“Make your own film.” This is my favorite quote ever, because it comes up so often in the Internet age, when people get venomous over whenever their own film or a film they like is criticized. We got taught in theater class that this is usually the response from people who either make films that regularly get poor reviews, or from those who work on such bad films that even mediocre ones (older or current) seem like Godsends. So yeah, I guess if I worked on whatever’s running on Cartoon Network right now, I’d be in awe of a waste of film like Disney’s Robin Hood (the film Hanna-Barbera would have made if they got the Disney staff on loan for a year) too. If you know what I’m talking about, good. If you don’t, disregard this. Rant over and out.
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Yeah, I’ve seen people use this a lot. “why don’t you make your own film!” For example, last October I did 29 reviews of all the Godzilla films with my friend James. We knew that doing 29 reviews would be a lot of work. So on a few of them, we cut them short to make it easier on ourselves.
When the videos were released, when a few of those lackluster ones came out, some people complained. And I couldn’t blame them. For a few of those we were just a little lazy. 29 Godzilla videos is more then just about anyone can handle though, so can you blame me?
Anyway, some of our fans used this in our defense. “Why don’t you try making your own reviews! It’s not that easy!!” and so on..
So when the Warner Bros. / Disney team reused animation.. That’s not a good thing. Sure maybe they were under time/budget restraints. But that’s not something you should try and defend them for. If it sucks, it sucks.
I…always kinda liked Robin Hood…as cheap as it is. And I’ll give you that. It’s a cheap movie. LOL
Criticizing is an art. You are essentially selling yourself when making a critique just like an actor preforms a role. You have to do more then say a film sucks, you have to have charisma as well as knowlege of making a film.
BTW, Disney’s Robin Hood sucks big ol’ horse balls.
That and many like-minded phrases have become an increasingly shallow rebuttal for the crap that persists in pop culture today. Why would anyone bother to market themselves when there is no room for improvement?
Robin Hood isn’t Disney’s worst film, but it is pretty mediocre.
To those who don’t like this post I say, “Well, then write your own blog!”
I doubt the people who work on Chowder or Flapjack or the upcoming Cartoonstitute (basically a modern-day version of What-A-Cartoon!) are in envy of Robin Hood. But I digress. I think I will try to make my own movie someday. Hey, if Kevin Smith did it, I can too.