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| Ariellen |
 Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Calluna wrote: |
Yup, they said that in the filmmakers' commentary.  Must not have gotten that far, I would have broken something.  |
Thought that's where it was. Yeah, the z in the captions made me really sad.
I just got an Aladdin book on eBay that's rather spiffily illustrated, but is guilty of "Razoul" and "the Genie." (Hey, out of curiosity, does 'the Sultan' bother you or no?) I was amused because I had this book as a kid and read it a lot before I lost it but always thought of the guard as being RaSoul...maybe reading about Mr. Azadani in Making of an Animated Film as a li'l one made more of an impression, I don't know...
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| I mean the part where they said Aladdin was set in the 14th century. The *architecture* is based on architecture of the 14th century, but there wasn't a concious decision to set it in any certain time. |
I remember that remark now...thanks for the memory refresher. |
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| Calluna |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Disney Princess wrote: |
| Which parts were not-quite-dead-but-still-wrong? I haven't seen that feature recently enough to remember. I cringed over seeing "Razoul" especially since somewhere on the DVD they said he was named for Rasoul Azadani...(or did I imagine this?) |
Yup, they said that in the filmmakers' commentary. Must not have gotten that far, I would have broken something.
I mean the part where they said Aladdin was set in the 14th century. The *architecture* is based on architecture of the 14th century, but there wasn't a concious decision to set it in any certain time. |
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| AladdinsGenie |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| Disney Princess wrote: |
I have to disagree with you here...I heard her live before her first album debuted (Yeah, that's right, I saw a Ricky Martin concert when I was 14 and Jessica Simpson opened for him.  ) She was pretty bad. She didn't sing; she screamed sort-of on pitch, and I still think her singing sounds like some odd combination of screaming and growling. It's all in her nose and her throat... |
That sounds more like an exact description of Christina Aguilera because everyone thinks she can sing and all she does is yell in different tones . I'm not Jessica's biggest fan, but I still think she could sing before the industry got ahold of her and her image after her first album, though. She started doing that little wave thing and it sounded terrible. And they told her she was fat--wtf? |
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| Ariellen |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:55 am Post subject: |
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| AladdinsGenie wrote: |
| She could sing before the industry got ahold of her and her image |
I have to disagree with you here...I heard her live before her first album debuted (Yeah, that's right, I saw a Ricky Martin concert when I was 14 and Jessica Simpson opened for him. ) She was pretty bad. She didn't sing; she screamed sort-of on pitch, and I still think her singing sounds like some odd combination of screaming and growling. It's all in her nose and her throat...
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| Nick's part I love though. |
I was cringing before the singing started, bracing myself for the worst...and I have to agree with you here! I heard him and was like "Hey...this isn't bad!" Really liked him on that song when all was said and done, wanted to hit Jessica.
The video itself was pretty bad, they annoy me as celebrities and always have. It doesn't compare to the movie version, but Nick did do a great job on the vocals here. I also thought it sounded like it had more energy than the Bryson/Belle version which I've never really cared for, unless it would randomly come on the radio. Then I'd drop everything to listen to a song from Aladdin on the radio, whatever the version may be. Both single versions leave me somewhat cold; I could have really liked the new one if Nick had had a different singing partner.
Aladdin and Jasmine do it best, though...it IS their song after all.  |
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| Ariellen |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| I admit I didn't watch much of the "pop-up video" version on the DVD. A couple of minutes in one of them gave incorrect information and I ended up turning it off in disgust. (Okay, not so much dead wrong as reading too much into a statement by one of the creators...) |
Which parts were not-quite-dead-but-still-wrong? I haven't seen that feature recently enough to remember. I cringed over seeing "Razoul" especially since somewhere on the DVD they said he was named for Rasoul Azadani...(or did I imagine this?) |
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| Syera |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:54 am Post subject: Re: yup |
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| dazzeling diamond wrote: |
| that's true! I did watch the rest of the dvd and the extra disk, what did u guys think of jessica simpson and nick lachey's version of a whole new world? |
Jessica Simpson has always given me the creeps.
I muchly prefer Brad/Caleb Kane and Lea Salonga's singing. |
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| AladdinsGenie |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: |
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The song as a whole took some time for me to get "use" to, but I'm still not OMFG GREAT! about it simply because of Jessica's Marilyn Monroe approach. If she would have stopped trying to make it sound all sultry and just sing the damn song normally, I probably wouldn't have had a problem. She could sing before the industry got ahold of her and her image
Nick's part I love though. |
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| Nez |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| They couldn't stop making googly eyes at each other. |
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| dazzeling diamond |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:30 am Post subject: yup |
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| that's true! I did watch the rest of the dvd and the extra disk, what did u guys think of jessica simpson and nick lachey's version of a whole new world? |
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| persian85033 |
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| Me, too. My brother does the same, only for stupid movies like Dumb and Dumber. Now THOSE trailers were stupid. |
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| AladdinsGenie |
| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| There's no way I could own that DVD and not watch everything. I was watching the trailers just because |
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| dazzeling diamond |
| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| yeah i watched it, but not the whole movie, coz i found it annoyed me. But yeah, they were pretty interesting otherwise |
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| AladdinsGenie |
| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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I watched every inch of that DVD
A lot of the facts were "no duh" stuff for Aladdin fans, but there were a few new things I didn't know like the shadows the cypress trees make in that scene where Jasmine is running away is meant to symbolize bars in a jail cell since they line up like some; and if you took pencils and stretched them around the world, the animators still couldn't finish the movie because it took more pencils than that. |
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| Calluna |
| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I admit I didn't watch much of the "pop-up video" version on the DVD. A couple of minutes in one of them gave incorrect information and I ended up turning it off in disgust. (Okay, not so much dead wrong as reading too much into a statement by one of the creators...) |
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| persian85033 |
| Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject: Subtitles |
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Has anyone else here read those subtitles on the Aladdin dvd? The ones that have a bunch of cool facts about the movie and all that? I put them on for my brother, and he was totally into them.
That it was freaky that they put real people in the movie(anyone else think that? I think it was kind of cool), you know, caricutating them and all that, that they took pictures in Iraq, that they should have used Micheal J. Fox instead of Tom Cruise.
With a little luck, I may convince him to do something cool like work with Disney doing animation, backgrounds and stuff. He wants to be a sports journalist. 
They should have put those on KoT and RoJ, too. He was all asking if they did. And on some of the other movies. |
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