Why do they even make these movies?
Beatrice Potter’s children’s books, including The Tale of Peter Rabbit, have been delighting children and adults for over 100 years. They are just fine the way they are, and need absolutely no improvement. They especially don’t need to be debased to the abysmal level of today’s pop culture.
But that’s just what Sony Pictures has done; and because they don’t have enough intellect to power an amoeba, they’ve made a mess of it.
In one controversial scene, Peter Rabbit takes advantage of Farmer McGregor’s dangerous food allergy by throwing some blackberries at him, forcing him to use his EpiPen to avoid going into anaphylactic shock. Sheesh. And of course there’s already a freakin’ hashtag thingy over it, #boycottpeterrabbit.
Why was this crapola added to Ms. Potter’s story? Two reasons spring to mind. (1) The film’s producers are idiots, and just plain never expected to happen what anybody could have told them would happen. (2) The film’s producers, in addition to being idiots, are ignorant idiots who actually didn’t know there were no EpiPens in Beatrice Potter’s time.
They’ll probably try to call her on her cell phone and ask about it.
That such benighted, intractable puddin’-headedness can exist in a country with more colleges and universities than ever existed anywhere before, and the biggest and costliest “education” system in all of human history, really ought to shame us into doing better, don’t you think?
And we can start by cutting the costs. Cutting ’em way, way back.
Just one more reason I haven’t been to the movies in over a decade. 🙂
Where are the devout Christians who have been given artistic gifts? Why aren’t Spirit-filled believers leading the way in every endeavor of human life? These questions aggravate me all the time, but then I have to look in the mirror and examine what have I done? (No Oscars or Pulitzers to speak of thus far).
The devout Christian artists are out there getting rejected.
Next, Peter Rabbit will put a little arsenic in Farmer McGregor’s breakfast.
I’ll quote Forrest Gump’s mother (played by Sally Field): “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Un. Real. These people live in an alternate universe, one in which such things are taken Seriously.
Wow. I had no idea it was that bad.