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Another for the list:
The Pagemaster (1994).
Carry on.
--C.
There was also Jonny's Golden Quest as well.
I remember seeing Plague Dogs as a kid, if my parents had known what that movie was about when I came up to them and said "this one!" in Blockbuster Video I doubt I would have ever seen it.
The Plague Dogs... there's a section in the book (and I assume the film)where the dogs are at an abandoned farmhouse. At the time I read the book the farmhouse was owned by friend of ours who farmed sheep, so I had no sympathy whatsoever for the dogs in the book, who were sheep-murderingly evil.
Getting a bit more back on topic, has anyone else seen the ever so slightly dodgy animated movie of the first Dragonlance novel? It has a surprisingly A-list voice cast for such a terrible thing.
For claymation there was Tom Sawyer one where they met Satan
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I dunno if any animated flick counts as "obscure" in this day and age, so I'm just gonna go with my favorite off-brands... some of these are quite popular (Watership Down, for example), or at least have cult status, but, you know... we'll steer clear of Disney hits, Akira, Miyazaki (not that I like most of his whimsical schtick, but you know), and so on.
Flicks which are,in my experience, neither obscure nor unpopular will be marked with an asterix.
Watership Down*
Heavy Metal
Paranoia Agent (not a movie, but, you know, deal)
Flight of Dragons
The Last Unicorn*
The Brave Little Toaster
The Iron Giant*
Charlotte's Web (expect this one to get some more love in the next year in honor of Debbie Reynolds)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Perseopolis (lost out on the Best Animated Feature Academy Award to friggin' Ratatouille, proof, if any is needed, that the Oscars are junk)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
The Land Before Time* (To hell with Bambi's mother, Littlefoot's Mom is THE saddest cartoon animal mother death ever)
A Scanner Darkly
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I can't believe I forgot about Batman: Mask of Phantasm.
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker was good as well.
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker was great!
Carry on!
--C.
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For claymation there was Tom Sawyer one where they met Satan
The Mysterious Stranger. This was in the movie where Tom, Huck, and Becky get kidnapped by Mark Twain and dragged along on his rocket ship to catch Halley's Comet so it can take him to Heaven?
Very bizarre but very well done movie.
Wow, I actually kind of remember that one.
I remember there was a California Raisins special but was there any made for TV movies?
"Audition" is a japanese movie that is very creepy and scary.
"House" is another horror movie that will freak you out.
Having finally seen Heavy Metal, courtesy of a friend who was boggled to hear I hadn't, I have to say that it's an amazing film. Especially the 'Captain Sternn' segment: "Hanging's too good for him!~ BURNING'S too good for him!"
My friend also asked me if I wanted to see a charming little film titled Urotsukidoji aka Legend of the Overfiend with him, but I bowed out. I asked him if he knew what that film WAS, and he said no, but he'd watched stuff like the original Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. So how different could it be?
That was when I left.
He told me that I "needed" to see Heavy Metal to "complete my education." I wonder what LotO is going to do for his "education"?
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Having finally seen Heavy Metal, courtesy of a friend who was boggled to hear I hadn't, I have to say that it's an amazing film. Especially the 'Captain Sternn' segment: "Hanging's too good for him!~ BURNING'S too good for him!"
My friend also asked me if I wanted to see a charming little film titled Urotsukidoji aka Legend of the Overfiend with him, but I bowed out. I asked him if he knew what that film WAS, and he said no, but he'd watched stuff like the original Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. So how different could it be?
That was when I left.
He told me that I "needed" to see Heavy Metal to "complete my education." I wonder what LotO is going to do for his "education"?
Heavy Metal, oh that's a nice classic.
You know the segment with the Zombies on the WW2 airplane. Lee Mishkin, the guy who did that, is the man who taught me animation. Hell of a teacher, very old school.
Urotsukidoji is a film that did something absolutely incredible: It did full on hentai for a full movie DESPITE JAPANESE CENSORSHIP! It is really quite amazing when you think about it. It is a very iconoclastic movie, and will do bad things to your head if you take it seriously... but I have no idea how anyone would manage that.
Reminds me, Netflix is gonna be bringing us a new Devilman series
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Flight of dragons. Loved the dragons designs (only non anerexic eastern dragons i can remember really) and the fantastic biology driving some of the plot.
I like the Last Unicorn but have always liked Flight of Dragons better. It is a shame that Flight of Dragons hasn't gotten a Blu Ray release even though the Last Unicorn has gotten more then one such release.
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It's objectively terrible, but I have a soft spot in my heart for the 1977 Rankin-Bass animated version of The Hobbit.
I first saw it on TV when I was a 7-year old kid. It was my first exposure to Tolkien.
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It's objectively terrible, but I have a soft spot in my heart for the 1977 Rankin-Bass animated version of The Hobbit.
I first saw it on TV when I was a 7-year old kid. It was my first exposure to Tolkien.
Man how I loved that movie and still do. Back then you just didn't see actual animated movies on TV, only at the theater. Sure I was confused by some things, like why 'Golem' didn't look like a statue of some sort.
The Mirkwood spiders and the goblins were great. And Smaug -- Smaug was AWESOME.