Double posting, but I can't believe The Brave Little Toaster is going to be 30 years old this year. Wow. I've been listening to some of its songs today and I thought, "It came out in 1987... Thirty years ago! WHAT." I really enjoyed that movie, it was one of the first ones I had ever seen, but it was always a dark movie for me. Especially that scene with the flower that thinks it finally found a friend in the Toaster's reflection, but the Toaster leaves and the flower wilts and dies.
That was always ingrained in my memory. And the song, "Worthless" is still... something that cuts deep for me XD I find the whole movie a bit grim. I'm glad it got made because I doubt it would have been made nowadays. Disney didn't want to work on the movie so it gave it to a subsidiary with a tiny budget, but they made it work anyway. Many of the animators and story people went to Pixar afterwards too and helped create Toy Story. The Brave Little Toaster was actually the one John Lasseter pitched to Disney to make into a CG film, but they fired him literally minutes later for that and so The Brave Little Toaster was a traditionally animated film.
Richard hasn't seen Toy Story and I'm shocked. I'm going the Social Justice Warrior route and he'll need to go to Classic Animated Films Education Class and watch them repeatedly and learn all the popular quotes such as, "There's a snake in my boot!" XD
I saw Don Bluth's Anastasia (1997) a few weeks ago and loved it all over again. The art was amazing, I loved the real-world setting, the animation was extremely fluid, and I really, really liked Dimitri as a male character. He had so many emotions throughout the movie and I loved that.
I know Don Bluth had his mix of successes and failures, but I really wonder why he wasn't able to keep his successes up. Anastasia IMO was great, but Titan AE (which I haven't seen) flopped and the studio closed down.
Even before that though he had An American Tail, The Land Before Time, etc. ... I enjoyed all his films though even though I guess the consensus is that they all weren't amazing, haha.
back to writing about the death penalty, woohoo. XD
That was always ingrained in my memory. And the song, "Worthless" is still... something that cuts deep for me XD I find the whole movie a bit grim. I'm glad it got made because I doubt it would have been made nowadays. Disney didn't want to work on the movie so it gave it to a subsidiary with a tiny budget, but they made it work anyway. Many of the animators and story people went to Pixar afterwards too and helped create Toy Story. The Brave Little Toaster was actually the one John Lasseter pitched to Disney to make into a CG film, but they fired him literally minutes later for that and so The Brave Little Toaster was a traditionally animated film.
Richard hasn't seen Toy Story and I'm shocked. I'm going the Social Justice Warrior route and he'll need to go to Classic Animated Films Education Class and watch them repeatedly and learn all the popular quotes such as, "There's a snake in my boot!" XD
I saw Don Bluth's Anastasia (1997) a few weeks ago and loved it all over again. The art was amazing, I loved the real-world setting, the animation was extremely fluid, and I really, really liked Dimitri as a male character. He had so many emotions throughout the movie and I loved that.
I know Don Bluth had his mix of successes and failures, but I really wonder why he wasn't able to keep his successes up. Anastasia IMO was great, but Titan AE (which I haven't seen) flopped and the studio closed down.
Even before that though he had An American Tail, The Land Before Time, etc. ... I enjoyed all his films though even though I guess the consensus is that they all weren't amazing, haha.
back to writing about the death penalty, woohoo. XD
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