[enigmawing]

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I still say it's some fluffy girly 80's cartoon. . . but it's alright ;)

- Satanas Rey

Ok smartass, try comparing it to the Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, or Rainbow Brite.  ;)  ;D

[Satanas Rey]

Hey!! those were are kick ass cartoons, what you talking about ;)

- Satanas Rey

P.S. at least some part of me is smart hon :P

[enigmawing]

I guess that's better than being a dumbass. ;)

[Satanas Rey]

aint it? :P

- Satanas Rey

P.S. Come talk to me

[enigmawing]

Why, do you want to talk about The Last Unicorn and other fluffy, girly 80's cartoons?  :P

heh heh

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[Zool]

Oh come on Santa, it's not just for girls but guys like it! mainly for Amalthea and her nudness in the movie, you gotta admit she was hot didn't you think especially that scene where she is stripped twice which definitelly induces boners.

[ScreamingMeme]

Oh, Lord--look, I'm a straight dude with a blue collar (but not a red neck, if y'know what I mean), and I also love The Last Unicorn. (I also adore The Secret Of NIMH, and for a long, long time had a very disturbing crush on Mrs. Brisby. Shut up!)

I think I went through all of the following details here a couple of months ago. But I've already typed it all up, so...

The New Zealand live-action version of The Last Unicorn is more or less dead in the water. They signed a director, the director left, then they signed another director and announced they'd contracted Christopher Lee to reprise his totally ****ing awesome performance as King Haggard and Mia Farrow to return in a different role (Mommy Fortuna!!). Mia Farrow's credit later vanished.

And then...there was nothing. For a long, long time. The entry at IMDB--redated for a 2004, then 2005, then 2006, then 2007, then 2008 release--has faded away.

This may not be a bad thing. That last director was Geoff Murphy, whose work for the past two decades has been less than stellar. If you've seen (especially the last ten minutes of) Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, I don't need to say any more about him. (If you haven't, here's a few more "number twos" for you: Young Guns II, Fortress 2, and Freejack. He was also second-unit director on XXX2: State Of The Union.) The first director was Michael Pakleppa, who did some work on the Rankin-Bass toon, but is "better known" for Nukie. (Check the "external reviews" at IMDB, but...brace yourself first.)

Finally, the unicorn was going to be depicted by a horse with "extras" attached. There is no emoticon to depict how that makes me feel.

If you like, you can monitor the lack of progress (and see the enthusiastic pre-production material) at http://www.the-last-unicorn.net/

The good news is that Peter S. Beagle, author of the original story AND screenplays for both movies, has released a short-story sequel that's up for a Hugo, which may attract attention. Hopefully, from the right people.

Frankly, I can do without anymore Hollywood adaptations of TLU. Paul Frees is gone. I got the German DVD of the toon; I got the original story. I'm good. In fact, I think I'll have a taco.

http://www.peterbeagle.com/

[enigmawing]

It was a very sad day when we lost Paul Frees, he was an amazing voice actor that did so much.  :'(  (On a similar note we just lost Tony Jay, although he had nothing to do with TLU.)

I've heard about the production issues with the live-action version. although I used to be under the impression that Mia was going to play Molly Grue, not Mommy Fortuna (heh, wouldn't it have been neat to see Angel Lansbury reprise her roll?). . . I'm probably remembering wrong though but I cuold see her in either role, actually.

There's no words to describe Christopher Lee, that guy's just a god in my book. *faints*

Sigh. . . I still have yet to read Peter S. Beagle's book. . . it's just one of those I haven't gotten around to yet.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is probably my favorite book from my childhood and I love the film version as well (despite the fact they added unecessary magic, killed off a major character that is supposed to live on for several books, and made Jenner pure evil).  Even though it's Don Bluth's very first feature-length production, I still think it's his finest.  The Great Owl scared the crap out of me as a kid and so did the tractor sequence near the begining.

Oh, and anyone recognize little Shannon Doherty's voice? ;)

[ScreamingMeme]

And Wil Wheaton! Totally different from the character he's best known (and hated by so many nerds) for.

Actually, now that my faulty memory is jogged, you're right--Mia was supposed to play Molly, not Mommy.

Can't recommend the book enough. For all the little details and funny anachronisms that made it into the movie, there are many more that didn't. (For example, Lir's chain-mail is made out of old-fashioned soda-can pull-tabs.)

I will forgive the license Bluth took with NIMH; in the book, the Rats are basically techies, Jenner dies "offscreen" before the story opens, the house-moving goes off without a hitch, and the primary "suspense" centers around Mrs. B getting out of the cage. That reads well, but would've been a disaster on film. (Just compare the book's "Halfwit Brutus" to the Nightmare Fuel that runs after poor Mrs. B slashing away with that pike. Mr. Ages' line shortly thereafter--"Oh, that's just Brutus!"-- always puts me in stitches.) But yeah, the massive initial box-office failure of NIMH (only the infamous Megaforce was a bigger flop in '82) seemed to really hurt Bluth and company...his movies never quite reached that level of pure greatness again.

Isn't it just FULL of terror, though? The tractor. Brutus. The venom-drooling spider. The Great Owl. DRAGON. The colander! Jenner! Crushings, slappings, slashings, and stabbings. The kids sinking! Even the happy ending is salted with some third-degree burns. Brrrr.

[Zool]

Hey Scream do you also remember "The Dark Crystal"? oooh you had a crush on Brisby, well she's cute but doesn't hold a candle to Gadget from Rescue Rangers. Did you also thought Amalthea was a babe? i mean with those nude scenes it's like WHOA! well NIMH didn't scared me when i was a kid, but "Magic" did! anyone remembered that movie? the 1978 horror flick with Anthony Hopkins and his killer ventriloquist dummy.

[kalcium]

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