Yeah this was pretty fricked up. I think the fact it was Glenn Close in drag was supposed to take the edge off it but as a kid I just thought it was horrifying.
That said I want there to be an extended version of Hook released one day with all the deleted scenes, the stuff about his daughter being like the new Wendy etc added back in.
Bluth and Bakshi animation is simply not given enough love. Everything has devolved into boring Disney-level trash now, chasing the lowest denominator. It's even worse now CGI is the predominant medium.
lmao i cant believe that disney spiderman cartoon movies actually dropped the animation framerate to comically low levels and people called it 'BOLD' and 'STYLISTIC'. its just like a comic book! its like im reading an actual comic book!
It's definitely a stylistic choice but if the only way you can draw attention to your animation is by doing less of it then it seems a bit cheap. Especially when it's rendered on computer and they don't give a shit how long it takes to draw extra frames.
I wouldn't say "before", given the film was harkening back to an older style of feature film animation; more detailed, ambitious and grand, like the era of Fantasia, Bambi or Pinocchio. It definitely has a much darker colour palette than any of those films however, which sets it apart.
>Cartoon version of the Hobbit which is much better than the shit Del Torro crap out.
but basically nothing of Del Toro's version of the Hobbit wound up in the final film trilogy, not even one design
The animation quality is phenomenal, especially on what was not any kind of blockbuster budget, it was a real passion project for all involved, but one aspect that helps is the physical compositing for filming cel animation was more advanced by the 1980s, it helps blend the brighter animation into the dark moody backgrounds. There's some crazy complicated scenes in terms of background panning and plane shifting, something that most audience members take for granted. But imagine putting all the elements together seamlessly without a computer. Sleeping Beauty is particularly spectacular on that front given it's from the late 1950s.
>Pinocchio literally invented the department of effects animation because of the amount of smoke, water, fire, etc that needed detailed animation in addition to the character animation
The water in the film still looks as good as I've seen any water animation look.
Indeed it does! Man, I don't want to give money to Disney but at the same time I kind of want to own these old movies and mom got rid of the old VHS tapes like 20 years ago
But now we have soulless CGI movies about round brown lesbians asserting their independence over the patriarchy, so we’re clearly living in the best era of animation.
Sadly, 2d animation is becoming a lost art. It's dying in Japan as well. They rely on 3d too much to save time animating complex objects or movements, on top of certain big studios pushing full 3d animation over 2d, and the old generation of animators did a poor job passing their skills and knowledge to the new generation.
>Great Owl has the same glowing eyes and mustache as Nicodemus
Meant to suggest they're linked spiritually or both serve as some aspect of an otherworldly presence, it's not meant to be a concrete thing but merely a suggestion for the viewer to ponder
Brisby's design is always something I point out about how simple character design can tell you a lot about the character.
The Cape she wears could well be from Jonathan and is torn and worn out. She could fix it but focuses on keeping her children well cared for. Her kids have clean and pretty clothes. Brisby works hard fer her offspring. She sacrifices everything to keep them cared for. A really great role model for young women and future mothers.
Bluth is a full on Christian btw and it shows most with this film and Land before time.
At one point just about every other bar in my home town had a rock/metal dive bar theme. We used to paraphrase that line as a joke while out drinking and yet another Metallica song came up on the jukebox: >Oh, we got both kinds, heavy AND metal!
At one point just about every other bar in my home town had a rock/metal dive bar theme. We used to paraphrase that line as a joke while out drinking and yet another Metallica song came up on the jukebox: >Oh, we got both kinds, heavy AND metal!
what the frick were they thinking? I remember being a kid and I wasnt scared of that scene, but I definitely thought ‘I dont want to fricking see that again wtf’
This shit right here fricked me up. You don't even expect it. Its not even a jump scare. Its just the realization. Your mind takes a second to figure it out and then you have the same reaction the dad has. The whole movie is filled with scenes like that. A character turns and you notice something. It does a really good job of letting you scare yourself instead of the movie jumping at you
This shit right here fricked me up. You don't even expect it. Its not even a jump scare. Its just the realization. Your mind takes a second to figure it out and then you have the same reaction the dad has. The whole movie is filled with scenes like that. A character turns and you notice something. It does a really good job of letting you scare yourself instead of the movie jumping at you
This shit right here fricked me up. You don't even expect it. Its not even a jump scare. Its just the realization. Your mind takes a second to figure it out and then you have the same reaction the dad has. The whole movie is filled with scenes like that. A character turns and you notice something. It does a really good job of letting you scare yourself instead of the movie jumping at you
Signs has some great scenes but the aliens being defeated by water is some moronic bullshit
Neither did I. Friend explained to me for him it was the overall anticipation and buildup. That they'd be that bold to just walk around in broad daylight like that
Never quite got why people were scared of this scene. The roof and cornfield scene is much scarier to me.
it's the subconscious realization that it's been tehre watching you and that you can already see it before you actually see it. watching it again, you can clearly notice it. like, you should've seen it. we aren't adapted to being hunted like that and not recognizing it. it's something deeply primal I think that I can't quite find the words for.
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I don't know, I just didn't get it, it didn't stick with me or anything. The very idea of the rooftop scene scared me but the birthday one, not as much. There's something very un-abstract about an inhuman figure watching through your bedroom window, unintentional disconnection through abstraction being something Shyamalan often falls face first into due to his weird autistic need to explain everything flatly and remove the fantastical element (little ironic that removing fantasy makes it less real), but that one doesn't need much of a push to imagine yourself.
I remember seeing the trailer for the movie when I was around 7 and having vivid, horrific nightmares of being stalked in a huge cornfield. I was never that scared of the movie itself once it came out but the trailer fricked me up big time with just the atmosphere.
West Australia, July 2012, surfing at a spot north of Perth.
Great white tore one of the other surfers in half and then came back for torso when one of the guys took his jetski out to recover it.
Shark swam last the majority of the guys in the water and singled that poor bastard out. We'd had a really bad run of shark attacks those few years, quite a few fatalities where I live and surf, but it was just a statistical anomaly.
Anyway, didn't impact on my willingness to go in the water but I've since retired as a marine biologist. Pay is shit.
TLDR; saw fellow surfer bitten in half.
News link for the autist fact checkers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-15/fatal-attack-ignites-shark-protection-debate/4131328
>retired as a marine biologist. Pay is shit.
i remember growing up and being asked what we wanted to do as a job and like every second kid said marine biologist. no idea why
West Australia, July 2012, surfing at a spot north of Perth.
Great white tore one of the other surfers in half and then came back for torso when one of the guys took his jetski out to recover it.
Shark swam last the majority of the guys in the water and singled that poor bastard out. We'd had a really bad run of shark attacks those few years, quite a few fatalities where I live and surf, but it was just a statistical anomaly.
Anyway, didn't impact on my willingness to go in the water but I've since retired as a marine biologist. Pay is shit.
TLDR; saw fellow surfer bitten in half.
News link for the autist fact checkers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-15/fatal-attack-ignites-shark-protection-debate/4131328
Nope, torn in half then the shark came back to eat the rest. Body was a total loss.
Very rare.
This and Quint’s death still frick me up, poor guy survived the worst shark attack incident in history only to have a long and agonizing death at the hands of one of the biggest sharks ever.
He deserved it.
He destroyed their radio and over worked the engine because of his stupid pride. He got himself entirely into that situation.
It was inevitable because he hadn't faced his fears in a good way and Jaws is a study in fear. He instead let it turn to hate and obsession with revenge, spending his life hunting sharks in anger to try and conquer his fear. If it wasn't for that shark he would have ended up getting an arm bitten off by smaller one or simply ended up drowning because he drove his boat too hard in his quest for revenge.
Quint chose anger and alcohol to deal with his fear.
The Mayor chose to ignore his fear in the hopes it would simply go away.
Brody at first deals with his fears by running away (from his city job where he thought he'd get shot) and ignoring it (not looking at the water when on the ferry, thinking of the island as not being surrounded by water) but by the end he's completely faced it by going on the boat and getting close to the water. He finally conquers it AND the shark when he's seconds away from being immersed in the water.
This was my recuring nightmare as a kid, watched this movie when it came out, traumatized me for years.
We live in the midwest, there's not even mountains, let forget about volcanoes, and i'm still afraid of lava.
It's unfortunate that it did, because this is gonna seem like I'm shitting on you but I'm merely being truthful, I saw this as a youngster and laughed my ass off because he died like the Wicked Witch of the West. Dante's Peak on the other hand was scary as hell. But Volcano was just a bit too moronic and cartoony even for kid me to be scary.
oh I realize dante's peak is the better of the two. Volcanoes is clearly the stupid summer blockbuster that didn't give a flying frick about science, and just wanted explosions. it's like "Armageddon" vs. "Deep Impact"
ones just a Michael bay explosion slop fest that doesn't give a frick about science at all, the other at least pretends to read a science book.
