My entire family, including my two teenaged siblings, is obsessed with babies (my mom runs a baby preschool out of our house and there are currently 2 cute babies here).
We FREAKED OUT when we saw this trailer. My 16-year-old brother can't stop talking about it.
Boyfriend and I saw a preview of this at a movie recently and he really wants to see it.
I don't really like babies, I have an instinctive and utterly involuntary "repulsed face" reaction whenever I see them (Seriously, I can't help it, and I feel bad about it, so don't start with me), but I thought the babies crying at the beginning were pretty cute. So I'll see it with him... as long as he doesn't want to knock me up afterwards.
I want to take melodramatic biter baby home with me. The way MBB just bit the other kid and then threw his/her head down and wailed, and then peeked to see if someone was witnessing the wailing KILLED me. That kid has spunk.
I used to watch videos of babies around the world for a job and the differences are fascinating.
My non-scientific observations were:
-Belgians have the best baby toys.
-Japanese babies never cry (really)
-Brazilians all bolt their TVs the ceiling like they're in a hospital and are really, really, really comfortable being naked.
@amoureuse est heureuse: Why, because it's become uninteresting? Should we also be pissed about the women in Tokyo because that is all you ever see about Japan?
Man, anyone who is educated knows that all of the African continent isn't like how those people live, but their babies are just as cute, so it's a total non-issue.
It's like saying no one should film Eskimo babies cause HEY THAT'S NOT HOW CANADA IS.
@Kayleigh R. Carter: But why do they also choose to portray the continent from the same vantage point? The babies would have been just as cute if they had chose to portray a family in Johannesburg or any other African city. It seems that when it comes to the continent, the media is stuck on the "primitive".
@amoureuse est heureuse: To be honest, I think these types of tribes are hella interesting, and I don't want anyone to stop doing documentaries about them. I don't care what ignorant people think (because they don't think), learning about another culture is fascinating, from "primitive" to rural, to city life.
I also wish they would do more documentaries on Native American's and such, perhaps then it would even it out for you? I also love watching documentaries on the tribes of Brazil, but It's not like anyone thinks Brazil is made up of one tiny tribe.
I'm unsure as how to answer your question about portraying Africa as anything, because I just don't see it that way. People do documentaries about people who are different, or about people who struggle (TLC, anyone?). There are people like that in Africa, there stories aren't less important just because other people find their way of life cliche or embarrassing to the continent.
@Kayleigh R. Carter: But there is so much more to Africa than meets the eye. There are countless documentaries out there portraying, tribal, rural Africa. You rarely see movies or films that portray urban, modern Africa. As an African, I find it condescending and patronizing that people always choose to romanticize this aspect of Africa. It keeps us forever relegated to the past, Dark Continent 4 Life!
@amoureuse est heureuse: I agree. At first I thought you wanted the documentaries to stop, now I realize you just want your country to have it's true colors and urban successful culture shown as well. I can absolutely stand by that.
You know, I would go to see it, but with my luck I'd shell out a whole $10 at the theater just to have some screaming infant sitting in the row behind me.
I live in suburban Boston surrounded by swine-flu panicked helicopter parents who've hung "Please don't touch the baby!" signs all around their precious Madyson and Emmett, so I'm just really pleased to see babies sitting in dirt and getting licked by goats.
@PaigeTurner: There's a company that makes them, they're almost like luggage tags. I've seen quite a few of them in the last few weeks. ...I mean, I get how scary it must be that babies can't get the flu vaccine, but like, not to be all "uphill, both ways, in the snow" cane-banging about it, there were colds and flu and whatnot when I was a kid, and we didn't have those signs and yet my generation carried on to adulthood anyway, you know?
@Triphena: there is risk in everything, all the time- so yes, i completely agree. besides, isn't it easy enough just to say to a stranger "please don't touch!" (what stranger does that anyway?)? cooing is one thing, touching is another.
if you are so neurotic about swine flu, limit the places you bring your child.
