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Animation / Queen Elsa vs. Princess Aurora
« on: May 20, 2014, 09:25:56 PM »


Apparently, Queen Elsa was wrong about ONE of the Disney princesses..

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Silver Screen / Least favorite Disney movie(s)?
« on: April 11, 2014, 01:39:45 PM »
I think pretty much all of us have seen and/or loved at least one Disney movie in our lives, if not all of them. However, there are those Disney movies that either bore us half to death or scare the living jinkies out of us :wow. Personally, The Fox and the Hound is my least favorite movie, not because it's boring (because it's actually FAR from boring), but because it's depressing and scary. :cry I don't totally HATE the movie but I always hated how dead set Copper was on killing Todd after Chief was injured, especially since he and Todd were best buddies as children. However, the worst part of the movie is actually the BEAR! I HATE that bear so much! It's the most evil-looking creature I've ever seen in a cartoon :cry I used to be scared to watch it, and I still find it the scariest thing I've ever seen in an animated movie.


But that's just mine, of course. What are yours?

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Silver Screen / Movies that scared you as a child?
« on: February 26, 2014, 06:19:37 PM »
I don't know about you, but The Land Before Time ITSELF, despite being my favorite movie, scared the HECK out of me when I was little (particularly Sharptooth). I can't tell you how many nightmares I've had in my lifetime about Sharptooth (sometimes I still do  :cry ). I also couldn't watch certain scenes (from later LBT movies for a long time involving Sharpteeth. Sharptooth was actually the very thing that started my fear of carnivorous beasts. I was also scared of the bear in the Fox and the Hound (still am today as well), the T-Rex in Fantasia, and Monstro the whale from Pinocchio. Most children who find Pinocchio scary are scared of when Lampwick turns into a donkey, but  I wasn't upset because I didn't care because at least he wasn't being eaten (However, watching it as an adult, I did find the scene a little bit disturbing.) But the number one thing that scared me was the vicious, humungous, carnivorous whale  :wow

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Silver Screen / Top 10 favorite cartoon Disney movies?
« on: February 22, 2014, 12:31:33 AM »
I'm sure that many, if not most, of us love Disney movies. We all more than likely grew up with them. Even the oldest users on here probably grew up watching Disney movies. However, I have always preferred genuine cartoon animation to computer generated movies when it comes to Disney. Anyway, these are my top 10 favorite Disney movies that weren't computer generated:



1) The Little Mermaid- I have always been fond of this movie, from when I was very little, and even as a teenager, which was the phase in which I hated everything! xD (but hey don't we all hate everything at that age?  :p ) I remember when I was 14, I convinced my mom to buy it for me on Amazon, even though she believed I was too old to watch it. I ended up watching it like 60 times in like half a year  :wow to catch up for all the years I had lost from not seeing that movie often enough in my childhood :p .


2) Beauty and the Beast- I remember being kind of scared of the beast, but this movie is one that I've always liked. It has one of the best storylines in the entire Disney universe! :D and it has one of the best Disney romances in my opinion.


3) Pocahontas- I've always had a soft spot for this movie. I remember seeing it when it came out in theaters. I was 4 I think. I remember my mom got me a cassette tape of the songs in the movie with a booklet before the movie ever came out, which caused me to fall deeply in love with the soundtrack of the film.


4) The Jungle Book- Probably the grooviest Disney movie of them all.  :smile I just LOVE the opening song that plays when the beginning credits are shown. It's just so incredibly haunting :idea also, "Bare Necessities" is one of the best Disney songs of all time. :DD I remember my parents used to rent and illegally record most of the Disney movies just so they wouldn't have to buy them :p I loved this movie as a little boy. However, I was very upset when I accidentally dropped the videotape down the stairs and it no longer worked  :cry however, I just re-bought the movie on VHS (and yes, I still use and watch VHS tapes and I love it :p ) so it's all good. :smile


5) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs- There are a few on this list that are like guilty pleasures to me. However, I have never felt guilty about liking this movie, especially since it was actually Walt Disney's very first movie.

6) Pinocchio- Now this one IS a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. However, I remember watching it in my teens and I found it slightly annoying. However, watching it a couple years ago as an adult made me feel extremely happy inside :') I think I actually enjoyed it more as an adult than I ever did as a kid I think.

