I have positive memories of high school, but mostly only because elementary was terrible and what little of middle I wasn't homeschooled past was a complete waste of oxygen.
We only had one live-action Disney movie taped when I was little (The Black Hole), and that was scary enough for me that I didn't watch it much. We also, later on, had The Strongest Man in the World (the last of the Dexter movies) taped, and it disappeared at some point.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
Smith is a really incongruous surname there. His father should have been surnamed Rogers.
I never understood why nobody had arabic accents in Aladin; why nobody had Australian accents in The Rescuers Down Under, and why nobody had an Occitan accent in Beauty And The Beast.
But, yeah, best Disney movie ever is Rescuers Down Under.
Hmm, I don't think they should have had accents, because accents only make sense if there is anyone English-speaking in the cast. As it is, they are not supposed to talk to each other in English - they are using their own language. The English of the movie is a translation convention, and it represents how they speak in their own language - not how would they sound in English if they were using it.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
lolcatization
The story will be told through subtitled footage of cats.
The story will be told through subtitled footage of cats.
1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.
4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.
5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1
6 An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling. But he no yet make a ur. An he maded a hole in teh Ceiling.
7 An Ceiling Cat doed teh skiez with waterz down An waterz up. It happen.
8 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has teh firmmint wich iz funny bibel naim 4 ceiling, so wuz teh twoth day.
9 An Ceiling Cat gotted all teh waterz in ur base, An Ceiling Cat hadz dry placez cuz kittehs DO NOT WANT get wet.
10 An Ceiling Cat called no waterz urth and waters oshun. Iz good.
11 An Ceiling Cat sayed, DO WANT grass! so tehr wuz seedz An stufs, An fruitzors An vegbatels. An a Corm. It happen.
12 An Ceiling Cat sawed that weedz ish good, so, letz there be weedz.
13 An so teh threeth day jazzhands.
14 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has lightz in the skiez for splittin day An no day.
15 It happen, lights everwear, like christmass, srsly.
16 An Ceiling Cat doeth two grate lightz, teh most big for day, teh other for no day.
17 An Ceiling Cat screw tehm on skiez, with big nails An stuff, to lite teh Urfs.
18 An tehy rulez day An night. Ceiling Cat sawed. Iz good.
19 An so teh furth day w00t.
20 An Ceiling Cat sayed, waterz bring me phishes, An burds, so kittehs can eat dem. But Ceiling Cat no eated dem.
21 An Ceiling Cat maed big fishies An see monstrs, which wuz like big cows, except they no mood, An other stuffs dat mooves, An Ceiling Cat sawed iz good.
22 An Ceiling Cat sed O hai, make bebehs kthx. An dont worry i wont watch u secksy, i not that kynd uf kitteh.
23 An so teh...fith day. Ceiling Cat taek a wile 2 cawnt.
24 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has MOAR living stuff, mooes, An creepie tings, An otehr aminals. It happen so tehre.
25 An Ceiling Cat doed moar living stuff, mooes, An creepies, An otehr animuls, An did not eated tehm.
26 An Ceiling Cat sayed, letz us do peeps like uz, becuz we ish teh qte, An let min p0wnz0r becuz tehy has can openers.
27 So Ceiling Cat createded teh peeps taht waz like him, can has can openers he maed tehm, min An womin wuz maeded, but he did not eated tehm.
28 An Ceiling Cat sed them O hai maek bebehs kthx, An p0wn teh waterz, no waterz An teh firmmint, An evry stufs.
29 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, the Urfs, I has it, An I has not eated it.
30 For evry createded stufs tehre are the fuudz, to the burdies, teh creepiez, An teh mooes, so tehre. It happen. Iz good.
31 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, teh good enouf for releaze as version 0.8a. kthxbai.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
Speaking of DTV sequels, just how many Disney Renaissance features did they spin out into full-blown franchises with DTV and TV shows?
The Little Mermaid: prequel, sequel, and animated series.
