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Author Topic: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?  (Read 7875 times)

Neonivek

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Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« on: July 18, 2011, 05:29:05 pm »
So I was watching the trailers for the new Smurf movie and their barftastic "Modern Incarnation" Comedy adaption. As I watched it and fond memories of my childhood surfaced I honestly felt like the movie was taking my inner child by the hand... Dragging it right out of me, then started beating it with a smurf colored baseball bat.

Has anyone ever felt something similar? Like peices of their childhood were somehow tarnished or injured by newer incarnations?
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2011, 05:29:26 pm »
Transformers.

All the time.
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2011, 05:32:49 pm »
I shouldn't go into too much detail, but considering some of the shit I went through during those times, I don't think my inner child gives a damn about all this stuff that keeps going on with old IPs and stuff.

Because in a sense... All the old stuff is still there. And hey, before producers messed with it for remakes there was porn of it made by weird fans. Always.

Yes transformers too.
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2011, 05:33:07 pm »
Quote from: Levi on July 18, 2011, 05:29:26 pm
Transformers.

All the time.

Ahh I see you watched the third movie... The movie that loves to make long viewers of the transformers series cry... the movie where even I went "Why is Optimus so bloodthisty?"
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2011, 05:41:13 pm »
No... not really.

That's not to say fond things from my childhood haven't been "tarnished" by newer incarnations. Final Fantasy 6 was my favorite video game since I was like, 8 years old, and when they came out with a new translation for the GBA version I felt physically ill at some of the changes.


The way I see it the originals haven't changed, so no true harm done. I can always go load up my SNES and play the original if I want.
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2011, 05:49:56 pm »
Oooh, what about when I teaching in Thailand, and decided to go backpacking in Myanmar, upon which I was deported for punching a man in the face that offered me an underaged prostitute.

Or when I was teaching circus skills to orphaned survivors of the SEA christmas tsunami.

Or when we were at angkor wat complex in Cambodia, and a group of boys with makeshift sandal sailboats in a lake were throwing pieces of the 800 year old temple to make them move. A tour guide yelled at them and explained to us about perspective - when he was their age, they used to play soccer with the decapitated heads of victims of the 1970s cambodian genocide.

And in the Killing Fields, three children, an 11 and 9 year old boy, and 7 year old girl begged us for cash while standing in a rain-filled mass grave still filled with hundreds of unearthed bodies. Their parents made cents a day making nikes.

Or reading where have all the butterflies gone while at bergen - art pieces by children about to be executed during the Holocaust.

Inner childhood death is a bit different for me #firstworldproblems

But yeah man, that Xcom remake.
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2011, 05:57:02 pm »
I grew up not being allowed to watch most of the things being milked so I am indifferent,
Also they never remade Commander Keen.
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2011, 06:02:41 pm »
Quote from: Neonivek on July 18, 2011, 05:33:07 pm
Quote from: Levi on July 18, 2011, 05:29:26 pm
Transformers.

All the time.

Ahh I see you watched the third movie... The movie that loves to make long viewers of the transformers series cry... the movie where even I went "Why is Optimus so bloodthisty?"

I didn't watch any of them.  I just want my big plasticy blocky robots fighting evil big plasticy blocky robots while trying their hardest not to step on any humans. 
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2011, 06:12:21 pm »
[And here open the gates of heaven]
« Last Edit: July 18, 2011, 06:22:00 pm by Vector »
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2011, 06:47:14 pm »
Not at all. Not at'all.

The old stuff is still there, and if you can not enjoy the new stuff for itself, well no one is forcing you to try to enjoy anything.

Indeed. Even crappy things of old childhood favorites are good, for in many cases they revive interest in the old things. For instance, there is a new loony toons show. It is not bad per say, but it is nothing at all like the old ones. But, because they are showing this new show, they have started to air the old ones with it. So even if you hate the new show, at least it allows you to watch the old ones.
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« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2011, 06:53:31 pm »
I think the only remakes I feel insulted by on a personal level are the ones by Disney.

I'm sure everyone knows which one I'm referring to in particular.
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« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2011, 07:12:42 pm »
Yeah. I think I might know.

In fact my post was made to comment on that. Bu eh.
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« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2011, 07:18:07 pm »
Quote from: Criptfeind on July 18, 2011, 07:12:42 pm
Yeah. I think I might know.

In fact my post was made to comment on that. Bu eh.

Ah, well, in my case part of the annoyance comes from the fact that when I want to find stuff on the original work, like a community of people on the web, I can't.  It IS different.  I can enjoy it myself, but it's a heck of a lot harder to find other appreciators.

It's not the "oh my goodness, I can't stand the idea of there being a remake!"  I'm totally fine with all the other remakes, even though I dislike most of them personally and think they were pretty terribly done.  I just get bloody annoyed by my searches getting polluted by more popular modern versions to the point of just plain being unable to find what I'm trying to get at all.  And no, usually (pretty much always) they prefer the remake to the original, say it's crappy, and move on.  It doesn't seem to be getting any sort of positive publicity anymore.

Maybe with the Tim Burton remake :3
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2011, 07:23:00 pm »
Look I am FINE with remakes.

It is when things go WAAAY far into the toilet, that I start to feel the "Why!?!"

To be truthful the Smurf Movie is the first movie that ever did that to me a great deal. (Bloodthirsty Optimus was close but my goodness)

It is because that movie is soo uttarly retched and smeared with the WORST parts of modernisation. It is a movie that would be ignorable in its horrificness but because it attaches itself to something that I adore myself that I can't help but to stand and watch this abomination.

I can't ignore it no matter how I try. Everytime I see the commercial and hear the lines like "You messed with the wrong girl" and "Are Smurf's butts blue?" that I just go... "WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!".
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Re: Anyone ever feel like their Inner Child was just Punched in the gut?
« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2011, 07:27:43 pm »
Every Time I see a promo for a show on cartoon network/every time I have the misfortune of seeing what they are doing with the pokemon anime.
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