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Post by Dan E. Moderator on Jan 7, 2018 21:56:27 GMT
After the threads about Disney and animation etc, I thought this might be an interesting film to discuss.
This Week: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Chosen by: Dan E. Kool
Released: 1988
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Joanna Cassidy
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Producer: Frank Marshall, Robert Watts
Writer: Gary K. Wolf, Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman
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Post by Balder on Jan 7, 2018 23:20:57 GMT
A classic. I didn't watch this until some time in 2016, but I remember it being a blast. So fun to see both Looney Tunes and Disney characters together.
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Post by MeleeMonk on Jan 7, 2018 23:52:07 GMT
I love Richard Williams, but I am not a fan of this film. Roger Rabbit just isn't for me. Although I do acknowledge that it is well made, it just bores me to death. All the character designs are ones we've seen a million times before, and I don't find american animation visually appealing at all.
I know I don't speak for everyone, but I'm giving it a 2/5.
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Post by scipioafricanus on Jan 8, 2018 1:23:54 GMT
Saw it several times as a kid, haven't seen it recently, however.
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Post by Balder on Jan 8, 2018 11:53:22 GMT
I love Richard Williams, but I am not a fan of this film. Roger Rabbit just isn't for me. Although I do acknowledge that it is well made, it just bores me to death. All the character designs are ones we've seen a million times before, and I don't find american animation visually appealing at all. I know I don't speak for everyone, but I'm giving it a 2/5. You're crazy. |
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Post by stratogustav on Jan 8, 2018 23:04:39 GMT
I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid, I don't remember anything of it though.
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Post by Cervantes on Jan 9, 2018 1:50:20 GMT
I remember loving it and it being a great movie overall. I'll see if I can watch it again this week and tell you guys my impressions.
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Post by centipede on Jan 9, 2018 3:38:20 GMT
This movie is definitely one of my favourites.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Jan 9, 2018 20:14:46 GMT
I love this movie. I loved it as a kid and, having rewatched it just recently, I still love it now as an adult - as much, or maybe even moreso. I agreed with Cervantes in the Disney thread that the sing-songy stuff that makes up so much of their movies isn't really my thing. They're great for kids, and some adults I know like them too, but that's not me. Same goes for Broadway shows in general. Story wise, this film still holds up for me. Given that we've got a setting that allows for all of these classic Loony Toons and Disney characters to be together, it seems perfectly natural that the story follows a kind of 1940s wartime detective theme. There's never really any wondering about Who Dun It, but the final reveal of the villains motive still got a laugh out of me. And that's the primary reason to watch this movie, imo. The laughs are still there. There's a nice mix of cartoony slapstick and some clever innuendo and plays-on-words that flew way over my head as a kid. Bob Hoskins does a great job in his role, as does Christopher Lloyd. I have no idea what MeleeMonk is talking about, Roger and all the other main cartoon characters are original to this movie. The cameos by the classics like Bugs and Daffy are great, though. The secondary reason to watch, of course, is that Roger Rabbit is so beautifully animated. It's really unreal. You can watch through the movie and just enjoy it because the animation and the way the cartoons interact with the environment looks so right that you don't even think about it, but then there's some times when your jaw just drops and you wonder, How'd they do that? Really cool - especially in the days before computer animation. Here's a video I found that shows a little of how they did it: Favorite Disney movie/5 |
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Post by Cervantes on Jan 14, 2018 17:41:26 GMT
I rewatched it yesterday, after years, and still can't think of a single criticism against the movie. I completely agree with Dan E. Kool 's post: the setting, the story, the characters, the acting and animation... Everything is top notch. I'm very impressed by how seamless the animation and the live action footage are, and I have no idea how they made a lot of scenes - the animated characters interact perfectly with the real scenery. They even made some scenes harder for themselves just so they could keep the consistency: notive how one of the weasels is always holding a real gun. They could just have drawn the weasel and the gun, but no: they somehow made the real scene with the real gun floating around, then drew the weasel around it while making all look natural. Also, look at how the catoon's shadows correctly interact with the real scenery, The animation is just gorgeous. It almost has a 3d quality to it, it's hard to believe it's all hand-drawn. The movie has this melancholic feeling: by homaging and parodying classic animation, it also acts like its final moment in the limelight (it's very appropriate that it puts together Donald and Daffy, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny in the same scenes, or that it has a small scene with Betty Boop complaining about being replaced by color cartoons). Truly, the Disney animations that came after that year have a completely different humour and style (Warner tried to keep some of the classic humour style in the 90s with Animaniacs, but even it feels very different), so it could be said that Roger Rabbit was really the closure that classic animation needed. Definitely a 5/5 to me. Edit: Everyone, watch the video linked by Dan E. Kool . It shows the great lenghts they went to make the physical interactions look natural, including the gun thing I mentioned. |
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