The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

PiratesMansion

PiratesMansion

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TP2000 said:
Oh, come on! Even a picky and snotty old queen like myself can admit that it's not that bad.

I mean, if I'm hungry and I have a choice between Panda Express on one end of the WalMart parking lot and a McDonald's on the other end of the WalMart parking lot, I'm probably going to choose Panda Express.

Their General Tso's Chicken and chow mein isn't that bad. It's not great, but it isn't that bad.
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Not a fan of Americanized Chinese food. The real thing? Great, love it. Americanized nonsense? I'm picking something else.

I would take the McDonald's and not hesitate for a second.
 
Phroobar

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Watched The Fox and the Hound last night for the first time in a long time. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was. It was a simple story but had a lot of heart. The animation was first rate and the backgrounds were watercolors. Pure classic Disney. I compared this to more recent Disney movies. They just don't have the heart and soul older Disney stuff does. It just feels corporate in comparison.
 
PiratesMansion

PiratesMansion

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Phroobar said:
Watched The Fox and the Hound last night for the first time in a long time. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was. It was a simple story but had a lot of heart. The animation was first rate and the backgrounds were watercolors. Pure classic Disney. I compared this to more recent Disney movies. They just don't have the heart and soul older Disney stuff does. It just feels corporate in comparison.
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That bear is one of the most underrated bits of any Disney movie.

I rewatched it recently too. There were more songs than I remembered, though I can't say I left feeling like I had rediscovered any hidden gems.

The big overriding flaw is that Chief somehow doesn't die from his injury and fall, which sort of deflates Copper's vengeance quest against Todd, who isn't even responsible for what happens to Chief in the first place! Chief doesn't even appear all that badly injured, as he's in good enough shape to do a bit where he's trying to wring some sympathy out of Amos. But then Copper is so angry about what happened to Chief and so sure it's on Todd? Huh?
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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PiratesMansion said:
That bear is one of the most underrated bits of any Disney movie.

I rewatched it recently too. There were more songs than I remembered, though I can't say I left feeling like I had rediscovered any hidden gems.

The big overriding flaw is that Chief somehow doesn't die from his injury and fall, which sort of deflates Copper's vengeance quest against Todd, who isn't even responsible for what happens to Chief in the first place! Chief doesn't even appear all that badly injured, as he's in good enough shape to do a bit where he's trying to wring some sympathy out of Amos. But then Copper is so angry about what happened to Chief and so sure it's on Todd? Huh?
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It's like they changed that part late on in production to not freak out kids. I think Chief was suppose to die since there was very little Pat Buttram in the second half of the movie. It's weird how much I associate Jack Albertson with Grandpa from Willy Wonka.
 
Phroobar

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Disney was good at giving that sexy female flirting look.
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D.Silentu

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Phroobar said:
Watched The Fox and the Hound last night for the first time in a long time. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was.
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It is probably my favorite Disney animated film. The only issue I have is with the silly side character antics, which come off as out of place within the dramatic nature of the story.
PiratesMansion said:
The big overriding flaw is that Chief somehow doesn't die from his injury and fall, which sort of deflates Copper's vengeance quest against Todd
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Phroobar said:
It's like they changed that part late on in production to not freak out kids. I think Chief was suppose to die since there was very little Pat Buttram in the second half of the movie.
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You're right, that's apparently what happened.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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D.Silentu said:
It is probably my favorite Disney animated film. The only issue I have is with the silly side character antics, which come off as out of place within the dramatic nature of the story.
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I think the two birds chasing the worm add some needed comic relief. You see that kind of stuff in a lot of Disney movies to help break up the drama. You rarely see it in modern Disney movies which is too bad. It is a little weird to hear Paul Winchell do a Tigger laugh coming from a bird. The Piglet porcupine was a little too eager to have Tod spend the night.
 
Phroobar

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I watched The Rescuers and remember really liking it as a kid. It is totally underrated. I remember Main Street had a window where Penny was prying open the skull to get the Devil's Eye. I was fascinated with that window. I remember Madam Medusa was originally suppose to be Cruella DeVile. They are very much the same character. The Crocs at the organ was a really fun scene.

As I watched, I kept thinking this would be a great theme for Splash Mountain. It had a haunted riverboat. At the end, we could have been send down the black hole to get the Devil's Eye. We could have found it as we were going up the lift hill.
 
PiratesMansion

PiratesMansion

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Phroobar said:
I watched The Rescuers and remember really liking it as a kid. It is totally underrated. I remember Main Street had a window where Penny was prying open the skull to get the Devil's Eye. I was fascinated with that window. I remember Madam Medusa was originally suppose to be Cruella DeVile. They are very much the same character. The Crocs at the organ was a really fun scene.

As I watched, I kept thinking this would be a great theme for Splash Mountain. It had a haunted riverboat. At the end, we could have been send down the black hole to get the Devil's Eye. We could have found it as we were going up the lift hill.
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The Rescuers has absolutely been swallowed whole by modern Disney, and it's a real shame. It was always one of my favorites as a kid, and to my eye the strongest of the films between Jungle Book and Little Mermaid. It pops for me in a way that something like Robin Hood does not. I'm not entirely sure why I latched onto it so strongly, but it was always the movie that I enjoyed but never owned. It's one I associate with my cousin, because she was the one that owned it, and her house may have been the first place I saw it (she was also the first person to show me the Disney version of Cinderella).

A Rescuers theme actually really would work well for Splash Mountain!

Rescuers Down Under is one I've only seen once, some point in college. It's on my to-do list to rewatch soon, hopefully. I've been making my way through a Disney rewatch of sorts as I've been recovering from surgery, and have watched all of the Silver Age films (except Peter Pan, because forget that movie), several of the dark age films, and a smattering of the others.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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PiratesMansion said:
The Rescuers has absolutely been swallowed whole by modern Disney, and it's a real shame. It was always one of my favorites as a kid, and to my eye the strongest of the films between Jungle Book and Little Mermaid. It pops for me in a way that something like Robin Hood does not. I'm not entirely sure why I latched onto it so strongly, but it was always the movie that I enjoyed but never owned. It's one I associate with my cousin, because she was the one that owned it, and her house may have been the first place I saw it (she was also the first person to show me the Disney version of Cinderella).

A Rescuers theme actually really would work well for Splash Mountain!

Rescuers Down Under is one I've only seen once, some point in college. It's on my to-do list to rewatch soon, hopefully. I've been making my way through a Disney rewatch of sorts as I've been recovering from surgery, and have watched all of the Silver Age films (except Peter Pan, because forget that movie), several of the dark age films, and a smattering of the others.
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Rescuers Down Under had a very 90s feel to it. Probably because of the CG sequences. Because of that, it felt like a little bit of it's soul was missing. It still beats modern Disney and has a nice hunting lesson to it. The bad guy felt too much like the one from Tarzan.

Robin Hood was my all time favorite Disney movie as a kid. There was a lot of stuff stolen from Jungle Book and others in that.
 

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