Some of them I like, and some of them I would not want to see in a LBT movie.
Let's start with:
1. Make ALL the songs likeable. NO damp squids. Make them ballads, broadway style numbers, rock songs, anything cool. Make sure none are kiddy and several are orchestral.
I am not liking this at all. The songs were the weak points of the movies, in my opinion. Some were enjoyable, but they were unnecessary. You don't need a song to get a point across.
2. Go back to the animation of the earlier films. No bright animation, no cGI, no soupy animation.
Computer animation is much more easier and cheaper than hand drawing everything on animation cels. The technique has been abandoned by most, if not all, animation studios. I think taking out the CGI would be nice.
Soupy? Like foggy and clouded or overly sentimental?
3. Make the color tones mainly blue, green, and dark blue. No birght colors allowed.
You realize the tones of a color are the variations of the base color as it moves from dark light to bright light?
4. NEVER, I mean NEVER, bring back the tinysaureses, Tippy and his herd, Rinkus, Dinah and Dana, the idiot flyer judges from 12, Petrie's imaginary friend (or any imaginarty friend for that matter), or those (bleep)ing yellow bellies! Or any character of the tv series. Also, I don't want Mr. Thicknose, Ruby, Doc and Pterano brought back. And certainly not Bron. Forget Bron ever existed. (Sorry, Shorty, that means you go too.) And any character of the tv series. The only characters of the sequels I really want back are Ali(the REAL Ali of movie 4, not the fake one!), the bullies from 3 (make Hyp look like he did in 3), Archie, Elsie, Sue, and Mo (as long as he's colored rightly.) Oh, and Ozzy, Strut, Ichy, Dil, Sierra (have him be a solo flyer now) and the Lioplerudon, providing they survived.
As for "I'll think about it":
Maybe Tria. (Tricia as well, can't have Tria without her.) And maybe Pat and Guido too, maybe. I like Guido but he didn't feel like something out of "classic LBT." Maybe the rainbow faces, although I'm against aliens in LBT.
A lot of those characters you mentioned probably never will show up in another sequel, if the series is ever picked up again. They were major characters for the movies they showed up in but minor characters in the franchise as a whole. Also, removing Bron from the franchise would make your proposed sequels non-canon since he was already introduce and therefore part of The Land Before Time universe.
5. Give the end credits beautiful score, not songs from the movies. that's what they did starting with 3 and until 8 (a bit was used at the end of 11) and it would give the ending of the films a really good feel. I liked that and I prefer listening to beautiful score instead of some lame cover of a song in the film ("Bestest Friends" is the cover I'm talkin bout, not that of "No one has to be alone", that one actually was good and fit well) or a lame reprise of a song in the film.
Maybe.
6. Don't make the characters bland or overly stupid.
I do appreciate good characterization.
7. No filler scenes. Remember that scene where Ducky got kidnapped by the Pteradactyl in 5, for instance?
I agree.
8 . Make the plots intriguing and mysterious, like in 4!
I'm starting to feel that these "sequels" you are proposing will be filled with too much repetitiveness.
9. Give the films an overall more mysterious feel. The last few films really lost that.
As I said for number 8...
10. No baby names! "Sky water"? "Sky colors"? No!
Oh so we just take out such names as The Bright Circle, sharptooth, longneck, threehorn, swimmer, flyer, spiketail, treestar...? I think you can see where I'm going with this, maybe.
11. No goofy, kiddish stuff! WE CAN NEVER, I MEAN NEVER, SEE ANYTHING EVEN IN THE SAME COUNTRY AS "IMAGAINRY FRIENDS", TIPPY, OR THE YELLOWBELLIES, OR YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!
Two things: your opinions and this is a KID's franchise.
12. Draw the characters normally. Someone pointed out Tippy looked like a teletubbie and Mr. Thicknose didn't even look like an adult dinosaur. Go back to drawing adult dinosaurs like they should be.
I don't remember Tippy standing on two legs and having weird formations on his head. And Mr. Thicknose looked very much like his supposed age. But I do not like how the character changed as the series progress. Most of the gang looked really bloated in the later sequels.
13. Make all the characters great.
Such a vague statement. Elaborate please.
14. Reference Littlefoot's mother, like a lot.
Sounds like a not too good idea...
15. Since the awesome as hell Sharptooth of movie 1, we've had precious few awesome sharpteeth. The ones in 2 were cool but still they were mommy and daddy, and the producers went further in dumbing them by giving them subtitles and making them turn nice to the gang and basically softening them. The raptors in 3 were okay but they weren't huge sharpteeth. Movie 5's sharptooth looked awfully drawn and he had those stupid plates. And he actually cried tears of pain?! DON'T YOU KNOW SHARPTEETH DON'T CRY?! The allosaurs of 6 wasn't even a t-rex and was dumb as a doornail. The t-rex in the story was okay, but he was from a long time ago. The one at the end was okay but he was hardly in it. Movie 7 only had raptors...in a flashback at that. Movie 8's sharptooth? Whatever!! Movie 9's lioplerudon was awesome! Bring him back! Movie 10's sharpteeth? Don't think so! Movie 11's? Raptors that are TICKLISH?! Movie 12's raptor was so dumb. Make all sharpteeth as big and bad as movie 1's.
Maybe. I would appreciate a more dangerous villain, but again this is one person's opinion.
16. Injure the characters! Have them spill blood, break bones, pass out, something!
You do know the target age is not above 13? I get that you want it to be but it is ultimately not your choice.
17: Have a character die. In 12 sequels not 1 good character died. Which is good but a little overly softening. Movie 1 always stuck out to me in my childhood as the only movie where a good character died.
Read my thought on number 16.
18. Include more dark, action packed sequences, with rain and lightning, such as the one in movie 9 (seriously that was such a good scene, it felt like something out of a different film entirely and is proof that these movies could be a lot darker while still being kid friendly!)
Maybe a few here and there, but again putting these in all movies would make it repetitive.
19. Bring back the land of mists and the big water (call it the ocean, please.), and invent more cool locations.
They can't call it the ocean as it is officially established as Big Water. I agree more interesting locations could be added, although I think the gang has done enough exploring.
20. Stick to the style of the first three sequels, maybe make it a little edgier. Don't go as far back as the style of movie 1, since it was only so dark cause they weren't sure if the great valley existed and now they do.)
This contradicts #s 16, 17, and 18. And 2, 3, and 4 weren't really that edgy.
These are my thoughts on your suggestions. They are true and some may be a bit rude but these are my thoughts on your ideas.
