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General Land Before Time / Finally watching JOTB!
« on: February 13, 2016, 12:55:41 AM »
Thanks, I really am! It's almost surreal to be watching a new LBT film, but I'm enjoying every second of it.  :smile

61. lol, how Grandpa Longneck and Topsy can just walk over it.
62."Of all the stunts these wild young ones have pulled, this is the worst." Would be a nice time to bring in some continuity nods, but oh well.
63. Wow...the scene with them sleeping really reminded me of the original film...
64. Just the look Grandpa Longneck and Topsy give Wild Arms! Too hilarious.
65. Wild Arms trying to hi-five Topsy!! Again, comedy gold.
66. Wild Arms fainting and Mr. Threehorn carrying him!! God, the writers are on fire humor-wise when this guy is involved!
67. Spike's stomach growls...for the first time in the entire series, ironically enough. I actually made a topic noting that not too far back.
68. "But how come we can't find it?" Pretty stupid question.
69. Cera tells Littlefoot she doesn't think he knows where he's going and they should have gone her way...nice nod to the original.
70. Horrible CGI rock-surfing.
71. Holy shit...are Littlefoot and Cera gonna fight? Even scenery-wise, this is SERIOUSLY a homage to the original!!
72. Littlefoot lashes out at the others...um, wow.
73. Oh my god...it's uncanny how much this scene resembles the original, Like...there's no way this couldn't have been intentional.
74. "Better Off Alone" (or "I feel Fine", if that's what it's called) is great. Pure Michelle and Amanda LBT music. The split-screen was kinda cheesy...espicially towards the end when it looks like Littlefoot and Cera share both ends of a body, a la "Catdog" (a Nickelodeon show from a long time ago you might have seen) but it helps this solo duet. I gotta say, this will probably be my favorite song of the film.
75. Sand clouds...that's new!
76. "Don't tell me you're thinking about going back out there!" Reba has arrived!  :smile (It took 45 minutes, but no biggie.)
77. I gotta say...Littlefoot being seperated from the others actually makes this pretty emotionally well-done. He only was for a short time in the original (we never really saw him on his own). I could sort of see from the clips that something like this might happen, although I didn't give a ton of thought to it.
78. ...and now Petrie goes missing.
79. Those eyes...those things! So creepy!! (I typed this after watching a bit further in, but at the moment I was like, "WTF??")
80. OMG...all of them respecting him!! "More! More"  :lol  I wonder if they'll talk like him...
81. Oh, so it's pronounced "Eh-tuh". I thought it was "Ee-tuh".
82. And now an earthquake traps them. I gotta say, this movie is doing a better job putting challenges on it's characters than any other LBT sequel. That shows how much the writing has improved!
83. Those diggers are too hilarious!  :lol
84. Lol, Petrie as the leader!  :lol BTW, notice the sound effects as Cera opens her eyes to see him. What's with all the sound effects?
85. The music that plays anytime the diggers eat the fruit...so funny! Great job, Tavera!
86. Petrie calls the tune for once! Cool.
87. Aw...Petrie saying goodbye to the diggers was so sad. But at least they found a new leader.
88. And here's the last clip we'd already been shown.
89. Wait...did Shorty make it out OK? Littlefoot doesn't mention him to Etta.
90. So that's why the middle of Etta's arms are colored differently.
91. I thoroughly enjoyed "Look For The Light". Great visuals, great melody, great lyrics, great performance. Great job, Michelle, Amanda, and of course, Reba!   :smile
92. SHARPTOOTH WITH FREAKIN' HORNS!!!
93. A lucky coincidence, the others end up near enough for Littlefoot to hear at exactly the right time. This movie does a great job challenging the characters but doesn't make it too hard on them, like the original. That's really good writing.
94. Etta's singed wing prevents her from being able to fly. Interesting.
95. So Etta's a "bigbeak"? Huh.
96. "I'm so happy we're altogether!" Me, too, Littlefoot. Me, too.  :smile
97. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Alright! Gotta make sure I enjoy the last 15 minutes of the movie, in case they're the last of the entire franchise.
98. The ride down the crystal tunnel was just awesome. This is what LBT should be. THIS is what we've been missing!
99. And then they come out into such a pretty place! I love how Ducky's like "I want to do it again!", since I actually immediately rewatched it, it was so good!
100. As the grand 100 commentary note, the freaking epic shot of them looking up at the fire mountain from the trailer!
101. No...they wouldn't kill off Bron...would they...? (BTW, some of the ridges here look a lot like in the original!)
102. Oh...my...god. Bron on the lava. I had to show my dad, who was in the room and he was like, "Is that where they got the idea for Star Wars?" (Refering to Anakin and Obi-Wan's fight in Revenge Of The Sith)
103. I had to take a screenshot of it and when I looked at it more...holy sh**, is Bron missing a leg? Did it get...burned off??!!
104. Oh god...Bron's accepting that he's gonna be burned alive?? Also, is he just weakened or is that a terrible voice actor?
105. Finally, back to the others.
106. Does anyone but me hate how they make the music all funny whenever Wild Arms is onscreen? It's not Tavera-ish at all.
107. I hope those creatures that distracted the sharptooth are ok.
108. Oh god, the blurring around Wild Arms when the others glare at him is creepy.
109. The sound effect as Cera shakes her head...again.
110. Water hardening lava...pure awesomeness. This whole plan to rescue Bron makes for a fantastic climax.
111. Horrible CGI tree.
112. Leaping across lava. Wow.
113. Bron's design is a little different, I'm noticing. The top of his head isn't dark brown.
114. Wild Arms: "Finally! Someone who's sensible!"
115. The Gang of Seven, finally together in film.
116. The ending...just...awesome way to cap it off.
117. "Look For The Light" playing over the credits. Great to hear it again. Even better in this longer version. (BTW, my dad turned out the lights just as the song was finishing!)
118. And then we have to hear "Hot and Stinky" again.  :rolleyes