But I don't have volcanoes mountains or earthquakes here, so the novelty is easily scary. I get tornadoes dropping out of the sky all summer long though, and they are statistically more dangerous, but they don't melt people, and that's what i'm concerned about, melting.
Well I don't either, it's the mildest climate possible, but just from depictions alone, the couple being scalded to death by the hot spring venting, or the grandma dying from burns from the acidic river were much scarier than the wacky vertical melting death in Volcano, the former seemed real and gruesome but the lava death was so silly in how it was played, if he'd burned to death or something it might have been disturbing but him just melting downward like a sped up candle was hilarious.
Since we're talking Don Bluth, what the hell happened with him? He made four pieces of kino with Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go to Heaven.
Then he made four films that ranged between crap and eh, with Rock-A-Doodle, Thumbelina, A Troll in Central Park and The Pebble and the Penguin.
Then he made a comeback to amazing shit with Anastasia and the very, very underrated Titan A.E. (I haven't seen Bartok the Magnificent and can't comment on it)
What happened to him in the middle of his career and how is it that his last movies were so different from what he tried before?
While I don't know a great deal about specifics, I believe he ran into far more studio interference in his 90s films (and his 80s films were not free of this; Land Before Time and All Dogs got edited down for darker scenes), and he was up against a resurgent dominant Disney putting out the most successful animated films in history, not the meek downturned Disney of the early 80s, so the budgets and talents weren't quite there anymore, they were at Disney. He's also older than he seems, he was well in his 40s when he moved from animator to director for NIMH, so probably wasn't such a big decision to hang it up after Titan AE was (sadly) unsuccessful, they can't all be Miyazaki, unable to retire despite constantly flirting with it.
At the same time, his success with NIMH, American Tail, Land Before Time and All Dogs I would say laid a great deal of foundation for the Disney Renaissance to explode so the increasingly lackluster, toothless and unambitious 70s-80s output from Disney that had caused him to quit working for them did get turned around by him indirectly.
>Titan A.E.
I vividly remember this movie having a big emotional impact on me as a kid. It was an era where I think animation was starting to be seen as the kid only thing (although maybe it was always the case) however I remember the film having... such a special atmosphere for a "children's" cartoon.
Humanity gets nearly wiped out and our main character is all by his lonesome on a mission to restore his planet. As an older man I know now that some of humanity survived but idk why, as a kid I misremembered and thought it was only him and the girl, thus giving it a much darker edge of a fool's errand in my mind.
But back to the film itself, everyone I know who's watched it was absolutely blown away by it and remembers it vividly as this peculiar film which doesn't really have anything similar to it. A shame the guy behind it stopped making films, he sounded like a kino-machine honestly
Oh yeah, vast majority. Like we talked about earlier in the thread there's that rough streak after All Dogs but pretty much everything else, including side projects, rules
They censored the full scene because kids were too scared in the preview screening. Now the cut footage is considered lost media and people have a bounty on it.
>Titan A.E.
I vividly remember this movie having a big emotional impact on me as a kid. It was an era where I think animation was starting to be seen as the kid only thing (although maybe it was always the case) however I remember the film having... such a special atmosphere for a "children's" cartoon.
Humanity gets nearly wiped out and our main character is all by his lonesome on a mission to restore his planet. As an older man I know now that some of humanity survived but idk why, as a kid I misremembered and thought it was only him and the girl, thus giving it a much darker edge of a fool's errand in my mind.
But back to the film itself, everyone I know who's watched it was absolutely blown away by it and remembers it vividly as this peculiar film which doesn't really have anything similar to it. A shame the guy behind it stopped making films, he sounded like a kino-machine honestly
That sequence in the ice asteroid field was amazing and a good example of blending traditional and CG animation the right way.
>Then he made a comeback
Anastasia barely made over its cost and Fox was in such a state that a single failure would cost them all.
Titan A.E. was a failure entirely and barely made half of its cost to make.
Bluth was always an arthouse guy, his works were passion projects and always were.
You're forgetting him working on Dragon's Lair and various other small periods.
The answer you need to hear, but probably don't want to hear.
Bluth's life was suffering, he made people a lot of money, but on sequels and such. He was always kicked out for the cheaper animator options.
That kind of shit takes a toll on you.
I wasn't implying Anastasia or Titan A.E. were financially successful, I have zero interest in that aspect, only in the enjoyment I derived from watching them.
You either lack reading comprehension or are just trying to argue for its own sake. All I was talking about whether the movies were good or not, hence why I spoke of the four movies he made between All Dogs and Anastasia being bad.
I am not a israeli executive, I don't care about how much money these movies made.
While some of his projects were unsuccessful financially, that doesn't mean they're without merit. The fact that most of his works are now considered to be highly notable entries in the bronze or renaissance eras of animation shows how highly he is thought of. Even his side-projects like the Dragon's Lair game or the Mary music video are noteworthy and things people remember fondly.
The post in reference specifically says "made a comeback" Bluth never made a comeback.
Objectively his last movies were unsuccessful or not at projected success.
I am correcting you, you are autistically screeching that money doesn't matter.
It matters in the sense that no one wanted to work with Bluth after this point and he literally has to crowd source for anything now days.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I imagine he meant he made a comeback in quality as Anastasia and Titan AE, while far from his best, were much better than the likes of Troll in Central Park
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Don Bluth makes 4 good movies >Dob Bluth makes 4 bad movies >Don Bluth goes back to making 2 good movies
Hence, comeback.
Cope harder samegayging autist. Can't handle the truth? Those movies FLOPPED.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Are you moronic? We're talking about quality.
3 months ago
Anonymous
And for the record since you're throwing it at everyone
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Don Bluth makes 4 good movies >Dob Bluth makes 4 bad movies >Don Bluth goes back to making 2 good movies
Hence, comeback.
3 months ago
Anonymous
they objectively did not do good.
I imagine he meant he made a comeback in quality as Anastasia and Titan AE, while far from his best, were much better than the likes of Troll in Central Park
he is being contrarian for the sake of it.
they were commercial failures.
I even went as far to defend Bluth by saying this was how it always was, because Bluth was a passion project individual. he believed in the art.
Now here we are with that homosexual autistically screeching.
3 months ago
Anonymous
mate, that guy isn't talking about financial success at all, only whether the movies were good. you are literally agreeing with one another. stop arguing for the sake of arguing. this whole conversation is pointless.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I never said they did good, I said they were good. I'm not interested in the money, I'm interested in the quality. Bluth went from 4 great films to 4 bad films to 2 good films and this is what I was talking about. You are the only one talking about their box office.
Other people have clearly understood my meaning but you seem incapable of doing so, even after I have explained it to you several times. Perhaps you were the autist all along?
Pathetic samegayging autist
3 months ago
Anonymous
You're the autistic one and the only person causing problems in the thread. Just shut up you fricking loser. Although if you're goal was to miss random people off with your abject moronation fricking congrats man
3 months ago
Anonymous
Are you moronic? We're talking about quality.
And for the record since you're throwing it at everyone
>baby's first inspect element
At least you spaced it out this time lol
3 months ago
Anonymous
I never said they did good, I said they were good. I'm not interested in the money, I'm interested in the quality. Bluth went from 4 great films to 4 bad films to 2 good films and this is what I was talking about. You are the only one talking about their box office.
Other people have clearly understood my meaning but you seem incapable of doing so, even after I have explained it to you several times. Perhaps you were the autist all along?
Dragon's Lair wasn't in a cabinet persay. It was also more expensive than normal games. usually when a dude paid up to play the game, the people in the arcade not currently playing or queued up, would watch.
that's cool. i miss going to aladdin's castle in the mall when i was a kid. I have visited portland, OR several times the last few years and always make a point to visit Ground Kontrol. There's a sick Rambo 3 game there that I'm decent at and one time a group of kids gathered around to watch me just merc these dudes. Then I had to leave so I gave their mom my game card which still had a solid amount of money on it. The kids were so excited and then the mom was just like "You're not playing that" lol
To show that the flower was lonely. It kind of galvanizes the toaster to realize his friends need him and they're alone without each other. Supposedly that's what one of the animators once said
The Phantom was such an underrated flick. Shame Billy Zane didn’t have more projects under his belt in his younger years, he is a truly entertaining actor.
This fricking scene had me double checking every time I used a microscope when I finally got to a grade that had them in the science curriculum. The habit persisted till the end of HS.
Learning about the backstory of that one gnome who dressed in armor and sided with Darkness was fascinating. He wore armor to pretend to be a goblin and kept getting made an object lesson of by having his parts turned into pig parts before getting dropped into the kitchen after her finally has too much and snaps. All of this is cut and you can easily miss that the armored goblin who screams Geronimo is the same little guy who says “We is all barbecue.” It’s astounding Legend works at all.
