Sting writes a song about a talking rock, which is pretty good lmao
the final movie isnât a musical, and has no songs in it. another reason it is one of the better disney movies.
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I remember actually liking it but I had forgot it if had songs in it.
The emperorâs new groove is a fantastic movie, extremely strange and funny⌠that plus the childrenâs book âthe piratesâ mixed-up voyageâ sort of defined comedy for me as a kid. Heightened absurdism, big personalities, characters who yammer constantly to themselves and chew scenery and are physically ridiculous!! Probably had a massive impact on my personality. I really should see The Sweatbox.
Part of the reason the movie had such a huge impact on me is I went through a period for a few years as a kid where for some reasonâpossibly just stress, I was diagnosed with diabetes during this time-- my parents almost never took us to the movies. I went like two years without watching any new Disney animations and suddenly I got walloped with this thing. It was great!
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it has the bizarre opening song performed by Tom Jones. the lack of songs means more time for gags, definitely one of the better Disneys
love The Emperorâs New Groove, watched it again last week. wonderfully different to the other Disney crap from the same time. make the comedian-voiced animal the protagonist instead of the sidekick? genius
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totally forgot about that opening song! Itâs easy to forget since the rest of the movie is actually good
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just checking it out now, the jape in the title card is a bit crap
sweatbox /swetbÉks/ n.
1 solitary confinement
2 (colloq U.S.) screening room
origin: when Walt Disney set up
his studio in Burbank, the screening
room was a wooden shack with no
air conditioning
3 (colloq Aus.) cf goolie guard
what is this pommie nonsense
rest is great
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there is another good Disney animator documentary called like Waking Sleeping Beauty about the 90s âgolden ageâ of cartoon films, which by my memory is worth seeing.
Sting is the only dude in that whole movie I didnât want to bully, everyone else with considerable screen time was either some George Lucasian milquetoast or a Keebler Elf who somehow joined Hollywoodâs Gay Mafia. I kinda wish theyâd spent more time on the execs, they were so incredibly unlikable that they were a refreshing change of pace from all those flannel blobs. I reflexively pitied all those dudes and had to repeatedly remind myself that even the lowest tier schlub was probably earning like 6x more than Iâve ever made in my life while living their childhood dream, and, also, that theyâre responsible for all these cartoons I absolutely abhor. Theyâre my enemies!! NO MERCY.
It was good when David Spade said they had to change the lead characterâs name cuz it turned out to be Japanese for âpussy,â that was like the one time I liked anything David Spade ever did, every single time they said Manko I felt like I was losing my fucking mind
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This song is an absolute banger, perfect way to open the movie
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watched Last Breath, a documentary about a saturation diving accident where a dudeâs umbilical cord to the diving bell got cut and his buddies had to save him.
I LOVE movies about giant disasters with machines and infrastructure in them so I was hype to watch one about saturation diving, particularly since the marketing makes it very clear that this is a âsurvival movie,â not a tragedy movie.
Well, it sucked! Itâs a reputational save for the oil company that employs these saturation divers. The name of the company that owned the boat and the rig MAY have been mentioned in a title card at the start of the movie, but I canât recall it ever being spoken out loud, which is absolutely bonkers. How can you do a documentary about a systemic disaster at an energy company without naming the energy company??? The entire movie is done as a human interest story about human personalities and the Will To Survive or whatever. There is zero analysis of the several fascinating disasters that caused the accident, and I was absolutely dying to know how all this shit went wrong.
- The ship gets blown off course by strong winds in a big storm. How do these ships plan to deal with storms? What is needed to deal with a big storm vs normal weather on the North Sea?
- The shipâs main computer, backup computer, and âmaster computerâ or whatever governing the Dynamic Positioning system all failed at once. The DP system is the computer that operates the shipâs various thrusters to keep it precisely positioned over an exact GPS coordinate in order to prevent the various umbilical cords and steel cables from dragging the diving bell and the divers all over the bottom of the ocean. How the fuck did all these computers fail? Did anyone ever learn why???
- When the DP system failed, the captain and first officer had to switch the ship to manual. Apparently, this ship has no central console for driving the ship. You drive it by operating four joysticks on TWO SEPARATE CONSOLES, because the ship is apparently intended to be driven primarily by computer systems and GPS, not manually. WHAT??? The two men had to coordinate driving the ship like a pair of dudes operating a funny arcade machine. Theyâre basically not interviewed. What?? What??? Who designed this ship??
