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The New Reading/Book Thread: With That Same Ol' Bad Taste!

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    Iron WeaselIron Weasel Dillon! You son of a bitch!Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I really hope this doesn't go horribly wrong.

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    Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Yeah I really don't know if they'll "get it" and not destory everything about it that makes it great, but we'll see.

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    Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Quoth wrote: »
    oh god but disney could screw it up so bad :(

    I dunno, Disney's current management is pretty solid so I'm confident that they'd do a decent job at least.

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    but the rapunzel movie looks hella stupid

    if this were pixar i wouldn't be worried but disney...

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    Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Balefuego wrote: »
    But they butchered The Black Cauldron

    That's not really very relevant because that was decades ago and no movie studio in existence has only made good films.

    As for the rapunzel movie, okay, yeah, point taken, but I still think that it's unnecessary to start worrying about Mort already. Disney's track record as far as traditionally animated feature length films go is still quite impressive.

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    let's see what we've got here
    Year of Release	Film Name	Co-Production with
    2000	Dinosaur	Walt Disney Feature Animation
    2000	The Emperor's New Groove	Walt Disney Feature Animation
    2001	Atlantis: The Lost Empire	Walt Disney Feature Animation
    2002	Lilo & Stitch	Walt Disney Feature Animation
    2002	Treasure Planet	Walt Disney Feature Animation
    2003	Brother Bear	Walt Disney Feature Animation
    2004	Home on the Range	Walt Disney Feature Animation
    2005	Chicken Little 2D3D	Walt Disney Feature Animation
    2006	The Wild	C.O.R.E. Feature Animation
    2007	Meet the Robinsons 2D3D	Walt Disney Animation Studios
    2008	Bolt 2D3D 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
    2009	The Princess and the Frog 	Walt Disney Animation Studios
    

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    PeenPeen Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Quoth wrote: »
    but the rapunzel movie looks hella stupid

    if this were pixar i wouldn't be worried but disney...

    Couldn't that just be that there's not a whole lot to Rapunzel? If you've got to pad a 30 page story out to an hour and a half you've got to add of material to it, that wouldn't as much be a problem with a longer book (or at least I'd hope so).

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    cautiously optimistic

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    DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Antimatter wrote: »
    cautiously optimistic

    Don't make me post that one comic.

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    holy shit i hope this movie is good I hope so so much oh my god

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    there are only like 3 good movies on the list i posted

    the rest are ok or mediocre or worse

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    LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I just love that they made rapunzel into

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    From Guilty Gear

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    the good movies on that list are really good though.

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    Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Princess and the Frog was good but not that good.

    This is assuming the three movies are Emperor's New Groove (best one there), Lilo and Stitch (second best) and Princess and the Frog.

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Treasure Island and Atlantis were pretty great, for what they were.

    but yeah, my three were Emperor's New Groove, Lilo & Stitch and Princess & Frog

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Princess and the Frog was good but not that good.

    This is assuming the three movies are Emperor's New Groove (best one there), Lilo and Stitch (second best) and Princess and the Frog.

    that was my group, yes

    the next best was either atlantis or treasure planet, i think atlantis... not sure whether i saw treasure planet

    which one ended with bob

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I liked treasure planet and atlantis

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    that's still 5 movies out of 12

    not great odds

    we can only hope they don't get all wacky with the source material

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Titan AE ended with them naming Earth2 Bob, didn't it?

    That wasn't a Disney movie, I don't think.

    it was an AWESOME movie, though.

    Mort is probably the Discworld book I can best see being turned into a Disney-style animated film. Or maybe the Tiffany Aching books, but I always imagined those to be live-action. Ditto with the Guards books.

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Peen wrote: »
    Quoth wrote: »
    but the rapunzel movie looks hella stupid

    if this were pixar i wouldn't be worried but disney...

    Couldn't that just be that there's not a whole lot to Rapunzel? If you've got to pad a 30 page story out to an hour and a half you've got to add of material to it, that wouldn't as much be a problem with a longer book (or at least I'd hope so).

    Padding I wouldn't mind, but the prince character looks so obnoxious, like he was ripped right out of a Dreamworks movie

    I mean, I still want to see it, but it feels like it could be either a really grating or simply decent (and gorgeous) movie

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Quoth wrote: »
    Princess and the Frog was good but not that good.

