What was the last "Wow!" moment ?

Originally Posted By TomSawyer

I'll have to watch Hunchback again with your comments about "A Guy Like You" in mind, 2oony. Maybe then all I would need is someone other than Jason Alexander doing one of the gargoyle voices in order to rank Hunchback higher.

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

C'mon down to the Bay Area. I'll pop in the DVD and recite his lines in my best Charlton Heston impression. It's either that, or Ernie from Sesame Street. It's all i've got.

 

Originally Posted By TomSawyer

Their voices are so much alike. I had the TV on one day and I thought I heard Ernie and Bert talking about politics. I looked, and it was just a talking head show with Heston and Newt Gingrich.

 

Originally Posted By Jim

For me, if HOTR had been a strong movie, it would have been a wow. The styling is awesome, and I love the song "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again." That said, it wasn't wow-worthy. If you aren't engaged, nothing else seems to matter.

The final wow moment for me was the flashback scene in BROTHER BEAR, which always moves me (and impressed me). I also thought the final moment with the three brothers together was quite wow . . . always seems to bring chills to my spine.

Almost everything in TREASURE PLANET wowed me--Silver and his arm (that scene in which the camera goes around Jim and Silver really wowed me), plus the song scene, in which the dad abandons Jim, moved me greatly.

CGI just doesn't wow me. For me, nothing in CGI has ever made me think wow, other than, "Wow, that was funny" or in the case of Madagascar, "Wow, how'd they screw that up?"

 

Originally Posted By LindsayC

Having just watched Tarzan for research to do with the new Broadway show and the next issue of Tales, I think as a whole film, this is the last of the real wows for me.

There are moments in Lilo and Stitch - where Stitch paws the Ugly Duckling book and a lot of Lilo’s performance which I admire greatly, but the aforementioned scenes (in this thread) in Tarzan are remarkable in terms of character development and visual spectacle.

Hunchback is probably my favourite Disney film - so the Hellfire sequence has always wowed me, as do some of the truly funny sequences of ENG and the young Hercules, but the scene that probably hooked me into Disney animation was the transformation scene in Beauty and Beast.

Brother Bear left me totally cold, any sentiment or emotion couldn’t counter that. Visually I liked Atlantis and Treasure Planet, but felt little for the characters.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

<In defense of "A Guy Like You">

Story-wise, I can see what you're saying, Kar2oonMan.

However, the song, style-wise, doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the movie.

Sort of that Vaudeville, yach-cha-cha kind of song.

 

Originally Posted By TomSawyer

The gargoyles are too anachronistic - they don't seem to fit in with the rest of the movie. That's a good point about style of the song, Jim.

 

Originally Posted By u k fan

I agree with most of what people have already said, but I would like to add the sequence in Treasure Planet when the moon turns into the spaceport (can't remember the name!)

I find it interesting that LindsayC says he cared little for the characters in this movie. I thought the relationship between Jim and Silver was great and it has me in tears everytime I watch it!

And anything in HoND is a wow for me. If you take the Gargoyles as extensions of Quasimodo's personality they don't seem quite so bad, even the yach-cha-cha tone of A Guy Like You makes a little more sense when we realise it's Quasi's childish side allowing him to dream that Esmeralda could love him. As Quasimodo becomes more excited about the possibility his imagination runs away with him and the song becomes even more comical even as far as a chorus line of finger clicking saints! Many scenes involving the Gargoyles take on a different slant when we treat them as Quasimodo personifying (is that a real word?) his character traits. The scene where the Gargoyles turn to stone while Quasi is chained up becomes very dark indeed as Quasi effectively loses the will to live and shuts down his own mind and soul. The stage show explores this more.

Anyway, sorry to have rambled, but you caught me at a loose end whilst discussing my fave movie!!!

