#53
Posted by benefitevil
(49 posts)
- 11 months, 14 days ago
I love this movie!!!! I remember seeing this in theaters and having my first sexual experience with Jessica Rabbit. I also remember for about the next 5 years Disney would put a Roger Rabbit short before its movies :)
#56
Posted by Monkeyman04
(485 posts)
- 11 months, 14 days ago
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is one of my all time favorite movies. I can watch that at any time and still get the same enjoyment out of it as I did when I was a young lad.
#62
Edited by KaneRobot
(989 posts)
- 11 months, 14 days ago
This is one of the few movies that is supposedly "for kids" that I think I appreciate even more now as an adult, realizing everything that had to go into it (from getting everything cleared from every copyright holder to the technology required to pull it off). I saw something once (probably on the DVD) where Disney and WB came to some kind of agreement where Bugs and Mickey had to have the exact same amount of dialogue and exact same amount of screentime.
I actually just read the book that inspired it 3 days ago, after meaning to for a long time ("Who Censored Roger Rabbit?")
The movie was fantastic, definitely in my top 20. The book was really good as well. VERY different from the movie - only a few of the same characters (Eddie, Roger, Jessica, Baby Herman)...the rest were different, and the premise was comic strip/book characters living with humans, rather than cartoons. It is much darker than the movie was and I strongly recommend it. You can get it for 2 measly bucks via Amazon Kindle.
To give you an idea of the tonal shift between book and movie - the pics of Jessica that are being used for blackmail are not of her playing patty-cake. They are hardcore porn, which she alleges were taken after she was drugged. And (I mean this in the best way possible) I kind of hated every character besides Eddie by the end of the book. I also liked the motive for the villian in the book better than the movie. The freeway thing in the movie was fine but still seems a little weird and almost too random to me.
But the movie was definitely legendary stuff. Can't imagine we'll ever see that many cross-company characters together ever again. Can't wait for the sequel, which according to Zemeckis is being worked on.
#63
Posted by DeShawn2ks
(1013 posts)
- 11 months, 14 days ago
@MrCandleguy: Anyone who hasn't seen this movie or did and didn't like it is a very bad person in my book. This movie also made me a real pissed off kid when I realized there was no such place as Toon Town. I know where I would spend most of my weekends if I lived in Cali.
I saw it when it came out but I was pretty little. I remember all the other kids were going apeshit over it. I honestly don't remember the movie that well though. For some reason, the only line that stuck with me was when Christopher Lloyd was talking about his diabolical plan, and it was the Interstate Highway System. That tripped me out. It was the first time I remember seeing a movie tie something so sinister in with something so mundane. Maybe I'll have to give it another look after all these years.
#66
Posted by MrCandleguy
(810 posts)
- 11 months, 14 days ago
@NTM said:
Yes I have, it's not exactly a rare movie. It was also on TV a while back. Also, it's not really one of those nostalgia shitty movies you think is great only as a kid, it's actually a good movie. Well, to other people it is, I didn't much care for it (meaning, I didn't dislike it, nor did I really love it).
Of course. Donald Duck calls Daffy Duck and nigger. It's hilarious.
I had to check that on youtube... holy shit... no wonder I always like Looney Toons more than Disney...
Awesome right?
I think someone heard that and thought it would be funny if he got everyone to think Donald said the "n word" when he is actually saying "little." And now people either actually believe it or they are perpetuating the myth.
Also I don't know how many years after seeing this as a kid that I finally knew what a prostate was. That line makes me laugh whenever I think about it now.
#87
Posted by McShank
(1431 posts)
- 11 months, 14 days ago
@Yummylee said:
A childhood favourite. Christopher Lloyd bloody scared the crap out of me as well... took me till I think I hit my early teens to realise that it was the same guy who played the lovable Doc Brown. Boy oh boy, whatta revelation that was.
I remember re-watching it fairly recently as well, pretty damn good movie.
I havent seen it in a few years and thanks to you I now know who the bad guy was :D!!! Never realized who it was when i was a kid.
#88
Edited by Akyho
(1112 posts)
- 11 months, 13 days ago
@ProfessorEss said:
@Akyho said:
You all seem to forget one detail!
MICKEY AND BUGS BUNNY IN ONE SCENE!!! NEVER BEFOR AND NEVER AGAIN!!!
Disney and Warner Brothers came together to make this film!
Hahaha, I still frequently use that inflection when I say "OH NO!!"
I hope you dont use the inflection of what Donald says to Daffy!
It certainly sounds like "You dumb stupid N******" Which it fits.
@SethPhotopoulos said:
@RUDEMIESTER said:
@Jay444111
@RUDEMIESTER said:
Of course. Donald Duck calls Daffy Duck and nigger. It's hilarious.
I had to check that on youtube... holy shit... no wonder I always like Looney Toons more than Disney...
Awesome right?
I think someone heard that and thought it would be funny if he got everyone to think Donald said the "n word" when he is actually saying "little." And now people either actually believe it or they are perpetuating the myth.
If anything due to Donalds speech he says "Liddle" meaning little...except sounds like....
Tho...Donald and Daffy have both starred in some awkwardly racist cartoons.
#90
Posted by MayorFeedback
(668 posts)
- 11 months, 13 days ago
@ProfessorEss said:
I saw in the theater.
Me too! A couple of times, actually. Hard to overstate how mind blowing the film was at the time. It's still impressive, but in 1988? Unbelievable.
@leebmx said:
There was legendarily supposed to be this bit where when the car crashed if you paused the tape you would be able to see right up Jessica Rabbits skirt, me and my friends never managed to find it though.
You could only do it with the Laserdisc, which I happen to have, so everyone come over and we'll look at Jessica Rabbit's crotch.
Also, Donald Duck never says the n-word, that is the dumbest urban legend. You have to really want to hear him say that to discern it in the slightest.
#98
Posted by MrCandleguy
(810 posts)
- 11 months, 13 days ago
@funzzo I was only able to find it on DVD. And even then that took me a long while. I live in new Zealand so we don't have amazon or anything really like it over here. But, it's at least worth a find on DVD.
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