MarzGurl Discusses The Land Before Time IX
Written by MarzGurl Wednesday, 06 April 2011 00:33
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04.06.2011 - 00:58 | Grimfang
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04.06.2011 - 01:39 | hadomaru
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04.06.2011 - 01:24 | honestiago
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04.06.2011 - 15:41 | Dierna
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04.06.2011 - 01:33 | Kitpup
IMAGINARY FRIENDS. AGH. I hated this movie the WORST.
I completely forgot about the Big Water reprisal. Also, even when I was a kid I thought the CGI looked massively fake. Also, occasionally Spike and Petri swap places in the listing.
This film is when I started leaving the room when my sister put in the movies.
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04.06.2011 - 02:20 | Yuu-Mon Musuedo
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04.06.2011 - 02:45 | Lakiver
I watched the series up to 10. I only got that far because the first Land Before Time was my absolute favorite animated movie growing up, and I felt obligated to keep watching the sequels. But after the 10th one, I realized that they were just completely awful (Plus, I had recently turned 13, and the childishness of the movies became fully revealed to me.) I still cherish the first movie, but I now hate the sequels for the scars they left me with.
Also, I hate singing in children's films. Never could stand it.
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09.10.2011 - 20:36 | fanime1
OMG! I did the exact same thing! This is the last movie I watched! I skipped 7, though when I heard it had aliens. Unfortunately, I am still dumber for doing this because I stopped in HIGH SCHOOL! At least you stopped when you became a teenager. But no, I continued torturing myself because of a stupid goal I made as a kid. I guess I just don't know when to quit T_T.
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04.06.2011 - 02:55 | FunkyM
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04.06.2011 - 03:02 | Logi
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04.06.2011 - 03:06 | Perzyn
Wow! That movie gives me an idea. It's the best idea in history of mankind! Even better than sliced bread!
Let's make a movie. A kung-fu movie. With all sorts of thrilling action and blood freezingly cruel fights and... and... and ton of other exciting, extremely thrilling stuff. And things blowing up! And giant monsters attacking Tokyo!
And all these things happen offscreen, while audience gets to hear characters talking about them!
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04.06.2011 - 03:08 | Kaibaman
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04.06.2011 - 03:18 | blackshadowOh boy you think that was bad wait for the 10th and 12th movies.
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04.06.2011 - 04:25 | Nia_Teppelin
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04.06.2011 - 05:08 | Amaretta
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04.06.2011 - 05:15 | shadowspider9
Did anybody notice that they seemed to throw the whole littlefoot wanting a sibling plot out the window. I honestly thought that's what the movie would be.
Migrating longnecks come. little foot plays with baby longnecks, baby longnecks get in trouble, littlefoot and friends must save them, little foot learns what it means to be an older sibling. Done.
We even even get a random scene with a female longneck and her babies. Which I think could have been a very touching scene since this is the first time littlefoot has ever even mentioned his mom in these movies.
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04.06.2011 - 07:37 | JackitK
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04.06.2011 - 05:17 | Folio
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04.06.2011 - 05:36 | Chochip
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04.06.2011 - 05:44 | edl01
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04.06.2011 - 06:04 | Drakonos
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04.06.2011 - 06:43 | alexthed
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04.06.2011 - 06:50 | whatever42
Well Marzgurl, you got through another one of the worst in the series. I never did like this one for obvious reasons, though I didn't think that the "Boring" song was too bad all things considered. God though, that imaginary friends song just has always been stuck in my brain despite it being bad. I hate when that happens.
So, you're up to number 10. I don't remember the specifics of this movie very well, but there are two good things I do remember. The 10th one does mention Littlefoot's mother in a rather large way, along with something else related, and it does have a good song in "Bestest Friends." I am serious too; the song is actually great.
Of course, I don't remember liking too much about the movie, so I can't imagine that these good things outweigh the bad by even a little. However, there are only four more movies, unless you plan to look at the TV series as well. I know you can make it. :)
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04.06.2011 - 07:07 | Dechha1981I've been a younger sibling and I've been an only child (long melancholy story, short version; brother got kicked out and there was drugs and other illegal stuff involved. He's still alive but he's an asshole)
I prefer being an only child.
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04.06.2011 - 07:09 | Zachrid
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04.06.2011 - 07:34 | JackitK
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04.06.2011 - 08:02 | Shinigami
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04.06.2011 - 08:36 | Nyar
You know what really bothers me about this "Land before time" sequels? wasn't there a global disaster in the first one and every "green food" was gone so this valley they needed to found was like THE only place in which the dinosaurs could survive?
But in the sequels they often get out of the valley and there is always not only food available everywere but other dinosaurs living their normal lives... what happened with that big disaster from the first movie? In this one we even got a mother long neck with their eggs hatching living a perfectly normal life right there outside of the valley... So frustrating.
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04.06.2011 - 11:12 | Crunchy_FrogWhoever wrote those movies expected little kids to forget all about it. Keeping continuity from movie to movie is too much hassle. Besides, if the valley was the only place left, there would be no chance to introduce dinosaurs from outside.
This is no longer a PG movie, this is aimed at pre-school children. And movie makers and "concerned parents" think that media aimed children should never EVER contain anything that might frighten the little anklebiters or imply that sometimes scary things can happen to parents and kids, thus ANYTHING resembling danger is carefully removed and sanitized, leaving only colorful things bouncing up and down and singing silly songs. Much like A Troll in Central Park.
But the point these people don't get is that childred (from a certain age up) find scary or "icky" stories exciting. Ghost stories around the camp fire, fairy tales, those can be pretty bloody. As long as the Good Guys win in the end and order is restored. Heck, anyone remember all those deaths in old Disney cartoons, like Bambi's mother? E.T. being abandoned on Earth, being chased by the government, and then dying? (OK, he got better.)
Can you imagine any movie studio today making a PG-13 out of Charles Dicken's novel "David Copperfield" (1894), or "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase" (1963) by Joan Aiken??
(I'm going with the American rating system here, in Germany the rating system is different, with a category for teenagers of 16+ between FSK-12 and FSK-18.)
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04.06.2011 - 09:00 | ScutigeraColeoptrata
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04.06.2011 - 09:03 | yourworstnightmareStupid shitty movie.
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04.06.2011 - 09:19 | Carteeg_Struve