Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy I never plan to see it again. Not after we saw plans for a sweeping, artistic epic-style film like "Sleeping Beauty" in WDW in 1995 and ended up instead with a Saturday morning cartoon with a story so twisted from the original material.
Originally Posted By jdub But... twisting from the original material is what Disney DOES! (and I never saw the plans--are they viewable someplace online?)
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy It all depends on what you were exposed to first. I find "Sleeping Beauty" a masterpiece, yet if I grew up with the fairy tale and *then* saw the Disney film years later, maybe I woulda been disappointed or not liked it (awful thought). I don't know of anything being viewable online...we toured the animation building there and saw some sketches they had done. They looked amazing, and I was soooooooo excited...hence my intense disappointment and disdain for the result, *sigh*...
Originally Posted By Tinkerballs I'd rather watch all of these movies you guys mentioned than all of the shows and original movies on the disney channel such as "kim possible", "suite life" "High School Musical" and on and on and on and on
Originally Posted By jdub Now, c'mon. "Kim Possible" has got more entertainment packed into 20-something minutes than much of Disney's semi-recent animated feature output. I certainly turn off the set less angry than I am walking out of something like "Home on the Range" or "Brother Bear."
Originally Posted By AladdinAZ Hercules is terrific. Gotta luv Hades as a villain. The story and animation were great. Thought it was a clever stroke to use Gospel style music for a film about Greek gods and goddesses. Back to movies that were BLECH! "Fox and the Hound" yechhhhhhh! poor music, (Best of Friends) and the wrong person to sing this song. This movie missed on so many marks. Animation was nothing special. Story was very muddled. One of the worst Feature Animated Movies ever released by Disney. Oh, and "Todd" is spelled with TWO "D's". (Sure the one Disney Character to almost have my name, but only spelled with one "D" and the movie was crap. )
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy But that's just it, Hades *isn't* a villain! But now all the kids are gonna grow up thinkin' he is, grrr...(unless they bother to read the myths) I'm just too in love with Greek mythology to bother praising the animation or music cause it was such a bad experience for me. "Fox and the Hound" on the other hand, is a good movie. Of course I'm biased because it takes place out in the country (where I'm from) and it was the 2nd movie I saw in a theater, and the 1st Disney one (1st movie was "E.T."). I'm curious why you say the story is muddled. I'm sorry about the "D" thing though...that *would* be annoying if I'd like a character with my name. Of course, with *my* name, good luck with findin' *any* character in a movie, book, or TV show!
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Add me to the list of Hercules lovers. I know it's not upholding to the original myths (and I also grew up loving the Greek myths as a kid), but I just can't get enough of this movie & the TV show it spawned. Hades is one of my favorite Disney baddies, and Megara is just one of the greatest Disney female characters ever, in my opinion. *Ducks TDG's ray of wrath* ;-) For the ones I can't stand, Chicken Little & parts of Home on the Range (though I like it better now than the first time I saw it in the theater).
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy "ray of wrath", LOL! I love it! My own superpower! >;-D Actually you Herc-lovers, this may boggle you, but I LOVED the cartoon---I used to watch it at 6 a.m. before bed last year, lol. I can take that as a silly "VERY loosely based on" thing since it's just a kid's show, and not take it seriously. But an animated feature which could have qualified as a "masterpiece", that's a different story.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Most of the 60's - 70's live action stuff not the highest quality - but it also reflected a lot of work at that time and all are good fun type movies -- I could never say I hated them -- now Home on the Range -- worst ever Disney full length animation --
Originally Posted By alexbook I tried watching "Twitches," but I didn't even make it to the first commercial break.
Originally Posted By Kira I'm going to be beaten for this but... Lilo and Stitch, I cannot find how in the heck anyone finds Stitch cute or adorable. I forgot home on the range was ever even made or by Disney until I read this thread, that pretty much explains what I thought about it. I didn't care much for Hunchkback Of Notre Dame either. Hercules...eh. I loved the soundtrack but I don't like the movie enough to own it or watch it more then once. and I'm probably one of the rare ones that didn't find the emporer's new groove very amusing.
Originally Posted By Imagineer This The worst movie Disney ever made was: "Eisner loves Iger." A sickening love story about greed, betrayal and corruption. One half * out of a possible 4 ****
Originally Posted By mickey_ring heh,heh! How bout the sequel to Aladdin... Return of Jafar. Saw it once and put it Ja-far, far aside.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Showtime had a free preview weekend -- among the movies? 1971s "The Barefoot Executive" starring Kurt Russell as a young mail room clerk at a TV station. His secret weapon to choose shows that will be hits in the ratings? His girlfriend's pet chimpanzee! Also stars Disney live action staples Joe Flynn, Wally Cox, Harry Morgan, Alan Hewitt and a pre-'Three's Company' John Ritter as the nephew who tries to figure out what Kurt's character is up to. As a kid growing up in the 70s, these were the movies that were shown at 'Summer Movie' afternoons. I was 9 in 1971, and remember being bored. Now I see why. Totally stupid movie. Almost everyone in it is depicted as a moron. In one scene, a chauffeur (Cox) runs over the paperboy's bicycle with the executive's limo. 'What do we do now, boss?' Cut to scene of papers being thrown from the limousine -- swerving back and forth to each side of the street. Huh? Another extended sequence in act three involves Flynn and Cox dangling from the ledge of a 7-story building. Laurel and Hardy it ain't! Then, they figure out that the chimp is selecting the shows, instead of killing him, (as Harry Morgan's character suggests) they decide to take him up in an airplane, attach a parachute to him, and chuck him out the window. With the key executives watching (inside the plane wearing tparachutes of their own) all hell breaks loose, the chimp kicks open the other hatch and the executives fly out of the plane. Ridiculous. And unfunny. It doesn't even have any scenes with gimmicky special effects like "The Shaggy Dog" or "Now You See him, Now You Don't" You look back at these and wonder -/ who the hell greenlighted this junk?
