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I don't know why this surprises me, considering he's made his career supporting artists like Josh Groban and Celine Dion, but I was a bit taken aback that David Foster co-wrote the songs in this thing. Go figure. And just to add my nickel's worth of who-gives-a-darn, I liked "Cats Don't Dance" (which also used the voice of a professional singer, Natalie Cole, to sub a heroine's singing -- but at least the villian in that flick was totally awesome! An evil Shirley Temple, could you just DIE?!  ), "Ferngully" (if only 'cuz I could watch Tim Curry stare at a wall for two hours and be entertained, the guy's just that cool  - so if he's singing, I'm SO there!), and "Thumbelina" sucked donkey 'nads, even for Don Bluth...and THAT is saying something. The baby was exploding!
I can't believe I ate the whole passenger manifest!
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DanBearPig wrote:I've got nothing to add of real merrit I just wanted to say that I'm very keen on this recap.
Aside from being witty and intelligent there's something inherently charming about Rori's writing style and it works doubly well when recapping an utterly charmless kiddy flick.
I have to admire someone rising to the challenge of recapping such a "nothing" film. It really does come across as the most generic animated fantasy musical you could make- even having it be about Camelot seems like it's just because a Disney-like movie needs to deal with a familiar story. Making the recap entertaining had to be difficult. Reviews and other miscellany at Club Parnassus.
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I just sat down and watched this thing....and whoever was in charge of the continuity for Ruber's minions is a moron. Okay, so, excluding Bladebeak, Ruber sends "Mace-Guy" and "Spear-Guy" after Kayley. When he sets out to search for Excalibur, he is shown to have a spike-headed dude and an axe-handed dude with him. Then Mace-Guy and Spear-Guy join up with them, giving Ruber four guys, five if you count Bladebeak. Here's where it begins to get sloppy. At the campfire scene where they're eating the dragon, Mace-Guy is nowhere to be found, and Axe-Guy has been replaced with some skinny dude with spindly claw fingers. When the bad guys reach the ogre's cave, Mace-Guy is back; Ruber uses one of his mace-arms to hit Spear-Guy. But then when the minions are told to "Walk this way," Mace-Guy is gone and replaced with Claw-Guy, and Axe-Guy is suddenly back. These are the three smashed into the wall. Then when the villains all run out onto the ledge after the "ogre fart," Claw-Guy has disappeared and Mace-Guy is back. The only minion shown consistently to be in the group is Spear-Guy (he's the largest and difficult to miss). I've been through these scenes and I swear the number of minions Ruber has, and which ones, keeps changing. Honestly, with how unique these guys look was it that difficult to remember which ones Ruber brought with him, and how many...? 'Harry and the Hendersons' Uncomfortable Plot Summary - After running over the legendary Bigfoot, deadbeat father quits job because his dad monkeys with his drawing.
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Minions of the watch: MP3 Downloads: Iced Earth (minions) Gorillaz: Rise of the Ogre: Gorillaz: Books (ogre)
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Kooshmeister wrote:I just sat down and watched this thing....and whoever was in charge of the continuity for Ruber's minions is a moron. Okay, so, excluding Bladebeak, Ruber sends "Mace-Guy" and "Spear-Guy" after Kayley. When he sets out to search for Excalibur, he is shown to have a spike-headed dude and an axe-handed dude with him. Then Mace-Guy and Spear-Guy join up with them, giving Ruber four guys, five if you count Bladebeak.
Here's where it begins to get sloppy. At the campfire scene where they're eating the dragon, Mace-Guy is nowhere to be found, and Axe-Guy has been replaced with some skinny dude with spindly claw fingers. When the bad guys reach the ogre's cave, Mace-Guy is back; Ruber uses one of his mace-arms to hit Spear-Guy. But then when the minions are told to "Walk this way," Mace-Guy is gone and replaced with Claw-Guy, and Axe-Guy is suddenly back. These are the three smashed into the wall.
Then when the villains all run out onto the ledge after the "ogre fart," Claw-Guy has disappeared and Mace-Guy is back. The only minion shown consistently to be in the group is Spear-Guy (he's the largest and difficult to miss). I've been through these scenes and I swear the number of minions Ruber has, and which ones, keeps changing.
Honestly, with how unique these guys look was it that difficult to remember which ones Ruber brought with him, and how many...? Simple explanation: one of the side effects of the weapon-merging potion is a weak bladder. "Sam, Ziggy says there's a 97% chance you're here to avenge the death of Vesper Lynd."
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I'm thinking this website is cursing me or something. I literally scared myself a few days ago as I was digging through a box of CD's in my closet. 'Lo and behold I found a CD of the Quest For Camelot soundtrack there. Don't ask me why it's there and why I bought it because I do not know the answers myself. Konya wa Hurricane.
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Funny. I don't remember Pocahontas being pretentious so much as really stupid and bad. Also, it really is too bad that this failure caused them to mis-market Iron Giant, considering that it's pretty much the greatest example of western animation done right, in like...ever. I could go into detail about why I think that, but this isn't the place. Suffice to say: no singing, no magical villain, and the presence of a gigantic mecha of mass destruction. Also known as the eccentric cracker. Not reccomended for children ages 3 and up. Read more in my blag.
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The Crazy Fish wrote:Funny. I don't remember Pocahontas being pretentious so much as really stupid and bad. It was pretentious in pretty much the same way that every 1990s depiction of Native Americans and the European colonization of the Americas was pretentious, it's just that it had nothing worthwhile to distract you from that fact. Also, yeah, The Iron Giant was totally kickass. "Bad movies are like fine Texas chili. It burns, but it's a good kind of burn." - Sam Starfall
EA is like that uncle you have who seemed normal enough when you were a kid but then gradually became convinced that the NSA was watching him and was going to steal his gold bullion and give it to the Reptilians and five years from now he'll be refusing to leave his basement because of the "Frankenstein earphone radio."
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"There's a lame interlude where the dragons try to start a fire, only to have all the sticks of firewood sprout legs and run away. Well, that was disturbing."
For some reason the nonchalantness of this made me giggle uncontrollably.
A really good recap, and honestly I thought the part where you discussed why these modern references just don't work was insightful. THey are really jarring and remind you that you are just watching a movie, and usually not a good one at that. I mean it's one thing when an all powerful robin Williams does it, you sort of know what to expect from him, it follows, it was obvious it was coming, but why does a chicken make taxi driver references and then point a gun to scare things away in a movie in which there aren't any guns, let alone taxis?
Fun recap, thanks much for your time and effort.
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After reading this again, I found an "explanation" for how Sir Lionel could have taught Garrett. Remember how Lionel supposedly died on his first day in Camelot? Not so. Rori wrote:With that, we go to the farm where Sir Lionel's family lives, which is now covered in snow. But it seemed to be spring or summer at the latest when they separated. How far away is Camelot from this farm? Later events will indicate that it's a three day trip, at most. See? Several when Lionel died it was actually supposed to be several months after his arrival, but shoddy editing didn't reveal this fact.
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Nope, if you watch the movie, the dad getting to Camelot and then getting killed by Ruber is all the same scene. In fact, it's all happening within the same song. Maybe they were originally intended to be two different scenes, but that's not how it plays out in the movie. You can tell it's all supposed to flow together, because in the scene where Dad gets killed, it's clear he's the only one of the knights who doesn't have a helmet or a shield, because he just got there that day. This signature was removed because it contained an image and/or design that infringes on the intellectual property rights of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. More specifically, Snakes on A Plane.
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