The murder scene in Heavenly Creatures. Not only was I way too young to be watching that film, I didn't know what it was about so I had no idea there was such a violent scene coming.
I didn't watch that until I was 18 or so but I distinctly remember being fairly shocked by that sequence, despite being a big fan of horror and gore films including Jackson's earlier work. I think it was because the rest of the film up to this point feels so whimsical and wholesome, it was really efffectively jarring
There's also none of Jackson's usual campy approach to violence, even in LOTR there's a pulpy sense to plenty of the violence even if it's less silly than Braindead or Frighteners, but in Heavenly Creatures it's just savage.
That's true as well, I remember being surprised by how frank and muted but still horrific the violence is. I had just marathoned Bad Taste, Braindead, and Meet the Feebles the previous day. Also while we're on the subject, this is an unpopular opinion but I did not care for Frighteners very much. It's not awful but it just didn't do it for me
Frighteners is interesting but I think it was the start of Jackson's Lucas-esque fascination with computer effects and what they could potentially do, which turned out to be much less than they believed was possible. LOTR was balanced with practicals and most of the CG usage remained fairly grounded but The Hobbit went full moron with CG just like the PT.
There's lots of CG ghost sequences in Frighteners, travelling through walls and whatnot which I imagine was super impressive to Jackson at that time, I saw it when it was new but you know I was like six so any film looks real then. They look a little more conspicuous in hindsight.
I generally agree with you but I would argue the CG reliance began in Heavenly Creatures. Granted it's meant to be fake so it's less of a flaw or even really noticeable, since the main draw of that film is by far the story and performances. But yeah Frighteners is solid when it's not a CG set piece, then crumbles when it makes that switch. Some scenes reminded me of the bad CGI in the remake of The Haunting with owen wilson (although obviously that came out several years later, but it's the first concrete example I have in my head of not believing something onscreen when I was a kid). LOTR holds up mostly because, well it had a bigger budget and they worked harder, but it's also easier to let flaws slide if the film as a whole is great. I think King Kong is where Jackson's CGI use peaked, although I recognize some others don't like the movie and certain sequences (raptors/brontos especially) aren't exactly perfect.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Some scenes reminded me of the bad CGI in the remake of The Haunting with owen wilson
*spits*
3 months ago
Anonymous
Is it actually good? Haven't seen it in years
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[...] >baby's first inspect element
At least you spaced it out this time lol
Just shut up you moron
3 months ago
Anonymous
No. That spit was for the film.
The original The Haunting is one of my favorite films. The remake is one of the few films I give a genuine 0/10 to.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Oh okay, I couldn't tell if that was spitting at me or the movie lol. Yes the original is fantastic, also without it we would've never had The Evil Dead
Random moments of more gruesome violence popping in can be more jarring like that. Like Indiana Jones generally has a campier pulpy approach to violence, in Raiders for instance, the guy being run over by the troll comically with flailing limbs, or the giant bruiser kid by a propeller getting the "big blood spray" treatment, or even the fantastical gory demises in the climax which were scary to kids but you know, they're magical. Last time I saw Raiders however, in the middle of the brawl in Marion's tavern, a gun goes off and the bullet ricochets to hit one of the bad guys in the head, and he just gets a bloody squib burst and blood trickling down before he drops. I remember thinking huh, that was surprisingly violent. You don't normally see on-screen bullet wounds in that sort of film, a puff of smoke and the actor falling over usually does it.
Not that Raiders of the Lost Ark is similar to Heavenly Creatures.
The death scenes in Mystery Men must've fricked me up so much I erased them from my mind and when I was reminded about them I had flashbacks. I hated that shit.
When I was a kid it was the scene in the fly where she births the maggot. It freaked me out so bad as a kid even though I'm male.
Finally saw it again years later and it's not even that bad. But dude when I was that young holy shit.
>Strolling through this scene thinking I don't remember anything being traumatizing from my early childhood, only the teenage years >See this fricking shit
That shit and a bit in the Noddy's Toyland Adventures back in the 90s which I forgot about but genuinely gave me nightmares was terrifying.
As a twelve or something years old though it was picrel. The incest sex scene (most horrifying scene for me honestly), his kids getting killed, basically everything related to Satan. Just genuine trauma for me as a kid.
It's probably seen as a silly Arnie vehicle, but for me it was genuine nightmare fuel and I'm not even religious.
This film will be forgotten in time instead of being looked back upon as a masterpiece of stop motion animation and a towering achievement. This saddens me to no end; I loved this movie. As bleak as it is gorgeous. If the phrase "no compromises" was a film, it would be this
i watched this like end of last year fricking hell and i'm a dog lover and the dog i got for my 14th birthday was a jack russel, who is now passed so yeah the ending killed me
i think i watched watership down as a kid but i have no memory of it, like i think it did the kinda trauma to me that your brain just represses the memory of it, all i know is that it was bad
after watching plague dogs i've been meaning to watch watership down again but at the same time i don't wanna watch it
i've also been meaning to watch "When the Wind Blows" but i started it and the elderly couple remind me of my grand parents.
>woman i vaguely know vanishes without a trace in the space of three minutes in august of 1992 about a block from my apartment after her friends hear her car pull into the parking lot >next day's paper includes the one vital clue in the form of a crime scene photo: a drink cup precariously perched on the edge of the roof of her car (pic related) >go see the film a few months later when it opens >guy across the aisle has his drink cup resting on the arm of his chair and his GF curled up in his lap >scene where the dude is in the spaceship mortuary and crashes into the woman skeleton with blonde hair >other guy hollers from back of cinema >"It's Laurie Depies!" >everyone laughs >first guy's GF asks >"Who's Laurie Depies?" >guy says >"Frickin' moron, everyone knows who she is." >as he shifts in his chair slightly on knocks his drink cup off the armrest
It then occurred to me she was abducted and knew her attacker. Considering the confined space between the vehicles and the position of the cup, it's unlikely there was a struggle, especially noting that her friends heard her car engine but no screaming or other signs of a fight. It seems the most likely scenario is someone who knew her lured her away from the side of her car somehow, as it's hard to conceive of how a stranger could've done so.
I called the tipline to suggest this and the cops actually came to interview me. They didn't say much but the 20th anniversary news article about the crime essentially confirmed my theory. About two months after the crime, the cops came upon a sketch of her likely murder by the offender who for whatever reason drew two such sketches at a party, and the guy was a coworker. From that they extrapolated he probably followed her from work, baited her into his car, then offed her, explaining why the cup was undisturbed.
They were buried in tips and came upon all this info too late, to say nothing of failing to read the crime scene right, so the guy got away with it.
Damn man, I asked you that cause I thought you had a hero story to tell. Instead I googled info about it and now I'm in tears. I guess I'm glad you didn't know her well but that feels weird to say. Sorry you have had to live with basically having solved it but nothing has been done. Sidenote wisconsin in the 90s looks really comfy despite the grim context of the photo
Yeah, life is a drag sometimes. But you're right, Wisco was cozy then.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Sorry again man. I know somebody who got away with 2nd degree murder charges cause they couldn't determine a cause of death. Like he ALLEGEDLY r'd and (brutally) m'd this person but then a strangely large amount of a certain substance was found in their stomach. So 5 years later he gets arrested multi million bond, 2ish years in and declared not guilty cause they couldn't prove how they died. I feel bad I know this person, but luckily I haven't seen him since he got out ( not that I'd do or say anything, just uncomfy and a little scary. cause i def told people about it when he was locked up so if he gets wind of me talking shit idk man)
3 months ago
Anonymous
Anon I'm not gonna dog you cause you seem to have a really good heart, but also you talk like you have a twitter account and are trying to avoid a shadowban rn and I'm curious if I'm right
3 months ago
Anonymous
no I don't have a twitter account but yeah I'm trying to avoid being too direct with what I'm saying in case the literal murderer drug dealer I used to know or his cronies would see that. also while he was in the klink his girlfriend was all over me so i don't want that getting out either...
3 months ago
Anonymous
I'm coming for you Dave.
3 months ago
Anonymous
FRICK
3 months ago
Anonymous
And here I was gonna call you oomfie anon :(( but yeah you take care please
>woman i vaguely know vanishes without a trace in the space of three minutes in august of 1992 about a block from my apartment after her friends hear her car pull into the parking lot >next day's paper includes the one vital clue in the form of a crime scene photo: a drink cup precariously perched on the edge of the roof of her car (pic related) >go see the film a few months later when it opens >guy across the aisle has his drink cup resting on the arm of his chair and his GF curled up in his lap >scene where the dude is in the spaceship mortuary and crashes into the woman skeleton with blonde hair >other guy hollers from back of cinema >"It's Laurie Depies!" >everyone laughs >first guy's GF asks >"Who's Laurie Depies?" >guy says >"Frickin' moron, everyone knows who she is." >as he shifts in his chair slightly on knocks his drink cup off the armrest
It then occurred to me she was abducted and knew her attacker. Considering the confined space between the vehicles and the position of the cup, it's unlikely there was a struggle, especially noting that her friends heard her car engine but no screaming or other signs of a fight. It seems the most likely scenario is someone who knew her lured her away from the side of her car somehow, as it's hard to conceive of how a stranger could've done so.
