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marie-antoinette
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To be fair, the awesomeness that is The Land Before Time does negate some of the awful which followed (the first one, at least). Also, I need to watch Titan A.E. again sometime because I remember liking it when it came out but I wasn't as picky a viewer at the time.
Never really watched The Secret of NIMH enough to really have an opinion on it. |
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RHachicho
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A mixture of things really, I was a die hard animation fan from the get go. As my fellows "grew up" and started watching mostly live action stuff I still loved animation. I find it more expressive when someone animates they put the whole of what they want to convey into it. They don't have to think about real world filming/etc. This means that animation is naturally more fantastical than live action. And I have always been attracted to things like that. Dragons, Robots, Hero's and Giant spaceships can't get enough of them really. My favorite movie at that point was also animated. Anyone remember flight of dragons? Loved that movie. Omadans speach STILL gives me chills. And the original transformers movie, who could forget that.
This caused me to hold onto shows like transformers well into my teens then at about age 15/16 I discovered Anime and it was a match made in heaven a medium not averse to exploring sophisticated and adult material that was also animated. It confused me why all this stuff came from japan why weren't WE doing this stuff too? Of course then that lead to the discovery that Anime was apparently an "immature bunch of crap for kids" Which I knew from personal experience was a load of bullsh*t. I also find eastern culture and language to be fascinating. Their buildings, language, values so similar yet so different from our own seemed a very exotic faraway place which was compounded by the fact that the Japanese language is possibly my very favorite in the whole world despite being unable to speak it (I keep meaning to learn but who has the time to follow a whim these days). Perhaps this is the fascination of an outsider who sees only the nice bits but that's how it is. |
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manicli
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I was listening to a nightcore song on youtube and it had a picture of Kallen & Lelouch from Code Geass so I decided to watch the anime. It's still the best anime ever in my opinion and that's how I got into the genre, through sheer coincidence
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Chiibi
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Pffft sounds like jealousy to me. If he's a narcissist, he has every right to be, because his animation has a type of enchanting magic that other animators just don't have. That is my opinion.
Um.........whut? o_o And what "tongue" thing? Sticking your tongue out at people? Anime characters do it too. Constantly. What's wrong with it?
Well duh?  "Land" is slightly too childish for me now. "All Dogs Go To Heaven" and "NIMH" were his best films. And yes, I know "Dogs" was incredibly dark and bizarre-that's the exact reason I love it so f*cking much! It pretty much illustrates everything Bluth is about. He wasn't afraid to be "real" back then. He didn't shelter children....but he still knew how to appeal to them.
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EricJ
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Uh, was thinking more along the lines of "Characters lolling their tongues out of their mouths Mickey Mouse-style, in an expression of happy adorableness ", which not only made them look more mentally retarded than cute, but which he used in nearly every character in every movie? For twenty years?
(Which sort of summed up the animation-fan Bluth complaints, ie. that he became "the 70's-Disney movie that Time Forgot", and marginalized him to the point of not even being worth mentioning in a complaint about US animation in general?...Just to steer it back on topic.) |
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Chiibi
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I never thought so. Have you been around actually retarded people? They're normally just very loud, say unintelligent things, and act very childishly.
Disney constantly recycles as well. =.=
Why should he be mentioned in a complaint!? If anything, he totally saves US animation from being complete fail. If I have compliments to give on the topic of US animation history, he is the first guy I think of. I suggest you drop it now. I've loved Bluth films since I was four, it's been a whole generation since then and I'm not going to stop loving them. In fact, I have an even bigger appreciation for them now! Nothing you say will kill my admiration for Don Bluth. So stop trying. 
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TarsTarkas
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The Secret of NIMH was won of my favorite movies as a teenager.
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nobahn
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I read the book as a child, before I saw the movie; and I was disappointed in how they inserted a magical plot element in the movie that was not in the book! |
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Gatherum
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When I was a kid, anime were really awesome cartoons. I loved cartoons. So therefore, I loved anime.
...Well. Toonami anime. |
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Chiibi
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Ironically, I read the book AFTER the movie and was damn disappointed it originally had no enchanting things like that. BORING. There are just so many books about talking animals having "adventures" where nothing that exciting or supernatural happens. So it felt lame to me. The movie was filled with much more imagination.
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nobahn
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Chiibi--
Interestingly enough, well more than a decade would pass before I would eventually discover that there actually IS a research facility called N.I.M.H.! |
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