden, in fact, it's the whole point of the story.

 

[LazyAza]

I still wonder to this day how Fox News continues to exist but then again I occasionally turn on my TV and watch maybe a minute of mainstream entertainment and it makes sense I guess.

People who are kids now perhaps 15, 20 or so years from now will look back at stuff like Fox News and think really? really? this was allowed on tv? and some people took it seriously? wow and we as old farts will nod and say yep, crazy stuff right.