Grugger’s Way

Movies for Mature Folks sounds like a pretty dull subject.

There aren’t very many movies made for people with brains over the age of 14. (At the bottom of this post are 2008 Movies for Grownups.)

I can’t figure out the fascination with Animation.   It must be a youth and gaming thing.  Animated movies hold absolutely no attraction for me.  I have seen some…it is almost impossible to avoid them if you have young grandchildren over to visit.   They LOVE them!  It’s like watching cartoons for them, plus there is adult humor that they can try to figure out.

Perhaps Disney can be credited with this phenomenon.  Disney always made movies for kids who have kids for parents.  They made movies with real people but the stories were almost cartoonish; then he developed the full-length feature cartoon.

On television, we saw the Simpson’s become a hit.  This was originally just a little “filler” bit on Saturday Night Live.  The adult humor–well, I will re-phrase that.  It is actually 14-year-old boy humor. Anyway, this form of entertainment expanded into the evening primetime hours on television, and the Simpson’s success spawned other “copy-cat” shows, each one trying to “out-gross” the other with their own version of 14-year-old boy humor.  I kept expecting the entire genre to self-destruct, but so far the audience for bad taste has exceeded my expectations.

I did see Shrek.  Then I heard people talking about how great Eddie Murphy was in Shrek.  I say, “Eddie Murphy didn’t act in Shrek!  It was his voice!  It was a cartoon!!” Ridiculous.

2008 Movies for Grownups (from AARP.org) Here are three of my favorites:

The Savages (About caring for an aging parent with dementia. Savage is the family’s surname. Stars Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman.)
The Kite Runner (Story of Afghanistan was a huge bestseller of a novel)

Atonement  (World War Two setting, the British at Dunkirk.  Stars Keira Knightley)

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