7) Fantasia- Just an all-out, epic, wonderful MASTERPIECE that Walt Disney created. It's not my favorite, but it definitely deserves a spot in my top 10. My favorite scene (though I'm still scared to watch it  :oops ) is the dinosaur scene. I just love dinosaurs :DD (hence, why I've always loved The Land Before Time of course)

8) 101 Dalmatians- You have no idea how much I was OBSESSED with this movie when I was in 1st grade! :wow I remember I had really cheap 101 Dalmatians shoes, and the soles kept coming lose, and my neighbor was kind enough to fix them with her hot glue gun a few times before I eventually had to throw them away.

9) Bambi- another guilty pleasure of mine. For me, this movie, like most movies in fact, I much prefer to watch alone. The reason I included this movie in the top 10 is because I like the darkness of it. While many people consider this movie extremely sad (and it is), I actually like it for that reason. Also, the use of the invisible "Man" as the main villain was actually one of the things that makes it unique from all other films.

10) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh- I was going to put The Lion King as my number 10, but I actually find that movie pretty overrated, plus I've seen it so many times. However, Winnie the Pooh was a favorite of mine growing up. I used to have the stories separately "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree", "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day", "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too" all on VHS (which is basically the same as the entire feature :p ) but I also had another one called "Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore" which I loved just as much as the first three. Around the time I rewatched Pinocchio, I rewatched these as well and I DEFINITELY enjoyed them more as an adult than as a child :DD



Honorable mentions: Lady and the Tramp, The Lion King, Sleeping Beauty (which we never saw much of because my sister was afraid of the dragon part when she was little :lol), Aristocats, and Oliver and Company

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Sound Off! / The Fox (What The Fox Say) by Ylvis
« on: December 17, 2013, 01:51:00 AM »
I just love this song because it's so much fun to sing. :lol While seals do NOT go "Ow! Ow! Ow!" and Foxes actually make tons of sounds that so NOT sound anything like "WA PA PA PA POW PA POW!" or "AH HE AH HE AH HEEW!" and most DEFINITELY do not say "EERING DING DA DING DA DING DA DING!", it's still an amazingly catchy song and I love it  :smile

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General Land Before Time / Continuity errors
« on: June 08, 2013, 01:00:25 AM »
Let's face it: The Land Before Time has continuity errors. Pretty much all movies and TV series' do. They are nearly unavoidable. That being said, I feel like pointing out a few:


- Littlefoot's brothers and sisters: In the beginning of the original, you see the nest. With a few eggs missing, and Littlefoot's is the only one left. However, in Journey to Big Water, he says "I wish my mom would have given me a brother" then Grandma and Grandpa act as if he was her only child, and while he was, it seems he was never told about his would-be brothers and sisters who were eaten as eggs before being born.

- Use of the term "sleep stories" in The Great Longneck Migration" and after: Now while this is my favorite sequel of them all, I thought it was strange that they suddenly started to use that ter.  :huh:




Feel free to list any more you can think of ^_^

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Silver Screen / The Great Gatsby
« on: May 27, 2013, 11:07:13 PM »
Personally, I think the movie was overdone. There were ALOT of unnecessary things in the movie that didn't need to be there. I remember reading the book my junior year of high school for my English class. We watched the original movie that was made in the 70s, and I quite liked it. However, I was more than aggravated  :anger by the fact that they played RAP music at Gatsby's party in the 1920'S!!!!!!!!!! GRR MADE ME SO MAD!!!!!! >.<  :bang However, I didn't mind the classy jazz remake of BeyoncÈ's "Crazy In Love" and the songs that actually DID sound authentic and stayed true to the time period of the film.

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Character Discussion / LBT characters....at Hogwarts?????
« on: April 24, 2013, 01:27:44 AM »
Now, I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place or not, but I felt this would be a good place since it is a character discussion. Anyway, whenever I watch a series, I always like to think about what Hogwarts houses each character would be in.  :smile Here are what I think:


Gryffindor

Grandpa (also headmaster)
Bron- head of the house
Doc
Littlefoot
Guido

Hufflepuff

Grandma- head of house
Mr. Thicknose
Ducky
Petrie
Spike
Tippy
Ali
Mo
ALL mothers of the children of course :p

Ravenclaw

Sue- Head of house
Chomper
The Rainbow Faces

Slytherin

Mr. Threehorn/Topsy- Head of house
Cera
Ozzy
Strut
Hyp
Mutt
Nod
Pterano
Rinkus
Sierra
ALL Sharpteeth (besides Chomper of course, who is in Ravenclaw. ;) )