I called the tipline to suggest this and the cops actually came to interview me. They didn't say much but the 20th anniversary news article about the crime essentially confirmed my theory. About two months after the crime, the cops came upon a sketch of her likely murder by the offender who for whatever reason drew two such sketches at a party, and the guy was a coworker. From that they extrapolated he probably followed her from work, baited her into his car, then offed her, explaining why the cup was undisturbed.
They were buried in tips and came upon all this info too late, to say nothing of failing to read the crime scene right, so the guy got away with it.
Oh yeah I think I saw that when I was young on early yt. Yeah def a little unsettling. Something very unnerving about a man screaming in pure terror. Then at the end with the needle slowly lowering. Being bound a tortured is horrific especially when it’s by something hard to understand. And the fact the movie is based on a true experience makes it more scary.
bro frick this scene, absolutely awful when you are a little kid, i swear the first time i watched it i couldnt think about anything else except that guy in the box for like 15 minutes after
Yes, yes. We all did. You're the unfun one who doesn't get the theme and has to be the "I was never scared" guy. You're not interesting. What's interesting is joining the conversation and sharing spooky scenes from movies.
Where the frick did i tell "i wasn't scared"? Dude i pissed myself and was scared to leave coach because i thought something would bite me from under it.
Calm down you autist. I just corrected you. You misunderstood what this thread was about. It isn't about how tough you personally are, it's about what we thought was scary when we were kids.
Calm down you autist. I just corrected you. You misunderstood what this thread was about. It isn't about how tough you personally are, it's about what we thought was scary when we were kids.
Where the frick did i tell "i wasn't scared"? Dude i pissed myself and was scared to leave coach because i thought something would bite me from under it.
Why so many forced arguments in this thread?
I'm assuming it's the same weirdo from earlier trying to create arguments out of thin air.
Oh yeah
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No idea what you talking about i just came and told my experience when i was a child. But that autist start to make assumptions from thin air.
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It's a repeat of the whole "Don Bluth made bad movies then good movies" "No Don Bluth movies didn't make any money you autist" argument from before
I got very upset when Littlefoot's mom dies in The Land Before Time, but despite that I insisted on watching it nearly once a day between the age of 2 and entering pre-school. I haven't rewatched it as an adult but I;m sure it would still affect me quite a bit, especially given that I have lost my own mother recently. It's funny though, I don't really remember those early viewings and my most concrete memories of the series are the sequels which of course became less serious and sad, so growing up watching those as they released I think I pushed the tragedy of the original into my subconscious. I might give it another go soon because it may end up helping me with my own emotions regarding my mom. I do tend to get upset in other movies or manga or anything when a character's mother passes away (obvi moreso in light of my mom kicking it) but maybe returning to such an early memory will be helpful. Idk, that sounds gay I guess
nobody posted the mark twain satan stop motion thing yet.
Also I have a childhood memory of horror I could use some help with. Used to rent a lot of the same stuff at blockbuster all the time. One of the weekly ones was rikki-tikki-tavi which I would say falls into this thread cause I was terrified of those snakes when I was a kid. One of the other ones though was this almost reading rainbow like show where we had a live action human female host (kinda looked like the teacher from magic schoolbus) and I feel like it went over books (that part could be wrong). But it was set in an animated fantasy hellscape, with monsters and flames and all sorts of wild shit. Does anybody know what I'm referring to? This was back in late 90s
I watched Robocop when I was 10 and that was far worse. Also the nazi face melting in Indiana Jones even though that was just a PG. None of the stuff in that image bothered me.
The aliens in Mars Attacks freaked me the frick out as a kid.
The skeleton faces with popped out eyes and visible brains.
And they're so overtly evil. They're not attacking just to conquer earth. They take delight in tormenting humanity. Doing fricked up experiments and making sport out of killing people. It's all just a game to them. And humanity is so powerless to stop them.
One of the strongest fear reactions I had to a movie as kid was The Mothman Prophecies. I saw it at the drive-in in my hometown in West Virginia, and was already aware of Mothman as a local cryptid. It was a doube feature with Spider-man 1 I believe, and they showed Mothman first. It was so unsettling to me I spent nearly the whole time hiding under a blanket. I've never done that for any other film, and upon a recent rewatch a couple years ago it's not even that scary. But 6 year old me watching it outside in the woods, frickin a, terrifying
Any movie where the world ends because of some inevitable catastrophe, as a kid it really put into perspective how insignificant and weak we truly are as a species.
Brother's Grimm was top to bottom a movie designed to lure in and traumatize children
I'm amazed Gilliam doesn't have a reputation for being an edgier Tim Burton, my personal confession to the thread is the absolute gut punch of an ending this one has
I don't think I was traumatized because who tf gets traumatized by a movie? but this scene made me squirm as a kid who liked horror movies like Friday the 13th part 6 and the Thing ('82).
Johnny 5 getting murdered in short circuit 2. I haven't watched it in over 20 years and I'm not going to now.
I remember also being scared shitless when my dad showed me Aliens at 5 at the scene of Newt trying to sleep in the red lit room with the facehugger crawling around.
Same, it fricks him up so bad I can't stand it. I always found him a bit freaky looking anyway as a kid
Think that's the ET scene where they put the kid away for being in contact with ET
E.T dying
E.T.
Why the FRICK did they think it was okay to have E.T. wake up again when he was in a bodybag? The whole sequence when they're operating on him is so clinical and intense. That scene gave me nightmares for a year and a lifelong fear of ayys.
The yellow zombie and this thing from the start of Return of The Living Dead. I caught it on tv when I was like... 5? Maybe 4? I had nightmares about completely unkillable yellow creatures for a decade or something. I remember my older sister walked in and said "I don't think you should be watching this" and changed the channel, which I'm grateful for. I don't think I'd been able to handle the other zombies.
In contrast I watched Jaws maybe a year or two later at a buddy's house and I just fricking loved it. Never gave me any fear of the ocean or anything like that and now I rewatch it for the comfy summer beach town vibes.
As a kid I was always scared of Freddy Kruger but thought Jason Voorhees was just cool
I guess plenty of people felt this way since they ran with that premise in the end
AAAARRROOOUUUUGGGGHHH
Yeah this was pretty fricked up. I think the fact it was Glenn Close in drag was supposed to take the edge off it but as a kid I just thought it was horrifying.
That said I want there to be an extended version of Hook released one day with all the deleted scenes, the stuff about his daughter being like the new Wendy etc added back in.
This scene and the end fight scene were the only parts I liked as a kid.
Paranormal Activity as a 21 year old viewed on a sunny afternoon amongst many friends.
> Movie scenes thread
> Talks about a whole film
You baboon.
.
love this animation
Secret of NIMH is a masterpiece
Bluth and Bakshi animation is simply not given enough love. Everything has devolved into boring Disney-level trash now, chasing the lowest denominator. It's even worse now CGI is the predominant medium.
lmao i cant believe that disney spiderman cartoon movies actually dropped the animation framerate to comically low levels and people called it 'BOLD' and 'STYLISTIC'. its just like a comic book! its like im reading an actual comic book!
It's definitely a stylistic choice but if the only way you can draw attention to your animation is by doing less of it then it seems a bit cheap. Especially when it's rendered on computer and they don't give a shit how long it takes to draw extra frames.
Also Richard Williams
is her medallion supposed to be magic, or some kind of piece of lab technology the rats stole from Nymh? Like a lens of some sort,
Yeah sure, why not.
Her husband Jonathan created it, that's all we know.
In yhe book there's no magic, in the movie there is for some reason.
Jesus Christ, his animation was on another level. Never seen before, during or since.
I wouldn't say "before", given the film was harkening back to an older style of feature film animation; more detailed, ambitious and grand, like the era of Fantasia, Bambi or Pinocchio. It definitely has a much darker colour palette than any of those films however, which sets it apart.
Although Bambi had scenes where they dropped the colour down.
What the FRICK was his problem?
Scary as he was, he genuinely was just doing his job. He's the guard for the colony, and he's guarding.
Looks more like "Plague Dogs" "watership Down" or the Cartoon version of the Hobbit which is much better than the shit Del Torro crap out.
>Cartoon version of the Hobbit which is much better than the shit Del Torro crap out.
but basically nothing of Del Toro's version of the Hobbit wound up in the final film trilogy, not even one design
Whoever made this should have make some epic fantasy shit.
Picked angles and direction choices are so fricking epic and grand, its amazing.
But anon, he did.
