WHY??
Why do they not show this every halloween on Cartoon Network? I think it is very educational and shows the real values of halloween.
shareI agree, I just saw it again tonight after about 10 years because that's about the last time they showed it on TV...and I gathered it as being very exciting and emotional and educational. But then I got to thinking...ever notice how in cartoons they don't say anything like 'dead', or 'killed' anymore? The best they can come up with is something like "he GETS them", "she GOT them", they don't have the proverbial balls to say kill on a children's show anymore. Then I got to thinking about something else, what is mainstream entertainment in cartoons these days? Horribly drawn characters who can't say an intelligent sentence to save their lives...only how 'cool' something is or something to prove how stupid they are, they might as well have the characters saying "watch me, I'm too stupid to know better".
It's a sad state of affairs but the fact remains that idiocy rules the bunk of children's TV today...and they wouldn't dare show them anything that might make them upset, or might get them to actually thinking, and use their minds and show them that cartoons can be educational and frightening, truly frightening, and an emotional roller coaster, all at the same time.
That's what happens when politically correct pinheads get to working for children's shows. They ain't gonna give it to us on TV so we've got to get the video tape where we can get it and put out a demand for DVD release.
*applauds as novastar 6 takes a bow*
*curtains close*
Thank you, it's nice to know that I'm not alone in the intelligence department around here. It's sad but true that they don't put anything good on anymore, nothing intelligent, nothing that can make the kids think, nothing that has any genuine value as entertainment at all.
shareI like THE HALLOWEEN TREE a lot, but I never found it "frightening, truly frightening and an emotional roller coaster."
And I remember watching a lot of cartoon idiocy on television in the 1970s when I was growing up. We all wear rose-colored glasses when talking about the past.
Yeah but back then it was a hell of a lot more intelligent than it is today. I mean today has to be the ROCK BOTTOM for cartoons' intelligence. And as bad as it is right now, I fear for what they'll come up with in the future. Stuff like The Halloween Tree is good and it deserves to be on every cartoon channel for Halloween.
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Its all about potty humor now.Poopin,fartin,and burpin can go just so far. Its not even funny to me anymore.The same when cuss words were used to express feeling, not used in every sentece spoken.
That's for sure, and it doesn't even have to be solely about humor but just being good. What you said about cuss words used to express feeling, not used in every sentence spoken is a fine example. Take for example 1979's And Justice For All, there is a big difference in Arthur Kirkland going "You, you son of a bitch you, you're supposed to STAND for something! You're supposed to PROTECT people! But instead you F UCK and MURDER THEM!" and a movie from now where every other word is 's hit' or 'as$hole' or 'bitch'. That is just uncalled for and a pitiful attempt at compensating for lack of a good writer.
sharei'm 17 and i have never seen this actually on TV. i'm just glad my father got it for me on VHS from the old mom&pop video rental store many years ago (the store has since gone out of business and is a mattress store now *what the hell?*). he copied it onto another VHS so i could keep it. i watch it at least once a year in october and usually a couple of other times throughout the year. i realized that my VHS copy wasn't going to last forever so i began a quest to find it online. i finally did and now have it in DivX format and only minutes ago converted it to iPod format so i can watch it anytime i want to. cartoons today are complete garbage. nickelodeon had a few decent cartoons in the early 90's (they weren't intelligent by any means but they at least had some jokes in them that you wouldn't have understood till a few years later, not unlike a 5 year old watching Shrek) but now nickelodeon seems to just have bulls hit like the fairly oddparents (which in my opinion is one of the worst shows ever created). rugrats and rocco's modern life and all those are faaaar gone these days. i wish they weren't, but sadly they are. i guess we just have to wait for the companies to smarten up and at least give us solid DVD copies of these old shows to at least make them last longer; so they aren't just locked in storage at some studio deteriorating. anyways, The Halloween Tree is amazing and i wish more people could realize that.
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I love this movie, It's been about 13-15 years since I've seen it and JUST DLed a copy off piratebay, I plan to buy a DVD ASAP! I love the older of the Halloween kids movies that are actually spooky and intelligent. My fav spooky cartoon movies I watched when I was a kid are, in no particular order:
The Halloween Tree
The Hobbit <not Halloween themed, but parts were scary>
The Black Cauldron <again>
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow <the one w/ Bing Crosby>
The Last Unicorn <also not Halloween, but still, the Red Bull and the harpy were scary>
Night on Bald Mountain from Fantasia <the demon part>
Great Pumpkin/Charlie Brown <not scary, but a classic anyway!>
A Disney Halloween
Bugs Bunny/Quackbusters
And I have them all on my PC!
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, feel free to tell me about any I've missed, preferably scary/spooky ones!
"Of COURSE I hurt you, how ELSE would you know I love you?? You're so silly sometimes!"