Category Artwork (Digital) / Portraits
Species Western Dragon
Size 1000 x 1000px
File Size 497.1 kB
Just half of that one dragon from one of my favorite movies from my favorite childhood years of the late 90s, Quest for Camelot, hated by too many people for being some sort of imitation of that Disney formula. Yes it has a few flaws, but honestly, that dragon, with one half voiced by Eric Idle and the other voiced by the late Don Rickles in that movie was the star of the show for me. And since you're from the UK, you might know about it as The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot.
I was one of the young ones who even went to the theatre to see that movie at the Twin Cinemas in my old hometown in the summer of '98, and it proved to be genuine entertainment while we waited for Mulan to come out later that same season.
Still remember that old-fashioned popcorn smell, and the real butter they served, not that greasy, ugly, processed, artificially flavored yellow liquid oily stuff that I get at the Cineplex, which I'm sure you folks in the UK don't have, thankfully. And my earliest memory happened there, watching Disney's Hercules in the summer of '97. It felt to me like 10 years from yesterday that Mulan, the animated movie, premiered in theatres, and I can't believe it's getting remade after the box-office success of their recent cash-grabs that seem so robotic. "This is what we feared, the corporation's a demon, the only thing they feel at all is greed" I keep thinking whenever I see the name of Disney these days, especially when they tied themselves to the Marvel Comics, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Fox's studios, and they're coming up with a streaming service of their own that could potentially out-Netflix the rivals. Could've used the studios of Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures they founded while under Michael Eisner instead, if they wanted to make R-rated movies again, but what would you expect from Bob Iger's own share of the industry, which even the legal widows of Walt Disney himself agree is getting way too much money? And they're even showing signs that they're getting control of Fox's properties, like cancelling some X-Men movies and stuff. I'm not a big fan of superhero movies in general, I much prefer the 2D hand-drawn Disney quality animation and a bunch of early CGI stuff for how surreal and colorful they really were.
Sorry if I be talking too much, I tend to obsess on this subject of Disney losing their magic for hundreds of millions of dollars or more than a whole billion for every arguably flawed movie they make, just a little part of my Autism and my feelings of nostalgia.
Still remember that old-fashioned popcorn smell, and the real butter they served, not that greasy, ugly, processed, artificially flavored yellow liquid oily stuff that I get at the Cineplex, which I'm sure you folks in the UK don't have, thankfully. And my earliest memory happened there, watching Disney's Hercules in the summer of '97. It felt to me like 10 years from yesterday that Mulan, the animated movie, premiered in theatres, and I can't believe it's getting remade after the box-office success of their recent cash-grabs that seem so robotic. "This is what we feared, the corporation's a demon, the only thing they feel at all is greed" I keep thinking whenever I see the name of Disney these days, especially when they tied themselves to the Marvel Comics, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Fox's studios, and they're coming up with a streaming service of their own that could potentially out-Netflix the rivals. Could've used the studios of Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures they founded while under Michael Eisner instead, if they wanted to make R-rated movies again, but what would you expect from Bob Iger's own share of the industry, which even the legal widows of Walt Disney himself agree is getting way too much money? And they're even showing signs that they're getting control of Fox's properties, like cancelling some X-Men movies and stuff. I'm not a big fan of superhero movies in general, I much prefer the 2D hand-drawn Disney quality animation and a bunch of early CGI stuff for how surreal and colorful they really were.
Sorry if I be talking too much, I tend to obsess on this subject of Disney losing their magic for hundreds of millions of dollars or more than a whole billion for every arguably flawed movie they make, just a little part of my Autism and my feelings of nostalgia.
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