I definitely saw this movie once or twice as a kid, but I remember less about it than I do Clifford, the 1994 movie also starring Charles Grodin (which despite what you might think, didn’t involve a large dog at all).
The only thing I remember about the Beethoven movies is that in one of them,
CW: fucked up shit, cruelty to animals, carnism
a roadside hot dog stand is slaughtering dogs to make the sausages. There was a scene of dogs in cages acting like human prisoners, doing tropes like knocking a tin cup against the bars. WTF, who thought that was appropriate for a kids’ movie?!
This thread reminded me of Beethoven, I know I loved it as a kid. It used to play on the TV around Easter back then, but I remember literally nothing.
So I just rewatched it. It’s absolute shit lol. Bottom of the barrel trash movie, no redeeming qualities, just absolute garbage. And I say that as a “dog person” who likes the furry slob that lies next to me on the couch rn
Also no, I deeply doubt this was “the standard” back then either, they live in a picturesque fucking suburb with a huge house, it’s obviously the upper end of middle class and not the “standard” life that “they took from you”
I think the people who call Hallmark’s mass-produced boilerplate Christmas movies fascist propaganda are onto something.
I live with an elderly person who watches only these movies and cable news, so believe me when I say that they definitely feel like the kind of media that would be on TV if the Nazis had succeeded in WWII
Yes the nazis loved very in-offensive quaint nuclear family landscape settings. Movies that had a “deep message” and “too artsy and abstract” as part of cultural criticism was seen as part of judeo-bolshevism modernism.
I can’t help but wonder, do gamergaters not realize that Adolf Hitler would probably hate most vidya/anime?
Like call me basic but it’s pretty obvious my favorite anime is Dragon Ball. It brings me satisfaction knowing the nazis would hate it.
would the nazis hate dragon ball really? they could easily turn it into blonde hair ubermenschen save the universe with their absolute strength and will to power. “The super saiyan transformation is a metaphor for the transformation of the german society from the alpine races to a pure aryan race”
In the Dragon Ball, the mixed race (human + sayajin) is waaaay stronger than the pure blood, they would definitely argue that Dragon Ball went woke after the Freeza saga.
Hell, probably they’d call the fact Freiza lost, let alone got hit at all “woke”. Freiza is everything the westerners admire, a mostly white megalomaniac inspired off of real estate investors.
SSG has Goku dye his hair blue to power up to counteract this.
Feels like Hallmark Christmas movies are a dying breed of neoliberal propaganda from the 90’s.
Counterpoint: People would regularly forget their children when leaving on vacation and their children would have to go to war with local crooks
then the children would get their annual christmas handshake from the future president
to paraphrase Beethoven: “the dog has been destroyed, due to woke”
After someone made a comment about it I looked it up and damn, this movie made many sequels; there’s eight movies total.
The eternal boomer
“I miss being a kid and therefore we need to genocide the undesirables!” Like that’s it, that’s their underlying villain origin story; they became adults and miss being a kid. Literal disney adults, literal disney adults are running circles around us in politics and the culture wars. It’s so humiliating we’re losing to THAT!
And the FUCKING 70s? That decade sucked ass. I wasn’t there but my dad most certainly was.
This same mf will call you propagandized about communism as if they aren’t the easiest propaganda victim of all time
They yearn for the propaganda
Their whole post was them full on admitting they don’t care about things existing, they just want to not think or hear about them
That’s why I always say that the average reactionary simply just misses being a kid. They want to be somehow both a child sheltered by mommy and daddy, but also the self-appointed god of an eternally stagnant neverland.
Even if I woke up tomorrow as straight, rich and neurotypical, I’d still have selfish reasons to support leftism because reactionaries unironically want the world to be boring af.
Love that he included the 70s in this. Famous era for optimistic, apolitical movies with no sexual or racial themes.
Read some Marvel from the 70’s people were scared as fuck it was the end of the world because of the oil crisis and turmoil in the middle east and it made it’s way to comic books.
And we were constantly afraid of being atomic bombed
The first Gundam is from that era and Newtypes were portrayed as psychedelic world conscious emphats that would bring a better peaceful world. Basically the OG “the kids are alright”/“Zoomers will save us”
Og? That’s what hippies thought they were as well
Those burnt film/acid washed backgrounds for when the newtype moments happened tho
I love them as well!
the propaganda was so much better back then!
yeah he makes a great point, i get all my opinions from 1990s dog movies
Uphold Wishbone Thought!
IT’S A MOVIE WITH THE PREMISE “WHAT IF A DOG WAS BIG AND GROSS?”
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
It’s honestly embarrassing that I was ever afraid of 4chan and respected their every word like they’re literal gods.
Someone literally did the “billions must die” meme because of one of the most prolesloppy films to exist.
I’m going to laugh as these giggling trolls try to pull the same shit on the People’s Liberation Army.
because of wokeness we can only have small, clean dogs now 😤
Gay Mexican Dogs like the one from Taco Bell
Comrade Sasha
saying RETVRN to big smelly pooches.
This is recycled 1950s nostalgia based on media for a new generation.
I have heard multiple boomers cite Leave it to Beaver as if it’s a documentary
OK, but the 90s was peak time for “Racism is over :)” media???
How does this simultaneously have so many a-list actors, and the production value of an albinoblacksheep animutation? Is that fucking papyrus for the title cards?!
The late 90s were a wonderful time lol
Yes the 90s is definitely what I associate with the “we archived everything” “we fixed racism” and “I don’t see color/I am a friend to all humans” or the “why are black people still upset about what happened xxx years ago?”
I had to watch this in school
What the fuck James Earl Jones was in this
Then by their own logic, they’re the ones that did the race baiting. 4chan, facebook and the underlying Amerikkkan hivemind decided “hey we want racism back!” (Not that it ever ended.)
We didn’t stop being color blind, they did and we simply had to as well.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Beethoven
Dog can’t talk
Nobody shrinks
Nobody grows giant
No Robin Williams
Dog can’t even play basketball
Fuck this shit, I refuse to believe anyone is nostalgic for Beethoven
EDIT: I looked up the plot because I couldn’t remember what even happens in this piece of shit movie, and the moral of the story is “animal testing bad” which is so funny because you know these hogs would be baying in a fury if you directly said that to them.
The fact it fucking got sequels always amazed me
Dog can’t talk
What? I never watched this movie, but it used to be on TV a lot. The dog doesn’t even speak? Wtf is this movie even about?
They find a St Bernard and they name it Beethoven and he grows bigger than they expected and I remember nothing else about it
St. Bernard’s are already fucking huge. One time my friend mistook one for a bear, said it looks like there’s a bear in the house, the person living there said ‘oh! That’s Buster!’ Friend the asked ‘what’s a Buster?’
Buster was cool as hell
‘what’s a Buster?’
Also known as a
scrub
The slobber
Like, big for a Saint Bernard, or big in general? Because if you didn’t know a St Bernard would be big…
It’s not like, Clifford
He was a puppy when they found him and they’re dumb
Also someone is trying to do experiments on dogs or something and he’s the villain idk
