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GHcool 
"Forever a curious character."
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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 Posted - 10/30/2006 : 06:16:41
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Originally posted by GHcoo7
http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=romeoandjulietsealedwithakiss
I wonder how they're going to do the tragic double suicide. 
You know, this kind of thing really drives me up the wall. Take a tragic story, lighten up the end and then animate it for kids (making sure you have a really funny side-kick to take all the flack and pick up on all the straight lines). Cutesy-tutesy, lovey-dovey, bull-crap!
Do animators and animation studios really think that today's kids can't take a little bit of disappointment at the end of their films? Are they trying to make kids believe that even the saddest of stories can have a happy end if we just re-write it? Okay, so Romeo & Juliet was a play and not history (like Disney's horrid adaptation of Pocahontas, and that Anastasia by some other studio), but still... it is a tradgey and not a kid's story. Can't they find some other source material to screw up and leave the classics alone?
Yes, I know, Lion King wasn't all that bad and yes, I do know it was based on Hamlet - but at least they pulled the source out of the title.
And when they look for source material, perhaps they could find some that have happy endings to begin with to make into animated movies?
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duh 
"catpurrs"
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Conan The Westy
"Father, Faithful Friend, Fwiffer"
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Posted - 10/30/2006 : 20:02:03
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I give it 2 dead fish.  |
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GHcool
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 10/30/2006 : 21:23:26
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The Los Angeles Times called it "A genuine tragedy, although not in the Shakespearean sense."  |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 10/31/2006 : 06:42:12
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Originally posted by GHcoo7
The Los Angeles Times called it "A genuine tragedy, although not in the Shakespearean sense."
Oh, my GOD! That review makes it sound like its even worst than I first feared. What's more, I didn't realize that the two feuding seal groups were different colors - and with the insults from the Mercutio character, it sounds like it practically teaches racism, instead of the opposite.
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redPen
"Because I said so!"
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Posted - 10/31/2006 : 06:59:44
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| GH, the answer's obvious, isn't it? . . . They'll club each other! |
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I hope AC doesn't find out about this ...