Beauty and the Beast: DTV movies and a live actio (!) series.
Aladdin: sequel, animated series, sequel to the series.
The Lion King: Romeo and Juliet, Rosenkrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead, Rosenkrantz and Guilderstern: The Animated Series.
Hercules: prequel, animated series.
Tarzan: animated series, no DTV.
The Emperor's New Groove: sequel, animated series.
Lilo & Stitch: three sequels and an animated series, surprising given its position between Atlantis and Treasure Planet.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
^ Oh, I see. Was anyone spared those? Maybe Mulan?
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
^ That seems like a really bad idea...
A brilliant bit from the Hercules series: crossing over with Aladdin when you live a generation before the Trojan War finally made sense of ancient Greece and the Sphinx in "A Whole New World". =P
If anything it was even stupider than it sounds. I mean, it's one thing to have betrothed royals and TWU WUV with their escorts, and contrasting that with arranged marriage and feudal Chinese gender norms is a rich topic.
But you should probably go about it in a way that the people in charge know it's an internal dispute instead of straight-up abducting them and letting everyone think it's an act of war. Because people are going to be a bit less sympathetic to your TWU WUV if it directly causes millions of people to die.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
... ok, Bee, let's open this up to DTV movies, because "Mulan commits an act of war in the name of love" is amazing and we deserve to know if there's worse.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
Well as a tachyon, you're breaking the laws of physics.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
Poor Kida, even though she's a king's daughter in a Disney animated movie, she doesn't get to be a Disney Princess. But Mulan does.
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
My inclination is to first compare Mulan to Disney's adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, something that cannot really be done on any aesthetic or dramatic grounds, but I do anyways because they have, to my eyes, the same crippling flaw. In both cases, a film of stunning visual beauty, married to a story of real emotional heft, peopled by compelling characters, all of it so good that you can almost imagine calling it one of the great post-Walt Disney masterpieces from the studio - except for the comedy. In Hunchback, those three poppy, sarcastic, horribly modern gargoyles are a weird intrusion of toy-ready kid appeal in a movie that is otherwise wildly inappropriate for any child, and they're much more weird than they are debilitating, if for no other reason than how relatively infrequently they show their ugly faces. But in Mulan, oh dear, nothing like that at all. In Mulan, the comic side character is a sassy little red dragon named Mushu, played by Eddie Murphy in full "I'm Eddie Murphy and it's the late 1990s" mode. If there's one thing that I believe we can all be in full agreement in regards to Mr. Murphy, it's that his attempts to make family-friendly movies, particularly in the years since Mulan, are among the most ungodly dismal things in modern American cinema; and while his performance of Mushu is unalloyed gold next to something like the evil he does in Doctor Dolittle or Daddy Day Care, I do not hestitate for a moment in finding his quips and presumable ad-libs and hyper-modern pseudo-hip persona to be unendingly dreary; having reflected upon the matter for some while, I think it fair and accurate to call Mushu the worst comic sidekick in all the history of Disney feature animation. This is a taste issue; for when I mentioned to my mother, the same kindly woman who waited patiently as I pressed my nose against the glass and gawked as animation was made before my eyes, that I was watching Mulan, she very excitedly asked if that was the one with Eddie Murphy. She also regularly watches and enjoys Two and a Half Men.
i remember kinda enjoying Doctor Dolittle when i was younger, although i found it silly that they called it that when it had nothing to do with the original Doctor Dolittle.
i watched Tangled again with my brother the other day. It was even better than i remembered it being.
My favorite CGI Disney film (not counting Pixar) is Chicken Little, but I say so with full understanding of how terrible it actually is from an objective standpoint. Let's just say 9-year-old Tre could relate pretty damn well to the plight of being seen as insane by his peers... crap, 17-year-old Tre can too.
If it weren't for nostalgia I'd probably say I liked Wreck-It Ralph better but Tangled was also fantastic.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with movies about cows. i have not seen that particular movie about cows so i cannot say whether it is good or not, although i am not an urbanite in any case so i don't know who you mean by 'you people'. Can't we just let our opinions stand by themselves?
