Spoilers Skeleton Crew [Spoiler Discussion]

[fireproof78]

Anyone else a little confused to see people recognising 'The Goonies' influence, but then be shocked to see violence and (very) mild horror? Did anyone actually see Goonies? I mean; this part alone!

80's family movies were very dark compared to the sanitised saccharine tat that's been the standard of the genre since the mid-90's it seems. 'The Goonies', 'Return to Oz', 'Gremlins', 'The Witches', 'Little Monsters', 'Time Bandits', 'Young Sherlock Holmes', 'The Dark Crystal', 'The Neverending Story', basically any Don Bluth animated movie ever . . .

There appears to be a very rose colored sanitization of movies from a childhood. I've been rewatching some 80s movies and the content was always pushing a line of some kind, with violence or threats of violence, even with kids.

I wonder if people who grew up with these films even remember what they might have felt over the content at the time she not filtered through memory or desensitized lens of aging.

 

[Relayer1]

I'm already more invested in the story, characters, settings and mysteries set up in the first two episodes of Skeleton Crew then I ever was at any point during The Acolyte.

Everyone is different !

The fact that the main characters are kids doesn't figure into my evaluation because I consider it an irrelevant factor.

In what way ? The whole thing started off with very familiar school related concerns, followed it with child parent strife and concluded in children in an adult environment where they are way out of their depth.

It remains to be seen whether they will go down the Home Alone* plucky kid outwits blundering adults route.

*Another film I loathe and detest.

 

[Nerys Myk]

In what way ? The whole thing started off with very familiar school related concerns, followed it with child parent strife and concluded in children in an adult environment where they are way out of their depth.

Isn't that Syril's arc in "Andor"?

 

[Jayson1]

In the 80's even Ghostbusters and RoboCop were seen as kids movies and one involved(though implied and not shown) a ghost giving Ray a blow job and in RoboCop, well we know about the violence in that. I assure you Kurtwood Smith was doing more than just putting a boot up someone's ass.

 

[Nerys Myk]

In the 80's even Ghostbusters and RoboCop were seen as kids movies and one involved(though implied and not shown) a ghost giving Ray a blow job and in RoboCop, well we know about the violence in that. I assure you Kurtwood Smith was doing more than just putting a boot up someone's ass.

Well there is a tendency to dismiss all SFF&H as "for kids".

 

[Set Harth]

In the 80's even Ghostbusters and RoboCop were seen as kids movies

Ghostbusters yes, Robocop no.

 

[Crewman6]

Well, yes and no. Wolfman Jack was a real person that played himself in American Graffiti. In the case of Skeleton Crew though, the character's name is Brutus. So the only AG reference here is on the part of @Nerys Myk.

No, Brutus is a clearly a Wolfman Jack reference.

 

[Crewman6]

In the 80's even Ghostbusters and RoboCop were seen as kids movies and one involved(though implied and not shown) a ghost giving Ray a blow job and in RoboCop, well we know about the violence in that. I assure you Kurtwood Smith was doing more than just putting a boot up someone's ass.

Robocop was in absolutely no way a "kids movie."

Ghostbusters was an adult comedy which was simultaneously family friend. Not a "kids" movie, either. 0 for 2.

 

[Reverend]

RoboCop was 100% NOT seen as a kids' movie. It had an 18 certificate over here, and one presumes in the states it had the equivalent rating . . . I still saw it when I was 8, but that's besides the point!

Oh and 'Ghostbusters' was rated PG. Also not really a "kid's movie" so much as a family comedy that trended more towards the mature. That it was a big hit with kids anyway was apparently a bit of a shock, and why the next movie toned it down quite a bit (and also why they made toys and a cartoon, obviously!)

 

[Nerys Myk]

I think RoboCop was an R (restricted to those 17 and older) in the States

 

[Turtletrekker]

I think RoboCop was an R (restricted to those 17 and older) in the States

You are absolutely correct. But then, they had a tendency to make Saturday morning cartoons out of R-rated movies such as Robocop and Rambo.

 

[fireproof78]

You are absolutely correct. But then, they had a tendency to make Saturday morning cartoons out of R-rated movies such as Robocop and Rambo.

And toy lines and comics including for Alien.

 

[Set Harth]

This feels more like Star Wars already than either The Book of Boba Fett or The Acolyte, despite the familiar trappings of those two shows.

I wouldn't exactly go that far but it was nice to see a Snaggletooth! ( I know they're not called that. )

 

[Aragorn]

You are absolutely correct. But then, they had a tendency to make Saturday morning cartoons out of R-rated movies such as Robocop and Rambo.

Police Academy. Toxic Avenger. Killer Tomatoes.

 

[Jayson1]

You are absolutely correct. But then, they had a tendency to make Saturday morning cartoons out of R-rated movies such as Robocop and Rambo.

That was what I was going for. Plus toys.

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[Relayer1]

That's the spirit; if you don't hate it keep watching it until you do.

I like the cut of your jib !

 

[Nerys Myk]

I like the cut of your jib !

We'll make a space pirate out of you yet!

 

[Fuddles]

I caught episode 2 today. A lot of fun. Sad to see pirate droid expire. It was funny. Plenty of nice surprises throughout so far. I was so worried about this being a silly kids adventure, like Goonies, but that's what it is and it turned out to be great. Jedi Law was cool too. Wasn't expecting that.

 

[Set Harth]

When they're flying into Borgo it felt very Dark Empire to me.

 

[JD]

You are absolutely correct. But then, they had a tendency to make Saturday morning cartoons out of R-rated movies such as Robocop and Rambo.

I've never understood the obsession with marketing hard R movies to kids in the '80s. Did they really think people were taking their little kids to these movies? Or was it meant to be a chance for the kids to get to experience it in their own way since they couldn't see the movies?

Disney's released a lyric video for "Youngee Wim (Bunky Dunko)"

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Was the song in one of the episodes somewhere? I don't remember hearing it.