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nyctosaurid · 1 month

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don bluth films occupy a weird space because he's both inarguably an auteur who directs very strange, earnest, often "ugly" films but also a guy who near exclusively made movies for 8 year olds in the home video era. so basically everything he's ever done is a grimy, dreamy rumination on death and spirituality and has a direct to video sequel called something like secret of nimh 2: mrs. brisby's holiday adventure

#this happens to a lot of family films obviously #but i can't really think of another director that has a familiar divide between a very stylistic and thematically specific body of work #and direct to video kids movie-quality sequels #the sequels to musker and clements films don't really have the same severe difference in tone to the originals #what happened to neverending story didn't happen to every wolfgang peterson movie #etc

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