Tawmis wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 4:52 pm
Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 6:36 am
And yes, I'm not really a fan of the Disney animation style. Maybe it's because of, when I watched Disney as a kid, the graphics were blurry and indistinct.
Blurry?
I can't remember. All Disney films become a single blur to me. Maybe because there were so many. Or maybe because of the late-70s/early-80s TV I watched them on, with a not-very-good reception.
(Heck, I can still remember black-and-white TV, and how excited I was when colour television came in ... with, sometimes, not-very-good reception ... 'cos it was an early model).
The only Disney film I can recollect from being a kid, with any clarity, is this one:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... racter.png
... which is funny, 'cos the film came out
before I was even born.
But it was still played when I was big enough of a kid to sort-of understand it, about 10 years later ... oh, and it had subtitles, 'cos it was in English ... and reading subtitles is boring to a kid.
Tawmis wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 4:52 pm
Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 6:36 am
Later, as an adult, they always struck as overly cutesy (except when Donald lost his temper - I liked that).
On the other hand, Donald is hard to understand at the best of times.
Disney movies were often very dark. Watch Bambi, for example. Oh, it's cute. But it has a very, very, very dark start.
Many of the older Disney movies were dark like this.
There's that, of course. But the only Disney films and scenes I can remember are:
- Snow White ("Hi-ho" scene, and "Snow Cleans the House" scene ... with birds)
- Mickey as Sorcerer's Apprentice (brooms creating havoc scene ... can't remember much before the sorcerer leaves or after he returns, except Mickey being scolded)
- And -- oh my! -- a film that I can't even remember the title of, but it had a song that went, "Zippedi-doodah! Zeippedi-hey! My oh my, it's such a wonderful day!"
I can't remember the rest of the film, but I remember that one. I haven't seen it for
ages, though.
I watched other (non-Disney) cartoons as a kid, of course -- but seeing as the choice was limited to either Smurfs, Care Bears or Transformers, is it any wonder that as a kid, I thought Transformers was the most fun?
Tawmis wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 4:52 pm
Rath Darkblade wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 6:36 am
No, I never played Torin's Passage ... or the Black Cauldron (which is also a Disney movie, I think?) ... or either of the Manhunter games (which have nothing to do with it, except they came out about the same time as Black Cauldron).
.... Black Cauldron is a Disney movie....
....
But it's based off the book that predates the movie.
By 20 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black ... on_(novel)
(I've had been re-reading that whole series recently, until I began re-reading Hobbit and LotR)
Hmm. *shrug* Sorry, never got to read it, neither as a kid nor as an adult.
The English books that I did get to read (in translation to Hebrew, of course) "The Hobbit", some "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and Edith Hamilton's classic "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" (1942).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_(book)
I guess even then, I was drawn to fantasy and mythology.
So what about you?
King's Quest 5 and 6 are also good and very imaginative, especially when it comes to your character dying in strange ways.
Did I say I don't like the graphics because they're graphics?? Oops. 
*beats head against the wall* 