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Derenge wrote:If only they still produced film on the level of Twister these days.

*Vomits even more.*

Ugh, me too. I went on the "ride" at Universal Studios, and it reminded me of exactly how lame that movie was.

phact0rri wrote:It was a fun time all in all. they really have cracked down on a lot of the fun stuff from when I was kid. its sad really.

Shit, now I'm gonna be yearning for an age before helicopter parents. Oh well, they're off my back now so I guess I can start playing catch-up in regards to meeting my lifelong Fun Times quota.

Ah, the good ol' days of Grease 2.

damn it Bob, now I have "lets do it for our Country." stuck in my head

Turnsky wrote:considering the plethora of sequels and remakes that grow on cinema screens like a fungus, i'm not terribly surprised somebody had that sentiment.

They had plenty of remakes and sequels back in the good old days too. People just tend to forget about the bad parts of the good old days.

There ARE a lot of good things from the old days. Now for me, that's the 70's and 80's...

For example, people were not nearly as sue-happy back then. And political correctness was not really important. You didn't have to wear shoes, knee pads, elbow pads, and a helmet to ride a bike. Rides in fairs were faster because there wasn't a generation of "oh my god stop spinning my kid so fast" parents out there.

It wasn't all good. But, there were some nice things.

The only movie nostalgia I have is for good Disney movies. You know, the ones with fantastic, epic musical scores and a plot and hand-drawn animation. I'm not saying that using a computer isn't a form of art, but watching Beauty and the Beast, knowing hundreds of artists sketched every one of those cells by hand... That kind of movie quality is pretty much gone.

I think Disney jumped the shark after Mulan.

i don't think i miss the old days, the ratio of good movies to crappy movies has remained the same over the years, i.e. not many good, lots and lots and lots of crap.

I miss voltron, duck tales, and darkwing duck.

and, in the past, they did view most trilogies as direct to video sure to be stinkers. then back to the future 3 and return of the jedi came out.

Turnsky wrote:considering the plethora of sequels and remakes that grow on cinema screens like a fungus, i'm not terribly surprised somebody had that sentiment.

Mission Impossible? Charlie's Angels? Batman Forever?
There were always both sequels and remakes. I think that the only efficient difference is, there's more films based on comics these days.

Well I'm quite a deal older than some people here, but I experianced a bit of the 80's and I was a teen in the 90's so the new Punkrawk movement, the college indie, the grunge, Powernoise, industrial, the new Darkwave movement, Ebm, and all that stuff I experienced and got to be a part of in my highschool years (I graduated in 97).

It really wasn't all that. Of course a lot of the music I'd be embarrassed to mention but I went regularly to basement, warehouse, and dive shows, since I was 14 or 15.

It was a fun time all in all. they really have cracked down on a lot of the fun stuff from when I was kid. its sad really.

Grunge had a whole different meaning to us. It was often seen as oposition to regime music. Generally, folk and our version of rap music were imposed by regime and were listened by those who picked it up from regime TV together with regime news and everything else. Rebels were listening to grunge, punk-rock and heavy metal. There was almost a visible line between those two grupations when I was in high school ("diesels" and "headbangers").
But I don't doubt that grunge would have a special place for me anyway. There are musical revolutions every once in a while, but this was the musical revolution that fall in my teen years, time in life when you're most succeptible to influences and forming your taste and all.

I caught some of 80ies, but it was late 80ies, when, I think, most of trends were already worn out, about time when world was waiting for something like grunge to come along. 80ies mostly remind me of platinum-blonde hair with those awful curly hairdos, and "Police academy". I was too young to catch on things like new wave.

The only movie nostalgia I have is for good Disney movies. You know, the ones with fantastic, epic musical scores and a plot and hand-drawn animation. I'm not saying that using a computer isn't a form of art, but watching Beauty and the Beast, knowing hundreds of artists sketched every one of those cells by hand... That kind of movie quality is pretty much gone.

I think Disney jumped the shark after Mulan.

I think they jumped the shark after "Little mermaid".
Disney films I'm nostalgic about would be "Basic, Mouse detective", "Oliver and company" and other of their 80ies films. But since I watched all of those films for the first time when I was a kid, I guess I'm nostalgic about all old-school Disney.

mcDuffies wrote:I think Disney jumped the shark after Mulan.

I think they jumped the shark after "Little mermaid".
Disney films I'm nostalgic about would be "Basic, Mouse detective", "Oliver and company" and other of their 80ies films. But since I watched all of those films for the first time when I was a kid, I guess I'm nostalgic about all old-school Disney.[/quote]

to me the best disney films are still The Jungle Book, Sword in the Stone, and Robin Hood.