The animation quality is phenomenal, especially on what was not any kind of blockbuster budget, it was a real passion project for all involved, but one aspect that helps is the physical compositing for filming cel animation was more advanced by the 1980s, it helps blend the brighter animation into the dark moody backgrounds. There's some crazy complicated scenes in terms of background panning and plane shifting, something that most audience members take for granted. But imagine putting all the elements together seamlessly without a computer. Sleeping Beauty is particularly spectacular on that front given it's from the late 1950s.
Snow White is the GOAT animated movie thoughbeit.
It's Pinocchio actually
>Pinocchio literally invented the department of effects animation because of the amount of smoke, water, fire, etc that needed detailed animation in addition to the character animation
The water in the film still looks as good as I've seen any water animation look.
Indeed it does! Man, I don't want to give money to Disney but at the same time I kind of want to own these old movies and mom got rid of the old VHS tapes like 20 years ago
But now we have soulless CGI movies about round brown lesbians asserting their independence over the patriarchy, so we’re clearly living in the best era of animation.
Sadly, 2d animation is becoming a lost art. It's dying in Japan as well. They rely on 3d too much to save time animating complex objects or movements, on top of certain big studios pushing full 3d animation over 2d, and the old generation of animators did a poor job passing their skills and knowledge to the new generation.
There just isn't enough money to throw around for 2d passion projects, it's not a dying craft, it's a dying market.
The castle in Cinderella is kino as frick
Frick off zoomer
tension already built from their relationship in the animal world. great shit.
>Great Owl has the same glowing eyes and mustache as Nicodemus
Meant to suggest they're linked spiritually or both serve as some aspect of an otherworldly presence, it's not meant to be a concrete thing but merely a suggestion for the viewer to ponder
my wife
shes pretty cute for a mouse and the voice actress did very well
I'm afraid she is built for BRC
You're dead, Jonathan. Not so smart now are you? You dead mouse.
Brisby's design is always something I point out about how simple character design can tell you a lot about the character.
The Cape she wears could well be from Jonathan and is torn and worn out. She could fix it but focuses on keeping her children well cared for. Her kids have clean and pretty clothes. Brisby works hard fer her offspring. She sacrifices everything to keep them cared for. A really great role model for young women and future mothers.
Bluth is a full on Christian btw and it shows most with this film and Land before time.
I have my tastes but I could kill for a human Mrs. Brisby wife. Seriously underrated female protagonist.
movie name?
The Secret of NIMH
The most traumatizing part of this movie is actually being able to empathize with Wil Wheaton in a role.
John Pomeroy is an animation legend.
>"Put the troony in the Boo Box!"
Yikes, erm, the 90s sucked.
>boop!
When John Lithgow had to be mean and hit Bigfoot and he sadly had to flee back into the woods for his own good.
seriously?
Imagine living like that.
I’ve quoted this line too many times while putting on music in the car
At one point just about every other bar in my home town had a rock/metal dive bar theme. We used to paraphrase that line as a joke while out drinking and yet another Metallica song came up on the jukebox:
>Oh, we got both kinds, heavy AND metal!
I don't get it.
Feels like shes politely saying youre gonna listen to country music and like it.
Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS-zEH8YmiM
Heh okay that's funny. I like southern american accent and personality type, specially if it's a homely lady like the wife from No Country for Old Men
Remember crying my eyes out and begging my parents to turn it off
what the frick were they thinking? I remember being a kid and I wasnt scared of that scene, but I definitely thought ‘I dont want to fricking see that again wtf’
Imagine if they actually had made the computer Brainiac like they wanted. He’d still be Superman’s most iconic villain to this day.
yeah I was definitely scared of this and didn't receive a life ruining fetish
What fetish is that?
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
This shit right here fricked me up. You don't even expect it. Its not even a jump scare. Its just the realization. Your mind takes a second to figure it out and then you have the same reaction the dad has. The whole movie is filled with scenes like that. A character turns and you notice something. It does a really good job of letting you scare yourself instead of the movie jumping at you
what movie is this? i'm just seeing a barn roof.
Signs
oh frick, instantly I see it. interesting how that works.
for me it was the birthday party
Signs has some great scenes but the aliens being defeated by water is some moronic bullshit
>Aliens
Goddidit.
fricking frick
neighbour's house looked just like that
scared me senseless despite being like 14
what movie is this
Signs
Never quite got why people were scared of this scene. The roof and cornfield scene is much scarier to me.
Neither did I. Friend explained to me for him it was the overall anticipation and buildup. That they'd be that bold to just walk around in broad daylight like that
it's the subconscious realization that it's been tehre watching you and that you can already see it before you actually see it. watching it again, you can clearly notice it. like, you should've seen it. we aren't adapted to being hunted like that and not recognizing it. it's something deeply primal I think that I can't quite find the words for.
I don't know, I just didn't get it, it didn't stick with me or anything. The very idea of the rooftop scene scared me but the birthday one, not as much. There's something very un-abstract about an inhuman figure watching through your bedroom window, unintentional disconnection through abstraction being something Shyamalan often falls face first into due to his weird autistic need to explain everything flatly and remove the fantastical element (little ironic that removing fantasy makes it less real), but that one doesn't need much of a push to imagine yourself.
I remember seeing the trailer for the movie when I was around 7 and having vivid, horrific nightmares of being stalked in a huge cornfield. I was never that scared of the movie itself once it came out but the trailer fricked me up big time with just the atmosphere.
>emotional_damage.webm
Saw this when I was 6. I can't be in a pool alone
only scene ITT that is actually scary.
Watching this at a beach house and expected to go swim the next day.
No.
Saw it at the age of 8 and became a marine biologist.
As luck would have it, I've witnessed a fatal shark attack. It wasn't cinematic.
c’mon m8 give us a qrd
West Australia, July 2012, surfing at a spot north of Perth.
Great white tore one of the other surfers in half and then came back for torso when one of the guys took his jetski out to recover it.
Shark swam last the majority of the guys in the water and singled that poor bastard out. We'd had a really bad run of shark attacks those few years, quite a few fatalities where I live and surf, but it was just a statistical anomaly.
Anyway, didn't impact on my willingness to go in the water but I've since retired as a marine biologist. Pay is shit.
TLDR; saw fellow surfer bitten in half.
News link for the autist fact checkers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-15/fatal-attack-ignites-shark-protection-debate/4131328
>retired as a marine biologist. Pay is shit.
i remember growing up and being asked what we wanted to do as a job and like every second kid said marine biologist. no idea why
the 90s had a very big focus on "saving the wales", also free willy and discovery channel had tons of aquatic docs
It you’re anywhere near my age, the answer is Free Willy. It is ludicrous how omnipresent that movie was in pop culture at the time.
Did you see the shark tear the surfer in half with your own eyes?
Lemme guess, it was just a big bite and a slow bleedout?
See
Nope, torn in half then the shark came back to eat the rest. Body was a total loss.
Very rare.
I don't care what anyone says, this anon IS a marine biologist
>became a marine biologist
Now now, just because I'm also a balding manlet doesn't mean I didn't have a career as a marine biologist
This and Quint’s death still frick me up, poor guy survived the worst shark attack incident in history only to have a long and agonizing death at the hands of one of the biggest sharks ever.
He deserved it.
He destroyed their radio and over worked the engine because of his stupid pride. He got himself entirely into that situation.
It was inevitable because he hadn't faced his fears in a good way and Jaws is a study in fear. He instead let it turn to hate and obsession with revenge, spending his life hunting sharks in anger to try and conquer his fear. If it wasn't for that shark he would have ended up getting an arm bitten off by smaller one or simply ended up drowning because he drove his boat too hard in his quest for revenge.
Quint chose anger and alcohol to deal with his fear.
The Mayor chose to ignore his fear in the hopes it would simply go away.
Brody at first deals with his fears by running away (from his city job where he thought he'd get shot) and ignoring it (not looking at the water when on the ferry, thinking of the island as not being surrounded by water) but by the end he's completely faced it by going on the boat and getting close to the water. He finally conquers it AND the shark when he's seconds away from being immersed in the water.
Oh n-
The worst part of this is they didn't kill him. Instead he was taken back to their village and made to marry the chief's daughter.
Hot.
Hahaha, oh no!
Dune Part 5 is looking good
this fricking scene https://youtu.be/9JQRMnxE6No?t=52
>bark-bark-bark-bark-bark-bark
Anons always pretend they don't think this was spooky but they're lying
fricking forget Chucky, slappy still haunts me till this day. Goosebumps was great as well, some of them still bothered me on a psychological level.
This was my recuring nightmare as a kid, watched this movie when it came out, traumatized me for years.
We live in the midwest, there's not even mountains, let forget about volcanoes, and i'm still afraid of lava.
