See, I'm a young woman, so I get social permission to go to a children's movie and giggle at all the cuteness nonstop.
You should have seen me watching Ponyo. Nonstop "Awwwwwww"s and giggling the whole way through.
I kinda wish I had gone and seen the recent Winnie the Pooh movie in theaters...
Really, though, I don't get why people would need to bring fanboyism into this mess. Its two hours of candy-colored ponies we're talking here. Its just a time to sit down and relax in cuteness. I openly embrace childrens' media if its of a decent quality; I love reading children's books. (Granted, I want to illustrate them some day, but still) These guys [http://bookxcessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/melrose-croc.jpg] are my computer wallpaper.
If nothing else, people go and see kids movies to make fun of them; its not really that strange to see Grown men watching family-friendly films for kicks [http://www.thecinemasnob.com/2011/06/17/midnight-screenings-the-green-lantern-and-mr-poppers-penguins.aspx].
Anyone who protests your going to see it is just looking for an argument and needs to chill out.
Jonabob87 said:
Eaglesolidus said:
Necromancer Jim said:
Eaglesolidus said:
why the fuck do people like my little pony so much all of the sudden?
someone tell me
Because Friendship Is Magic.
It's the new series, and it is genuinely enjoyable to most people who aren't making an effort to hate it.
okay thanks i just wanted to know i dont hate it
Here, episode one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqgsXkmQ6ZI
Prepare to be bored though, I don't think I'd even have liked this when I was a child...
I don't think most people who like Friendship is Magic did, either.
I thought the original series was terrible as a child and the one pony I did have was just a mount for my transformers action figures.
The thing is, this new series is a decent show. I don't find it the best thing ever, personally, but the writing, animation, and the rest of its constituent parts make it respectable, from what animators make of it.
It was made by Lauren Faust, who brought her history with the PowerPuff Girls, Foster's home for imaginary friends and Dexter's Lab to the production, so it somehow manages to have nostalgia points without being nostalgic for most people.
Really, though, I think a lot of "bronies"
are drawn in for the shock factor of liking not just a girls' cartoon, but a girls cartoon who people know for being that mediocre show from the 80's, and stay for the fact that it validates the typically "unmanly" side we all have that appreciates unabashed cuteness and friendliness.
I, personally, think its great that we're getting some gender barriers being broken down for
men these days; I find it so cruel of society to have such strict limitations of what men are allowed to find cute.