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Silent Minority?

posted 20 years ago by Benjamin_Cox
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I suspect, judging by the huge amount of support for this picture, that I'm in a minority but surely I'm not the only person who didn't enjoy this adaptation! Being a child (product?) of the Eighties, my heart belongs to the BBC version but I doubt all the positive comments here are from thirty-something adults looking back fondly at their childhood favourite.

Having viewed the movie several times as I received a video of it as a boy, I have to say that while the backdrops do look impressive, the characters and animation are poor. It does look dated, as you'd expect, but I won't hold that against it - Hell, even "The Flinstones" looks dated but I can still watch that and enjoy it. Don't hold it against me because I was born too late to enjoy it first-time around but I do believe that you're wrong on this one, folks! Anyone else agree?

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[–] AnneofGreenGables83 20 years ago

You are not the only one whose heart belongs to the BBC version of TLWW made in the 80's. I also am an 80's child, so maybe that's why I love that one so much and not this one. I have both versions on tape (poorly dubbed copies off tv, though) but I never watch this one. I was forced to watch it many times at church as a child, and although I begged, we were never permitted to watch the live action version. (For some reason, the children's pastor- a wonderful man- had a very short list of approved films to be shown at church, and he never updated it. Basically, you could watch the cartoon TLWW, Secret Adventures-ugh!-or a couple of true-story adaptations made in the 70s. Although I am sorry he is no longer pastor at my church, I am pleased that I can now show the kids I teach at church a lot of other videos, Veggietales, for one!) Unlike the cartoon versions of The Hobbit and Return of the King (I don't mean the semi-animated Lord of the Rings cartoon- that was just awful!),which will always be close to my heart depite also owning the extended editions of the awesome LOTR first two movies (and I plan to buy ROTK in Nov!), this cartoon is not a favorite of my childhood. Sorry to all of you who loved it so much!

[–] drxcreatures 14 years ago

Wouldn't being children of the eighties, make you both thirty-something now? That is all.

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[–] AnneofGreenGables83 14 years ago

Well, if you do your math, then no. I happen to be 26. Last I checked that made me in my 20s...?

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[–] CoriSCapnSkip (1562) 3 months ago

I watched it when it first came out. I was raised on the Charlie Brown/Peanuts specials and Frosty the Snowman and in 1979 I was certainly not spoiled by dazzling CGI, etc., but when I saw it I thought this thing was crap, beginning to end. I didn't appreciate the American voices either. I've only just learned from these forums that the voices were originally British and should have been left as such. It would have made this better but wouldn't have saved the crappy animation, sorry. I did watch it again after reading all the positive comments here, and there are good things to be said about it but unfortunately the animation is not one of them.