It was an enjoyable movie to watch, but I'd say it is among the weakest Disney features. Not to mention that the plot reminds me of X-Men more than of anything else.
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lolcatization
The story will be told through subtitled footage of cats.
Speaking of DTV sequels, just how many Disney Renaissance features did they spin out into full-blown franchises with DTV and TV shows?
The Little Mermaid: prequel, sequel, and animated series.
Beauty and the Beast: DTV movies and a live actio (!) series.
Aladdin: sequel, animated series, sequel to the series.
The Lion King: Romeo and Juliet, Rosenkrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead, Rosenkrantz and Guilderstern: The Animated Series.
Hercules: prequel, animated series.
Tarzan: animated series, no DTV.
The Emperor's New Groove: sequel, animated series.
Lilo & Stitch: three sequels and an animated series, surprising given its position between Atlantis and Treasure Planet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_&_Jane
To be fair, the latter was unaired episodes of the series stitched together, but the former was a completely typical pointless interquel.
Also known as, "Mulan and Mushu almost start another war with the Mongols without talking to anyone first."
^ That seems like a really bad idea...
A brilliant bit from the Hercules series: crossing over with Aladdin when you live a generation before the Trojan War finally made sense of ancient Greece and the Sphinx in "A Whole New World". =P
But you should probably go about it in a way that the people in charge know it's an internal dispute instead of straight-up abducting them and letting everyone think it's an act of war. Because people are going to be a bit less sympathetic to your TWU WUV if it directly causes millions of people to die.
iirc Giselle was supposed to be a Disney Princess but the idea was abandoned because they didn't want to have to pay to use Amy Adams' likeness
i think i saw a little of it when i was little, but i don't remember
i want to see it
something that cannot really be done on any aesthetic or dramatic
grounds, but I do anyways because they have, to my eyes, the same
crippling flaw. In both cases, a film of stunning visual beauty,
married to a story of real emotional heft, peopled by compelling
characters, all of it so good that you can almost imagine calling it one
of the great post-Walt Disney masterpieces from the studio - except for
the comedy. In Hunchback, those three poppy, sarcastic,
horribly modern gargoyles are a weird intrusion of toy-ready kid appeal
in a movie that is otherwise wildly inappropriate for any child, and
they're much more weird than they are debilitating, if for no other
reason than how relatively infrequently they show their ugly faces. But
in Mulan, oh dear, nothing like that at all. In Mulan,
the comic side character is a sassy little red dragon named Mushu,
played by Eddie Murphy in full "I'm Eddie Murphy and it's the late
1990s" mode. If there's one thing that I believe we can all be in full
agreement in regards to Mr. Murphy, it's that his attempts to make
family-friendly movies, particularly in the years since Mulan,
are among the most ungodly dismal things in modern American cinema; and
while his performance of Mushu is unalloyed gold next to something like
the evil he does in Doctor Dolittle or Daddy Day Care,
I do not hestitate for a moment in finding his quips and presumable
ad-libs and hyper-modern pseudo-hip persona to be unendingly dreary;
having reflected upon the matter for some while, I think it fair and
accurate to call Mushu the worst comic sidekick in all the history of
Disney feature animation. This is a taste issue; for when I mentioned
to my mother, the same kindly woman who waited patiently as I pressed my
nose against the glass and gawked as animation was made before my eyes,
that I was watching Mulan, she very excitedly asked if that was the one with Eddie Murphy. She also regularly watches and enjoys Two and a Half Men.
i watched Tangled again with my brother the other day. It was even better than i remembered it being.
If it weren't for nostalgia I'd probably say I liked Wreck-It Ralph better but Tangled was also fantastic.
We need more movies about cows.
It was an enjoyable movie to watch, but I'd say it is among the weakest Disney features. Not to mention that the plot reminds me of X-Men more than of anything else.