TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).  The phrase "tone problem" was invented in 1996 too.

B

That abomination gets a B? 

[Syt]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).  The phrase "tone problem" was invented in 1996 too.

B

That abomination gets a B? 

Has the best Disney song - Claude Frollo singing about his boner for the gypsy, and deciding that if he can't have her she will die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGL9B_TPTI

[Savonarola]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).  The phrase "tone problem" was invented in 1996 too.

B

I went to the Maison de Victor Hugo in 1999.  They had an entire room dedicated to Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.  It was fantastically depressing.   

[The Brain]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).  The phrase "tone problem" was invented in 1996 too.

B

I went to the Maison de Victor Hugo in 1999.  They had an entire room dedicated to Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.  It was fantastically depressing.   

The Murder Room.

[Ideologue]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).  The phrase "tone problem" was invented in 1996 too.

B

That abomination gets a B? 

I was thinking about a C+, but Syt's right, that song's awesome.  In fact, everything but the inane comic relief is great.  But the inane comic relief is terrible.  I was trying to mentally pare them out while I was watching and was--marginally--successful.  The really unfortunate part is how unnecessary the gargoyles were even on their own terms; the movie is not, in its own right, unfunny at all (though dark), but Kevin Kline was evidently not considered toyetic enough.

[frunk]

--snip-- the movie is not, in its own right, unfunny at all (though dark), but Kevin Kline was evidently not considered toyetic enough.

Too...many...negatives....

[Ideologue]

The movie is funny in its own right, but most kids want to play with something other than their Kevin Kline dolls.

[Admiral Yi]

Can someone remind me what the chick's issue with the law and/or church was in the original?

[Eddie Teach]

She's a gypsy.

[Admiral Yi]

She's a gypsy.

Seriously?  That's it?

[Eddie Teach]

15th century France wasn't a very tolerant place.

Really her problem with the church was that the priest wanted to bang her, and her problem with the law was that the dude she did bang let everyone think she'd killed him.

Also, she apparently married The Brain.

[Viking]

She's a gypsy.

Seriously?  That's it?

Yeah, the priest can't decide if he want's to fuck her or burn her for a witch.

[Tonitrus]

That could be almost any male-female relationship.

[Viking]

That could be almost any male-female relationship.

That's why the Hunchback is a classic as opposed to the bland irrelevance of Pocahontas and pretty much every Disney movie since then. 

[Eddie Teach]

The Hunchback is a classic; the Disney Hunchback is an abomination. Though I suppose you may be lumping it in as it did come after Pocahontas.