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Amazing to see all the background work - and the tea around why the films failed. Especially this one about a movie called Foodfight where packaging mascots come to life and battle.
Mar 25, 2024
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a British d-list animation studio. You can find a good handful of their movies on youtube. They were mostly producing through the 80s and 90s. A lot of stories that disney has versions of, and some around the same time like knock-off styley. Somewhere around 2015 I picked up a DVD from goodwill that had "6 family classics" (always buy these compilation DVDs). One of them was Bevanfield's adaptation of "beauty and the beast". this is the one I have linked. it makes me laugh so much when i watch it with my friends. somehow christopher lee does one of the voices and he does a bad french accent. My second favorite is "jungle book". The editing is so uncanny as to seem intentionally off. I assumed for a long time they were poor quality dubs of a dutch animation studio or something so I lost it when i learned recently its a british studio. The drawing style changes often and theres moments you can tell that they were tracing drawings from disney characters. The music is also very good in these
p.s. if you look them up dont watch the stupid reaction videos of people watching bevanfield movies, theres a few of those to avoid
Nov 13, 2024
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A list of movies that I thought were childhood fever dreams for way longer than a reasonable amount of time. In order of rewatchability:
Fantasia (1940) - one of the more stunning and gripping animations you can view as a child. Frolicking and making wine with centaurs? Walking brooms? Ghostly spirits riding on skeleton horses? A devil casting demons into a pit of dancing fire? Not so much these days.
The Dark Crystal (1982) - Jim Henson went off on this one. Elf characters. Bird creatures in a cave. I might need to rewatch, it's so cool. Dream.
Labyrinth (1986) - David Bowie, M.C Escher stairs, trolls. Dream.
Bed Knobs and Broomsticks (1971) - beds are flying and empty armor is moving. That's a dream.
Nothing But Trouble (1991) - They really swung for the fences with this one. Dan Akroyd eats a hotdog disgustingly, has a dick-shaped nose and is the father of giant pig children that live in an old mansion with secret passage ways and a junk yard maze. Nightmare.
The Brave Little Toaster (1987) - animated kitchen appliances. You can't fool me, that's a dream.
The Journey of Natty Gan (1985) - this is more of a vague memory of a movie than a dream, but I couldn't remember the name or find it forever.
Little Monsters (1989) - secret world of dudetacular monsters under your bed. Dream.
The Blue Bird (1940) - trippy sequences, fairies, depiction of children lounging among greek columns waiting to be born. That's a dream.
Apr 2, 2024
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My school did a workshop about it when I was like 10 and I think the amount of care and dedication it takes to hand crafting each and every frame is so cool. When its done well you get a really stylised films, Iβm thinking like Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, ParaNorman and The Box Trolls all of which I loved as a kid and every time I rewatch them I get the same sense of childlike wonder I did when I watched them the first time. I know thereβs a lot of crossover with CGI now when making them but just the concept of stop motion animation is really cool.
Apr 13, 2025
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today I stood in line with 45 other people to inspect a shitty 1-bedroom apartment that is too expensive for how tiny it is and thought maybe starting a successful cult would be a more realistic goal in this rental market?
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