@PaigeTurner: Totally agree about limiting the places you bring your kid. I have friends who had preemies and they had to keep them inside like all winter their first winter because of RSV.
But as for the touching - people do it. WEIRDOS. But it's not uncommon at all. Usually just the foot, but the worst try to touch their hands - you know, the things babies put in their mouth all the damn time!
I have now watched this trailer 4 times while tearing up and patting the bump that will become Littlest Timebomb in about 5 months. This movie looks so joyful!
Oh, this has been on the must-see list since I saw the preview before Pirate Radio. And that list is short; almost all the previews were either laughably or offensively bad.
The opening scene of this trailer really turned me off of the movie. When I saw it in a theater, everybody laughs as the baby starts to cry. I know a little tiff between two babies isn't going to scar either. But it hit me wrong that I'm supposed to laugh at it.
@Lymed: I think its funny because its clear that the baby is not really harmed but is upset at his friend. I don't think it was meant to be funny per se, but just to show babies interactions which I personally find funny.
@Lymed: When I went to see Precious, the audience laughed when Mary went charging up the stairs at Precious; this takes place just after she's gotten done saying some really heinous and hateful things to her daughter, and I was totally surprised and appalled that everyone reacted like they were watching a slapstick comedy. It's always interesting to see how other people react to things in the movies.
@paperispatient: I understand laughter from discomfort, which is probably what the Precious moment was. I just thought starting the preview with this was an odd choice. I think even the laughter would have hit me different if it was in the middle of the preview.
@Lymed: I think I laughed because that is EXACTLY how I used to fight with my brother. We've reduced the hits and bites to light slaps and yelling in recent years, but that whole sibling thing in the first scene was just so adorable and familiar.
@Lymed: It wasn't that nervous "I feel uncomfortable so I'm chuckling" laughing, I'm talking all-out guffaws - which made ME feel extremely uncomfortable. I wasn't weirded out by the beginning of this preview but I can definitely see why you feel the way you do, especially given the reaction of the people around you.
@Lymed: I think maybe they were seeing what I saw. That baby wasn't hurt just hamming it up to see if she could get some attention and get the other kid in trouble. Classic adorable baby move.
@Lymed: I laughed because I thought 'babies, regardless of location or species they are all the same.' I find it endearing to think that we have this connection from the beginning before we start to lose it by labeling ourselves.
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We FREAKED OUT when we saw this trailer. My 16-year-old brother can't stop talking about it.
I think my mom will camp out to see it.
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I don't really like babies, I have an instinctive and utterly involuntary "repulsed face" reaction whenever I see them (Seriously, I can't help it, and I feel bad about it, so don't start with me), but I thought the babies crying at the beginning were pretty cute. So I'll see it with him... as long as he doesn't want to knock me up afterwards.
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I used to watch videos of babies around the world for a job and the differences are fascinating.
My non-scientific observations were:
-Belgians have the best baby toys.
-Japanese babies never cry (really)
-Brazilians all bolt their TVs the ceiling like they're in a hospital and are really, really, really comfortable being naked.
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Man, anyone who is educated knows that all of the African continent isn't like how those people live, but their babies are just as cute, so it's a total non-issue.
It's like saying no one should film Eskimo babies cause HEY THAT'S NOT HOW CANADA IS.
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I also wish they would do more documentaries on Native American's and such, perhaps then it would even it out for you? I also love watching documentaries on the tribes of Brazil, but It's not like anyone thinks Brazil is made up of one tiny tribe.
I'm unsure as how to answer your question about portraying Africa as anything, because I just don't see it that way. People do documentaries about people who are different, or about people who struggle (TLC, anyone?). There are people like that in Africa, there stories aren't less important just because other people find their way of life cliche or embarrassing to the continent.
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if you are so neurotic about swine flu, limit the places you bring your child.
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But as for the touching - people do it. WEIRDOS. But it's not uncommon at all. Usually just the foot, but the worst try to touch their hands - you know, the things babies put in their mouth all the damn time!
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I'm looking forward to this.
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