Cam Bert

I bet Nick Spencer could write a really good Hawkeye. Just look at his work on Antman, Superior Foes, and The Fix.

The title leads me to believe that Cameron H will be shitting himself as well. I hope that is the case.

I'm at that level of vitriol in my notes where I can't tell if I hate the movie or just love to hate it. I'm so confused!!! This has me all:

I just enjoy Don Bluth. Dragon's Lair is the only thing of his that I've revisited from my youth because I don't want the movies to be ruined for me. I was trying to remember how the dragon looked in that and feel down a rabbit hole. Also rewatching The Lake House right now. 50 minutes in and I have 5 pages of angry scrawl on a legal pad. Why am I doing this..

So naturally after one watches a movie you jump over to IMDB and read the trivia. I came across this one, Okay but does this go beyond being good nature? Well let's look at Elliott and a Chinese dragon: So as we can see there are a few visual similarities too. Why it is true that Chinese dragons tend to be long, slender, and somewhat serpentine, Elliott's designer Ken Anderson wanted him to be paunchy and clumsy. However if we look at Elliot's tail it's following a similar look as well as having a head of hair/mane. While this all kinda interesting if we look at Ken Anderson's resume the last film he directed was The Sword in the Stone. In which there is a witch which turns into a dragon. Now, the picture of Madam Mim is from when she is poisoned because normally she is purple and spotless but look at the similarities here! Very similar body types with big belly and tiny wings. Even the hair is somewhat similarly coloured and fashioned. Could it be that the influence for Elliot's design was a merger of this dragon he had done 15 years or so prior with minor Asian influences? But it does stop there folks. Don Bluth who was the animation director on Pete's Dragon left Disney after this film. At this point he started his own animation company and made such classics as All Dogs Go to Heave, An American Tail, The Land Before Time and Rock-A-Doodle. One of the first things he did after leaving Disney was all the design work and directing on a video game called Dragon's Lair. You can't have a game called Dragon's Lair and not have a dragon. So what is the design that Don Bluth went with? Again another design oddly similar to that of Elliott! While clearly more sinister and evil the overall shape, design and colouring is uncannily similar. Oh, did I forget to mention that one of the first movies Don Bluth worked on as an animator at Disney was The Sword in the Stone? Coincidence? Maybe, I just think all the similarities and crossovers are odd.

Shouldn't Pete be Cap and Elliot be Bucky?

Ugh, Eli Roth is what happens when a Troy Duffy plays ball and makes friends.

Sound delightful. This is what I grew up having to have. Curious if CakeBug has tried it and what he thinks.

Is that like the stuff in the Sunny D commercials?

Just did a little poking around. The cost of adoption in the US looks to vary between $2,744 to $39,966 depending on foster care, private, overseas adoptions, etc. So with inflation $50.50 in 1910 would be the equivalent of $1319.72 today. Sounds like they got a deal.

I'm more distracted by the old guy staring right down the barrel. Also don't forget Papa Gogan has a kinda Jim Varney vibe about him. This point confused me as well. Like clearly he's a huckster selling snake oil, so why would he care about making real medicine? For that matter when he was making the medicine he was double checking with Red Buttons about the recipe. What does the recipe matter if it doesn't work? It doesn't need to taste good either because it's medicine which is notorious for not tasting good. Also the main ingredients seemed to be sea water and potatoes. That can't taste good and wouldn't people in a fishing village know what sea water tastes like and the dangers of it?

I just want to go back a bit and point out how backwards and dumb the town folks are. Like already mentioned Pete comes to town and Elliot starts wrecking havoc all over the place, but yet giant foot prints and things that are beyond the strength level of a orphan boy get blamed on Pete. The townsfolk are quick to blame him. I can see the headline in the paper now, "Boy Comes To Town, Ruins Everything." Then fishing takes a down turn. He's been there all of like two days and all of a sudden it's Pete and Elliot's fault that they can't catch fish? The invisible dragon has scared them all away in the matter of a few days? Yet at first they don't even believe in the dragon and sing a song about it. They are willing enough to make it a scapegoat for their problems. Then following day when the fish return this to is due to Elliot? How? He got rid of a family of dirt farmers who didn't live there and the snake oil salesman also left but he was going to be leaving soon anyway. In fact he only stayed longer because of Elliot. How did anything that happened lead to him bringing the fish back? Why would they be so happy to believe in him and think he's good then?

Roasted apple, yay or nay?

I remember thinking that when the horrible dirt farmers show up again "Good now the story will really get going" then realizing that the movie was basically done. Which is odd because you have these characters that open the film and are gone until the third act. It's even more confusing when they don't stop to check in on the neighbouring town sooner than a few days. As much as I enjoy opening numbers about murdering children, those characters could have been dropped and the movie would have played out the same.

Well apparently Pete wasn't even a trained actor. Not that anybody couldn't tell...

I thought I had no memories of this movie either but then as it went a long things came back to me. Like "Oh, I remember them all falling in the mud", "Oh yes they dance on the barrels!" and "Oh the song where he can't remember the name of the town!" That said it makes the movie hard for me to judge. There are a lot of bad things with the movie which I'm sure we'll all get into, but I can't say I disliked it because it did bring me fond memories of my childhood. If I'd never seen it I would probably hate this movie and be annoyed. While a lot of those thoughts are still there, the biggest question I have is why did young me watch this movie so much? Overall I thank Kateacola for helping me tap into the inner child in me for a brief time. That said I think the thing that annoyed me most and this is really a minor and non-important point but Elliot was forever changing sizes. Like one moment Pete is able to sit on his belly and look small as they eat apples, yet in the very next scene he comes up to Elliot's arm pits, and then he's sitting on his neck and nearly the size of his head alone. Seeing as this was cutting edge technology at the time I guess I have to let it slide but come on Don Bluth!

Here's the thing about Keanu, he's in some movies I hate but I never really hate him. He always tries whether the movie is misguided or not.

No need to apologize. As I said in the MM thread a few weeks back, by our powers combined we will destroy the Lake House and make everyone involved with it cry and feel great shame!!

I just remembered now. It's been a very long week. Can you forgive me?

By parts I mean two tracks on the soundtrack Edit: I just noticed your updated signature, and it made me angry just seeing the awful dialogue

Jimminy jillickers! I'm sorry I forgot about him in that movie.

I will try to hold back my thoughts on the movie until the actual episode but I think a lot of it had to do with just how I thought it would be a dumb Nicholas Sparks type movie and then I got... whatever The Lakehouse thinks it is. Then I went and watched the original Korean film which is sooooooooooo much better. It made me hate this movie even more. I wish I had saved watching it until closer to have full peak rage to spew at it, but I'm sure I'll rewatch it and those feelings will come back. The only other movie I can think that made me remotely this angry is maybe Frogs. I admit there were parts of Across the Universe that I enjoyed. Well, I did get a fantastic early birthday present in the mail this morning.

I had a choice today between going to see Lego Batman and watching Pete's Dragon. I decided to go with the later but rest assured Lego Batman I will be watching you soon. Also, are you all sure you want me to go with Jeff Conway and not Mickey Rooney?