Final thoughts:

This was a really good movie. Like, better than LBT has had in quite a while. Not only was it a huge comeback after Wisdom of Friends (which I never saw and never plan on seeing, it was that bad) but a huge comeback for the franchise in general. It gives me serious hope that this franchise has a good future ahead. But if that's the last of it, well, it's a pretty darn good way to go out---espicially better than Wisdom of Friends, which for so many years, we were sure was the end of it all.

What else is there to say? There was a lot about this movie I loved. The new characters were fantastic, and it was truly great to see our main five (plus Chomper and Ruby) again. There were plenty of funny moments. The Petrie and the diggers storyline, Wild Arms, Etta, and so forth. I loved how the climax was done. It didn't rely on some fight against a sharptooth as so many other LBT sequels have in the past (I think 7 was the only one that truly didn't.) The new songs were mostly good, and Tavera's score, while not quite as memorable or beautiful as it was in the early sequels, was still good. The writing was good, the pacing was good, the animation, for a DTV and a world that now lives in 95% computer animation, was good.

So what was bad? Well, like I said, I didn't like the replacements for Grandpa Longneck and Topsy. Bron's replacement wasn't great either, and why were Mama Swimmer and Mama Flyer replaced? Was Tress unavailable? I dunno.

"Hot and Stinky" obviously wasn't the best song, but I don't think it was the absolute worst. There were a few filler moments, like Spike and Ducky's siblings hatching (they must have like, 30 by now) and the Sharptooth going after the search party only to be distracted. Chomper and Ruby being there wouldn't make sense if you hadn't seen the TV series, which itself brought them in rather suddenly. Oh, and where was Shorty? He must have made it back with the herd, but did he care at all what happened to Bron? It was quite odd that the writers seemed to have forgotten about him.

Other than that, though, the film was pretty much a hands down great LBT sequel. I really can't give it any less of a praise than that. Even if Marzgurl tried to critique this one, I'm sure she wouldn't find as many flaws as she does with some of them. So is it the best? Well, that's kind of hard to say. There was so much that was good about it, yet that's asking me to put it over 3, 4, 5 and 7, all watermarks of my childhood. Writing wise, however, I'd say it ties with 4 and 7 (and I guess 10) as the best sequel of the series.

