The Roger Rabbit Appreciation Thread!!

[Orange]

First saw this movie when I was a kid, didn't much care for all the live action stuff, but Roger and the opening sequence entertained me to no end. But re-watching it now it's become one of my favorite films. So appreciate this fine piece of motion picture!! ;D

[eJm]

They just repeated it over here last Sunday.

It's still as great now as it was then.

[Deleted]

One of my favorite movies ever. Never gets old one bit.

And don't tell me i'm the only one who still gets his heartstrings pulled a little bit when they dip the red shoe into The Dip.

[Tapout]

I was actually really excited to see the movie based on the commercials when I was a kid.

I found the movie to be disappointing. Part of it, I think, was Chris Lloyd just being too gross of a villain, as well as the Dip being too unsavory a way for cartoons to die. The trailers and commercials made it out to be this really lighthearted, fun story with a little Jessica Rabbit cheesecake on the side and I felt like it was a bait-and-switch.

[G✇JI☈A]

Mar 23, 2010 16:02:11 GMT -5 Tapout said:

I was actually really excited to see the movie based on the commercials when I was a kid.

I found the movie to be disappointing. Part of it, I think, was Chris Lloyd just being too gross of a villain, as well as the Dip being too unsavory a way for cartoons to die.

The funny thing is:

The three ingredients of the dip which 'kills' toons, (turpentine, benzene and acetone) are all paint thinners which are used to remove animation from cells.

[Orange]

Mar 23, 2010 15:50:46 GMT -5 @teamkillswitch said:

One of my favorite movies ever. Never gets old one bit.

And don't tell me i'm the only one who still gets his heartstrings pulled a little bit when they dip the red shoe into The Dip.

No, that part gets me as well You find yourself pleading with the TV not to do it!

[Tapout]

Mar 23, 2010 16:15:13 GMT -5 Orange said:

Mar 23, 2010 15:50:46 GMT -5 @teamkillswitch said:

One of my favorite movies ever. Never gets old one bit.

And don't tell me i'm the only one who still gets his heartstrings pulled a little bit when they dip the red shoe into The Dip.

No, that part gets me as well You find yourself pleading with the TV not to do it!

No, see, I was more like "Ugh, that's really gross. Why are they taking that happy cute little cartoon and basically dipping it in a vat of acid so it dies horribly?"

I went in expecting cartoon mallets and pianos and anvils getting dropped on people, and got something much darker and unpleasant.

If I'd known that's what the movie was about, I think I would've been less disappointed.

[G✇JI☈A]

Some other interesting Trivia courtesy of imdb:

Judge Doom's master plan to dismantle the Red Car trolley is based in fact. Private corporations conspired to eliminate public transit in the late 1940s and 1950s in order to generate demand for automobiles and ancillary industries to keep said automobiles running.

The case where Valiant keeps his cartoon gun is inscribed "Thanks for getting me out of the Hoosegow - Yosemite Sam".


Bob Hoskins said that, for two weeks after seeing the movie, his young son wouldn't talk to him. When finally asked why, his son said he couldn't believe his father would work with cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny and not let him meet them.

The first test audience was comprised mostly of 18-19-year-olds, who hated it. After nearly the entire audience walked out of the screening, Robert Zemeckis, who had final cut, said he wasn't changing a thing.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Well, I can appreciate the rabbit's wife......if you know what I mean.

[Brandon Walsh is Insane.]

I love this movie.

Was the first movie I remember seeing in theaters.

I can watch it anytime, and up until recently, was still finding 'new' things I never noticed before in the backgrounds.

Awesome movie.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

All joking aside from my last post, it is really a good movie.

[Sir Woodrow]

That poor shoe still gets to me but as I got older the scene where Eddie is going through the photos he got developed and finds a picture of his brother makes my chin wobble too.

[shadowforce420]

It made me cry when I was a kid, Judge Doom scared me more than Freddy and Jason combined. Looking back now it's a masterpiece.

[CMWaters]

Also, I have to admit this: along with seeing Pamela Anderson and Jennifer McCarthy next to each other at WrestleMania XI and the Attack of the 50 Foot Woman poster, this movie was one of the building blocks of my puberty via Jessica Rabbit.

[smokinvokoun]

It's one of my all time favorite films. I love movies that can suck people from all ages. I loved this movie as a kid and I love it even more as an adult.

[Bob Schlapowitz]

One of my favorites of all time. I can watch this movie anytime.

[Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action]

Mar 23, 2010 16:53:02 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

All joking aside from my last post, it is really a good movie.

What joking? Everything you said I agree with for real.

[smokinvokoun]

How can ANYONE go wrong with having Mickey Mouse AND Bug Bunny in the same movie in the same scene?

[CMWaters]

Mar 23, 2010 22:21:44 GMT -5 smokinvokoun said:

How can ANYONE go wrong with having Mickey Mouse AND Bug Bunny in the same movie in the same scene?

Forget those two, go with the REAL star feud!

[Milkman Norm]

Yeah dueling duck pianos maybe, no IS the greatest scene in movie history.