    This is assuming the three movies are Emperor's New Groove (best one there), Lilo and Stitch (second best) and Princess and the Frog.

    that was my group, yes

    the next best was either atlantis or treasure planet, i think atlantis... not sure whether i saw treasure planet

    which one ended with bob

    that was Titan A.E.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I want Tealin in charge of the designs

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    well then i liked titan AE and don't remember either atlantis or treasure planet

    also i agree that it would have made more sense for them to go after the tiffany aching books, what is up with that

    ooh, or the amazing maurice and his educated rodents

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    It's a thing he does for his own reasons. Just ignore it.

    Okay now I'm really curious as to what these reasons are because I've seen him do that as well as "yr" instead of "your"

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    risumonrisumon Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Quoth, where did you get your list from? The article mentions Clements and Musker who have writing/directing credits for:

    2009 The Princess and the Frog (screenplay / story)

    2002 Treasure Planet (animation story / screenplay)

    1997 Hercules (animation screenplay)

    1992 Aladdin (screenplay)

    1989 The Little Mermaid (written by)

    1986 The Great Mouse Detective (story adapted by)

    With them getting co-credits on Black-cauldron. There were only 6 movies they wrote/directed themselves.

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    mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    While we're on book adaptions: I wonder why Captain Underpants never got a TV show, or at least a cartoon movie

    It came out in the late 90s right? And even Teacher's freaking Pet had a feature film

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    i just grabbed the wikipedia list of movies disney put out over the last ten years, didn't go specifically by writer/director

    man, aladdin and the little mermaid and the great mouse detective were rad, but the others... not as much

    but at least now i am more hopeful

    edit: oh also, i remember hearing that the version of the black cauldron that disney released was a hack job that cut out a bunch of vital scenes, not their fault

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    The best way I can think about doing Tiffany Aching books is live-action, but then the parts where super ridiculous stuff is happening, it's animated.

    like the part in the Wee Free Men when
    she's in Fairland, or fighting the Queen
    it gets all classic Disney sweeping and epic animated, but when she's just toolin' around in the regular discworld it's live-action. but that combination is probably too weird to be in a like, mainstream disney movie.

    I can't tell if that comes off as pretentious or not.

    I also can't tell if I spelled pretentious right.

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    If I can find the time to do some reading again I might dive into some Mazalan. Whether or not I really get into it depends on how light it reads. I couldn't get into A Fire Upon the Deep because the prose was just too thick. I have so much reading for all of my classes that when I do read something to read for fun I want it to actually be fun.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    The best way I can think about doing Tiffany Aching books is live-action, but then the parts where super ridiculous stuff is happening, it's animated.

    like the part in the Wee Free Men when
    she's in Fairland, or fighting the Queen
    it gets all classic Disney sweeping and epic animated, but when she's just toolin' around in the regular discworld it's live-action. but that combination is probably too weird to be in a like, mainstream disney movie.

    I can't tell if that comes off as pretentious or not.

    I also can't tell if I spelled pretentious right.

    well, they released enchanted

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    PeenPeen Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Quoth wrote: »
    i just grabbed the wikipedia list of movies disney put out over the last ten years, didn't go specifically by writer/director

    man, aladdin and the little mermaid and the great mouse detective were rad, but the others... not as much

    but at least now i am more hopeful

    edit: oh also, i remember hearing that the version of the black cauldron that disney released was a hack job that cut out a bunch of vital scenes, not their fault

    What, no love for Hercules?

    Artreus the Malazan books are excellent but they are not light, there are a hell of a lot of characters and things happening right from the word go and if you want fluffy they might not be the best choice.

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    hercules was disney trying to be all hip and self-deprecating and a lot of times i just found it annoying instead

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    PeenPeen Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I can see that but I dunno, I liked it.

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I guess I will pick up the first one and see how it goes. The writing might appeal to me.

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Peen wrote: »
    I can see that but I dunno, I liked it.

    that's cool, i'm not judging you or anything

    as long as you don't like Twilight i mean

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    PeenPeen Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Not only don't I like Twilight, I don't dislike it either. I am entirely neutral. I'd hate it like everyone else but it drives my teen circ up like gangbusters.

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    babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I fucking love Twilight.

    The movies, mind you. I wouldn't read the books.

    But those movies, holy shit. Greatest spoof comedies in YEARS.

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    now i am judging you

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    TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    These guys made Aladdin?

    Fuck yeah!

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    You didn't know Disney made Aladdin?

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