*Spins while you pelvic thrust*

Dragons are just like cats XD

This particular one was based off of one! a big cat that is.

Before this movie dragons were only viewed as Good or evil, and in this they were viewed as just another ordinary animal X3

Oh yes, I love this song. In fact I love the entire soundtrack. In fact I love the whole movie!

niiiiice

This is indeed so very pretty, and very warm on the soul :) and of course adorable!

Omg I love this scene of the show.

This is such a calming and warm song :)

I really like the music, it's heartwarming

I've actually never seen the movie.

YOU SICKEN ME >:V

xD

Oh shaddup. :V

That's my favorite track too, love it so much!! :)

cuuuuute, I became really mushy when I saw this vid

This scene alone should have won it an Oscar over Toy Story 3. Just about all the music from the movie is fantastic, too.

Oh god, not this music and this scene, too much cuteness

Oooh this music is rly nice :o

Oh John Powell. You surely are great.

Not quite up there with Hans Zimmer but his soundtracks for Bolt and How to Train your Dragon are amazing.

One of the best movie ever !

You are right, it's not nice to see the last journals... I should change something, too...Anyway nice video :) I like the music and the well cutten scenes. I really like the movie :)

There is something within us all that seeks out, crys out and aches to make a connection with those we know that are greater than ourselves yet at the same time, almost just like us. To find a common ground and to expand and share our experiences. All that was summed up in this scene and without uterring a singe word and made even more powerful with the brilliant music of John Powell! }:=)

Said more concisely than I can do, so ^this.

Paws.... thanks, I try }:=)

I was just watching bonus material from Beauty & The Beast Diamond Edition. What they said was prophetic about the animation industry (since Little Mermaid): They are trying to get an animated film to be Best Picture at the Oscars. At the time B&B was created, it had a shot - and there wasn't a separate category for animateds. Now that there is, the Academy will protect the "dignity" of live action motion pictures and may never give its highest honor to an animated film…

But still, for a while, there was this bar raised after its nomination (and the Golden Globe award)… and it inspired studios to try harder. And they rose to the challenge.

We have a problem nowadays however. The motion picture industry is second fiddle to videogames. If a movie cannot have a good tie-in to gaming (HTTYD does have game titles!), it is not so well funded. A movie can only aspire up to where a hit gaming title earns. The whole gaming industry has out-earned film for over a decade. It's harder and harder to get investment in film than something that's gonna be shrink-wrapped in plastic and forgotten come the next few months down the line.

Movies are a lot more ephemeral than that. They don't rely on consoles, which get anchored in technology which quickly rusts over the decades. They don't rely on controllers, with the same faults. They allow you to relax and get lost in an experience, and their media often have a fairly easy channel from one form of storage to the next best that comes along. We have Wizard of Oz and Casablanca on Blu-Ray along with HTTYD, for example. See if the oldest game cartridge you can find/buy in a shop will do that in your latest gaming system!

Gaming cartridges leave us with memories and a lot of landfill. Movies leave us with memories perhaps even richer, and better still, a legacy that each new generation can enjoy as much as we have. (THIS is why film preservation IS one of the conservation projects everybody on FA should be enthusiastic about supporting imho. Fortunately, there are some emulator and ROM sites that preserve games of the past, and DO allow PCs and certain other platforms to 'reboot' them as well. These are worthy, for they represent gaming artforms of the past, and also are our legacy and history.)

A very good point. Games are made more for mental gymnastics and entertainment. Games are really not made for creating an deep, personal, emotional response where movies are...well...GOOD movies that is };=)

They've tried making a game more cinematic, and it flops… too boring, not engaging enough, too linear, not enough action, etc., etc. You have an expectation of a game, and a very different expectation of a film, and I would enjoy seeing the first very successful bridge! But I doubt it's happening anytime soon, and probably will take the form of a film with game companion you can buy that gloms onto the film content once it's present.

There're bad games and bad movies both, indeed… let's hope there are less of them that cheat us of our cash and waste too much of that magic media that brings the best to us all.

I'll drink to that! }:=)