THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: FlameOfCallandor on November 12, 2006, 11:28:08 PM
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For me it has to be Aladdin. As a kid I really loved everything about it, catchy tunes, action and lots of heart. The Aladdin DVD is the only thing I asked for christmas.
What is everyoone else's favorite?
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Alladin, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Alice in Wonderland i can not pick
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Man we were so lucky to grow up when we did, we got a ton of good disney movies in the early nineties.
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Hunchback
Lilo and Stitch
Fantasia
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There was The Lion King and that's it.
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How was pcohantas? I never got to see it?
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It was a great hack job of American history.
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Who cares was the movie any good?
I dont tend to watch disney movies with the intent of getting a great lesson in history.
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Has there ever been any other Disney movie that was based on an actual historical event that is not a folk tale or mythical legend other than Pocahantas, though?
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The Lion King. Because it was Hamlet with lions, other than the happy ending.
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So it wasn't really Hamlet at all, was it!?
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Has there ever been any other Disney movie that was based on an actual historical event that is not a folk tale or mythical legend other than Pocahantas, though?
I hear genies are real in the middle east.
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So it wasn't really Hamlet at all, was it!?
A young prince's father, the King, is killed by his uncle who then shacks up with his mom and proceeds to ruin the kingdom, prompting the prince to action? Yeah, no real resemblance at all.
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So it wasn't really Hamlet at all, was it!?
A young prince's father, the King, is killed by his uncle who then shacks up with his mom and proceeds to ruin the kingdom, prompting the prince to action? Yeah, no real resemblance at all.
Did hamlet have hakuna matata? No I don't think so. Clase closed.
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But it has a happy ending! That's if Disney made an animated version of Schindler's List with monkeys, except at the end, Schindler creates a time machine and goes back in time to prevent the Monkeycaust from ever happening.
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But it has a happy ending! That's if Disney made an animated version of Schindler's List with monkeys, except at the end, Schindler creates a time machine and goes back in time to prevent the Monkeycaust from ever happening.
Dude, it's a Disney animated children's movie. Of course there's gonna be a happy ending. That doesn't change the fact that the inspiration was pretty obviously Hamlet.
And FoC, you're rapidly approaching legendary levels of internet idiocy.
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Mulan, too bad that Osmond song is in the middle but fuck it, beautiful movie.
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Lion King, Beauty and the Beast.
Hunchback is criminally underrated though. People seem to forget how controversial the movie was
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Mulan, too bad that Osmond song is in the middle but fuck it, beautiful movie.
(http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00024I2Z4.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
I thought I was the only one. :)
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Lion King was a big one for me, I was even in the school Lion King play (I was the female hyena).
I also love Aladdin and Mulan.
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Lion King was a big one for me, I was even in the school Lion King play (I was the female hyena).
I also love Aladdin and Mulan.
How was this years school play anyway?
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I remember seeing The Little Mermaid in theatres. That was my favorite Disney flick 'til The Lion King.
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Lion King was a big one for me, I was even in the school Lion King play (I was the female hyena).
I also love Aladdin and Mulan.
How was this years school play anyway?
:stfu
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The Emperor's New Groove
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Aladdin, The Lion King, and of course, Finding Nemo!
Where's the Nemo love?
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I was assuming animated meant 2d, but if its 3d I vote for The Incredibles, which was presented by Disney, but made by Pixar.
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Mulan, too bad that Osmond song is in the middle but fuck it, beautiful movie.
(http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00024I2Z4.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
I thought I was the only one. :)
I remember the first time I saw the trailer for Mulan on ABC. Within a couple quick minutes it became one of my most anticipated movies of all time. When I saw the movie, I liked it, but it didn't live up to my expectations. Watching it again as an older person was quite painful.
Mulan demonstrates Disney's biggest problem in recent years: the dumbing down of their content. Every Disney cartoon contains a mixture of dramatic elements with comedic breaks; this formula has worked very well at maintaining adult interest in the cartoons while entertaining small chidlren at the same time, a feat many animators today still cannot get right. So in Bambi, for instance, many remember the various bunnies and the laughs, but the death of Bambi's mother is carved in our minds. The Lion King comes on as a giant musical extravaganza, but eventually the movie's tone takes a drastic turn with the death of Muphasa. This pattern is quite clear, and it expands all the way to Walt Disney's original work, such as Pinocchio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a371ycQZN4).
