God I actually love this movie lol when I put it in a vacuum and pretend its not set in actual world history. Also "In the Dark of the Night" slaps. But the playing with actual history and what it says about the Russian revolution is so fucking silly.
Would be interesting to see, even though I admit to liking the movie in spite of the stupid historical shit and anticommunism.
I remember disliking it for more than just that. IIRC it had pacing issues and I didn't like Rasputin's sniveling animal sidekick. His crime was being annoying. Hopefully the post will be resurrected because I sort of ejected the film from my brain and don't remember the details anymore 🙃
I like the animation and the songs which can kind of be enough yaknow? I dont tend to notice pacing issues in movies. My friend had to point out how badly paced Brave is after we watched it together and thats like one of the most egregious examples of bad pacing out there. Bartok doesn't bother me but I think its weird he got his own spinoff.
Yeah, I agree that the animation was well done. I like this era of 90s animation where they haven't yet converted everything to computer work, so it has kind of this peak quality of human hand animation effort and potential. I think that stuff is really cool.
Bartok also has the distinction of having an impossible-to-imitate voice
This was the absolute BANE of kids' animated films of that era. My favorite one of those films, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, has three of those fuckers.
Yeah I usually don't mind them but the Gargoyles are the worst. I otherwise absolutely adore that movie but the Gargoyles really bring it down.
gargoyle song comes on
SKIP
It's got fewer views than a couple of the instrumental tracks, lmao.
The link works now :)