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Which is Better

  • Chicken Little

    Votes: 433 27.4%

  • Hunchback 2

    Votes: 57 3.6%

  • A slow death

    Votes: 1,088 68.9%
  • Total voters
    1,578
Oscar Wildean said:
I also love the difference in the animation that Disney did for Rhapsody In Blue. It looked so different than their usual style. If they had done the regular Disney animation I don't think it would fit for the time they were going for. I want to see more of that kind of animation style. Whatever it is. Old time animation from previous decades is so fun to watch.

Speaking of that, I wish I could see a Disney movie done in Impressionist style, but I know that won't happen.
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Impressionism is like my favourite kind of art. Instead of realism it conveys the emotion in something and just looks beautiful. Would be a bitch to animate in.

The art of RiB was based on that of Al Hirschfeld. It's pretty great characature if you've not seen it. download (16).jpg download (19).jpg download (18).jpg download (17).jpg

Edit: I'm actually a big fan of the old live action films. I had a bit of a crush on Haley Mills when I was younger so I've watch The Parent Trap more times than I'd care to admit. I also really liked Pollyanna (the ending made me cry), and Summer Magic (the latter featuring Burl Ives).

In the way of Pete's Dragon it's a fine enough movie but I really dig the song 'Happiest Home in These Hills'.
I find it amusing.

I really like the Herbie movies, atleast what I've seen of them, but they really appear to get quite stupid.

The Swiss Family Robinson is really sweet and I find it quite funny. It's well worth checking out if you like that kind of thing

I've never actually seen Old Yeller as I'm concerned I'd find it a bit too sad.

I'm not a big fan of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. It's dumb and has no story.

Finally I do quite like 20,000 Leagues but mostly for the song 'Whale of a Tale' and the character of Ned Land. I find most of the other characters insufferable.
 
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Oh man, Fantasia. As a kid I would kinda lose interest after "Rite of Spring" because I was such a dinosaur fan that when all the dinosaurs went extinct, I would go in-and-out. Maybe it wasn't "helped" they did the intermission after that and I was like "bleeeeeeeh where're the cartoooooons" until "Pastoral Symphony" came on, like that's an adorable segment to me. "Night on Bald Mountain" is the best part of the movie, for sure, but I don't know what I had thought of it as a kid. I felt nothing for it, I suppose lol.

Oscar Wildean said:
I remember being surprised that people were angry that Pete's Dragon got remade.
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It was okay, but it honestly didn't do anything new to make the movie feel like it was necessary to remake (the ending made me groan, though, like did they have to go down that route?). Maybe they only did it so they could still keep the Elliot float in the Main Street Electrical Parade, but that's the best I got for why they decided to remake it into a non-musical. I'm not that big a fan of the original anyway (I watched it a lot as a kid, of course, "Candle on the Water" is my favorite song from the film), but it had more charm than the remake. Had Elliot interact with Passamaquoddy in more believable ways, honestly. I mean for Pete's sake (lol not sorry), I don't think we ever got a name for the town in the remake. Where'd it even take place?
 
For the Disney live action stuff I liked The Great Locomotive Chase and Johnny Tremaine. However their other stuff always annoyed me because it alternated between being incredibly saccharine and being incredibly annoying.
 
Oscar Wildean said:
My favorite Disney movie since my childhood (besides The Little Mermaid) is Fantasia.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5yocpvl4pnohttps://youtube.com/watch?v=l_EDBM1tOEoThe classical music always calmed me and didn't bore me when I was younger and the animation was gorgeous. I feel like people don't acknowledge this one as much anymore.

I wish the deleted Clair De Lune video had been included.
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I always wanted to watch the Night on Bald Mountain bit as a kid but the rest bored me.
 
I've actually never been too much of a fan of the Bald Mountain section. I mean it's awesome but I guess I've just never really been a fan of the song

Edit: Could also be that I saw House of Mouse first so I find it hard to think of Chernabog as anything but affable
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Oh man, Fantasia. As a kid I would kinda lose interest after "Rite of Spring" because I was such a dinosaur fan that when all the dinosaurs went extinct, I would go in-and-out. Maybe it wasn't "helped" they did the intermission after that and I was like "bleeeeeeeh where're the cartoooooons" until "Pastoral Symphony" came on, like that's an adorable segment to me. "Night on Bald Mountain" is the best part of the movie, for sure, but I don't know what I had thought of it as a kid. I felt nothing for it, I suppose lol.
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Fantasia is one of those I feel you have to sort of grow into after a while to really appreciate what it was.

It was okay, but it honestly didn't do anything new to make the movie feel like it was necessary to remake (the ending made me groan, though, like did they have to go down that route?). Maybe they only did it so they could still keep the Elliot float in the Main Street Electrical Parade, but that's the best I got for why they decided to remake it into a non-musical. I'm not that big a fan of the original anyway (I watched it a lot as a kid, of course, "Candle on the Water" is my favorite song from the film), but it had more charm than the remake. Had Elliot interact with Passamaquoddy in more believable ways, honestly. I mean for Pete's sake (lol not sorry), I don't think we ever got a name for the town in the remake. Where'd it even take place?
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Glad I didn't watch the remake then, if nothing new was even necessary, why bother.

8777BB5 said:
For the Disney live action stuff I liked The Great Locomotive Chase and Johnny Tremaine. However their other stuff always annoyed me because it alternated between being incredibly saccharine and being incredibly annoying.
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By the 70's, that was pretty much what Disney films were, you had a lot of saccharine-ish stuff that came and went and you wouldn't miss anything unless you bothered to see them.
 