Mulan, like the rest of Disney's more recent animated features, suffered from breaking this formula. The forced laughs increased, the dumbed down comedic tricks piled up, and in the end the movies suffered. Mulan starts off in a very serious manner, and it's rather violent for a Disney movie. But I think most people will tell you that Eddie Murphy ruined the movie in so many ways. Sure Robin Williams was quite over the top in Alladin, but the Genie was actually funny and rather iconic; I don't even remember the dragon's name in Mulan, and I wish I could forget Murphy's preformance.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, on the other hand, faltered with the theory from the opposite point. At the time, it was quite controversial, and I have always felt it was ahead of its time; today, a movie featuring an abusive priest as an antagonist wouldn't be a problem. Yet in the 90's, this caused a stir. From the very beginning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtMylTEb6rg) of the movie, it became evident that it would break the traditional Disney mold. Although the movie featured the stereotypical Disney comedic characters, the majority of the movie was quite serious. My mind is rather muddied right now, but from memory I'm pretty sure this was the first Disney movie to feature human blood (Phoebus gets shot with an arrow, and it actually goes throw his back). It also featured a murder less than four minutes into the movie, as well as the most ...dramatic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyG-VY3qVdM) (and one of the best) songs in Disney history.
The movie was popular among many older viewers, but smaller kids were confused. My 5 year old cousin kept begging me to turn off the movie at various parts (many metioned above). Personally, I love much of the movie.
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Aladdin, The Lion King, and of course, Finding Nemo!
Where's the Nemo love?
Disney /= Pixar.
But my favorite Pixar flick is still probably the first Toy Story, just because what a mind blower it was visually when it came out.
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why the fuck did phoenixdark just type four paragraphs about Mulan?
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why the fuck did phoenixdark just type four paragraphs about Mulan?
Didn't read it I see.
I've talked to many people about this subject, and I must say I'm not too proud of that fact lol. As a kid I was a Disney freak. Which reminds me, I haven't seen Pinocchio in like 6 years or more :-\
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i remember my grandparents taking me to go see the jungle book when it was relreased in theaters. I felt very uncool at the time. I thought i was too old for disney at the time.
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Aladdin and Hunchback.
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I liked Aladdin a smidge more then Mulan.
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Didn't read it I see.
I've talked to many people about this subject, and I must say I'm not too proud of that fact lol. As a kid I was a Disney freak. Which reminds me, I haven't seen Pinocchio in like 6 years or more :-\
I think you're overcomplicating that Disney wants to make as much money as possible and so people don't really give it too much attention in what it says in it's story so they just put their kids in front of it.
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Didn't read it I see.
I've talked to many people about this subject, and I must say I'm not too proud of that fact lol. As a kid I was a Disney freak. Which reminds me, I haven't seen Pinocchio in like 6 years or more :-\
I think you're overcomplicating that Disney wants to make as much money as possible and so people don't really give it too much attention in what it says in it's story so they just put their kids in front of it.
The most successful animated movies are ones which entertain children and adults. Disney understood that, as did Pixar. Consider movies like Toy Story or Shrek; these are movies that everyone enjoyed, which cannot be said of the current crop of animated movies, many of which rely on "star studded" lists of actors, which do around $45 million and fall off the face of the earth
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I enjoyed Mulan most of all for its art. The second reason I liked it is cause the main character is not a lame crybaby. I love shows with hardcore characters that are like 'FUK U GUYS IM AWESOME' and they take care of shit even at the cost of their own lives. THat rul3s!
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XXX was so awesome
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The most successful animated movies are ones which entertain children and adults. Disney understood that, as did Pixar. Consider movies like Toy Story or Shrek; these are movies that everyone enjoyed, which cannot be said of the current crop of animated movies, many of which rely on "star studded" lists of actors, which do around $45 million and fall off the face of the earth
meh.
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Impressive!
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Its sad you've chosen a thread about Disney movies to flex your intellectual muscle, PD.
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Its sad you've chosen a thread about Disney movies to flex your intellectual muscle, PD.
It was pretty impressive though, don't you agree?
About XXX, I was busting your balls, tha's all MAF. Now go get your fucking shinebox!
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I've never seen XXX
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Learn to take a joke buddy >:(
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but i've never seen...xx..x :-\
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:lol
my god :lol I haven't either...but that's not the point. The point is...oh :lol
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The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast are probably my favorites. Also, Pinochio since it was the only Disney movie I owned as a child. I haven't seen it in years but that was a pretty fucked up movie for a kid to watch.
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jungle book had the best music
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Also, I must have been the only kid on my block like liked Fantasia:
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Lion king maybe...
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The Lion King
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Pocahontas
Great film, great heroine, great songs (somewhat weak villan, but overall good story).
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As a kid I watched Sword in the Stone over and over lol
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The Lion King...
And, if we're allowed to use Pixar flicks, The Incredibles. 8)
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jungle book had the best music
No way, Lion King had the best music of any Disney film by far.
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hmmm tis a toss up between the lion king and beauty and the beast