Marce82 wrote:Believe me, if I walk around asking people what film the song "Someday" belongs to, most people wont know. But everyone will know about "Can you feel the love tonight" or "a whole new world".
I think part of the reason for this is that Aladdin and The Lion King are seen as part of the Disney Renaissance whereas Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame were never as popular as those two (at least over here). People would thus identify with the songs of the popular films whereas the tunes from the "less" popular films wouldn't be as widely recognized.
And for the record, I've enjoyed many of the Disney songs and score post-TLK. There are many "hidden" gems out there.
DARTH KNITE wrote:They simply don't look realistic enough. They're picking up with the animation style they left off with, when they should have gone back to their 90s style.
In my opinion the characters look realistic enough (and this is animation so I'm expecting exaggerated movements and such; it'd be bland if it didn't have at least some), and I actually enjoy how they're so vivacious (Facilier in particular looks like a villain I'll love to hate because of his mannerisms which are exaggerated and given more nuances depending on the scenes).
As much as I enjoy the "90's style", I think Disney should experiment with different styles and try new things every once in a while. All things considered the look of the film is quite pleasing to my eye, and I like how they're not making it the exact carbon copy of what has come before.
As far as the music goes, I lost ALL hope of that being any good when they brought in Newman. All his crap sounds the same, and even though he's not singing it (thank God), it's just all too lifeless and generic. Not a standout song in the batch. I really don't think this movie is gonna save them the way it could have. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
I admit that I'm not a big fan of Randy Newman because his songs and scores have often been bland. One of the few notable exceptions is Cats Don't Dance which actually had quite catchy and beautiful tunes (and I guess the score of CDD was superior to Newman's scores because it wasn't written by him but by another person xD).
However, I'm not quite sure how to feel about the OST yet, and those short clips don't really give too detailed a look on the album as a whole. The songs have potential, and I'm sure at least a couple of them will turn out to be good (the villain song is a good candidate), but the score will likely get the short end of the stick unless Newman manages to whip up something spectacular for this film. It'll be extremely interesting to hear how the overall music will sound like and if it'll be as positive a surprise as Menken's music for Enchanted.
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. The two songs were Dig a Little Deeper and Friends on the Other Side. I can say that Dig a Little Deeper is definitely the show-stopping song in this film. I think Newman has done a fantasic job with it because, in my opinion, it's just as great as many of the other show-stopping hits we've heard in the past AND it still fits really well with the 1920s New Orleans feel. Friends on the Other Side is the same: a great villain song that fits the time period and will still be quite memorable.
