Should Catholics boycott Disney?

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Comcast is more likely to buy FOX TV & movies (No FOX News since it’s too old audience) than Disney due to their higher bid.

Disney must bid higher or they won’t get X-Men & Deadpool back in the fold for new movies.

Honestly I don’t like Comcast because they are greedy jerks but they provide great Premier League games on NBCSN.
 
Catholic parents should ask themselves,
  • do my kids know more Disney songs than prayers? do they know “Let It Go” but not the Hail Mary?
  • do they know who Luke Skywalker is but not St. Luke?
  • is Rey more of an inspiration than Joan of Arc?
  • can they recognize Disney World but not Vatican City
  • do they have a “junior knows best” attitude?
Answering “yes” to these questions should be eye opening. We must encourage our children to be as passionate about our faith as they are about cartoons and entertainment.

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Are our children just as excited about having a relationship with God?

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Many children enjoy a luxurious Disney vacation but never make a Holy pilgrimage.

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Hopefully children are just as interested and alert during Mass.
 
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bobperk said:
Catholic parents should ask themselves,
  • do my kids know more Disney songs than prayers? do they know “Let It Go” but not the Hail Mary?
  • do they know who Luke Skywalker is but not St. Luke?
  • is Rey more of an inspiration than Joan of Arc?
  • can they recognize Disney World but not Vatican City
  • do they have a “junior knows best” attitude?
Answering “yes” to these questions should be eye opening. We must encourage our children to be as passionate about our faith as they are about cartoons and entertainment.
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My son has known and practiced his faith since his pre-K days (he’s now a teen), and he also knows tons about pop culture, including Disney, Pixar, etc. Children can be passionate about the faith AND enjoy appropriate secular entertainment.
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If my son looked like that when I mentioned his relationship with God, I’d take him in for psychological testing. Do YOU scream with excitement when approaching the altar to receive Holy Communion? One hopes not.
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Many children enjoy a luxurious Disney vacation but never make a Holy pilgrimage.
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Pilgrimages are not required by our faith. But we have gone to Catholic sites when on vacation (e.g., California missions). There is no sin in taking a vacation and NOT making a pilgrimage.
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Hopefully children are just as interested and alert during Mass.
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😂 😂 😂 Holy cow, you clearly are not a parent. The mass is not entertainment, so of course children are not “just as interested and alert” during mass. That is an absolutely preposterous expectation and makes it look like you don’t understand the purpose of the mass, or the mindset of small children, or both. Children are not “mini adults” and simply will not be able to get into the depths of meaning of the mass until they are much, much older.
 
Gertabelle said:
Pilgrimages are not required by our faith. But we have gone to Catholic sites when on vacation (e.g., California missions). There is no sin in taking a vacation and NOT making a pilgrimage.
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Right, I did the same (sorta) on my recent Florida vacation. I like to visit cathedrals and basilicas when I travel, so I went to daily Mass at St. James Cathedral in downtown Orlando. Unfortunately the main church was locked so I didn’t really get a good look at the inside; Mass was held in the side chapel.

I also got to attend my first “Anglican Use” Mass, at Incarnation Catholic Church in the north part of Orlando. They are a former Anglican parish that is now under the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.
 
Sachsen said:
Today’s Disney? Yes, boycott by all means. What they’re offering nowadays isn’t wholesome anymore (homosexual characters, weak male protagonists, etc.)
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Alex337 said:
What male protagonists are weak?
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I’m with Alex here. Why does everything in life need to be solved by a man? I’m as traditional as the next person, but good grief - my dad taught me that at the end of the day I’m the one most concerned with what happens to me, so I need to be sure I’m looking out for myself as well as for others.

As we say in the military, no one cares more about your career than you.

We’re not damsels in distress. There’s nothing wrong with the strong women, in, say, Frozen. Life isn’t solved with a kiss from a prince.
 
Gertabelle said:
😂 😂 😂 Holy cow, you clearly are not a parent. The mass is not entertainment, so of course children are not “just as interested and alert” during mass. That is an absolutely preposterous expectation and makes it look like you don’t understand the purpose of the mass, or the mindset of small children, or both. Children are not “mini adults” and simply will not be able to get into the depths of meaning of the mass until they are much, much older.
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Exactly.

And from my grandfathers’ and grandmother’s descriptions (one born in 1904, one born in 1906, and one born in 1907), they weren’t standing around statues in 1917 all the time either. Kids will be and have always been kids.
 
I find nothing wrong with adaptations. I find nothing wrong with Disney.

I find the actual fairy tale of The Little Mermaid a bit deep for the Disney target demographic.

Fairy tales - actual fairy tales - really aren’t for little kids, to be honest, no matter the depictions of Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm. Kipling also wasn’t writing for six year olds.
 