The Yellow-Bellies are muggles and/or squibs!  :lol

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Silver Screen / Harry Potter fans: rank each movie
« on: April 24, 2013, 01:09:18 AM »
Now, you don't have to count Deathly Hallows parts 1 and 2 as separate movies. I just prefer to, as I preferred one over the other. Mine are as follows:


1) The Deathly Hallows part 1- It's just perfect in every way. I just love the darkness and mysteriousness of it. <3 The tale of the three brothers gives me chills every time I watch it. :oops

2) The Prisoner of Azkaban- This is one of the few movies that I actually think was done better than the book. I am always super intrigued when I watch the climax of the film, with Sirius, Lupin, Snape, and Peter Pettigrew. Also, the part when Harry looks for Peter Pettigrew on the map is one of the creepiest and most suspenseful parts of the movie and one of my favorite scenes, even though it wasn't in the book.

3) The Goblet of Fire- It's a little choppy and the book is SOOOO much better, but they really did a great job with the movie with what they had and stayed well within the time constraint.

4) The Half-Blood Prince- Again, choppy. The fight scene could have made the movie a million times better, but I was pleased overall with this one.

5) The Sorcerer's Stone- The one that started it all. :DD This one is great, and they are just SOOO FREAKING CUTE!!!!! <3 Especially seeing how they grew up from this one.

6) The Deathly Hallows part 2- It was great, but I actually didn't find it as good as part 1. Most people I say this to disagree with me though. :(

7) The Order of the Phoenix- Now this is the choppiest movie of them all. It's the shortest (if you don't count Deathly Hallows part 2). While I thought the climax scene was done amazingly, there were lots of parts that were left out from the book, like when they visited St. Mungo's Hospital, which I would have really liked to have seen.

8) The Chamber of Secrets- Now this is kind of my own fault, but I have seen this one WAAAAYY too many times. >.< Also, at times I think it's a bit boring. It's actually the longest one. Idk, I just don't like it as much as the other films.

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Sound Off! / Do you like 60s music?
« on: April 10, 2013, 08:33:54 PM »
Idk about you guys, but I absolutely LOVE 60s music!!!!!!!!  :DD While I am a sucker for pop music, lots of it is overproduced and too easy to make. I love the 60s so much because I love how organic and artistic music from the 1960s was.

Here are my favorite bands from the 60s:

The Beatles (favorite band overall) :smile
The Rolling Stones
The Beach Boys

My favorite songs from the 60s:

Strawberry Fields Forever- The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night- The Beatles
I Feel Fine-The Beatles
Ticket To Ride- The Beatles
White Rabbit- Jefferson Airplane
California Dreamin'- The Mamas and the Papas
Turn, Turn, Turm- The Byrds
Surfin USA- The Beach Boys
Surfer Girl- The Beach Boys
Help Me, Rhonda- The Beach Boys
Sloop John B.- The Beach Boys
Good Vibrationa- The Beach Boys
Barbara Ann- The Beach Boys
Hang On Sloopy- The McCoys
19th Nervous Breakdown- The Rolling Stones
Ruby Tuesday- The Rolling Stones
Love Child- The Supremes

Yeah, I know I have a lot of Beach Boys and Beatles songs :lol

As for albums, I don't really own any besides the Beatles albums.  :confused

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General Land Before Time / How come Ducky didn't just swim in LTB 7?
« on: April 09, 2013, 05:48:49 PM »
I always wondered why she had trouble swimming in The Stone of Cold Fire. She IS a swimmer after all. I mean, I know the water was fast, but I still don't understand why she would have had trouble swimming. I'm sure that her mom would have been like "Oh Ducky, just swim,  dear!" like she did in The Big Freeze.

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General Land Before Time / Funniest parts of the series
« on: April 08, 2013, 11:24:13 PM »
For me, there are quite a few hilarious parts in just about every movie.

