Posted on 11/24/2019 8:04:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Would rather watch Bob Ross paint happy trees.
Lloyd Vogel? Esquire magazine? Hard-nosed? Isn't that, like, one step above People? Is he a cross between Lloyd Braun and Office Matt Vogel of Latham, Massachusetts?
makes the movers and shakers of the world flee.
Must think he's the Godzilla of People magazine. And we're thousands of fleeing Japanese.
Free Republic has become overrun with curmudgeons and extremely cynical posters. It’s not fun anymore.
“As a kid, I thought Mr. Rogers was creepy.”
I think he was a good person through and through but in his show his manner wasn’t that of most men. However I didn’t mind my kids watching it.
To this day I don’t like Sesame Street but I didn’t mind my kids watching that either.
Slight spoiler:at end Vogel’s dad
is dying.Fred Rogers whispers something in his ear.Later Vogel
asks him what he said.
Fred:”I asked him to pray for me.”
Huh?
“Why?,” asked Vogel.Wouldn’t one expect the opposite?
Fred:”I figure right now he’s very close to God, closer than I am.”
And he wouldn't let us watch The 3 Stooges, because he thought we'd hit each other in the head with metal objects.
We watched The 3 Stooges anyway and hit each other in the head with metal objects. And everybody on The New Zoo Review was creepier than Mr. Rogers.
Hanks lost me when he enthusiastically starred in the creepy BS “CODE” films that besmirched the Lord Jesus Christ with swill about Mary Magdalene, et al, and attempted to destroy the New Testament and the Gospel of Our Lord. Other than that, I guess he’s OK./S!
I agree with you about those films. I sat through the first and didn’t like it at all. It must have been quite forgettable since I didn’t even think about it before I posted.
Yep, he was creepy. Never wanted to watch or have my son watch
.....and the reason for the change to 4F ??
What's the story there?
Mr. Rogers had/has appeal to a very limited age group, maybe 3 or 4 to 5 or 6 at the most, his gentleness and friendly approach, and the consistent daily routine works for those age kids. Once you’re a little older, you start to get the “creepy” &/or boring vibe. But I don’t think he was creepy, just different. Not sure on the stories about him being in the military (or not).
we can fight it, pendajo!
I am sorry, even as a kid I always thought Mr. Rogers was dense and silly. No appeal whatsoever. I admired my heros like Superman, Roy Rogers, Mighty Mouse, the Lone Ranger, I can go all day long with TV heroes of my childhood. Mr Rogers Neighborhood was dumb, boring, and lame. I never could see a purpose in it. He talked slowly and stupid and nothing every happned. There weren’t tons of shows I hated as a kid and this was one of them.
I have no clue why anybody thinks this is worth a movie. Mr. Rogers might have been the bestest, nicesest guy on the plant and if you want to give him a civillian medal or something, OK by me. But the show stunk and I have NO interest in a movie.
Just dumb.
Tom Hanks was really perfect as Fred Rodgers. Just got back from seeing this; and, it really is a movie about a jaded journalist who changes how he looks at life through his interactions and conversations with Fred Rodgers.
I liked the movie, I thought it was very nice and uplifting. I'm glad I saw it.
Definitely. My brothers and I were raised by The Three Stooges and Sargent Saunders.
He spoke to my heart as a child, and then he spoke to my daughters heart when she was a child. She didn’t want to go to school because she would miss Mr Rogers.
That man was a Saint.
I have a friend whose brother actually WAS Mr. Rogers’ neighbor. Lived a couple doors down the street from him in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh. He attests that Rogers was indeed EXACTLY the same guy in real life that you saw on the screen.
I believe McFeely was his mother’s maiden name.
The Mr. McFeely character was named after her.
Oddly, it doesn’t mention his time in Vietnam, storming into villages and burning huts, gunning down everything in sight.
Because it isn’t true but it would have been a really good scene to put in the movie.
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