Well, we need to kill four years somehow
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queensthiefDon't we?
Recently I've realized that I haven't been obsessing enough...
Le gasp!
I've run out of material, and for someone who lives half her life in a dream within a dream, it leaves things quite stark and empty. Thanks to you all I have recently added Dangerous Liaisons, Tomorrow When the War Began (the book, then the film), and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer to my list. But obviously it won't last very long.
So, I know this has been done before, and is being done now, but let's make a list of brilliant underrated novels, films, etc. that we just feel the need to aggressively spread around. I know you have one.
So to start off, I remember a little film called The Thief and the Cobbler that I used to watch as a kid (Hey, there's a thief in it! Maybe I'm not so off topic after all). The videocassette copy I have is badly damaged and since I have no machine that could play it anymore, I decided to look it up on the internet, and easily found it on youtube. You can watch it there if you want. There are three versions, but The Thief and the Cobbler:The Recobbled Cut is superior. It was put together by fans and people who worked on the movie, so it's a bit choppy, or watch The Princess and the Cobbler, which is pretty good too and is a little more polished. The film was plagued with trouble (further into on wiki) and in the end it was never completed and the versions that were scrapped together were flops, because by then most of the animators in the movie business had worked on this movie at some point and were greatly influenced by it in their later works. So when Aladdin came out before The Thief did, people assumed that The Thief was a low-quality ripoff (remember, production issues) of Aladdin. But no, Aladdin was a ripoff of The Thief! copyright infringement! as I love to point out. So if you haven't been put off by my rant, watch it, because it really is a great movie.
phew I feel like I've pushed a personal vendetta or something
getting back to the point, please share any and all great works that you think should be better known, or already are but should still be watched
Recently I've realized that I haven't been obsessing enough...
Le gasp!
I've run out of material, and for someone who lives half her life in a dream within a dream, it leaves things quite stark and empty. Thanks to you all I have recently added Dangerous Liaisons, Tomorrow When the War Began (the book, then the film), and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer to my list. But obviously it won't last very long.
So, I know this has been done before, and is being done now, but let's make a list of brilliant underrated novels, films, etc. that we just feel the need to aggressively spread around. I know you have one.
So to start off, I remember a little film called The Thief and the Cobbler that I used to watch as a kid (Hey, there's a thief in it! Maybe I'm not so off topic after all). The videocassette copy I have is badly damaged and since I have no machine that could play it anymore, I decided to look it up on the internet, and easily found it on youtube. You can watch it there if you want. There are three versions, but The Thief and the Cobbler:The Recobbled Cut is superior. It was put together by fans and people who worked on the movie, so it's a bit choppy, or watch The Princess and the Cobbler, which is pretty good too and is a little more polished. The film was plagued with trouble (further into on wiki) and in the end it was never completed and the versions that were scrapped together were flops, because by then most of the animators in the movie business had worked on this movie at some point and were greatly influenced by it in their later works. So when Aladdin came out before The Thief did, people assumed that The Thief was a low-quality ripoff (remember, production issues) of Aladdin. But no, Aladdin was a ripoff of The Thief! copyright infringement! as I love to point out. So if you haven't been put off by my rant, watch it, because it really is a great movie.
phew I feel like I've pushed a personal vendetta or something
getting back to the point, please share any and all great works that you think should be better known, or already are but should still be watched