In the original, the part that always makes me LOL is the part where Ducky tries to lure the Sharptooth and she just screams out of the blue!  :lol Also, I SWEAR the Sharptooth says "DUCK!" or "DUCKY!" right after she does this  :p xD

In The Great Longneck Migration, there are LOTS of funny parts, like the Cera's dream where Littlefoot gets praised and anointed by everyone when he returns, and Cera screams "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" :lol Also, I love the final line of the movie by Ducky "I just have one question: Do we HAVE to go back through the swamp?" :lol

My favorite part of Invasion of the Tinysauruses is when Petrie, Ducky, and Spike are all mad at Littlefoot and Petrie complains "SPIKE ate all the bestest treestars me found this morning!" and Spike nods angrily, and Littlefoot is like "I didn't do that, Spike did" :lol

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For me, although LBT defines my childhood, some of the songs they sing are annoying at times, especially when they get stuck in your head  :bang But here's a list of songs that have always gotten stuck in my head (which actually includes most of them):


Peaceful Valley
Eggs
One Of Us Now :bang :bang :bang :bang
When You're Big  :bang :bang :bang
Standing Tough
Grandma's Lullaby :bang
Big Water
Friends For Dinner
The Legend of the Lone Dinosaur
Good Inside :bang
Very Imortant Creature
The Mad Song
Family
Imaginary Friends
Big Water (Reprise)  :bang :bang :bang :bang :bang
Me And My Dad

The :bang ones are the worst ones for me.

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Sound Off! / Worst song you ever heard?
« on: April 03, 2013, 12:31:24 PM »
Right now, am in HATE with Harlem Shake! I just want to destroy that song and annihilate it from existence. :bang I hate it so much, it's not even real music. Bauuer should apologize to America, or be locked up for making it. :lol  Also, if anyone has heard Revolution 9 by the Beatles (which isn't AS bad, but it is extremely creepy), that's one of the worst recordings in history, which is outrageous when you think about the fact that it was conjured up by John Lennon, the man who wrote such musical masterpieces as Strawberry Fields Forever and co-wrote A Day In The Life.

I'm sure many people will say Friday by Rebecca Black, though I personally don't think it's that bad. I mean sure, the lyrics are dumb, 13 year olds shouldn't be driving, and she should really not forget about her friend on the left  :lol (that was a joke) but I still feel bad for her because she was bullied out of school.  :(

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I've always loved it. I hear alot of people complain about it, saying that LBT started "going downhill" after that, but I strongly disagree. I thought the whole plotline was interesting, the twins are adorable <3, Doc is just plain awesome, and I have always had great respect for the moral of the story, which is that the people in your family who take care of you can be heroes too. :)

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The Welcome Center / Hello
« on: April 02, 2013, 06:48:34 PM »
My name is Dan. I'm 22 years old from Texas. I have been an LBT fan since I saw the movie as a toddler. I became obsessed with the series as the sequels came out, getting pretty much every single one for Christmas each year. However, the older I got, the more my dad, mom, and sister would tell me that the series was "for babies" and that I needed to grow up >.< (I'm sure many of us can relate to that).

When I entered high school, I started watching them in secret D; I ended up giving them away before my junior year of high school because I was too ashamed to have them, especially after my sister would tell her friends and make fun of me to them. I was even afraid to make my own friends thinking they would make fun of me.

For years, I tried to block any memory of the series because I told myself "you shouldn't like that D;" It did help my social life quite a bit though. However, now that I'm older and more mature, I feel like I was overreacting. I even recently re-watched all the movies. I used to have 1-11 on VHS (and I cherished them like rare diamonds. lol). I never saw 12 or 13 until recently. I enjoyed 12, but 13 was just awful.  :bang I was also tempted to stop watching because it was boring. lol Having said that, no matter how badly I try to hide it, LBT will always be in my heart <3



My other interests include music. I LOVE music! :D I sing, play guitar, and play piano. (I also have perfect pitch  ;) ). My favorite artists are The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Ke$ha, and as of recently, I have a newfound love for One Direction and Olly Murs. <3 (if you guys don't know who Olly Murs is, look him up on YouTube. His music is AMAZING! and addicting! :D ) I'm also a big fan of the TV show Glee. It's my current obsession, probably just about as big as my childhood obsession with LBT, if not more.


Well, that's about all I have for now. Great to meet you guys! :D

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Character Discussion / Real life people who remind you of characters?
« on: April 02, 2013, 10:57:34 AM »
I remember the first guy that ever bullied me made me think of Hyp (also, Ozzy came to mind at times, but mostly Hyp). Also at times, my sister's stubbornness and rudeness made me think of Cera. (funny cause her name is Cara) lol

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Am I the only one who's bothered by the line "Though you look like you, we think you'll like us too" in the song "One Of Us Now" in LBT II? I always just found that line silly, even as a child. :p

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