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burtonfan422 [2013-12-28 04:02:04 +0000 UTC]
I loved this movie growing up, and the Great Owl was always my favorite part! Awesome Drawing!
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gleefanart [2012-06-15 22:18:39 +0000 UTC]
I loved this movie so much <3
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Haawan [2012-02-27 11:25:45 +0000 UTC]
Aaah, my favourite film! This is gorgeous. ^^
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City-of-Zeroes [2012-02-26 20:21:20 +0000 UTC]
This terrified the HELL out of me as a child.
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A-C-L [2012-02-26 19:34:53 +0000 UTC]
One of my favorite movies as a kid. I actually bought it on DVD not too long ago and one of my roommates watched it today. You captured the cobweb look very well.
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tursiart In reply to Dandabug [2012-02-26 19:12:27 +0000 UTC]
Perhaps mine as well. I watched this movie a lot when I was a kid. This and Watership Down. There was a period when I very very little when I wanted to watch them nearly every single day.
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Dandabug In reply to tursiart [2012-02-26 19:25:29 +0000 UTC]
Watership Down was another one that freaked me out, yet was so fascinating I couldn't stop watching it. The worst part was when Blackavar got torn apart by Woundwort - he was one of my favorite characters for some reason.
Hey, did you ever see "the black cauldron?" It wasn't nearly as complex, but still had a creepy, dark vibe that I'll never forget.
...of course, none of these can ever compare to "The Dark Crystal..."
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tursiart In reply to Dandabug [2012-02-26 20:01:24 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, Watership Down had a lot of nightmare fuel in it. You know you should pick up a copy of the book it was based on. It's actually probably my favorite book of all time.
The Dark Crystal was actually another childhood fav of mine. Hah, I'm beginning to realize I watched a lot of creeper movies as a kid.
Interesting story about The Black Cauldron... I was a big fan of 'The Chronicles of Prydain' book series growing up, and I wanted to watch The Black Cauldron more than anything. (It's based loosely on the first two books in the series.) But, it was basically impossible to get a hold of. It had never been released to video anywhere in the US and it was like Disney wanted to forget it existed. I had a preview of it before one of my other movies and I would watch that preview so longingly... lol. Then, when I was a little older, I had a teacher that was going to London over Spring Break. I knew it was available over there, but this was all before the days when you could buy stuff online. I actually gave her money to pick up a copy of it in PAL format, then I found a guy locally that had the equipment to convert it to NTSC so I could watch it on my VCR. I didn't have much money but he let me pay him in Transformers toys. Lol.
A few years later, I made a copy of my copy of The Black Cauldron and traded it with a guy who had a copy of Song Of The South. It was a pretty awesome trade considering The Black Cauldron eventually was released in the US on DVD, and as far as I know Song of the South has never been released in the US. (My bootleg copy has Japanese subtitles.)
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Dandabug In reply to tursiart [2012-02-26 20:15:17 +0000 UTC]
That is an interesting story. I actually never read the books, but a few days ago was intrigued to explore the world a little more (happened when I was thinking 'Dang, that movie was creepy. Whatever happened to it?' so I might watch it again and check out the books just for nostalgia reasons (and of course, even at that young age I was in love with Orwen the fat witch, lol).
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tursiart In reply to Dandabug [2012-02-26 20:28:40 +0000 UTC]
Lol... well Orwen and the other witches were significantly different in the source material. I haven't read the books since I was a kid but I do remember absolutely loving them, and I imagine they'd be very light but enjoyable reading as an adult. I guess I've always personally kind of seen them as... Tolkien-lite, though I have a feeling a lot of people would disagree with me there. They're basically a nice mix of high fantasy and Welsh mythology.
Anyway, the movie was based *very* loosely on the books. They changed quite a lot around. As much as I enjoyed the movie, I have to admit the books were far better.
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Dandabug In reply to tursiart [2012-02-26 21:18:36 +0000 UTC]
LoL, it's Disney - they'd MLK white if they could. I'm certain the books wouldn't measure up to my jaded, demonic level of blood-and-gore loving adult self, but I am capable of reverting back to semi-innocent childhood if need be.
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lilsmeal [2012-02-26 18:53:09 +0000 UTC]
Nostalgia at its best!
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BlueWolfD [2012-02-26 18:51:53 +0000 UTC]
You win with this pic because that's one of my favorite childhood movies. It's also an amazing book
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tursiart In reply to BlueWolfD [2012-02-26 18:58:45 +0000 UTC]
It IS a good book! I read it when I was like, 12 or something. I should see about finding a copy and reading it again.
Thanks Dan!
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