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Khuutra on 11 July 2009
Onyxmeth said:
Khuutra said:
Oh man, the one where half was an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows? I loved that when I was a kid, but the part with Ichabod used to scare the Hell out of me. That damn headless horseman!

The very one in the same sir. Those damn unappealing Disney movies are just so damn appealing. Another two I used to love were The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under.

Those were the two I was going to mention next! You are killing me here.

Actually it's amazing how many parts from those movies were kind of scary when I was a kid. The antagonist woman in The Rescuers was nearly as bad as Cruella DeVille (and if you remember the part where Cruella is driving toward the camera with her eyes all crazy, you know what that's saying), and the guy hunting the golden eagle was Hell on Earth. Those two were even worse than the Bear in The Fox and the Hound.

Is The Great Mouse Detective considered underappreciated? I damn near wore that tape out.



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Onyxmeth on 11 July 2009
Khuutra said:
Onyxmeth said:
Khuutra said:
Oh man, the one where half was an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows? I loved that when I was a kid, but the part with Ichabod used to scare the Hell out of me. That damn headless horseman!

The very one in the same sir. Those damn unappealing Disney movies are just so damn appealing. Another two I used to love were The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under.

Those were the two I was going to mention next! You are killing me here.

Actually it's amazing how many parts from those movies were kind of scary when I was a kid. The antagonist woman in The Rescuers was nearly as bad as Cruella DeVille (and if you remember the part where Cruella is driving toward the camera with her eyes all crazy, you know what that's saying), and the guy hunting the golden eagle was Hell on Earth. Those two were even worse than the Bear in The Fox and the Hound.

Is The Great Mouse Detective considered underappreciated? I damn near wore that tape out.

Yeah, The Great Mouse Detective is pretty underappreciated I'd say. Fantastic movie. I'd also like to give a quick nod to The Black Cauldron. Disney needs to man up and release it with all the cut scenes already. It's been 24 years!



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Khuutra on 11 July 2009

I have never seen the Black Cauldron to be honest! How is it?



Onyxmeth on 11 July 2009
Khuutra said:
I have never seen the Black Cauldron to be honest! How is it?

Very good actually. It's far more removed from a Disney film though and will likely give you the impression of being a Don Bluth film, which was probably the point, since Disney at the time may have been trying to use the film to make their own The Secret of NIMH. The animation style seems more like much of Bluth's post-Disney work like All Dogs Go To Heaven, Dragon's Lair and An American Tail.



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Khuutra on 11 July 2009
Onyxmeth said:
Khuutra said:
I have never seen the Black Cauldron to be honest! How is it?

Very good actually. It's far more removed from a Disney film though and will likely give you the impression of being a Don Bluth film, which was probably the point, since Disney at the time may have been trying to use the film to make their own The Secret of NIMH. The animation style seems more like much of Bluth's post-Disney work like All Dogs Go To Heaven, Dragon's Lair and An American Tail.

Holy Hell. Okay, I'll find a way to see the movie.



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Seece on 11 July 2009

The Lion King is a work of art!

They're also bringing out a cool looking arcade racer early next year so they're +1 for me atm.



 

SciFiBoy on 11 July 2009
Khuutra said:
Onyxmeth said:

This to me seems to be the equivalent of asking what the appeal is of Nintendo games. I probably can't come up with an answer simply because it's just so baffling that this question is even being asked in the first place. To me, asking what the appeal of Disney films are is basically questioning the appeal of animation as a whole.

This is probably the best and most succinct answer in the topic.

If you don't see the appeal in this, there's really nothing else to say.

animation is meh
music is shit
characthers are annoying

i hate the arrogance of some people, "oh dude, if you dont like that, you dont matter" and "this is good, fact, anyone who disagree's is a twat"

i would have thought that something like taste in films was down to personal opinion.

Edit: as for the statement about Nintendo, this will come as a shock to you Onxymeth, there are people on this very forum who dont like Nintendo, personally, i do, but i know there are people who dont, but unlike you, im not gonna imply there wrong or stupid to do so.



Khuutra on 11 July 2009
SciFiBoy said:

animation is meh
music is shit
characthers are annoying

i hate the arrogance of some people, "oh dude, if you dont like that, you dont matter" and "this is good, fact, anyone who disagree's is a twat"

i would have thought that something like taste in films was down to personal opinion.

Edit: as for the statement about Nintendo, this will come as a shock to you Onxymeth, there are people on this very forum who dont like Nintendo, personally, i do, but i know there are people who dont, but unlike you, im not gonna imply there wrong or stupid to do so.

You misunderstood. The point is that if the movies don't make their argument for you, nobody is going to be able to explain why they're great, because their virtues cannot be made apparent to you. It's not like "If you don't like this then you have no taste", it's more "if you don't like this, I don't know what to tell you".

And I can take all this higgledy piggledy about the characters and even the music, but by what metric could the animation possibly be considered "meh"? Do we have different understandings of what those words mean when strung together in that order?



caz604 on 11 July 2009

Yeah Pixar is whats keeping me a fan of Disney.

Its about character creation and growth.  Disney used to have it in some of their classics... and Pixar is continuing it with their CG movies.



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SciFiBoy on 11 July 2009
Khuutra said:
SciFiBoy said:

animation is meh
music is shit
characthers are annoying

i hate the arrogance of some people, "oh dude, if you dont like that, you dont matter" and "this is good, fact, anyone who disagree's is a twat"

i would have thought that something like taste in films was down to personal opinion.

Edit: as for the statement about Nintendo, this will come as a shock to you Onxymeth, there are people on this very forum who dont like Nintendo, personally, i do, but i know there are people who dont, but unlike you, im not gonna imply there wrong or stupid to do so.

You misunderstood. The point is that if the movies don't make their argument for you, nobody is going to be able to explain why they're great, because their virtues cannot be made apparent to you. It's not like "If you don't like this then you have no taste", it's more "if you don't like this, I don't know what to tell you".

And I can take all this higgledy piggledy about the characters and even the music, but by what metric could the animation possibly be considered "meh"? Do we have different understandings of what those words mean when strung together in that order?

it means i thought the animation was ok, seen better, seen worse, i thought that was obvious, lol.