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Post by Duke Cameron on Dec 17, 2017 18:19:59 GMT -5
My mom bought this for me on VHS and I watched it once. It bored me.
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Post by msc on Dec 17, 2017 18:29:43 GMT -5
Brilliant film. One of my favourite Disney films, as a kid and now, as a parent too. Enjoyable villain, and I particularly like the great escape from the death trap: "Smile!" It has the ethos and heart of Conan Doyle, but is a competent Disney film too - what's not to love?
I also really like their Robin Hood.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 17, 2017 18:32:37 GMT -5
To Ratigan the world's greatest rat!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 23:34:15 GMT -5
I had this as an audiobook as a kid, listened it to death.
However in hindsight as it was all done by a single narrator, him doing the kid's voice was hilarious and creepy all at the same time.
Great film, probably top 10 Disney for me. (1. Robin Hood 2. Hunchback 3. Lion King if you're asking, which you werent)
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 18, 2017 0:07:59 GMT -5
Haven't seen it since I saw it in a theater. Remember enjoying it.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 18, 2017 0:54:59 GMT -5
To Ratigan the world's greatest rat!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 8:57:35 GMT -5
I saw it several years ago when an ex got me back into Disney and I actually watched a bunch of these dark age Disney movies for the first time (which is doubly odd since they came out while the right age to watch them). It was good, but again.....odd; the effect of not even paying attention to modern theatrical Disney at that time still lingered then and even today. In terms of why it's not talked about, it came out during a time when Disney was not hot as a company. They weren't producing big successes and it wasn't until the Little Mermaid kicked off the Disney renaissance that they became relevant again. So the mouse detective falls into a hole where it's not as well known or as relevant. Oh, Disney was doing well -- as an entertainment/destination vacation business, not as an animated movie making business. The parks were doing great and that business has never really diminished for them like theatrical animation did in the '70s and '80s. Also I think GMD was something greenlit before Eisner and Katzenberg (who would utterly transform Disney into what it is now) came onboard, and in business sometimes when new leaders take over they'll keep some old projects in the works but then don't really highlight them (because they weren't THEIR ideas) and seem to abandon them to fail in the open. GMD, Oliver & Co, Black Cauldron......they all have this odd status to them, lost to most newer fans and even put aside by older ones. It did make a profit, though, and wasn't technically a failure. But then 4 months after this came out another mouse related film came out and did......... quite better: AN AMERICAN TAIL - considered for a long time the biggest non-Disney animated film ever.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 18, 2017 9:37:07 GMT -5
Definitely one of my favorites.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 18, 2017 13:02:50 GMT -5
I saw it several years ago when an ex got me back into Disney and I actually watched a bunch of these dark age Disney movies for the first time (which is doubly odd since they came out while the right age to watch them). It was good, but again.....odd; the effect of not even paying attention to modern theatrical Disney at that time still lingered then and even today. In terms of why it's not talked about, it came out during a time when Disney was not hot as a company. They weren't producing big successes and it wasn't until the Little Mermaid kicked off the Disney renaissance that they became relevant again. So the mouse detective falls into a hole where it's not as well known or as relevant. Oh, Disney was doing well -- as an entertainment/destination vacation business, not as an animated movie making business. The parks were doing great and that business has never really diminished for them like theatrical animation did in the '70s and '80s. Also I think GMD was something greenlit before Eisner and Katzenberg (who would utterly transform Disney into what it is now) came onboard, and in business sometimes when new leaders take over they'll keep some old projects in the works but then don't really highlight them (because they weren't THEIR ideas) and seem to abandon them to fail in the open. GMD, Oliver & Co, Black Cauldron......they all have this odd status to them, lost to most newer fans and even put aside by older ones. It did make a profit, though, and wasn't technically a failure. But then 4 months after this came out another mouse related film came out and did......... quite better: AN AMERICAN TAIL - considered for a long time the biggest non-Disney animated film ever. American Tail was the movie that really scared Disney. The Secret of NIMH always had great word of mouth, but its distribution was low. It was Tail that was Don Bluth's commercial breakthrough, because it kept beating the classic Disney re-releases that year. When that and Land Before Time either matched or passed their stuff at the box office, their 90s renaissance kicked off because they felt competitive. Fievel is memorable anyway, but there was a real sense then he was going to surpass Mickey as far as relevance.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Dec 18, 2017 15:33:44 GMT -5
Olivia's kidnapping was a hell of a jumpscare.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 15:47:40 GMT -5
Olivia's kidnapping was a hell of a jumpscare. Tell me about it. Although I watched it many times as a child, during that scene I always closed my eyes.
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