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The first ten or fifteen minutes are boring

posted 14 years ago by doowopfan
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I saw this in a theater packed with kids. Little kids. I thought it was fantastic except for the beginning. Just the silhouettes of the orchestra. No animaition for a while. I was really bored so I can't imagine what the six year olds in the audience thought. And then it got good and then it got great. It was pretty music I guess but little kids don't want to see all that.

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[–] 14 years ago

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[–] anna1926 12 years ago

Youre lucky! Beauty and the Beast was the first ever movie I remember watching and my first VHS. I had it for so many years until it was all ratty and wouldnt play any more.

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[–] SkittlesMilly 11 years ago

Eh, I think I probably found it boring to begin with too. I find it a lot more interesting as an adult though.

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[–] Errington_92 11 years ago

Fantasia was enthralling from its opening moments. The use of lighting and segments of animation in Toccata and Fugue in D Minor caught my interest.

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[–] Falconeer 11 years ago

I hate to say it, but I have to agree; and I am an adult with a good attention span. Those live scenes with the narrator rambling on ARE boring; for a film like this, we want to get to the animation, which is, of course, the reason anyone watches this film. Through the years there have been re-issues of "Fantasia" that delete or shorten those live, speaking sections. i believe the film just flows better without the interruptions; they break the fantasy, and jar the viewer back to mundane reality..

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[–] doowopfan 11 years ago

If that opening was two minutes I'd be fine with it.

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[–] friendoffilm 11 years ago

I think that the beginning of the film was an important introduction, which sort of explains how and why animation and fantasy can be set to classical music, which is what the whole movie Fantasia is about, overall.

[–] Prismark10 10 years ago

Only the first 10 or 15 minutes was boring............. I think it was more than that!

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