50 years ago my home town could only receive the broadcast of one TV station. Today most people can get 300 stations. 50 years ago there were not many days I was not in front of that one stations broadcast at 3pm. I never missed that spinach eating sailor. Popeye turns 75 this week. I will never forget his face with it's jutting jaw, the right eye that always seemed to be squinting. The huge arms with anchor tattoos made him look invincible. He always had a pipe in his mouth and the sound of TOOT---TOOT still floats in my mind. Popeye sure knew how to pick his girl friend. Olive Oyl was a size 4, my kind of woman. His son, Sweet Pea never seen to grow or age at all. Popeye's sidekick was always trying to get a hamburger one way or another. I can just see Wimpy walking around the parking lot of Dan's Hamburger in south Austin, asking everyone he saw "If you will buy me a hamburger today, I will gladly pay you back on Tuesday". Brutus was Popeye's arch enemy and was always trying to get everything Popeye had, but Popeye was always strong to the finish if he ate his spinach. Today's animated cortoons and movies have changed a lot. The 2 to 11 year olds are not the core audience, the 18 to 24 year olds have the money to put down $8 for a ticket for the new animated features. The cartoons of today satisfies a 22 year old yet they are not too edgy for the 2 to 11 crowd, so the money keeps rolling to the producers of these flicks. Finding Nemo brought in $340 million, not bad for just one big fish tank. In the Incredibles the super hero is so over weight he can not get into his costume, he must be a south Austin buba. I will bet he has a can of Copenhagen or a package of red man in his tights somewhere. The newest animated movie starts this week. SpongeBob, a sponge with pipe cleaners for arms and legs is a lovable leading man who always stays positive almost too positive, I know someone or something is going to rain on his parade. Well it is almost 3pm! I can makebelive, can't I. Olive Oyl " gets mees me spinach"
I agre with you totally. Todays films are made for aduldts now and not kids, I think that is so sad. The parents take the kids along and expect them to set through a 2 hour movie that has lines in it that they do not even understand. They should just make kids movies the old fashion way, but I do not think that is going to happen.
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