lachtna Reviews

Song of the South (1946)

a gem of a movie (possible spoilers)

[16 February 2008]

You know it's a shame that this fine movie has never been released in the US. This is a movie that deserves to be shared and watched.

I know that the blacks were the workers and the whites didn't work (remember, the white guy dumped his family there to go LOOK for work) however they have to look at the bigger picture.

Uncle Remus is the true hero of this story, he's the one that cared, he's the one that taught through stories and song and he's the one that keep the boys on track....both the white and black one...and keep the white boy from running away.

This movie taught me that blacks are hard-working caring people when I was growing up. Yes, it may be set in a bad time and portray blacks as the lesser group but it also teaches of love and tolerance and standing up for what you believe in and if that's wrong something's wrong with this world.

I was so excited when Disney announced that they were thinking about releasing it for the first time in the US then after that nothing.

I hope they realize what a wonderful movie this is it WAY beyond time to release it's magic on the US audience.

Woops! (1992)

a funny little show that was doomed by it's time-slot.

[21 December 2007]

I had been shopping for a Christmas present and saw the television "20 Q" and knew I could stump the game with this show.

It was referred to as the "thinking mans Gilligan's Island" but couldn't be really referred to as that because it wasn't a thinking show but rather a funny take on a very unfunny subject, nuclear annihilation and how people who are forced into living together to survive learn to live with each other.

It was a funny little show that had a BAD time slot (Sunday morning 12:30am here) and therefore was doomed from the start.

The final episode that aired was the Christmas episode and the other episodes of the short-lived show never aired.

Our loss, it was a half hour show to just get away from your problems and think about nothing.