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It's unfortunate that it did, because this is gonna seem like I'm shitting on you but I'm merely being truthful, I saw this as a youngster and laughed my ass off because he died like the Wicked Witch of the West. Dante's Peak on the other hand was scary as hell. But Volcano was just a bit too moronic and cartoony even for kid me to be scary.
oh I realize dante's peak is the better of the two. Volcanoes is clearly the stupid summer blockbuster that didn't give a flying frick about science, and just wanted explosions. it's like "Armageddon" vs. "Deep Impact"
ones just a Michael bay explosion slop fest that doesn't give a frick about science at all, the other at least pretends to read a science book.
But I don't have volcanoes mountains or earthquakes here, so the novelty is easily scary. I get tornadoes dropping out of the sky all summer long though, and they are statistically more dangerous, but they don't melt people, and that's what i'm concerned about, melting.
Well I don't either, it's the mildest climate possible, but just from depictions alone, the couple being scalded to death by the hot spring venting, or the grandma dying from burns from the acidic river were much scarier than the wacky vertical melting death in Volcano, the former seemed real and gruesome but the lava death was so silly in how it was played, if he'd burned to death or something it might have been disturbing but him just melting downward like a sped up candle was hilarious.
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Devils advocate. Heres the scene: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5HFx1VA9F8&pp=ygUWZGV2aWxzIGFkdm9jYXRlIG1pcnJvcg%3D%3D
>meth blow job
seen worse
Since we're talking Don Bluth, what the hell happened with him? He made four pieces of kino with Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go to Heaven.
Then he made four films that ranged between crap and eh, with Rock-A-Doodle, Thumbelina, A Troll in Central Park and The Pebble and the Penguin.
Then he made a comeback to amazing shit with Anastasia and the very, very underrated Titan A.E. (I haven't seen Bartok the Magnificent and can't comment on it)
What happened to him in the middle of his career and how is it that his last movies were so different from what he tried before?
While I don't know a great deal about specifics, I believe he ran into far more studio interference in his 90s films (and his 80s films were not free of this; Land Before Time and All Dogs got edited down for darker scenes), and he was up against a resurgent dominant Disney putting out the most successful animated films in history, not the meek downturned Disney of the early 80s, so the budgets and talents weren't quite there anymore, they were at Disney. He's also older than he seems, he was well in his 40s when he moved from animator to director for NIMH, so probably wasn't such a big decision to hang it up after Titan AE was (sadly) unsuccessful, they can't all be Miyazaki, unable to retire despite constantly flirting with it.
At the same time, his success with NIMH, American Tail, Land Before Time and All Dogs I would say laid a great deal of foundation for the Disney Renaissance to explode so the increasingly lackluster, toothless and unambitious 70s-80s output from Disney that had caused him to quit working for them did get turned around by him indirectly.
>Titan A.E.
I vividly remember this movie having a big emotional impact on me as a kid. It was an era where I think animation was starting to be seen as the kid only thing (although maybe it was always the case) however I remember the film having... such a special atmosphere for a "children's" cartoon.
Humanity gets nearly wiped out and our main character is all by his lonesome on a mission to restore his planet. As an older man I know now that some of humanity survived but idk why, as a kid I misremembered and thought it was only him and the girl, thus giving it a much darker edge of a fool's errand in my mind.
But back to the film itself, everyone I know who's watched it was absolutely blown away by it and remembers it vividly as this peculiar film which doesn't really have anything similar to it. A shame the guy behind it stopped making films, he sounded like a kino-machine honestly
Don Bluth absolutely was a kino machine. Surely you've seen some of his other work.
Oh yeah, vast majority. Like we talked about earlier in the thread there's that rough streak after All Dogs but pretty much everything else, including side projects, rules
They censored the full scene because kids were too scared in the preview screening. Now the cut footage is considered lost media and people have a bounty on it.
That sequence in the ice asteroid field was amazing and a good example of blending traditional and CG animation the right way.
>Then he made a comeback
Anastasia barely made over its cost and Fox was in such a state that a single failure would cost them all.
Titan A.E. was a failure entirely and barely made half of its cost to make.
Bluth was always an arthouse guy, his works were passion projects and always were.
You're forgetting him working on Dragon's Lair and various other small periods.
The answer you need to hear, but probably don't want to hear.
Bluth's life was suffering, he made people a lot of money, but on sequels and such. He was always kicked out for the cheaper animator options.
That kind of shit takes a toll on you.
I wasn't implying Anastasia or Titan A.E. were financially successful, I have zero interest in that aspect, only in the enjoyment I derived from watching them.
>ask about Bluth
>ignore Bluth's failures
Anon, it's time for bed. go to sleep
You either lack reading comprehension or are just trying to argue for its own sake. All I was talking about whether the movies were good or not, hence why I spoke of the four movies he made between All Dogs and Anastasia being bad.
I am not a israeli executive, I don't care about how much money these movies made.
While some of his projects were unsuccessful financially, that doesn't mean they're without merit. The fact that most of his works are now considered to be highly notable entries in the bronze or renaissance eras of animation shows how highly he is thought of. Even his side-projects like the Dragon's Lair game or the Mary music video are noteworthy and things people remember fondly.
Do you not understand what passion project is?
I don't need you talking to me about things I already know about dude, that's you being autistic.
Why do you insist on telling people "this didn't make money" when nobody else gives a flying frick about it?
The post in reference specifically says "made a comeback" Bluth never made a comeback.
Objectively his last movies were unsuccessful or not at projected success.
I am correcting you, you are autistically screeching that money doesn't matter.
It matters in the sense that no one wanted to work with Bluth after this point and he literally has to crowd source for anything now days.
I imagine he meant he made a comeback in quality as Anastasia and Titan AE, while far from his best, were much better than the likes of Troll in Central Park
Cope harder samegayging autist. Can't handle the truth? Those movies FLOPPED.
Are you moronic? We're talking about quality.
And for the record since you're throwing it at everyone
>Don Bluth makes 4 good movies
>Dob Bluth makes 4 bad movies
>Don Bluth goes back to making 2 good movies
Hence, comeback.
they objectively did not do good.
he is being contrarian for the sake of it.
they were commercial failures.
I even went as far to defend Bluth by saying this was how it always was, because Bluth was a passion project individual. he believed in the art.
Now here we are with that homosexual autistically screeching.
mate, that guy isn't talking about financial success at all, only whether the movies were good. you are literally agreeing with one another. stop arguing for the sake of arguing. this whole conversation is pointless.
Pathetic samegayging autist
You're the autistic one and the only person causing problems in the thread. Just shut up you fricking loser. Although if you're goal was to miss random people off with your abject moronation fricking congrats man
>baby's first inspect element
At least you spaced it out this time lol
I never said they did good, I said they were good. I'm not interested in the money, I'm interested in the quality. Bluth went from 4 great films to 4 bad films to 2 good films and this is what I was talking about. You are the only one talking about their box office.
Other people have clearly understood my meaning but you seem incapable of doing so, even after I have explained it to you several times. Perhaps you were the autist all along?
You come across as being a complete c**t.
Don't forget Dragon's Lair anon.
how the frick could you
I'm not old enough to have played any arcade cabinets
Dragon's Lair wasn't in a cabinet persay. It was also more expensive than normal games. usually when a dude paid up to play the game, the people in the arcade not currently playing or queued up, would watch.
that's cool. i miss going to aladdin's castle in the mall when i was a kid. I have visited portland, OR several times the last few years and always make a point to visit Ground Kontrol. There's a sick Rambo 3 game there that I'm decent at and one time a group of kids gathered around to watch me just merc these dudes. Then I had to leave so I gave their mom my game card which still had a solid amount of money on it. The kids were so excited and then the mom was just like "You're not playing that" lol
Dont forget Space Ace as well. Bluth voiced the villain himself
Indeed
My local arcade has this and I suck so bad at it, yet I still try every time.
The second game has slightly better checkpoints and directions though.
saturn sigil
I liked Rock-A-Doodle
And I like Pebble and the Penguin, it made Antarctica look interesting
Yea, it's got some cool moments. It's not GREAT but it has some gold.
I remember loving the intro song but always being annoyed as frick that they start talking over the music.
>Since we're talking Don Bluth, what the hell happened with him?
Jews, you can only stay out of their way for so long.
Finally I have a brother in this, it never comes up in these conversations but it got me good
Booooo
What the frick was the point of this scene?? Jesus Christ
>not this scene
To show that the flower was lonely. It kind of galvanizes the toaster to realize his friends need him and they're alone without each other. Supposedly that's what one of the animators once said
To show/remind Toaster of the impact of loneliness.
The Phantom was such an underrated flick. Shame Billy Zane didn’t have more projects under his belt in his younger years, he is a truly entertaining actor.
This fricking scene had me double checking every time I used a microscope when I finally got to a grade that had them in the science curriculum. The habit persisted till the end of HS.
and frick you for making me look her up
Ah, my most trusted advisor, Wormtongue.
I loved that scene as a kid.