- The tech who operated the DP system had to reboot the computer. Heâd never done this before, or something. WHAT???
This disaster is fascinating and this documentary is so horny for the oil company that it refuses to examine any of it. Ridiculous!!! Still fascinating, though. I love to look at guys inside big machines and then the big machines break. But I was both intrigued and absolutely pissed
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Musicals own.
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I think thereâs a continuum with âthe rich history of operatic performances and vaudeville entertainments in the theatre, continuing the tradition of humans singing and dancingâ near one end and âLet It Go for the 20th time, the artifice of the musical cliches to elicit specific moods laid bare, enthusiastic + slightly aggressive vocal performance shocking you into a state of heightened alertnessâ near the other
and you can occupy multiple positions/ranges on that continuum
are we thinking of the same song? canât remember it by the end of the movie, miniature Vegas Tom Jones impersonator doing the singing? something something âof the nationâ?
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Iâm aesthetically opposed to the kinds of musicals theater kids tend to like but I am not opposed to musicals as a whole (the best movie of 2021, Annette, was a musical after all)
I donât care for the cliche-riddled, overly structured, and fanservicing nature of the modern musical. I especially dislike the genre of âmusical musicâ that developed in the last 50 years that falsedan so precisely described as one end of the continuum.
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Only musical nerds were making musicals, itâs a tale as old as time, killallnerds.exe
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my musical good? heuristic: is the music diegetical at least some of the time?
chicago, cabaret, singing in the rain, sound of music, phantom, etc. all good in my book
i realized this when i enjoyed an early production of an off broadway contemporary musical about musicians writing overwrought songs to each other â ok, maybe these people would do that!
agree with @Tulpa that the genre of music used in most modern productions is tiresome, just kind of corny piano rock (and i like good piano rock)
i do have woeful affection for aughts stuff like rent and wicked because i was not a theater kid but a good friend at the time was. also giving special status for west side story, etc.
no love for disney musicals, however; mine was a don bluth upbringing until it was a pixar one and even children hate randy newman songs in movies
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watched âDecision to Leaveâ this weekend and enjoyed it. i have almost nothing to say about it, but it was a good time to watch it and iâd probably watch again, sometime to see what other details i can pick up.
i tried to start watching the âdocumentaryâ about Blockbuster Video because the little teaser on Netflix seemed like it would go in depth about the numbers and details it takes to run a business like Blockbuster, but i keep forgetting that all Netflix documentaries are now basically the same kind of shit youâd see on Food Network or HGTV or whatever - just a bunch of people sitting in chairs, reminiscing about the topic and saying things you already know. maybe they get to more interesting details later, but i had to shut it off after 15 minutes because it was too annoying.
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Sick horn work, and a hilarious joke on par with the movieâs other best jokes. Great song, best use case for âcartoon movie musical numberâ
In general itâs easy to consider musicals the same genre as opera, so for any given musical you can just ask yourself âis this as good as Mozartâ? And, usually, no. No it isnât.
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Rewatched The Addams Family for like the ninth time in my life, absolute banger film. The pacing is great, almost every joke lands, and itâs like 50% as filled with jokes as Airplane! which is to say it has 200% as many jokes as most comedies. Just a constant, underlying state of Jokeyness.
Everyoneâs talked about how itâs a great movie for being like âyeah even freaks deserve loveâ but 2023 me sees it as significantly less interesting than that. Itâs actually pretty normative? Itâs all about blood relation being important and a horny het couple. Itâs kinda saying âeven freaks can be normalâ, sorta.
This isnât really a criticism of the movie itself - itâs working with the pieces itâs got. Mostly I just find it annoying that people talk about this movie as being nonconformist in any way. Itâs on the same level as people smarmily saying âoh die hard is a christmas movie did you know that??â Like duh. The movie is about weirdos, itâs nice that theyâre happy but itâs not saying anything interesting about that.
I guess it was probably more nonconformist in 1991 though! Imagine: a weirdo with a disregard for what other people think about them gets to be happy rather than stoned to death or cloistered away in a mansion alone for all eternity. Iâm looking at you, Edward Scissorhands
Anyway, fantastic movie and made with love + a tremendous attention to detail. I watched a lot of the show as a kid so the movie is also close to my heart.
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