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... Yanno the more I actually think about it, I think I did enjoy Don Bluth films way more than I did Disney growing up. Although at the time I had no idea what the difference was at the time >>

And thinking about it even more, I think Land Before Time is actually my favorite movie of... well.. all time (/killed off screen for bad pun). I even

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I got some of my brothers kids The Land Before Time as part of a "kids of the household" group present. (I think the other was Anastasia. The other group of nieces got Oliver & Co and The Swan Princess. More Bluth than Disney!)

THe oldest, 8 or 9 (I forget) informed me that "The Land Before Time is for babies." I then informed her that THAT was only the later ones, not the first one. I mentioned how Little Foot's mother dies, and about them getting lost from their families and chased by "sharp tooth". That ended with her deciding she didn't want to watch it because it sounded too scary. Apparently she's the one that doesn't do scary well. But at least she decided that it didn't sound like it was "for babies" anymore.

Next time I should get them the rats of NHYM. Better yet, I should get her (the oldest) the book, because she loves reading so much, and I was around that age when I first read it if I remember right. (4th of 5th grade, and then again in 6th grade in class.) And An American Tail. And All Dogs Go to Heaven. But not Rock-a-Doodle. We're Back could be nice as well. And holy crap I remember a few more than I thought I would. (I'll blame raiding wikipedia after one re-watching of Anastasia a year or so ago--not that that's a bad thing.)

Land before Time has some Spielburg credit, and that didn't hurt it. Bluth stuff in general seems less afraid of things that Disney would often gloss over or dumb down, and... well, Disneyfy. But I still love Disney movies, too. (Oliver, Lion King, Robin Hood...and Cinderella... and the other late 80s, early 90s "golden age" ones. But mostly Lion King. The only teen magazines I ever owned were because JTT was in them and ONLY because he voiced Simba. My mom bought them for me. Which amuses me.)

O geez ths is laaate

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Yanno I don't really recall ever being too sadden by on screen deaths in kids movies. I do remember getting a bit scared easily in earlier movies I saw when I was younger, the part when Sharptooth in LBT came back after it was supposed to be 'dead', the Great Owl in NIMH (actually most of the parts I did remember in that movie were all the creepy ones, which then again, most of that movie was pretty eerie XD), the Hell scene in All Dogs Go to Heaven, so on and so on. Coincidentally more Bluth than Disney things, although I remember Beauty and the Beast scaring me a few times when I was younger. But yeah, Bluth definitely did more creepier stuff, at least his 80s stuff did, which I totally love him for now.

It''s really bothersome now though how movies and just shows in general have gotten completely one-sided with ratings now. Now in days G-PG movies are all nothing but fluff and completely sugarcoated while everything over it just goes more into crude jokes or being graphic as possible. There's never this middle area anymore, but for few exceptions. I miss it when kids movies actually did some darker/realistic themes to them just to add a bit more edge to the plot and make the conflict all the more... meaning and direful. So long as everything works out in the end.

Ffff, I read the Secret of NIMH novel when I was in 5th or 6th grade too before I went and saw the movie again |D awesome stuuuff. Do remember the book being much different in a lot of places although it's been too long to recall most of it