>The butcher devil thing picking prisoners from jail to cook them
that however was traumatizing to me. Can't find a pic
Learning about the backstory of that one gnome who dressed in armor and sided with Darkness was fascinating. He wore armor to pretend to be a goblin and kept getting made an object lesson of by having his parts turned into pig parts before getting dropped into the kitchen after her finally has too much and snaps. All of this is cut and you can easily miss that the armored goblin who screams Geronimo is the same little guy who says “We is all barbecue.” It’s astounding Legend works at all.
Someone turned off the holodeck's safety settings.
>tRaUmaTiZeD
bunch of pussies, all of you
The murder scene in Heavenly Creatures. Not only was I way too young to be watching that film, I didn't know what it was about so I had no idea there was such a violent scene coming.
I didn't watch that until I was 18 or so but I distinctly remember being fairly shocked by that sequence, despite being a big fan of horror and gore films including Jackson's earlier work. I think it was because the rest of the film up to this point feels so whimsical and wholesome, it was really efffectively jarring
There's also none of Jackson's usual campy approach to violence, even in LOTR there's a pulpy sense to plenty of the violence even if it's less silly than Braindead or Frighteners, but in Heavenly Creatures it's just savage.
That's true as well, I remember being surprised by how frank and muted but still horrific the violence is. I had just marathoned Bad Taste, Braindead, and Meet the Feebles the previous day. Also while we're on the subject, this is an unpopular opinion but I did not care for Frighteners very much. It's not awful but it just didn't do it for me
Frighteners is interesting but I think it was the start of Jackson's Lucas-esque fascination with computer effects and what they could potentially do, which turned out to be much less than they believed was possible. LOTR was balanced with practicals and most of the CG usage remained fairly grounded but The Hobbit went full moron with CG just like the PT.
There's lots of CG ghost sequences in Frighteners, travelling through walls and whatnot which I imagine was super impressive to Jackson at that time, I saw it when it was new but you know I was like six so any film looks real then. They look a little more conspicuous in hindsight.
I generally agree with you but I would argue the CG reliance began in Heavenly Creatures. Granted it's meant to be fake so it's less of a flaw or even really noticeable, since the main draw of that film is by far the story and performances. But yeah Frighteners is solid when it's not a CG set piece, then crumbles when it makes that switch. Some scenes reminded me of the bad CGI in the remake of The Haunting with owen wilson (although obviously that came out several years later, but it's the first concrete example I have in my head of not believing something onscreen when I was a kid). LOTR holds up mostly because, well it had a bigger budget and they worked harder, but it's also easier to let flaws slide if the film as a whole is great. I think King Kong is where Jackson's CGI use peaked, although I recognize some others don't like the movie and certain sequences (raptors/brontos especially) aren't exactly perfect.
>Some scenes reminded me of the bad CGI in the remake of The Haunting with owen wilson
*spits*
Is it actually good? Haven't seen it in years
Just shut up you moron
No. That spit was for the film.
The original The Haunting is one of my favorite films. The remake is one of the few films I give a genuine 0/10 to.
Oh okay, I couldn't tell if that was spitting at me or the movie lol. Yes the original is fantastic, also without it we would've never had The Evil Dead
Random moments of more gruesome violence popping in can be more jarring like that. Like Indiana Jones generally has a campier pulpy approach to violence, in Raiders for instance, the guy being run over by the troll comically with flailing limbs, or the giant bruiser kid by a propeller getting the "big blood spray" treatment, or even the fantastical gory demises in the climax which were scary to kids but you know, they're magical. Last time I saw Raiders however, in the middle of the brawl in Marion's tavern, a gun goes off and the bullet ricochets to hit one of the bad guys in the head, and he just gets a bloody squib burst and blood trickling down before he drops. I remember thinking huh, that was surprisingly violent. You don't normally see on-screen bullet wounds in that sort of film, a puff of smoke and the actor falling over usually does it.
Not that Raiders of the Lost Ark is similar to Heavenly Creatures.
The death scenes in Mystery Men must've fricked me up so much I erased them from my mind and when I was reminded about them I had flashbacks. I hated that shit.
When I was a kid it was the scene in the fly where she births the maggot. It freaked me out so bad as a kid even though I'm male.
Finally saw it again years later and it's not even that bad. But dude when I was that young holy shit.
this still goes hard
This one and the brutal death of the black rabbit
pet cemetery dirtbike scene fricked me up.
What am I looking at here, chief?
Destiny
that's a big scene
movie pls?
plane crasher
This scene gave me an irrational phobia of movies
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Haa haa haa haa haa haa
What the frick were they thinking?
>Strolling through this scene thinking I don't remember anything being traumatizing from my early childhood, only the teenage years
>See this fricking shit
That shit and a bit in the Noddy's Toyland Adventures back in the 90s which I forgot about but genuinely gave me nightmares was terrifying.
As a twelve or something years old though it was picrel. The incest sex scene (most horrifying scene for me honestly), his kids getting killed, basically everything related to Satan. Just genuine trauma for me as a kid.
It's probably seen as a silly Arnie vehicle, but for me it was genuine nightmare fuel and I'm not even religious.
For me I coomed at the part where the satan guy fricked two girls into one
Modern me would probably coom too. Younger me was a much better less tainted person
That wasn't just two girls, it was a mother and her daughter. A scripture thing I believe.
>Noddy's Toyland Adventures
Oh frick I remember this now
I remember EoD being a quite dark and edgy movie.
I remember the bit where the guys face shatters
kind of just this whole movie but this scene in particular
movie is mad god
This film will be forgotten in time instead of being looked back upon as a masterpiece of stop motion animation and a towering achievement. This saddens me to no end; I loved this movie. As bleak as it is gorgeous. If the phrase "no compromises" was a film, it would be this
This entire movie from start to finish. What the frick man
Richard Adams was a pretty hardcore writer. I've only read three books of his and they're all bleak as shit.
i watched this like end of last year fricking hell and i'm a dog lover and the dog i got for my 14th birthday was a jack russel, who is now passed so yeah the ending killed me
i think i watched watership down as a kid but i have no memory of it, like i think it did the kinda trauma to me that your brain just represses the memory of it, all i know is that it was bad
after watching plague dogs i've been meaning to watch watership down again but at the same time i don't wanna watch it
i've also been meaning to watch "When the Wind Blows" but i started it and the elderly couple remind me of my grand parents.
this shit gave me nightmares for a decade straight
My father rented this when I was a very little child. Kind of a dick move.
I saw this in the cinema and it inadvertantly helped me solve a local crime.
storytime anon
>woman i vaguely know vanishes without a trace in the space of three minutes in august of 1992 about a block from my apartment after her friends hear her car pull into the parking lot
>next day's paper includes the one vital clue in the form of a crime scene photo: a drink cup precariously perched on the edge of the roof of her car (pic related)
>go see the film a few months later when it opens
>guy across the aisle has his drink cup resting on the arm of his chair and his GF curled up in his lap
>scene where the dude is in the spaceship mortuary and crashes into the woman skeleton with blonde hair
>other guy hollers from back of cinema
>"It's Laurie Depies!"
>everyone laughs
>first guy's GF asks
>"Who's Laurie Depies?"
>guy says
>"Frickin' moron, everyone knows who she is."
>as he shifts in his chair slightly on knocks his drink cup off the armrest
It then occurred to me she was abducted and knew her attacker. Considering the confined space between the vehicles and the position of the cup, it's unlikely there was a struggle, especially noting that her friends heard her car engine but no screaming or other signs of a fight. It seems the most likely scenario is someone who knew her lured her away from the side of her car somehow, as it's hard to conceive of how a stranger could've done so.
I called the tipline to suggest this and the cops actually came to interview me. They didn't say much but the 20th anniversary news article about the crime essentially confirmed my theory. About two months after the crime, the cops came upon a sketch of her likely murder by the offender who for whatever reason drew two such sketches at a party, and the guy was a coworker. From that they extrapolated he probably followed her from work, baited her into his car, then offed her, explaining why the cup was undisturbed.
They were buried in tips and came upon all this info too late, to say nothing of failing to read the crime scene right, so the guy got away with it.
Damn man, I asked you that cause I thought you had a hero story to tell. Instead I googled info about it and now I'm in tears. I guess I'm glad you didn't know her well but that feels weird to say. Sorry you have had to live with basically having solved it but nothing has been done. Sidenote wisconsin in the 90s looks really comfy despite the grim context of the photo
Yeah, life is a drag sometimes. But you're right, Wisco was cozy then.
