Originally Posted By basil fan I love, love, love the songs from Home on the Range! And I've been known to repeat a song on the old CD player 3 or 4 or 20 times when nobody's around. I get the people who say their sick of CGI & want traditional animation. And I get the people who say the medium doesn't matter, only the story (though I don't agree). But I don't get the people who say they're sick of CGI and want traditional animation *and* the medium doesn't matter. If it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. If you want a particular medium, then it does matter. Less Is more <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/sherlock/less.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/ sherlock/less.html</a>
Originally Posted By TheRedhead Yeah, I thought the songs from HOTR were great, though the movie was pretty forgettable. It just had "reworked" written all over it. Glen Slater writes really great lyrics. That's where my ear immediately goes to, and I think he is right up there with David Zippel (and just below Howard Ashman) in the clever department. I am thrilled to hear they're doing this film. Hopefully the folks on this board will have to learn how to spell "rennaissance" real soon.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>I really hope they have the characters sing, and that they lose the montage, backup singer style for this one.<< Ditto that. I really miss the glory days when the characters would actually sing.
Originally Posted By Marove The Frog Princess I'm guessing (assuming it's based on the Russian fairy tale) would be the first Disney animated feature based on a Russian Fairy Tale. Russian stories so far only have been seen in sequences of the Fantasia movies and the Peter and the Wolf scene in Make Mine Music.
Originally Posted By Marove The Frog Princess I'm guessing (assuming it's based on the Russian fairy tale) would be the first Disney animated feature based on a Russian Fairy Tale. Russian stories so far only have been seen in sequences of the Fantasia movies and the Peter and the Wolf scene in Make Mine Music.
Originally Posted By CuriosWolfSo >>the Peter and the Wolf scene in Make Mine Music.<< You mean the "Peter and the Wolf" SECTION of "Make Mine Music",Marove, since it was the whole story, not a piece of it. But yeah, I wouldn't mind Disney doing other Russian stories since Disney has hardly explored that territory apart from "Peter and the Wolf" and "Night on Bald Mountain".
Originally Posted By Jim Count me in as one who likes the music of HOTR but really doesn't care for much else about the story. If you listen to the CD separate from the plotting, it makes for good listening. The music isn't particularly impressive the first time around because it's surrounded by lackluster storytelling. The Yoddle song is kind of "eh" for me, but I love "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again," which for me seemed like an anthem for WDFA after walking out of HOTR. Also, for me, CHICKEN LITTLE is awful. At least HOTR has beautiful hand-drawn animation to make it re-watchable. Nothing about CL is re-watchable for me.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Nothing about CL is re-watchable for me.> I'll certainly agree with that. 'Chicken Little' isn't even as good as an episode of 'Jimmy Neutron.'
Originally Posted By TheRedhead On the DVD of HOTR, Alan Menken explained that "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again" was sort of a 9-11 song. I love that. It gives it a whole new depth.
Originally Posted By cstephens I liked "Chicken Little" much better than I liked "Home on the Range", even though there were definitely parts of CL I didn't like. Put a gun to my head to pick one of them to watch again, it would be CL. /cs
Originally Posted By mawnck Put a gun to my head to pick one of them to watch again, I'd say "go ahead and shoot."
Originally Posted By cstephens Nope, there's nothing bad enough I'd die over. Even if someone forced me, upon punishment of death, to watch "Hoffa" again, I'd do it - with my eyes closed and singing to myself the entire time. /cs