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Yes, all Catholics should boycott Disney. I have. I also no longer watch ESPN, and I do not watch ABC.

I find that I miss none of them. They do not make any money from me nor will they ever.
 
Yeah. Plus I suppose I’ve also found recent Disney male protagonists to be rather fun, good guys. While older male characters tended to lack much character, just look at so many of the genetic princes.

Kristoff from Frozen wasn’t weak, he was hard working, brave, kind and rather chaste (he seemed to want a longer courtship than is usual in Disney and spoke about how important it is to get to know someone first).

The fellow from Tangled had a character arc and grew as a person, so did Maui from Moana. And both were funny, a little bit rogueish, but had their hearts in the right place.
 
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Hans from Frozen wasn’t weak, he was hard working, brave, kind and rather chaste (he seemed to want a longer courtship than is usual in Disney and spoke about how important it is to get to know someone first).
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I think you have the wrong guy. Hans was a slug who tried to get Elsa and Anna both killed and lied about being in love with Anna.

I think you mean Kristoff. Sven’s master. The good guy - the ice dealer.
 
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Ah yes! It’s been a while since I watched it. :blush:Kristoff was lovely.
 
Gertabelle said:
All this talk of Beauty and the Beast is missing the real problems with the movie:

An eleven year old prince answers the door to his castle (huh?), and because he won’t allow a stranger into his home, he and the entire household are cursed unless he can find true love by the age of twenty-one???

🤨 Are you kidding me???​

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There is no problem at all if you read the original tale by Mme LePrince de Beaumont. Disney are notorious for making wholesale changes to the storylines of these beautiful old stories. The Little Mermaid took a melancholy, sad little tale and turned it into a hideous, loud, garish extravaganza. Not interested in analyzing the faults or otherwise of this overrated film. I’m too busy reading and enjoying the original stories of Grimm, Andersen and the others who tend to go unnoticed in the Disney tsunami.
 
kill051 said:
There is no problem at all if you read the original tale by Mme LePrince de Beaumont. Disney are notorious for making wholesale changes to the storylines of these beautiful old stories. The Little Mermaid took a melancholy, sad little tale and turned it into a hideous, loud, garish extravaganza. Not interested in analyzing the faults or otherwise of this overrated film. I’m too busy reading and enjoying the original stories of Grimm, Andersen and the others who tend to go unnoticed in the Disney tsunami.
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You got that right!
I remember seeing a short animated special of “The Little Mermaid” on television when I was a little girl in the 70s. It followed the original story and the Little Mermaid gets turned into sea foam. I remember thinking what a sad story it was, but I really liked it.
 
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kill051:
There is no problem at all if you read the original tale by Mme LePrince de Beaumont. Disney are notorious for making wholesale changes to the storylines of these beautiful old stories. The Little Mermaid took a melancholy, sad little tale and turned it into a hideous, loud, garish extravaganza. Not interested in analyzing the faults or otherwise of this overrated film. I’m too busy reading and enjoying the original stories of Grimm, Andersen and the others who tend to go unnoticed in the Disney tsunami.
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You got that right!
I remember seeing a short animated special of “The Little Mermaid” on television when I was a little girl in the 70s. It followed the original story and the Little Mermaid gets turned into sea foam. I remember thinking what a sad story it was, but I really liked it.
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I think the only Disney animated films that did justice to the stories were Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. A friend of mine told me her eight year old daughter loved the story of Cinderella, so I gave the child a DVD of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical with Lesley Ann Warren. After they watched it the mother gave it back to me with a comment about how disappointed they were that ‘they had changed the story’ because there were no talking mice! It transpired that this woman thought Disney was the author of Cinderella, as well as Snow White, Pinocchio, et al. This is how far Disney has penetrated, erasing the lovely original tales from people’s minds and replacing them with hip, smart-alecky, unbearable epics of horribleness.
 
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kill051 said:
I think the only Disney animated films that did justice to the stories were Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. A friend of mine told me her eight year old daughter loved the story of Cinderella, so I gave the child a DVD of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical with Lesley Ann Warren. After they watched it the mother gave it back to me with a comment about how disappointed they were that ‘they had changed the story’ because there were no talking mice! It transpired that this woman thought Disney was the author of Cinderella, as well as Snow White, Pinocchio, et al. This is how far Disney has penetrated, erasing the lovely original tales from people’s minds and replacing them with hip, smart-alecky, unbearable epics of horribleness.
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I think the tide is turning on this some. Thanks to the internet – and even thanks to movies like Shrek – people are becoming more aware that these stories are way, way older than Disney.
 
I’m a bit horrified that anyone would think Disney authored any of that stuff.

Where were these people raised? A vacuum bottle?

No wonder I fear for humanity.
 
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