As good as this film is...

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #100 on:** December 15, 2009, 07:24:04 PM

New users, new perspectives, my friend.

Malte279 · **Reply #101 on:** December 16, 2009, 03:57:10 AM

Not saying it ought not to be discussed, just suggesting for that discussion to be continued in the original thread to help avoiding repetition

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #102 on:** December 16, 2009, 04:28:59 AM

Isn't that old thread old enough that it was locked, though?

Malte279 · **Reply #103 on:** December 16, 2009, 05:12:52 AM

Nope, threads are only logged if the topic of the thread is either over (e.g. former award voting sessions) or if they are escalating. Threads are not logged for just being old as very often some new elements can be brought up at a much later time (we have threads with posts stretching over many years). Here is the link to the thread on Littlefoot's motives to kill the sharptooth.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #104 on:** December 17, 2009, 08:03:17 AM

Well, part of this new direction is also asking if there was anything they'd change about it, so I don't see the need to go back to the old topic.

Malte279 · **Reply #105 on:** December 17, 2009, 11:28:54 AM

Aye, if we are discussing about how the respective scene could / would / should have been different (or not) rather than speculating about the existing scene this would be a different topic fitting into this thread

So what would you change about the scene (if anything) WR?

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #106 on:** December 17, 2009, 07:13:10 PM

A little more clerity on just what Littlefoot wants to accomplish by killing the Sharptooth would have been nice. It's always disturbed me that the scene could be alternatively read to mean Littlefoot just wants revenge and is willing to use his friends to do it.
Now, I know that IS NOT the case. Paying back what Toothy did to Littlefoot's mother was just icing on the cake. I am firmly of the belief that Littlefoot was just afraid Sharptooth would find the Valley by following them or kill them before they even got there at the rate they were going.
However, I've honest to God met people who read the scene in the darkest ways. Their take on it ain't pretty.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #107 on:** January 10, 2010, 12:31:05 AM

Nobody has had anything to say about this? Honestly?

Malte279 · **Reply #108 on:** January 10, 2010, 05:40:47 AM

Perhaps because most of what could be said had been said in the thread specifically about the scene. I do agree that by using the original concept of letting Littlefoot find the Great Valley before the encounter with Sharptooth it would have been clearer to interpret as a necessity to prevent the Sharptooth from entering the Great Valley.
Other than that I personally don't see the interpretation of Littlefoot risking the lives of his friends for any reason other than necessity particularly prominent, but one can be of a different opinion of course.

Pikkutassu · **Reply #109 on:** February 03, 2010, 11:00:41 AM

It was because they didn't want Sharptooth to enter the great valley. In the original ending Littlefoot was saying that they need to get rid of him because of this, but since the mom ghost scene from the early discovery of the great valley was moved here, Littlefoot couldn't have already known where the great valley is.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #110 on:** February 03, 2010, 05:16:54 PM

And thus he would have been following Littlefoot's scent trail right into the Valley.

Kor · **Reply #111 on:** February 03, 2010, 09:20:47 PM

Though that sort of thing would have likely happened before, not that Littlefoot may think of that being as young as he and his friends are in the first movie. His idea does make sense from that standpoint, of dealing with the sharptooth so it would not follow them into the Great Valley, especially if he had been to the great valley and went back for them.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #112 on:** February 03, 2010, 09:26:42 PM

So in other words, in terms of cutting Littlefoot having been to the GReat Valley and gone back for his friends, it was one of the times Spielberg and Lucas should have let Bluth have it his way. How many minutes could it possibly have added, anyway?

812558 · **Reply #113 on:** February 04, 2010, 01:42:18 AM

What I always paraphrased him saying was somthing along the lines of "this guy has been folowing us for days, let's kill him" and I just always found it slightly numerous how that just sorta comes out of the blue, with no discussion leading up to it. So in a sence, it can qualify as murder. Let it be known though that I have Absolutly no problem with this, they have good reasons to kill the sharptooth, and if they had not killed him he might have gotten into the vally, but at that time he had not been doing anything to them. He was just walking around. Now I am not deffdnding the sharptooth, but I think that drowning him was alittle out of the blue harsh is all.

Malte279 · **Reply #114 on:** February 04, 2010, 04:43:23 AM

So what is your suggestion about what Littlefoot should have done in that situation?

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #115 on:** February 07, 2010, 07:38:49 PM

Actually, I think he was tracking them at the time. Didn't you notice how he kept sniffing the air?

Malte279 · **Reply #116 on:** February 08, 2010, 04:00:52 AM

Aye, so what should Littlefoot have done in that situation to evade being accused of risking the lives of everyone mainly for revenge (as had been suggested in the other thread about the matter)?

Ducky123 · **Reply #117 on:** May 16, 2013, 05:44:29 PM

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Aye, so what should Littlefoot have done in that situation to evade being accused of risking the lives of everyone mainly for revenge (as had been suggested in the other thread about the matter)?

To be honest I can't imagine that Littlefoot could get rid of him on his own...
The Gang defeated him together. Personally, I think that the scene should demonstrate that by holding on together they are strong, even strong( admittedly also smart) enough to send this Sharptooth to dino heaven

The only way I can think of where Littlefoot might defeat him on his own is to lure him into the deep water all alone, though it would have been by far more dangerous than their original plan...

Now my two cents to the original question( uhm... what is it

look it up, Ducky!!!)
Ah yes...
On top of all things that could have made the original movie even better(I agree to many members here that it's the best movie of the franchise)doubtlessly are the outcutted scenes

Will we find a member here who doesn't want to see them???

: I bet we won't. Except we have fake fans on here

I guess our last hope is the 25th anniversary this year though I doubt we'll get what we want

Some other points that might had been included:
- explaining why Littlefoots Father isn't around
- Petrie hatching
- showing the fight of LF and Cera instead of showing Spike, Petrie and Ducky...

I personally really like the animation style although it's kinda old...

Bruton the Iguanodon · **Reply #118 on:** May 16, 2013, 08:33:06 PM

I actually made a list a long time ago about what I'd change in this thread:

http://gangoffive.net/index.php?showtopic=10533

I still would make those changes in an instant if given the choice, but really, a lot of it is just nitpicking. The movie is pretty great as it is.

But I still would love the deleted scenes.

Path Light · **Reply #119 on:** June 14, 2013, 01:12:45 AM

To my horror, Land Before Time 1 was the shortest with about 64 minutes. :blink:
If they can use the deleted scenes, it will be longer.

As good as this film is...

Bruton the Iguanodon