Well, that's pretty much everything to cover. I hope this isn't the end of LBT, and if it is, I'm at least happy knowing I made my contribution trying to prevent it being the last by purchasing it on itunes. It's the first Itunes movie I've ever bought, by the way.  :smile

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General Land Before Time / Finally watching JOTB!
« on: February 12, 2016, 03:09:25 AM »
So back in 2011-12 I rewatched all of LBT, and watched 10-12 in full for the first time. I basically knew what would happen in 10, since I'd seen some of it before, and watched MArzgurl's reviews of the other two before seeing them. So this is the first really new LBT thing I've really felt I'm seeing in about 13 years!

So here, I'll take notes about things I find interesting about the new movie. Not a big review, since that's too time consuming, but just a place to jot down notes as I watch.  

1. The beginning is a lot like LBT 12's with the Universal Logo...except it zooms into...northern Canada??
2. The new narrator is just...not John Ingle.  :cry
3. The transition to Littlefoot was sort of abrupt, but ok.
4. So nice seeing Cera, Ducky, Spike and Petrie reintroduced.
5. Wow, they mentioned Mama Longneck for the first time since LBT 10. Glad to see she hasn't been forgotten.
6. The flashbacks with Bron aren't exactly accurate, but it at least gives the idea.
7. Chomper and Ruby are back...and Chomper can only growl in english, not sharptooth.  Huh.
8. BTW, Littlefoot knows Ruby, so is this after the series? Guess I'll find out.
9. Oh god...Topsy's voice...you'll forever be missed, John Ingle.  :(petrie
10. Oh god...cheesy music starting!  :rolleyes
11. Littlefoot as Bieber?  :lol
12. "You will teach them to stay away from your rear end"
Seriously???  :lol
13. Handclaps in an LBT song?  :lol
14. Cera, did you learn anything from smashing your horn in LBT 10?
15. The noise when she shakes her head after hitting it...can anyone say "Klasky Csupo"? Lololol!!!
16. Aw, the song was pretty sweet.  :smile
17. Lol, the baby swimmer biting Petrie, lol
18. Holy crap, was Petrie almost about to say he was their adopteded...oh wait, no, he was talking about Spike, not Ducky. Why was he so shy to say he was Spike's friend?  :! It would have been funnier if he has said "and me your sister's...uh, um...me just Petrie."
19. Oh god...Grandpa Longneck, who did they get to voice you?  R.I.P., Kenneth Mars. You'll always be Grandpa Longneck, no matter how many replacements he gets.  :cry
20. BTW, Grandma Longneck sounds different, too. I'll have to check the credits.
21. CGI Waterfall.
22. Oh...the herd all makes it there safely, just not Bron. I see.
23. Um...does Grandpa Longneck have longer eyelashes suddenly?  :lol
24. WILD ARMS!!!!  :lol  :lol  :lol  :lol
25. Oh man, this guy is too hilarious!  :smile But owch, that pinching looked painful!
26. Feather headed sharptooth? Huh.
27. Their stare at Wild Arms...gonna be a really good caption.  :smile
28. Huh, where are Chomper and Ruby? They sort of disapeared.
29. It's nice that Littlefoot isn't asking his friends to risk their lives to help him. Back in LBT 4, it was sort of implied that he was gonna make them do that if Ali hadn't said they should go alone.
30. Um...is he actually in the Mysterious Beyond? Not much transition.
31. *sigh*...the gang this site is named after, back on another adventure after all these years!  :smile (Although it barely qualifies as the Mysterious Beyond.)
32. OK, now it sort of qualifies.
33. The first clip we've already seen so far. Also, what's the "long valley"?  
34. Horrible CGI tree.
35. Once again, Cera wasn't at the back of the line as they crossed the log.
36. "Everything looks scary to you"  lol
37. They called stinkweed by it's actual name, ironically enough.  :idea
38. Clip #2 that we've seen...the "hot and stinky" song...and boy, does it stink.
39. Those are some uncanny-looking sharpteeth.
40. The sharpteeth actually heard Petrie?
41. Holy crap, a mammal.
42. Oh god, saying the song title...please tell me there isn't going to be a reprise...  :anger
43. Spike's eating really causing a problem for once. And causing Littlefoot to fall in.
44. Geez, the gang is gonna risk getting eaten just for a swim?
45. They're  JUST noticing the stinkweed is washing off?? The writers are really putting the willing suspension of disbelief on me here.
46. I'm pleased to hear the music from the shark scene in movie 5 reused!  
47. Horrible CGI falling rocks.
48. Yikes...that looks tough to climb up. Thankfully Ducky and Petrie didn't have to. (BTW, it looks like the cliff Littlefoot was climbing after the fight with Cera in the original!)
49. Horrible CGI cliff.
50. Tripping Sharpteeth, again.
51. More horrible CGI rocks, but made up for by Cera pushing them onto the Sharptooth!  :smile
52. And he just gives up and walks away. A day in the life of a sequel sharptooth. Oh well.
53. Clip #3. I gotta say, so far, this movie has been pretty good..it's stuck to a good story without wasting much time on stuff. I wonder if Etta will show up soon. Given her significance, I'm sure she will, considering we're over a half-hour in.
54. Lovely shot of the valley. Looks almost mirrored from the original film.
55. Chomper and Ruby still exist in this film, thankfully.
56. Ugh, the grandparents' voices.
57. The Mysterious Beyond is well-drawn here, too.
58. Wait, sickness among the gang? That's new.
59. Aw, the classic Great Valley Theme...nope, gotta save up the waterworks in case something happens that really makes me cry.
60. Clip #4. Great to see Mama Swimmer and Mama Flyer again, but where's Tria? Anyways, nice to see this clip again.

