How some movies get better

Post by **PixarVixen** » May 13th, 2006, 3:17 pm

Isn't it funny how you'll watch a movie and think, Eh, it was all right. Then somehow you end up watching it again and again, and you change your mind about it.

I saw Treasure Planet today on the Disney Channel. I thought to myself, Hey, this is so much better than I remember it being. Why did I think this movie wasn't all that great?

I also felt this way after watching Tarzan a few more times.

Anyone ever feel the same way about a movie?

~~=oP

Post by **ShyViolet** » May 13th, 2006, 4:31 pm

Isn't it funny how you'll watch a movie and think, Eh, it was all right. Then somehow you end up watching it again and again, and you change your mind about it.

I sort of feel that way about Monsters, Inc. The first time I saw it I found it entertaining but kind of mediocre. It was a little too "cartoony" for me.

I have it on DVD now and I really love it. It's funny and touching. The end always gets to me.

Post by **Ben** » May 13th, 2006, 5:43 pm

Not animation, but the first Mission: Impossible did that to me.

I HATED it the first time, but went back to see it again and to simply work out why it didn't "work".

Still wasn't a big fan (the M:I movies are basically NOT what Mission: Impossible was about) but it grew on me.

The second I just don't think there's ANY hope for, but I am tempted to go and see the third one again after a crew screening a couple of weeks back. Although I didn't thing it much of an improvement, there are certain things that have stuck with me, so I'll certainly check it out again sometime in the future.

Guess I want my M:I movies to be so much more than they are...

Post by **Macaluso** » May 13th, 2006, 8:50 pm

Treasure Planet rocked and not enough people saw it

Home on the Range was OKAY when I saw it the first time. Then later I rented it and watched it again and LOVED it.

Post by **Meg** » May 13th, 2006, 9:42 pm

I saw Treasure Planet on Disney Chanel to, PV...I actually enjoyed it the first time I saw it (more than Lilo and Stitch, in fact), but after watching it again, I felt it kind of dragged, and it just didn't feel like a Disney movie.

Ben, I saw MI:3 today...The best part was watching Phillip Seymour Hoffman getting the crud beat out of him. He's a big local hero because he grew up and went to school in my town, and everyone is just coo-koo over him. He visited our high school a month or two ago and agreed to make a cameo in some senior's student film. It's too bad that the ninth graders are in a different building than everyone else…I would have liked to see him.

Post by **PixarVixen** » May 13th, 2006, 9:49 pm

Meg wrote:I saw Treasure Planet on Disney Chanel to, PV...I actually enjoyed it the first time I saw it (more than Lilo and Stitch, in fact), but after watching it again, I felt it kind of dragged, and it just didn't feel like a Disney movie.

Heh. The only Disney movie I've seen that didn't seem so Disney to me was Atlantis. It was like the first of their films that didn't have any cute little characters or good songs. Don't get me wrong. The animation was spectacular, but the story and everything else wasn't so intriguing to me. Atlantis is like the only serious Disney animated movie IMO, and I mean serious as in not for kids.

~~=oP

Post by **Meg** » May 13th, 2006, 9:54 pm

Antlantis was a bit confusing, yeah...I don't think it was *that* bad, though.

I think the worst is probably Home on the Range.

Post by **animated_guy** » May 13th, 2006, 9:55 pm

Wow. i saw treasure planet on tv yesterday too! i have to say i loved it. the animation was priceless and the plot was very good. i loved the charecter devalazation also. treasure planet was such a good movie. i loved it. i really wish now that i had gone to go see it in theaters. It would have been so good. it didnt really captivate me to go see it the first time but now i really wish i could have.
~a-G

Post by **PixarVixen** » May 13th, 2006, 10:00 pm

Meg wrote:Antlantis was a bit confusing, yeah...I don't think it was *that* bad, though.

I think the worst is probably Home on the Range.

Ahh. I forgot that one. *shudders*

And I never said Atlantis was bad. Just not great. Actually, I'd much rather watch Home On The Range over Atlantis.

Funny story. Back when Shrek came out in theaters, I went to see it with mom, and we accidentally went into Atlantis. We were like, Aww, man! ><

animated_guy wrote:i loved the charecter devalazation also.

The what? LOL

~~=oP

Post by **Dacey** » May 13th, 2006, 10:26 pm

I actually liked "Home on the Range". Then again, I didn't have the highest expectations for it. But I liked it when I first saw it and it grew on me even more with repeated viewings.

And yes, I like "Atlantis". I'm totally weird that way.

Post by **PixarVixen** » May 13th, 2006, 10:41 pm

That's not so weird. I could out-weird you easily. Hahaha.

~~=oP

Post by **Brandon Neeld** » May 14th, 2006, 12:20 am

I give HotR a so-so but I'm a country boy. On its plus side though "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again" is among my favorite Disney songs.

Post by **Ben** » May 14th, 2006, 9:59 am

Atlantis, as I'm sure you know, went through a LOT of story problems and had great monster sequences taken out of it left, right and center.

But, when you remember that it was an homage to the Verne-type stories that Walt did in live-action (20,000 Leagues, Castaways, etc) then it is very much a Disney picture...just not a "happy 1990s Disney animated" picture.

Post by **Meg** » May 14th, 2006, 3:38 pm

Didn't it have a lot of similaraties to some Japanese film?

Post by **Dacey** » May 14th, 2006, 4:45 pm

Hmmm. I seem to remember something like that...