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

>>As Quasimodo becomes more excited about the possibility his imagination runs away with him and the song becomes even more comical even as far as a chorus line of finger clicking saints! Many scenes involving the Gargoyles take on a different slant when we treat them as Quasimodo personifying (is that a real word?) his character traits. <<

I agree. To me, the gargoyles were much like Calvin's pet tiger Hobbes.

Except that Hobbes was real. ; )

 

Originally Posted By basil fan

I won't say this was the last Wow, but it was a big one: the opening sequence to Atlantis. When it ended & the title showed on the screed, I realized how tensed with emotion my body was. I was even holding my breath. That scene alone was worth $6.50.

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Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy

"Fantasia 2000", 1st viewing, front row of IMAX, on 1/1/00.

During the "Pines of Rome" segment when the whales majestically jump from the water, and start to come back down---but wait---no, they're straightening out---they're not going back down--?--OMG, th-they're *flying!*

<:-O

<:-D

I hadn't seen that in previews, and I'm so glad. I'll never forget that moment.

 

Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy

<Oh, and as founding president of the Treasure Planet Fan Club (pop. 4)>

LOL!

 

Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy

<I didn't however care for Pomp and Circumstance being in it though, seemed out of place for some reason.>

!

:-(

That's my favorite segment! Grrrr...(lol)

I don't see how any segment wouldn't fit into a "Fantasia", since it's all about different styles and types of music. But, to each his own I guess...personally I find P&C to be the most emotionally involving of the segments, with a flawless blend of heart-tugging, humor, awe, and charm.

 

Originally Posted By DDMAN26

The last wow moment for me was the 100 Yard Dash in the Incredibles, it left me absoultely giddy.

In the 2-D realm I would say the opening and closing of the Lion King. With the chrous singing Circle of Life and then the screen fades to black with the Lion King on screen. I have goosebumps typing about.

 

Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA

'Rhapsody in Blue' - Fantasia 2000. Awesome. The style is wonderful, and the animation fit the music so well, it felt like background music - does that make sense?

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

Makes perfect sense to me. I love how it tells the story of those various individuals -- the riviter who longs to be a drummer, the little girl wanting affection from her busy parents, the down on his luck guy... all without a word being spoken. Just beautiful animation and great storytelling and great music.

 

Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy

^--Hey, you forgot the silly-married-and-oppressed-by-his-domineering-wife guy!

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

Thta's right! Sorry about that!

I liked the Pomp and Circumstance segment, too, but that music has become so identified with graduation ceremonies that it's tough to think of it in any other way. I'll have to watch it again -- haven't seen Fantasia 2000 in a few years now.

 

Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy

But that's only *part* of the music! There's so much more! Really, the only "graduationy" part is boarding and unloading the ark---the rest was purty "new" to me! :-D (I believe there are 4 marches, and the "graduation" part is either 1 or 4, I think).

I LOVE the beginning with the heraldric call to the animals, the creatures gathering around from the globe, the dramatic music of the storm and the devastation of Daisy and Donald over the (so they think) loss of their partner, the gentle sunny times on the ark, the build-up of the landing, *sigh*...a wonderful musical masterpiece.

<that music has become so identified with graduation ceremonies that it's tough to think of it in any other way.>

But that's another reason this is so good...this *forces* us to think of another idea and different imagery for the music besides the commonplace "graduation music"; heck, it puts it right there up on the screen for us! lol.

This whole "graduation ONLY" mentality society has with this piece today really hits a nerve with me, because in this film we learn that poor Algar wrote this triumphant, brilliant, moving music intending it to be performed for *many* *different* occasions.

And now here we are in 2006, and we just always slap it onto graduation. As a creative type myself, I think that is very, very sad (it's a good thing he doesn't know the rut his composition got into for who knows how many of all these years now). Why *not* put it to another use?

Thank you Disney for someone in the world FINALLY stepping out of the stereotype that comes with this piece!

 

Originally Posted By BlazesOfFire

IN regards to the Hunchback...

It may have been out of place or a bit over the top with the gargoyles, but without it, it would not appeal so much to kids, which is what animated Disney films try to do dont they?