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Silver Screen / The Phantom Menace
« on: October 03, 2010, 03:42:13 PM »
No, just no.

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General Land Before Time / m01's rating of LBT sequels
« on: October 01, 2010, 09:21:20 AM »
Quote from: Nick22,Sep 30 2010 on  03:18 PM
The new friend was Ali, a female.. for my money 4 was the best of the easrly sequels.. not just because Ali was in it because because if its subject matter,,
Yeah, I know she is a female. I was talking in male gender because it seemed to me that the word "friend" is male word as in my native thongue. Now that I think about it, I may have made a mistake. Sorry guys...
So far, fourth is my favorite too

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General Land Before Time / m01's rating of LBT sequels
« on: September 30, 2010, 01:21:24 PM »
Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
Watched the fourth instalment in the series today and I must say that I'm quite happy about it.
In the core, it is the same as everything the last two movies were about. Friends are happy > everybody sings > something bad happens > everybody sings again > children need to fight antagonists > everyone sings for the third time > eveything ends good
While it may seem a little repetitive, it is childrens cartoon and depends on that formula so I can't critique that. Now to go on with the review.

Graphics are simmilar to the last movie except for little eye candy presented here (the flower). Nothing much to say here...
Story has a problem for kids to solve and although the plot wasn't very inventive, it was decent. What I liked in this movie was the "Indiana Jones" feel (kids go to explore a strange new place). Although we were taken out of the valley in the last two movies, in this one the outer world is shown more intensly and more time is spent in it, what makes the experience better. This is where the strenght of the movie comes from along with one more thing: characters.
Characters in this movie actualy do show more than "we're all friends, yay!!!!1". Cera is quite afraid/not happy with Littlefoot having a new friend and for that reason is quite bitter in some parts of the movie. Of course, the new friend dissapears after the movie what is just another way of saying that he was a tool for the writters and that they don't need him any more. While this usually is taken as a bad thing, I'm willing to pass on the opportunity here to lower the rating of the movie as this is something that actually resembles character developement for the first time in the series (first movie not included).
Another thing that I'd like to point out is a bigger number of intense action scenes. While I won't give bigger or lover rating to the movie because of it, I have quite liked it.
As for the songs...they were average, nothing special or bad. They had a few funny moments.

So all in all, this movie seems a little better than last one to me. I'm giving it 8/10

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General Land Before Time / m01's rating of LBT sequels
« on: September 29, 2010, 11:51:48 AM »
Quote from: DarkHououmon,Sep 29 2010 on  10:47 AM
Quote from: m01,Sep 29 2010 on  09:59 AM
Yes, I should make a better review for the next movie

Edit:
Forgot to respond to your critique
I didn't like Ozzie and Strut because they were the biggest cliche in the history of antagonists. Their interaction between themselves and eveyone else was just plain bad. And songs did suck, I forgot to mention them because they were totally forgotable and because I'm not really a fan of the songs
How were they cliche? I saw nothing cliche about them.
Two bad guys. One is mean and stupid and the other one is confused, stupid and under the influence of the first guy.
If I were to think of the same setup outside this movie, the first thing that pops out in my head is Home Alone

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General Land Before Time / m01's rating of LBT sequels
« on: September 29, 2010, 11:06:25 AM »
Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
This movie was much better than the second one. Animation was better and had less problems with details than the last movie. Soundtrack fits very good in the movie and songs aren't all that bad and actually sound nice.
The frendship and unity between Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, Petrie and Ducky is much better expressed in this movie than the last one and creates a certian inspiring atmosphere in a few scenes. Bullies (or "villians of the movie" if you want to call it that way) were, although a cliche, much better and to some extent believeable.
The story wasn't anything special or unique, but as a driving force for the movie was sufficient. While I don't have a problem with short movies, this one in my opinion lacked a few scenes here and there as if the writers didn't have the time to add a few more.
All in all, the movie is quite good, but it doesn't pass the threshold to be something very memorable and special
I rate it 7/10

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General Land Before Time / m01's rating of LBT sequels
« on: September 29, 2010, 09:59:32 AM »
Yes, I should make a better review for the next movie

Edit:
Forgot to respond to your critique
I didn't like Ozzie and Strut because they were the biggest cliche in the history of antagonists. Their interaction between themselves and eveyone else was just plain bad. And songs did suck, I forgot to mention them because they were totally forgotable and because I'm not really a fan of the songs

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General Land Before Time / Crush?
« on: September 29, 2010, 08:48:02 AM »
I think you guys are overthinking this. What I see in the relationship of Cera and Littlefoot is the clasic cliche of the "I don't need anyone and I'm great and fearless" character (Cera) to be quite fond (and in fear of loosing) of the main character (Littlefoot). So in stead of calling it a crush, I just take it as a part of this cliche

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General Land Before Time / m01's rating of LBT sequels
« on: September 29, 2010, 08:34:56 AM »
Yesterday I watched The original Land Before Time and gave it 10/10 as it really was quite remarkable. It could be watched with by both adults and kids and the plot could  be seen as a regular journey or finding a way out of the limbo towards haven in afterlife.

