Favorite Movies No one Knows

[D'Snowth]

Always wanted to see Rock-A-Doodle, D'Snowth. Thanks for the good word on it!

No problem, I can highly recommend it.

That said, I just remembered another animated feature of yesteryears, while it's a bit more remembered than others, not so much that I keep forgetting its title, but it can be seen on like HBO from time to time.

I think it was a late 80s/early 90s movie that David Feiss of Cow and Chicken fame did animation for (like a lot of movies during that time)... there was a tomboyish girl mouse, a glutton hedgehog, and a timid mole who go in search for some kind of special plant that's an ingredient for a medicine for another little girl animal (a possum or a raccoon or something) that had fallen ill due to exposure to gas and pollution made by man... sort of like FernGully, but not as zany or trippy, lol.

 

[Drtooth]

I'd like to mention "Twice Upon A Time" - story goes that it will probably never make it to DVD because the two creators are so estranged that a fan who made a post on a message board of one's site asking about a DVD release was accused of being a lawyer for the other - and even Bruce Hornsby, when asked on a board if he'd play his opening song in the film, (though it's not on any album) at a gig in the future, simply replied, "Not likely."

I have to say, that paints the creators of the film in the most negative light possible. Such juvenile bickering is childish, unprofessional, and the only people who really get hurt are the fans. In fact, I'm glad I saw it free on youtube (though I never actually finished it)... I wouldn't want to give either side a plug nickle until they learn to play nice and split everything fifty fifty. Makes me wish George Lucas had the rights to the entire thing, but then he'd remake it in CGI and give every character bad accents.

 

[Yorick]

Twice Upon A Time

Well said, Drtooth! And I enjoyed the Lucas comment - I recall on youtube, someone said Lucas won't re-release it, because "It's not Star Wars! He'd rather put that out again." Ha!
I'd like to get this magazine - http://www.animationblast.com/inprint/ under the second picture is a little info.

More info here:
http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2007/09/twice-upon-time-movie-that-time-forgot.html including this tidbit:

Ward: Do you think that hey, since Lucas has tinkered with his baby, the original STAR WARS films, that maybe, just maybe, he would be willing to do the same with TWICE UPON A TIME?

Taylor: Somebody might want to tinker with it, but Lucas won’t. He couldn’t even find the motivation to sit for a one-hour phone interview about TWICE UPON A TIME.

 

[Drtooth]

Warner Bros owning bugs me. Other than that, I could easily forsee the creators trying hard to stop this from coming out, since, all those stories I've heard, they just can't agree with each other about which version of it to put on, and I doubt they'd come to terms with a disk (or 2 disk set) with both versions.

I heard tell that Korty hated one version so much he threatened to sue HBO unless they showed the other version.

That said, I found this on Spanish TV (Telefutura) some years back, and I was going nuts trying to find out what it was.

 

[Yorick]

I could easily forsee the creators trying hard to stop this from coming out, since, all those stories I've heard, they just can't agree with each other about which version of it to put on, and I doubt they'd come to terms with a disk (or 2 disk set) with both versions.

Agreed! Oh, if only! And they could put other Korty things on as bonuses. Turns out his Lumage was used for bits on Electric Company and Sesame Street, too!

That said, I found this on Spanish TV (Telefutura) some years back, and I was going nuts trying to find out what it was.

Wow, I'm trying to picture the movie with spanish voices. Great that they did that! Glad you found out what it was, too

 

[Drtooth]

When I saw it I was like, What the heck is this? It looks like that stuff from Sesame Street, but I don't remember any of THIS. I thought it was Plaza Sesamo for a minute. So I watched to the end of it, because it looked REALLY funny, and I had a bare knowledge of Spanish, so i was trying to figure out what was going on.

That said, I really don't trust Warner Bros with this film... Had Disney owned it maaaaybe... like a 15% chance, since they release all these obscure things from time to time, even though it would just be some exclusive to the Movie Rewards club (like Ducktales Treasure of the Lost Lamp was... wish I joined it).

 

[Yorick]

That said, I really don't trust Warner Bros with this film... Had Disney owned it maaaaybe... like a 15% chance, since they release all these obscure things from time to time, even though it would just be some exclusive to the Movie Rewards club (like Ducktales Treasure of the Lost Lamp was... wish I joined it).

Yes, that Ducktales movie is good! But I don't have it either.

 

[Drtooth]

The fact that it's ONLY a collector's club exclusive annoys me. But then again, Disney doesn't want to release any of those cartoons one way or another (not finishing ANY of the sets), so no general retail release is not surprising. Still want them to release the Doug movie on DVD too... it isn't the greatest thing, but I still really enjoyed it. Bet Recess is out of Print too.

 

[D'Snowth]

Here's a movie I've been thinking about lately that I don't believe too many other people know about...

It was a movie from the 80s called Fatso, in which Dom DeLuise played a fat guy (what a concept... what next, a movie with Verne Troyer as a little guy) obsessed with food - cooking food, preparing food, and especially eating food; it was an obsessed shared with his equally obese cousin who suddenly died at an early age. Afterwards, his younger brother and sister (played by Anne Bancroft who also wrote and directed the movie) urge him to go on a diet and try to lose weight before he meets the same fate.

Later, Dom meets his dream girl, and it makes him so nervous because he loves this girl so much, yet he doesn't have the guts to ask her out, which makes him turn to food for comfort.

It was a really good movie for Dom, because it was a dramedy, and save for those Don Bluth animated features, you really only see him in slapstick comedies, so he really gave off a good performance in this movie.

 

[Skeeter Muppet]

That said, I just remembered another animated feature of yesteryears, while it's a bit more remembered than others, not so much that I keep forgetting its title, but it can be seen on like HBO from time to time.

I think it was a late 80s/early 90s movie that David Feiss of Cow and Chicken fame did animation for (like a lot of movies during that time)... there was a tomboyish girl mouse, a glutton hedgehog, and a timid mole who go in search for some kind of special plant that's an ingredient for a medicine for another little girl animal (a possum or a raccoon or something) that had fallen ill due to exposure to gas and pollution made by man... sort of like FernGully, but not as zany or trippy, lol.

Once Upon a Forest! Man, I love that movie; you can't really go wrong with anything that has Michael Crawford and Ben Vereen in it.

Let's see, obscure movies...well, even though it had very little to do with the television series I must admit that I love Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw. And The Good, The Bad and Huckleberry Hound.

Also, does anyone else here remember The Adventures of the American Rabbit? Used to air on the Disney Channel quite a bit of time ago? The superhero was a rabbit who looked like the American flag and wore rollerskates?

-Kim