Sorry again man. I know somebody who got away with 2nd degree murder charges cause they couldn't determine a cause of death. Like he ALLEGEDLY r'd and (brutally) m'd this person but then a strangely large amount of a certain substance was found in their stomach. So 5 years later he gets arrested multi million bond, 2ish years in and declared not guilty cause they couldn't prove how they died. I feel bad I know this person, but luckily I haven't seen him since he got out ( not that I'd do or say anything, just uncomfy and a little scary. cause i def told people about it when he was locked up so if he gets wind of me talking shit idk man)
Anon I'm not gonna dog you cause you seem to have a really good heart, but also you talk like you have a twitter account and are trying to avoid a shadowban rn and I'm curious if I'm right
no I don't have a twitter account but yeah I'm trying to avoid being too direct with what I'm saying in case the literal murderer drug dealer I used to know or his cronies would see that. also while he was in the klink his girlfriend was all over me so i don't want that getting out either...
I'm coming for you Dave.
FRICK
And here I was gonna call you oomfie anon :(( but yeah you take care please
Shizo
FRICK
Moffat wishes he could write deduction skills this good. Sorry about the crime friend.
More like
>anon kills a girl and successfully frames someone else
based Sherlock anon
I’ve always heard this is genuinely unsettling
only like 5 minutes of it but the movie doesn't suck
Admittedly a lot of the film is about paranoia and doubt, but the one scary scene in the film is so fricking scary it will haunt you forever
Is it that abduction with the guy, where it’s almost like some bdsm shit? Or is that a different movie?
That's the one. It's an unusually grimy and gruesome abduction scene
Oh yeah I think I saw that when I was young on early yt. Yeah def a little unsettling. Something very unnerving about a man screaming in pure terror. Then at the end with the needle slowly lowering. Being bound a tortured is horrific especially when it’s by something hard to understand. And the fact the movie is based on a true experience makes it more scary.
Robocop. You know the scene.
THE TOXIC AVENGER
bro frick this scene, absolutely awful when you are a little kid, i swear the first time i watched it i couldnt think about anything else except that guy in the box for like 15 minutes after
Well i was left home alone when i was 6 or 7 and i ended up bench watching all of the spooky scary movies. Like The Thing, Elm Street, Alien etc etc.
Yes, yes. We all did. You're the unfun one who doesn't get the theme and has to be the "I was never scared" guy. You're not interesting. What's interesting is joining the conversation and sharing spooky scenes from movies.
Where the frick did i tell "i wasn't scared"? Dude i pissed myself and was scared to leave coach because i thought something would bite me from under it.
Calm down you autist. I just corrected you. You misunderstood what this thread was about. It isn't about how tough you personally are, it's about what we thought was scary when we were kids.
>It isn't about how tough you personally are
WHERE THE FRICK YOU GETTING THIS FROM? are you autist?
I'm assuming it's the same weirdo from earlier trying to create arguments out of thin air.
Why so many forced arguments in this thread?
Oh yeah
No idea what you talking about i just came and told my experience when i was a child. But that autist start to make assumptions from thin air.
It's a repeat of the whole "Don Bluth made bad movies then good movies" "No Don Bluth movies didn't make any money you autist" argument from before
the finale of "The Curse" basically adapted one of my most frequently reoccurring nightmares
Imagine being in a movie theater in 1937 and seeing this witch transform on screen
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200 replies, no Large Marge
Son I'm disappoint
Yea I was scrolling to see this.
Another one from the 90s was the puppets from Tales from the Hood.
I too strongly believe that every thread should just have the exact same response that's been given 100000 times and then autosage
>E6 ∙ Bastogne
I got very upset when Littlefoot's mom dies in The Land Before Time, but despite that I insisted on watching it nearly once a day between the age of 2 and entering pre-school. I haven't rewatched it as an adult but I;m sure it would still affect me quite a bit, especially given that I have lost my own mother recently. It's funny though, I don't really remember those early viewings and my most concrete memories of the series are the sequels which of course became less serious and sad, so growing up watching those as they released I think I pushed the tragedy of the original into my subconscious. I might give it another go soon because it may end up helping me with my own emotions regarding my mom. I do tend to get upset in other movies or manga or anything when a character's mother passes away (obvi moreso in light of my mom kicking it) but maybe returning to such an early memory will be helpful. Idk, that sounds gay I guess
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Mr. Hyde.
And now I remembered this
nobody posted the mark twain satan stop motion thing yet.
Also I have a childhood memory of horror I could use some help with. Used to rent a lot of the same stuff at blockbuster all the time. One of the weekly ones was rikki-tikki-tavi which I would say falls into this thread cause I was terrified of those snakes when I was a kid. One of the other ones though was this almost reading rainbow like show where we had a live action human female host (kinda looked like the teacher from magic schoolbus) and I feel like it went over books (that part could be wrong). But it was set in an animated fantasy hellscape, with monsters and flames and all sorts of wild shit. Does anybody know what I'm referring to? This was back in late 90s
I think many of us did not discover that until we were adults.
Quicksand scenes in general fricked me up.
What's the one to the right of the shoe?
Think that's the ET scene where they put the kid away for being in contact with ET
E.T dying
E.T.
A little indie film called ET, pretty obscure honeslty
I watched Robocop when I was 10 and that was far worse. Also the nazi face melting in Indiana Jones even though that was just a PG. None of the stuff in that image bothered me.
What's middle?
Top: E.T
Bottom: Transformers The Movie
This guy and the rapid-aging scene in The Last Crusade.
This scene gave me a fart and scat fetish at the age of 8.
Thanks for letting me watch this when I was 8 Dad
OH BLIMEY A LI'L FINGY'S COMIN OUT ME CHEST AAAAHHHHHHHHH
grow up homosexual
HELLO MY BABY
HELLO MY HONEY
HELLO MY RAGTIME GAL
When Sam talks to Eve.
The aliens in Mars Attacks freaked me the frick out as a kid.
The skeleton faces with popped out eyes and visible brains.
And they're so overtly evil. They're not attacking just to conquer earth. They take delight in tormenting humanity. Doing fricked up experiments and making sport out of killing people. It's all just a game to them. And humanity is so powerless to stop them.
ACK ACK ACK
One of the strongest fear reactions I had to a movie as kid was The Mothman Prophecies. I saw it at the drive-in in my hometown in West Virginia, and was already aware of Mothman as a local cryptid. It was a doube feature with Spider-man 1 I believe, and they showed Mothman first. It was so unsettling to me I spent nearly the whole time hiding under a blanket. I've never done that for any other film, and upon a recent rewatch a couple years ago it's not even that scary. But 6 year old me watching it outside in the woods, frickin a, terrifying
Spiderman would simply eat Mothman
It's not too scary but there's a great sense of dread in the film. I saw it last year for the first time and was impressed by the atmosphere.
Kino movie
I hate when theaters frick up double features like that
Lmao
I think it was mainly being it WV based that made me scared back then
Any movie where the world ends because of some inevitable catastrophe, as a kid it really put into perspective how insignificant and weak we truly are as a species.
The mud monster thing from Brother's Grimm absolutely fricked me up as a kid
Brother's Grimm was top to bottom a movie designed to lure in and traumatize children
I'm amazed Gilliam doesn't have a reputation for being an edgier Tim Burton, my personal confession to the thread is the absolute gut punch of an ending this one has
anon you DO know who brothers grimm actually are?
You wouldn't be surprised in the least
The primary lens of pop culture is Walt Disney softening a hundred different originally psychotic European fables
I love Gilliam. 12 Monkeys is one of my most rewatched films, watched it for the first time with my dad and older brother when I was at most 5 or 6
>Terry Gilliam is responsible for the OG basedjacker
Gilliambros...
Shut the frick up.
Your family won't miss you
I don't think I was traumatized because who tf gets traumatized by a movie? but this scene made me squirm as a kid who liked horror movies like Friday the 13th part 6 and the Thing ('82).
This one got me too, it catches you off guard because the movie is so silly otherwise
One of the scariest short stories I read was
>baby born
>in phillipines
Johnny 5 getting murdered in short circuit 2. I haven't watched it in over 20 years and I'm not going to now.
I remember also being scared shitless when my dad showed me Aliens at 5 at the scene of Newt trying to sleep in the red lit room with the facehugger crawling around.
The aftermath was awesome though
Same, it fricks him up so bad I can't stand it. I always found him a bit freaky looking anyway as a kid
Why the FRICK did they think it was okay to have E.T. wake up again when he was in a bodybag? The whole sequence when they're operating on him is so clinical and intense. That scene gave me nightmares for a year and a lifelong fear of ayys.
The yellow zombie and this thing from the start of Return of The Living Dead. I caught it on tv when I was like... 5? Maybe 4? I had nightmares about completely unkillable yellow creatures for a decade or something. I remember my older sister walked in and said "I don't think you should be watching this" and changed the channel, which I'm grateful for. I don't think I'd been able to handle the other zombies.
In contrast I watched Jaws maybe a year or two later at a buddy's house and I just fricking loved it. Never gave me any fear of the ocean or anything like that and now I rewatch it for the comfy summer beach town vibes.
As a kid I was always scared of Freddy Kruger but thought Jason Voorhees was just cool
I guess plenty of people felt this way since they ran with that premise in the end