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This Movie Is Terrible


I had to say it. Yes, I remember vague parts of it from my childhood, with a lot of fondness, so I picked up the movie today and re-watched it. I haven't even finished it yet because it's so boring and awful. There's absolutely no humor in it that's funny, and it takes itself so much more seriously than the original Gumby shorts with a melodramatic, stupid, preachy, convoluted plot. It's weird to think that Art Clokey was behind the making of this one too. I guess pretty much everyone loses their touch after a while.

The only thing that's quite good about this movie is the smooth animation, which is very refreshing. Too bad the content is not worth it. Not that I had very high expectations of an update from an old franchise anyway. Those always turn out to suck really badly.

Ennis, Brokeback Mountain: If you can't fix it then you've gotta stand it.

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Yep. Very boring.

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Without the legal allowances of the old Capitol/Seely/Ole Georg/MuTel music cues from the old ones, so familair from fall-early winter 1958 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, Yogi Bear, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bozo, New Three Stooges, Ozzie and Harriet, Quick Draw, My 3 Sons, Donna Reed, Dennis the Menace, Bewitches, Father Knows Best,even thru 90s heydey of Ren and Stimpy but it got hard to lease those later.

However more recently, Ren and Stimpy, and even some DIsney shows (That's so Raven, possibly Lizzie McGuire, etc.,) there was no choice for Arthur Clokey even then but to resoundtrack those, so there;'s a problem right there that lead up to the blah new soundtrack that carries over to the original film. Anytime that a 2000s show would be ABLE, as they couldnt' part-time but other times COULD, to use those, would be composer Jack Shaindlin [1907-1978]'s former "Langworth-Filmmusic" nee "Langlois Filmusic" library and the cues licensed to Carlin-Harold Bluestone and Emil Cadkin, and elsewhere the uniquely versatile, proflic, and very ubiqitous French composer, Roger Roger [1911-1995][Roh-JAY twice]. Those can still be used. [ASCAP says that even "GOSSIP GIRL" uses the old John Seely "Bluestone-Cadkin" cues!! well, XO,XO!]


By the 1990s, some Disney shows and Ren and Stimpy started to use a few of those canned music pieces, which were involved in the tie-ups: the late 990s to early 2000s would be the dark ages for those wanting to lease those cues in new producyions, though back as far as 1987-1992 when Gumby got resoundtracked to that stupid "Casio keybord" score, to theearly 90s beginning of the heyday of Nickelodeon's John Kricfalusi's furry pets, a LOT - not ALL - but a lot of that stock cues so often heard COULD still be leased, but music drights [largely stemming between groups of old time mood "stock library" musc composers, inclouding those whose music was credited to John Seely for those six Warner Bros,cartoons in the final part of 1958) already were and in some ways HAVE been a snag (those Cinemusic-composer Jack Shaindlin's later and posthumous concern, and Carlin Music ESPECIALLY, have done a class act of a job as brin ging those BACK---as hjas started to be apparent on Spongebob.,...)

In short, the canned cue music got replaced so that would be a major disadvante of it. The composers not mentioned would of course be John Seely and Bill Loose, with David Rose [contractually credited to the first tow], George Hormel, all the way to Philip Greeb and Henry Russell.

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^^^^THIS^^^^

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