That's all for tonight. I'll finish watching the movie and giving my thoughts on it tommorow!

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LBT Fanfiction / My supposed LBT film behind the scenes story!
« on: February 04, 2016, 10:33:57 PM »
Please get rid of this, someone.

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LBT Fanfiction / My supposed LBT film behind the scenes story!
« on: February 03, 2016, 12:28:46 AM »
If nobody cares about this, why is it still here?

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1988 Theatrical Release / Would you call this movie "beautiful"?
« on: February 02, 2016, 09:13:40 PM »
Quote from: WeirdRaptor,Jan 12 2016 on  04:40 PM
Not many films out there can make a barren desert wasteland look gorgeous.
But the point is, someone tried to shove down my throat that it was 38% beautiful like it was fact. :cry

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1988 Theatrical Release / What could have made the 1st movie better?
« on: January 31, 2016, 01:15:44 AM »
Quote from: NewOrder,Jan 13 2016 on  06:49 AM
. But that's a personal preference. It doesn't really change the magic of the film.
It makes it better to me.  :smile

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LBT Fanfiction / My supposed LBT film behind the scenes story!
« on: January 29, 2016, 10:15:55 PM »
I made this cause I thought it would entertain people.  :neutral

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General Land Before Time / New Anndi and Aria video!
« on: January 28, 2016, 10:03:04 PM »
Quote from: pokeplayer984,Jan 28 2016 on  07:55 PM
Okay, so this video confirms we have a new voice for Chomper.  That's good to know.  Now for something else I want to talk about that was mentioned in the video.

You know, with what they said, I feel the way Universal is doing things now may one day hurt them greatly.  They mentioned that the studios no longer have them together and work off of one another.  I can understand them going away from that for convenience sake, but I feel there could be a lack of quality because of it.  Characters in a movie are meant to work off of one another.  They are meant to make a scene play out in a certain way.  When you have the actors together, it makes it easier to pull off.  The actors get a sense of what they are supposed to do and how to respond better.  However, when you don't have them together, the actors don't get that kind of connection and the character in that scene can come off bland.  It's especially bothersome if there's no one there to tell them HOW to do it.

