Watching Disney movies with subs instead of dubs is the ultimate sin, yo.bartholen said:James Woods is downright iconic as Hades
I can appreciate Hercules for trying something with its visual style, but I couldn't (as a greek myth nerd) approve of them using Hades as a villain. I mean Hades? the God with the least bit of drama in his life (besides the whole Persephone thing), the guy who was given the realm of the afterlife because he was such a trustworthy guy, that Hades as a villain? Even when I saw the movie in theatres as a child I admitted that they had to change the story but Hades? Why not Ares? The guy had a short temper, the other gods made fun of him (atleast once, when they captured him and Aphrodite doing it), he symbolised the savagery of warfare, he would have been a perfect villain!bartholen said:OT: I don't think Hercules gets as much credit as it deserves. Sure, as a movie it doesn't really work, the script is full of problems, the plot makes little sense, there's a lot of tonal whiplash and so on. But it has an utterly unique visual design among the Disney canon, it has great songs and a sort of nutty energy propelling it forward, the Hydra is a fantastic example of fusing CG with hand drawn animation (something which creators have problems with TO THIS DAY), James Woods is downright iconic as Hades, and Meg is a unique character in the Disney female pantheon in the sense that she doesn't really fit any one archetype: she's not a princess, a tomboyish warrior, a damsel in distress, a "girls can do it too" badass or a femme fatale. The closest you'd probably describe her is a Punch Clock Villain [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunchClockVillain] as a love interest. I really like her character for that.
Outside of my immediate family, I know of almost nobody that has even seen that movie!American Fox said:Candleshoe
I dunno, I think he came off like a real rat in that one.thebobmaster said:I third The Great Mouse Detective. You basically have Vincent Price playing Professor Moriarty! How can you go wrong?