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Post by Revolver Ocelot on Apr 28, 2008 7:39:27 GMT -5
Only cartoon that really scared me when I was a kid was The Secret of Nimh. That movie just had a really ominous, foreboding atmosphere. Don Bluth just did amazing work back then. The scene with the owl still sends chills up my spine. This is by far the greatest animated feature film ever made.
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Post by kisai on Apr 28, 2008 9:43:50 GMT -5
I think everybody who's seen the animated version of _Watership Down_ has erased it from their memories. Dead rabbits everywhere, General Woundwort...
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Post by zogbog on Apr 28, 2008 10:41:26 GMT -5
;-; Please dont remind me.
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Post by TheGunheart on Apr 29, 2008 14:59:23 GMT -5
Only cartoon that really scared me when I was a kid was The Secret of Nimh. That movie just had a really ominous, foreboding atmosphere. Don Bluth just did amazing work back then. The scene with the owl still sends chills up my spine. This is by far the greatest animated feature film ever made. The atmosphere in that movie was just beyond awesome. Seriously, there have been many films with small characters in the normal sized world, but how many can make a discarded lobster trap look like an alien structure through lighting and mood alone?
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Post by Drawesome(Dale) on Apr 29, 2008 16:31:52 GMT -5
Now that you mention it, it was pretty disturbing(Brave little Toaster that is).
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Post by Warchief Onyx on Apr 29, 2008 19:13:59 GMT -5
Yeah. Although I liked the book it was based on much more, The Secret of NIMH was pretty damn creepy.
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Post by necromaniac on Apr 30, 2008 6:59:22 GMT -5
I might be in the minority here, but there were no cartoons that managed to scare me as a child. I usually just found dark and gloomy things cool, and rooted for the villain most of the time, still do, which is kind of at odds with my actual ideals but then again I can blame shows like Care Bears and My Little Pony for that. Drama worked though, as I've always been kind of over sensitive and at an early age I begun to loathe show like Loony Toons and Tom 'n Jerry because I always felt sorry for the cartoon cat (or it's equivalent) , who was only following it's nature but got tortured for it. (Though I began to like Tom 'n Jerry when they became more like friendly rivals). I got my sleepless nights from movies and books, and they were many, thanks to Ghostbusters II and ghost/wrath/zombie folklore tales; Both which I got my taste of at the age of 8, and the X-files and alien abduction books/movies soon followed.
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Post by Revolver Ocelot on Apr 30, 2008 8:04:54 GMT -5
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Post by necromaniac on Apr 30, 2008 8:21:27 GMT -5
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Post by Vendaval Este on Apr 30, 2008 9:47:37 GMT -5
Jesus Christ, I thought Watership Down was for kids.
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Post by thethird on Apr 30, 2008 21:28:46 GMT -5
Haha, I remember Watership Down. I watched that at school, which makes it even more sick/funny.
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Post by TheGunheart on Apr 30, 2008 22:44:13 GMT -5
which is kind of at odds with my actual ideals but then again I can blame shows like Care Bears and My Little Pony for that. Okay, I'm trying to tell exactly what you meant by that... Though I will admit that for a nostalgia rush, I actually watched the first CB movie again on Youtube and found myself suprised at how creepy the spell book was. Somehow, it completely went over my head as a kid... Even moreso with Nicholas, who as a kid I always thought was simply possesed by said spell book. Watching it again, I was actually suprised that the implication was that he had become a friggin bipolar nutjob by this point...
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Post by necromaniac on Apr 30, 2008 23:07:22 GMT -5
which is kind of at odds with my actual ideals but then again I can blame shows like Care Bears and My Little Pony for that. Okay, I'm trying to tell exactly what you meant by that... Heh, it meant that even at an early age I related and rooted more for the villain in said shows and other like them, because their jealousy and pettiness made them appear more human than the one track hugs-n-joy protagonists, and the fact they always lost and seemed to be at odds with the world they inhabited made me sympathetic for them. I might be the only kid in the world who felt sorry for Gargamel for example, and always hoped he'd sometime succeed with his plans.
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Post by Ratbert on May 1, 2008 0:01:11 GMT -5
I always hoped that Gargamel would beat up all the Smurfs. Though I can't exactly remember why he was after the Smurfs in the first place.
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Post by necromaniac on May 1, 2008 0:24:35 GMT -5
I always hoped that Gargamel would beat up all the Smurfs. Though I can't exactly remember why he was after the Smurfs in the first place. It was always something.... There bones supposedly turned lead into gold, eating a Smurfs stew would grant immortality and they fetched a high price from various "collectors".
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