Now, I am aware that sequels did change almost everything the first movie had and I won't be rating and comparing them to the first movie. Instead I'll totally seperate them from the original and watch them as a series for themselves.


Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
The first thing I noticed in the movie were the roman numbers saying "II" instead of "2" and although most people would simply pass around that, I really liked it. Finally a movie that doesn't number itself by regular arabic numbers!  :lol:
Ok, now moving to the actual review. To sum the movie up, it would be somewhat like this: bad plot, two dimensional characters, very stupid antagonists, somewhat bad animation and many absurd illogical moments.
So, what was good in the movie? Somehow it managed not to become boring and although it was quite forgetable, a decent kids movie it was
Rating 5/10

Expect the third movie soon

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Gamers Zone / Virtual Handheld, and Other 3DS news!
« on: September 29, 2010, 05:55:53 AM »
3DS sounds like another triumph for nintendo. It seems to me like ninteno is going to create another great product. I'm gonna buy it as I allready have gameboy advance and DS.
Also, while bokemon black and white will come out for DS, the third game is certanly be for 3DS

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General Land Before Time / Which Villain in LBT are you?
« on: September 28, 2010, 10:52:19 AM »
Sharptooth

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1988 Theatrical Release / Tell Your Story About LBT
« on: September 28, 2010, 10:43:51 AM »
So, after quite a few years of not seeing any of LBT movies, I've rewatched the original and it didn't dissapoint. It is without a doubt one of best children movies ever made. It was innocent and light hearted in spite of dealing with hard themes and quite dark/sick looking enviroments.
Land Before Time clearly is a unique children movie and I give it 10/10

On the other side, I haven't watched too many children movies so my review may not be good  :lol:
I'll continue watching LBT sequels and although I'm quite sceptical about them being half as good as original, I'll give them a chance

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1988 Theatrical Release / LBT Soundtrack Analysis: If We Hold On Together
« on: September 28, 2010, 10:37:47 AM »
I'm quite impressed that someone analyzed the music, cause people do it rarely nowdays. Today it is all about sounding good to the ears and "OMG THAT SINGER IS SOOO HOT!!!!!111"
No one bothers with anything elese. So, I'd like to thank OP for the refreshing over review of :)

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Gamers Zone / Golden Sun
« on: September 28, 2010, 10:31:08 AM »
Anyone here played Golden Sun or Golden Sun : The Lost Age?
I'm a fan of the games and can't wait for the Golden Sun DS to get released

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Sound Off! / What are you listening to?
« on: September 28, 2010, 10:28:05 AM »
The Elder Scrolls 4 : Oblivion soundtrack is great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbUOomo6-KM

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Sound Off! / Saddest song you ever heard?
« on: September 28, 2010, 10:25:59 AM »
Sea of Whispers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HB1S6o4UAE

And if you don't mind harsh vocals , then this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK_u9CZptTg

The ending guitar solo of the secong song is perfect

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Silver Screen / Pokemon Apokelypse
« on: September 28, 2010, 10:19:42 AM »
I've read a little the links provided in the description and aparently, there will be no movie, only the trailer
The trailer looks great and it is really unfortunate there will be no movie

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Silver Screen / Worst movie title ever...
« on: September 28, 2010, 09:57:09 AM »
I liked the first final destination. 8/10 entertaining movie with original concept
The second one earns 5/10
Third one was boring so I didn't finish it
Fourth one was surprisingly good 7/10
I'm looking foward to fifth "5inal destination"

PS. the ending of the fourth one was brilliant  :lol:

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Silver Screen / Movies You Think Shouldn't Have Bombed
« on: September 28, 2010, 09:51:15 AM »
Anyone here seen Equilibrium?
One of my favorite movies, it holds 7.7 rating on IMDB
The budget was 20 milion and it grossed only 5

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Attic Treasures / What are you reading?
« on: September 27, 2010, 04:53:48 PM »
Just today I read "Odd Hours" by Dean Koontz
The book was quite amusing. It had a little weak story, but it doesn't matter as long as Koontz writing is good

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The Welcome Center / An old and yet new user
« on: September 27, 2010, 04:44:41 PM »
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Hey and welcome back!

Call me Iris, I'm 17 too :)
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Welcome back! :DD
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welcome back! we always welcome return posters
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Welcome back to the GOF :)
It sure is nice to see members returning after such a long time.
Thank you all  :)
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What's your old account ? :)
Malte figured it out:
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You are buba, aren't you?
I'm quite surprised someone searched for my account

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Please feel hearty invited to join our discussions or start threads of your own :yes
Thanks, I will :)
I think I'll dwell more in the off topic discussions if you don't have anything against it

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