Also you gotta admire the awesomeness of the villain in Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent was just plain fantastic.

Those films were all great. Except that I think that Robin Hood had a bit of too much chase scenes, but I guess that was for the kid audience.
If I had to pick I think it would be "101 Dalmatians", "Sleeping beauty", "The rescuers", "Ichabod and mr. Toad", "Lady and the tramp"...
And "Incredibles", of course.

mcDuffies wrote:Those films were all great. Except that I think that Robin Hood had a bit of too much chase scenes, but I guess that was for the kid audience.
If I had to pick I think it would be "101 Dalmatians", "Sleeping beauty", "The rescuers", "Ichabod and mr. Toad", "Lady and the tramp"...
And "Incredibles", of course.

Pixar is it's own category at this point, but it's bringing disney back to where it should be.

I still like Aladdin. It's too bad Robin Williams used up the last of his funny in it.

legostargalactica wrote:

mcDuffies wrote:Those films were all great. Except that I think that Robin Hood had a bit of too much chase scenes, but I guess that was for the kid audience.
If I had to pick I think it would be "101 Dalmatians", "Sleeping beauty", "The rescuers", "Ichabod and mr. Toad", "Lady and the tramp"...
And "Incredibles", of course.

Pixar is it's own category at this point, but it's bringing disney back to where it should be.

Didn't Disney and Pixar have a major falling out?

rkolter wrote:Didn't Disney and Pixar have a major falling out?

Yes they did, right up to the point where Disney actually bought Pixar. This resulted in many of Pixar's top people (Steve Jobs, John Lasseter, etc.) getting placed as top people at Disney. Basically, even though Disney bought Pixar, Pixar is now calling the shots.

Badum!

Jim North wrote:

rkolter wrote:Didn't Disney and Pixar have a major falling out?

Yes they did, right up to the point where Disney actually bought Pixar. This resulted in many of Pixar's top people (Steve Jobs, John Lasseter, etc.) getting placed as top people at Disney. Basically, even though Disney bought Pixar, Pixar is now calling the shots.

Badum!

and it's for the best.

I won't believe it till I see it.

phact0rri wrote:

NakedElf wrote:I remember when I was a kid having this vague feeling that something interesting was going on and I *wasn't part of it*. I grew up and found out that yup, metal, grunge, industrial, goth, etc., were all going on, and I'd had no idea. I wouldn't like being 5 again, but it would be cool to be able to time-travel and spend some time as a 20-something back in the 80s. And the 90s. And maybe part of the 70s. But the 60s and before look like they really sucked.

Well I'm quite a deal older than some people here, but I experianced a bit of the 80's and I was a teen in the 90's so the new Punkrawk movement, the college indie, the grunge, Powernoise, industrial, the new Darkwave movement, Ebm, and all that stuff I experienced and got to be a part of in my highschool years (I graduated in 97).

It really wasn't all that. Of course a lot of the music I'd be embarrassed to mention but I went regularly to basement, warehouse, and dive shows, since I was 14 or 15.

It was a fun time all in all. they really have cracked down on a lot of the fun stuff from when I was kid. its sad really.

Oh, I'm sure it wasn't spectacular. But there are people in my social group who *do* remember it, and it was a fun part of their lives (and I'm convinced that everything is more fun when you have more freedom and less of my mum screaming at you,) and so I'd like to have some notion of what they experienced.

I've a pretty bad memory, especially when I was little, so despite having lived through most of the 80s, I barely remember them at all. I've a vague notion that I liked Sheera and Ponies, but I don't *remember* them like other people seem to do. Honestly I think I repressed a lot of memories from that part of my life due to it sucking, but now I look back and feel like there are these holes...



...And you people have horrible taste in Disney movies. :P

Mostly I just hate 101 Dalmatians because I was forced to watch it about 50 times in a row at daycare. I used to have the entire thing memorized, and not because I wanted to.

And I guess, frankly, I like my eye-candy in movies, and talking dogs and mice and whatnot just aren't my thing.

NakedElf wrote:Nonono, you're doing the fantasies all wrong. The trick is to get your wife and Helen Hunt into bed *together* for a threesome and then get a friend to take pictures.

Done the threesome before, no thank you, I much prefer one-on-one over group sex anyday.

Trust me, my fantasies are perfectly fine without that in the mix.

>Net

I did rather enjoy The Little Mermaid when I was younger, but my all time favorite Disney movie has got to be Beauty and the Beast. Lion King comes in second.