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Your Favorite Don Bluth film

PostPosted: May 28th, 2018, 3:43 am
by PridelandsPhantom
I know a lot of people consider all Bluth films or at least the majority of his films nightmare fuel. I actually like Bluth's style quite a bit. My favorite is All Dogs Go to Heaven. I have always been a huge animal lover, especially dogs and as horrible as Charlie is at the beginning of the film he redeems himself at the end, I like the original Land Before Time a lot, after that the sequels got ridiculous.

I watched the lost footage of Charlie's journey to hell and boy it's intense! I'm almost 32 and it scared me for like two days!

Re: Your Favorite Don Bluth film

PostPosted: May 28th, 2018, 5:46 pm
by Littlefoot
Anyone want to try and guess what mine is? :P

Re: Your Favorite Don Bluth film

PostPosted: May 28th, 2018, 5:57 pm
by Sigurd
My favorite is The Secret Of Nimh, but the one I have most nostalgic feelings about is The Land Before Time

Re: Your Favorite Don Bluth film

PostPosted: May 28th, 2018, 6:09 pm
by TheLionPrince
My favorite is The Secret of NIMH.

Re: Your Favorite Don Bluth film

PostPosted: May 28th, 2018, 6:22 pm
by WildSimba
Secret of NIMH is pretty much definitively Bluth's masterpiece, but I love pretty much everything from 80's Bluth. A also am very nostalgic for Land Before Time, however, the film is a LITTLE bit spoiled in my mind knowing what happened to the little girl that played Ducky. :sad:

Re: Your Favorite Don Bluth film

PostPosted: June 4th, 2018, 8:41 am
by SimbasGuard
All Dogs Go To Heaven is my favorite.

Re: Your Favorite Don Bluth film

PostPosted: June 4th, 2018, 6:05 pm
by Panda-chan
Secret of NIMH is my absolute favorite, but I also adore The Land Before Time, An American Tail, and Anastasia.

Re: Your Favorite Don Bluth film

PostPosted: June 7th, 2018, 4:37 am
by Littlefoot
[quote="WildSimba"]A also am very nostalgic for Land Before Time, however, the film is a LITTLE bit spoiled in my mind knowing what happened to the little girl that played Ducky. :sad:[/quote]
Yeah, if anyone doesn't know about what happened to Ducky's voice actress (who also played Annemarie in All Dogs Go To Heaven, btw), I, as someone who learned about that when I first got back into LBT last year, really think it's for the better that you don't know. You can look it up if you must know, but don't say I told you to. :sad:

Re: Your Favorite Don Bluth film

PostPosted: June 8th, 2018, 9:13 pm
by PridelandsPhantom
*Judith Barsai info removed*

I forgot Anastasia which I always liked. My favorite song is Once Upon a December. I am not that fussed bout historical accuracy as it's not meant to be a documentary but more a fantasy. I always got a bit of an eww/freaked out moment of Rasputin's death :nukaeww: I appreciate it really as the last Bluth film now. I like NIHM but could not watch it when I was younger for many reasons. First of all, I hate animal abuse and it's still hard to watch the injection scenes in that film. Second, the Great Owl and Nicodemus's glowing red eyes. Now I find the technique cool, but when I was younger it freaked me out.

I also like the extended All Dogs scene of Charlie's trip to hell. I'm in my thirties and this kept me up for two nights with a night light, so I get it being cut, but still amazing. There is supposed to be cut Land Before Time footage which I would like to see if it ever surfaces.

Re: Your Favorite Don Bluth film

PostPosted: June 9th, 2018, 5:49 am
by Littlefoot
[quote="PridelandsPhantom"]*Judith Barsai info removed* (quote edited by Littlefoot to reflect edit of original post)[/quote]
Umm, does "I think it's for the better if anyone doesn't know" mean nothing to you?! :x

EDIT: I was actually being a little bit facetious with that comment I made. That being said, I do think it's for the better if anyone doesn't know, so if you want to know what happened to Judith Barsi, you can look it up, as I won't tell you.


[quote="PridelandsPhantom"]I forgot Anastasia which I always liked. My favorite song is Once Upon a December. I am not that fussed bout historical accuracy as it's not meant to be a documentary but more a fantasy.[/quote]
I haven't seen that one in a while, but that's a great one! I think if I was a stickler for accuracy, I wouldn't like half the animated movies that I do (TLK, TLBT, Pocahontas, and Balto come to mind as well).


[quote="PridelandsPhantom"]I like NIHM but could not watch it when I was younger for many reasons. First of all, I hate animal abuse and it's still hard to watch the injection scenes in that film. Second, the Great Owl and Nicodemus's glowing red eyes. Now I find the technique cool, but when I was younger it freaked me out.[/quote]
I'm 19 and I legit have never seen Secret of NIMH!! It is on my list of movies to watch soon, though, as it does look pretty good. I actually saw Balto for the very first time a few months ago, so go figure.


[quote="PridelandsPhantom"]I also like the extended All Dogs scene of Charlie's trip to hell. I'm in my thirties and this kept me up for two nights with a night light, so I get it being cut, but still amazing.[/quote]
I would love to see that! Could you send me a link?


[quote="PridelandsPhantom"]There is supposed to be cut Land Before Time footage which I would like to see if it ever surfaces.[/quote]
Not surprisingly, that's actually a rather hot topic in the LBT fandom. There actually is about 10 minutes worth of fully produced footage that was cut!!! I obviously would love to see it too, but I think the chances of it surfacing anytime soon are slim to none, although the uncut script was recently found (I've yet to get around to reading it, though :P ).

Here are links to some threads on an LBT forum with information on the cut scenes (I'm known there as Littlefoot505, just so you guys know, and yes, I'm a moderator there):
http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=15912.0
http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=15588.0
http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=1300.0