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TheSequelofDisney wrote:Roger and Me? That is grammatically incorrect.

It is less common, but it's just as correct grammatically as Roger and I is.

Riiiiiiiiiiight

TheSequelofDisney wrote:Roger and Me? That is grammatically incorrect. It should be Roger and I. Whoever came up with that title must be very stupid.

Well remember this is Michael Moore we're talking about.

Anyway last night, after listening to a Disney podcast(which wasn't Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Pod ) that dedicated their entire episode to this movie, I decided to watch a Disney film I haven't watched in 5 years, Pete's Dragon. While not the best Disney film ever, I think the hosts of that podcast were too harsh on this film. They said something like, "it's great for kids, but boring for adults, and had way too many songs, which would've been fine if the songs weren't so cheesy and unmemorable". I definetely disagree with their two points. While kids will like it most, I think adult can fine fun in this film as well. And I liked a lot(if not all) of the songs. While not the most memorable, they're pretty fun and catchy.
Overall, a fun simple live-action film from Disney. 6/10

I also saw Napoleon Dynamite again. Gosh that film is addicting!

Timon/Pumbaa fan wrote:Anyway last night, after listening to Disney podcast(which wasn't Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Pod ) that dedicated their entire episode to this movie, I decided to watch a Disney film I haven't watched in 5 years, Pete's Dragon.

Awesome! (Even if they were harsh). Which podcast was this?

-Aaron

MouseGuest Weekly.

I watched Dumbo twice. Once with John Canemaker's audio commentary, and once without John Canemaker's audio commentary.

<i>Mean Girls</i>. I don't care for most of the teen movies that have been released within the last seven years or so, but I blind-bought this film 'cause I liked the premise and it was only $10. I don't like Lindsay Lohan at all, but she wasn't irritating at all in this movie. The story didn't lag and the jokes were actually funny. Mark me down as pleasantly surprised.

Finchx0rz wrote:The story didn't lag and the jokes were actually funny. Mark me down as pleasantly surprised.

Well it IS Tina Fey's.

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965 - USA) (Viewed 7 June 2006): How can you resist a film with that many exclamation marks in the title? Three well-endowed drag-racing women get involved in murder and extortion in the desert. That is about all the plot you are going to get here. Exploitation King, Russ Meyer, it is very difficult to be tough on this film. The dialogue is terrible, the acting is wooden - but MAN it is fun, and I can dig it! Watch Tura Santana's clevage get more pronounced as the film goes along! Falling into the 'bad but good' category, it still has a few things that make this significant: rapid editing, fast action, female violence and tough chicks several decades before Tarantino.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

A true Disney masterpiece! The brilliant songs and score added up with a timeless tale make The Hunchback of Notre Dame a wonderful animated Classic.

Shock Treatment

Well, er... well. Em.

It's certainly unique.

In some repects it is just bad - loud, poorly structured and confusing. However, in other respects it truely is ahead of its time, filled with ideas that are common now - if not clichéd – but must have felt new and fresh in 1981.

Its targets include the ever growing influence of television socially, instant-celebrity culture, evangelism, the power corporations have over television's content and, way before it became popular, the threat of "reality" TV. In some respects, Richard O'Brian was dead-on with his predictions on the future of television.

However, sadly this can't save the film. As I said, the scripting is poor – I often found myself "loosing the plot" as I viewed it, and as relevant and sharp as the satire was, it has lost most of its impact because in many ways real "reality television" has used concepts and showed acts much more outrageous than presented here.

It also has a totally different tone than The Rocky Horror Picture Show. As I've said before, whenever I'm depressed a quick viewing of TRHPS rarely fails to cheer me up. It's just so infectious – it’s a film filled with energy. I don't just mean the song and dance numbers, but the whole of the film. It's all about liberation. But, despite some great songs, Shock Treatment is about the opposite. It's about conformation. The Denton TV staff and crew may all be oddballs, but ultimately they're all just in it for their own selfish ends – money, fame, revenge. And they know what the crowd wants, and how to work it. Even the manufactured celebrity Janet at first enjoys ("for Brad") is just about Janet conforming to other people's expecatations (as well as her own).

Compare all this to the sheer joy and independence of the various Rocky Horror screwballs. Shock Treatment just doesn't have the same infectious spark. And it's for this reason I suspect that most RHPS fans rejected it.

But it does have some good songs. 'Denton, U.S.A', 'Bitchin' In The Kitchen' and 'Shock Treatment' standing out the most on this – my first – viewing.

I can't really recommend this with the same enthusiasm I recommend The Rocky Horror Picture Show to everyone. In fact, I can only recommend it as a curiosity really. But it's a curiosity I'm pleased to have viewed and own. I'll be going back and rewatching some of the musical numbers as soon as I post this quick review.

For some reason I had a bizarrely strange urge to watch the 1970s Disney comedy One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing.

Now I've only ever seen this movie once before and stereotyping aside I just generally thought this movie was dull and a waste of celluloid anyway.

So it came as a suprise to me that I wanted for some unknown reason to watch it.

And I absolutely loved it! (Awaits Netty's stern reprimand).
I feel really wrong for liking it so much, considering its hideous Chinese stereotypes, I mean who thought they could ever get away with passing Peter Ustinov off as Chinese? But in terms the pure daftness of this complete insane plot won me over! It's almost like a long lost carry on movie!

So I'll go off and hang my head in shame.

You know it puzzles me how a movie this hideously offensive is availble on DVD, yet Song of the South which isn't even racist in my opinon, gets stuck in the vault!

ichabod wrote:Song of the South which isn't even racist in my opinon, gets stuck in the vault!

Yeah, gets stuck in the vault forever, and most of us, well the general public, hasn't even seen, or even heard of, the movie. The only part that we would know, would probably be "Zip-a-dee-doo-da" (sp?) I mean, that's the only thing that I know from the movie. This isn't fair to us Disney, a whole generation will live on without a movie that you created for us to see, and now we can't see it because you think it's racist.

Last night I watched A Fish Called Wanda.

Old School - Hilarious, this generations Animal House. Todd Phillips is a great comedy director.

I watched the Pacifier and it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be although I didn't love it. Love Lauren Graham

I watched 40-Year-Old Virgin and I gotta tell you, I wasn't impressed. The movie is long for a comedy and as I was watching it I kept saying "when is this going to end." Now this attitude might of been influenced by the fact that I was watching it at 1 in the morning. However don't get me wrong there were a few funny moments where I laughed pretty hard but in general it was worse than I expected.

40 year old virgin would of been better if they would of cut it down more. It was just way too long for its own good.

Yeah it was, but it was so damn funny. Wedding Crashers is another one that's pretty long. I didn't buy the unrated versions just because the originals were long enough.

Anywho, just watched Anger Mangagement. Man, that film is so stupid.. but I giggle so much every time I see it. Can't wait for Click.

-JM

I watched most of Freaky Friday (remake) on The Disney Channel last night.

I watched Freaky Friday also, today on the Disney Channel and then I watched Mean Girls. I guess I had a mini Lohan Marathon.