I fear it might come back to bite them one day and I hope it's not with the new LBT movie.  I would really hate it if that were the case.
Well, I've heard of Family Guy's voice actors recording alone, so I was a little surprised to see that wasn't always how it was done. But really, the old way is how it should be done!

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General Land Before Time / New Anndi and Aria video!
« on: January 28, 2016, 08:01:36 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RuRYwNpSzk

Has anyone seen this? It's awesome!  :smile

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General Land Before Time / Original 2006 version of Flip Flap and Fly?
« on: January 28, 2016, 12:33:46 PM »
Well, thanks anyway! It's much appreciated!

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General Land Before Time / Original 2006 version of Flip Flap and Fly?
« on: January 28, 2016, 12:20:05 PM »
If anyone could simply respond, it would be much appreciated. There's a lot of the times I feel ignored when I don't get responses, apparently just because no one can think of anything to say. Well, just so everyone knows, anything you say responding to me will be appreciated. I'll take any response over feeling people are ignoring me.  :neutral

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LBT Fanfiction / My supposed LBT film behind the scenes story!
« on: January 28, 2016, 12:17:39 PM »
Hello?

If people are intentionally not responding because they don't feel there's anything to respond, I just want to say anything you say will be appreciated on my posts. I'm sorry, I'm desperate.

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General Land Before Time / Biggest earthquake in the films?
« on: January 28, 2016, 12:10:32 PM »
Of the earthquakes featured in the movies, which one do you think was the biggest? The one in the original, the one in LBT 9, or the one in the flashback in LBT 10?

Sorry if this is an irrelevant topic, I just felt I had to make it after a post that's been bothering me.  :neutral

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General Land Before Time / Journey of the Brave (LBT 14)
« on: January 25, 2016, 07:07:30 PM »
Quote
Next, did we get any confirmation as to whether or not Rob Paulsen is returning?  Because the voice of Spike is done quite well and I would recognize those grunts as Spike in a heartbeat.


Do you know Jeff Bennet actually did the voice of Spike in movie IV, sorry, VI, since Spike, sorry, Rob Paulsen, was working on Wakko's Wish? I wouldn't have guessed. Bennet can do Spike flawlessly.

And let's not forget they're both imitating Frank Welker, who voiced Spike in the original.  :smile



Oh, Marzgurl isn't a part of TGWTG anymore?  :cry

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Land Before Time Captions / Pterano's Valley
« on: January 25, 2016, 01:00:19 PM »
Quote from: vonboy,Jan 25 2016 on  09:22 AM
That night, Chomper and his parents feasted on all the poor dinos that Pterano led off a sheer cliff.

He has a tendency for leading herds to their deaths. :p
Thanks! Finally, someone captioned. I was feeling a little silly for posting this.  :lol

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General Land Before Time / Journey of the Brave (LBT 14)
« on: January 25, 2016, 12:59:33 PM »
Marzgurl's reviews were some of the most awesome things I've ever seen. Her LBT 13 review was everything the film wasn't.

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General Land Before Time / Journey of the Brave (LBT 14)
« on: January 24, 2016, 10:11:45 PM »
Quote from: Campion1,Jan 22 2016 on  04:27 PM
A dinosaur might seem naked because it technically is, Bruton.
 
I'm sorry...did my explanation help at all?  :neutral

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General Land Before Time / Original 2006 version of Flip Flap and Fly?
« on: January 24, 2016, 10:05:45 PM »
Hello? Is anyone there?

I'm sorry, it's just when I make topics asking a question, it's in hope of getting a reply at some point in the next few days.  :neutral

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Land Before Time Captions / Pterano's Valley
« on: January 24, 2016, 10:04:32 PM »
I'm sorry, was this unnecessary?  :neutral

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LBT Fanfiction / My supposed LBT film behind the scenes story!
« on: January 24, 2016, 10:03:51 PM »
I'm sorry, was this not good?  :neutral

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