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HTTYD Live action...
3 months ago
'Aluminum to me, aluminium to some. You can shine like silver all you want but you're just aluminum.' Barenaked Ladies, Aluminum
So... I went back, I found my original journal post about watching the original HTTYD, over 15 years ago now...
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1295067/
I loved HTTYD. I love it still. Its one of my top movies of all time without a doubt. It's an incredible movie, and it is still my most watched-in-theatre movie. I ended up watching it in multiple theatres, in multiple cities.
That said... This new live action one is, in my opinion, entirely pointless in its existence. Yes, I just got back from it. All I can take away from it is that it was created for money. For greed. It adds nothing to the original and in some cases just seemed... weird, but that's because I'm such a fan of the original.
There are a few vaguely altered lines, and there is a bit more, uh... character building around the young characters, like Astrid and SnotLout. Toothless looks eerily human in some shots. But unless Im remembering the original wrong, this remake is basically line-for-line, shot-for-shot the same.
Maybe because I'm 15 years older now, but it didn't grip me. The magic of the original wasnt there for this. There were a few moments where the same emotions registered as they did before, but nowhere near as strong, and always just kind of tempered by the fact that I knew exactly what would happen and what the next line was.
If I now had to choose which I preferred, which I would rather watch over and over and over again... Definitely the original, every time, without hesitation. Not to say the acting was bad in the live action remake, either, but there is something to be said for the fact that with CGI, you can literally make the characters on screen act or express themselves as perfectly as you want, or even as cartoony as you want. The lines were delivered slightly better in some places in the original, too.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1295067/
I loved HTTYD. I love it still. Its one of my top movies of all time without a doubt. It's an incredible movie, and it is still my most watched-in-theatre movie. I ended up watching it in multiple theatres, in multiple cities.
That said... This new live action one is, in my opinion, entirely pointless in its existence. Yes, I just got back from it. All I can take away from it is that it was created for money. For greed. It adds nothing to the original and in some cases just seemed... weird, but that's because I'm such a fan of the original.
There are a few vaguely altered lines, and there is a bit more, uh... character building around the young characters, like Astrid and SnotLout. Toothless looks eerily human in some shots. But unless Im remembering the original wrong, this remake is basically line-for-line, shot-for-shot the same.
Maybe because I'm 15 years older now, but it didn't grip me. The magic of the original wasnt there for this. There were a few moments where the same emotions registered as they did before, but nowhere near as strong, and always just kind of tempered by the fact that I knew exactly what would happen and what the next line was.
If I now had to choose which I preferred, which I would rather watch over and over and over again... Definitely the original, every time, without hesitation. Not to say the acting was bad in the live action remake, either, but there is something to be said for the fact that with CGI, you can literally make the characters on screen act or express themselves as perfectly as you want, or even as cartoony as you want. The lines were delivered slightly better in some places in the original, too.
Byte Fantail
~sillydraco
Do you still have the Toothless profile at Ekas? :V
Onyx
~onyx
OP
No idea, Ive not been back there in years.
Byte Fantail
~sillydraco
me either xD
