Raccoons Hobo Rant 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kovgDwagBrw
A video apology to all Hobo fans out there, quite clearily you're superior!

Part 1 of a long rant that starts off with 'Run With Us',the ending theme and one of the trademark songs of The Raccoons, being used in the adult film 'Hobo With A Shotgun' and how I believe Kevin Gillis isen't doing enough for the hardcore Raccoon Fans out there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kovgDwagBrw
A video apology to all Hobo fans out there, quite clearily you're superior!

The Raccoons is owned by Skywriter Media.
Hobo With A Shotgun is owned by Alliance Films and Magnet Releasing.

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[DonJohn80]

The target audience for the movie would have grown up on The Racoons. I did. I loved hearing it at the end of the movie because it flashed me back to my childhood. Fans of the show who didn't see the movie shouldn't care. Fans who did were probably happy to hear it. The series didn't live forever over here, some people who watched the original run grew up to be gore hounds who had the biggest smile ever hearing the song again after a retro horror movie.

[David315842]

@DonJohn80 If Gillis the sell out wanted people to hear the song again, he should have had it simply re-released in the music charts and NOT have it used in a slasher movie. Slasher movie using old family theme song = WRONG!

[David315842]

@trailersic Your mental if I'm going to 'rejoice' over this crap! A LOT of hardcore Raccoons fansere dis-pleased by this, one of their fav songs used in a violent movie like this has led fans to say 'my childhood has been raped' and rightfully so. I also tell you something, The Raccoons was being released on DVD in the UK with the first two seasons made avaliable, now thanks to Kevin's sell out, we may not get anymore for a long while. I hope your pleased with yourself for backing the sell out!

[trailersic]

@David315842 If there's one thing that will get a show released on dvd it's people outside of the hardcore fandom hearing about it. Whatever way doesn't matter if you were really that desperate for a release. Companies don't release shows and films on dvd because they "deserve" a release, they release them if they think enough people know about them and will buy them, if the song being in Hobo With a Shotgun has caused more people to talk about the Raccoons, you should be rejoicing.

[David315842]

@trailersic Though Transformers was quite dark and violent and was never a show to entertain wholefamiles per say, anyway Transformers also has a huge adult fan based and their mythos has expanded into several mediums like the Bayformers movies for example, you seem to forget (like nearly everyone else) that The Raccoons was a family show and so having the show's creator sell out like that is just horrific! Nuff said.

[trailersic]

@trailersic Actually we already have an example, The Touch was sung in Boogie Nights, which I thought was great.

[trailersic]

@David315842 When I watched it with friends most knew it was the theme from the Raccoons, and it was funny because it's completely the wrong song to put at the end. I'm a hardcore transformers fan and two of the most loved songs attached to that fandom are Dare and especially the Touch. Would I be annoyed and offended if they had stuck one of those happy positive songs at the end of the movie? No I'd be happy as fan that it was referenced. I'm sure the director is a Raccoons fan.

[David315842]

@trailersic It's a joke all right, a not so funny joke towards Raccoons fans.

[trailersic]

"the song is so out of place, it's bizarre, why do that?" That's the joke.

[David315842]

@raccoonwomana1 Sadily nowadays it seems Kevin Gillis dosen't seem to care much about The Raccoons. :(