Pleasantly surprise by the overall tone of this thread, I'm glad to see everyone here being respectful and mature about the stuff they love. Anyways I'm planing on going to disneyland soon, like in a month or two. Do you have any suggestions on what I should do there?
 
I wish Disney would at least start doing "live action" remakes on some of their under-appreciated films. Everyone (including this very thread) posits that "All Disney sequels suck" and yeah, that's mostly true... But "The Rescuers: Down Under" didn't. Hell, I'd say it was better in every single way than the first one... But nobody remembers it because "The Little Mermaid," (And the "Disney Renaissance," with it) came out the year after it did, and that's a real shame. I would totally get behind a "live action" (for the people at least) remake of The Rescuers Down Under, even if they fudged it a bit to make it be the origin story over the nowhere near as good original Rescuers movie.
 
UnKillFill said:
I wish Disney would at least start doing "live action" remakes on some of their under-appreciated films. Everyone (including this very thread) posits that "All Disney sequels suck" and yeah, that's mostly true... But "The Rescuers: Down Under" didn't. Hell, I'd say it was better in every single way than the first one... But nobody remembers it because "The Little Mermaid," (And the "Disney Renaissance," with it) came out the year after it did, and that's a real shame. I would totally get behind a "live action" (for the people at least) remake of The Rescuers Down Under, even if they fudged it a bit to make it be the origin story over the nowhere near as good original Rescuers movie.
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I'm terrified at the prospect of a live action Three Caballeros remake.
 
Oh speaking of live-action movies, I wonder if the reason we're all complaining about the live-action "remakes" sucking is because they don't have charm to them. Meanwhile, the 101 Dalmatians movie starring Glenn Close as Cruella de Ville seems to get a pass--though maybe that's because it didn't seek to try to usurp the animated film.

I also didn't like the recent Jungle Book (despite Christopher Walken as King Louie) because I grew up with the 1994 one, the one Disney's gone on to forget exists because it's so fucking brutal.
 
BipolarPon said:
Pleasantly surprise by the overall tone of this thread, I'm glad to see everyone here being respectful and mature about the stuff they love. Anyways I'm planing on going to disneyland soon, like in a month or two. Do you have any suggestions on what I should do there?
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What you should do in Disneyland depends on your group size and consistency. Big Thunder is a must, and due to the season Haunted Mansion is probably a great idea, if a bit crowded. Consider gettong a fastpass for there so you don't have to spend as much time in line. Apart from that, see what the other people/person you're going with wants to do. A good trip is made better when everyone has fun.
BipolarPon said:
I'm terrified at the prospect of a live action Three Caballeros remake.
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Three Cabelleros could literally never work in any more live action ten it already has, besides, Donald sadly wouldn't get Millennial butts in seats. A more likely thing to get would be some kind of re-imagining of Saludos Amigos as some kind of half baked tourism thing for Brazil. Even then it's doubtful.


UnKillFill said:
I wish Disney would at least start doing "live action" remakes on some of their under-appreciated films. Everyone (including this very thread) posits that "All Disney sequels suck" and yeah, that's mostly true... But "The Rescuers: Down Under" didn't. Hell, I'd say it was better in every single way than the first one... But nobody remembers it because "The Little Mermaid," (And the "Disney Renaissance," with it) came out the year after it did, and that's a real shame. I would totally get behind a "live action" (for the people at least) remake of The Rescuers Down Under, even if they fudged it a bit to make it be the origin story over the nowhere near as good original Rescuers movie.
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Personally, I much prefer the original Rescuers, probably due to the antagonists being so much more fun. Leech just annoys me, especially as he's poaching symbols of my country. That lizard is also insufferable. Also not a big fan of how they cut out Bernard's superstitious nature, but I would say it's made up for in his jealously arc. The stuff with the massive eagle was also admittedly awesome. I would however give it credit for being one of the good sequels along with Three Cabelleros, most Winnie the Pooh movies (not heffalump), Aladdin 3, and Cinderella 3. The rest are varying degrees of not good.
 
UnKillFill said:
But nobody remembers it because "The Little Mermaid," (And the "Disney Renaissance," with it) came out the year after it did, and that's a real shame.
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Actually you've got it backwards, Rescuers Down Under came out the year after Little Mermaid. The reason why Rescuers Down Under is largely forgotten is because Disney was stupid enough to put it up against Home Alone. It might be a slightly different story if they'd instead released it earlier in November, but it still wouldn't have stood a chance against Home Alone.
 
Oscar Wildean said:
Does anyone like the old live action films?
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I grew up with Flight of the Navigator. Its the delightful story of a kid who finds a sassy talking spaceship voiced by Paul Reubens. The first half of the movie is also extremely harrowing. The middle aged soyboys at Pixar try so damn hard to shove faux sentimentality into all their films, but FotN had some genuine fucking pathos to it. Love it.

 
Maybe a bit OT, but does anyone else remember some years back when Don Bluth's movies were criticized (by either people in general or reviewers, I don't really recall) for being emotionally manipulative?

Even at the time I thought to myself like... do they think Disney doesn't do that? Or hell, Pixar is even worse in that regard.

I don't know why Bluth was singled out for that.
 
Night Owl said:
Maybe a bit OT, but does anyone else remember some years back when Don Bluth's movies were criticized (by either people in general or reviewers, I don't really recall) for being emotionally manipulative?

Even at the time I thought to myself like... do they think Disney doesn't do that? Or hell, Pixar is even worse in that regard.

I don't know why Bluth was singled out for that.
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Film critics are weird, they shit on animated films for being too dark, even if they are rated PG. I remember people getting up at Nine for being dark despite being rated PG-13.
 
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