i didn't like snow white because of the way she and the prince were drawn. their mouths looked fake, or something. sleeping beauty had better expressions, better music and the best villain (she had a sense of humor
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Chaplin is a spotty, confidently shot movie coattailing on a fantastic performance.
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The story behind Disney's Black Cauldron is an interesting one. It took more than a decade to get it made, it went through complete rewrites and redesigns, and ended up looking like the patchwork it was. Tim Burton worked on it. Don Bluth left Disney because of it. It was the first PG Disney cartoon. It lost a lot of money. Disney more or less disowned it until fan interest led to its first video release in the late nineties.
The Wikipedia entry for it is lacking most of the story's juice. Some day I plan to overhaul it.
I'm guessing the biggest reason audiences never connected to it was that it does so many tonal somersaults. It goes from being terrifyingly dark to being embarrassingly slapsticky. (When Episode I came out, many unfavorable comparisons were drawn between JarJar and Gurgi.) It's also frustratingly choppy. It is obvious it was cut to pieces
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c'mon, c'monlionceaucadetMarch 18 2009, 22:18:52 UTC
it's "move your bloomin' ass" and you should remember that, cos she's rooting for a horse named dover. oh, right, that was the part that was skipped. but just so ya know.
and also, so i'm not only nitpicking, you should know that there's a character on the tv show coupling who describes (only with sitcom exaggeration/demonstration, and maybe even a flashback) a similar experience of jenny agutter.
It would take me a really long time to write a similar post.
My first memory is of being in the theater watching the 1981 re-release of Empire Strikes Back. The Hoth scenes lit up the theater like daytime. I remember feeling colder every time it would cut from inside the base to the snow outside. There's not telling how many times I have told you this.
I've spent a good portion of my adult life sitting in movie theaters.
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I added some paragraphs I had written on scraps to my transcription, then posted it to LiveJournal. I was beginning to think I had left the scraps in Panama.
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The story behind Disney's Black Cauldron is an interesting one. It took more than a decade to get it made, it went through complete rewrites and redesigns, and ended up looking like the patchwork it was. Tim Burton worked on it. Don Bluth left Disney because of it. It was the first PG Disney cartoon. It lost a lot of money. Disney more or less disowned it until fan interest led to its first video release in the late nineties.
The Wikipedia entry for it is lacking most of the story's juice. Some day I plan to overhaul it.
I'm guessing the biggest reason audiences never connected to it was that it does so many tonal somersaults. It goes from being terrifyingly dark to being embarrassingly slapsticky. (When Episode I came out, many unfavorable comparisons were drawn between JarJar and Gurgi.) It's also frustratingly choppy. It is obvious it was cut to pieces ( ... )
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Turtle's in the Wal-Mart shopping center in Huffman was another early rental place in the area.
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i saw "my fair lady" in high school and enjoyed it. i enjoy watching it every time i catch it on tv. it is the only musical i can tolerate.
as for montclair, there is now a defunct (as of summer 08) hollywood video near where eastwood mall was (and wal-mart now is).
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and also, so i'm not only nitpicking, you should know that there's a character on the tv show coupling who describes (only with sitcom exaggeration/demonstration, and maybe even a flashback) a similar experience of jenny agutter.
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My first memory is of being in the theater watching the 1981 re-release of Empire Strikes Back. The Hoth scenes lit up the theater like daytime. I remember feeling colder every time it would cut from inside the base to the snow outside. There's not telling how many times I have told you this.
I've spent a good portion of my adult life sitting in movie theaters.
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I added some paragraphs I had written on scraps to my transcription, then posted it to LiveJournal. I was beginning to think I had left the scraps in Panama.
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