Atlantis: The Lost Empire

[beccawolf16]

Atlantis, anyone?

[luseylottay]

Always a favorite in my book, even if bits and pieces of it seemed a little poorly written/cheesy ^^;

[shadowlillium]

I liked this movie, but there is one plot hole that still racks at my poor brain.

If the villians are taking those air balloons up, they still have to get back to their little escape pod ships. Then they have to face the Leviathon lobster(which they barely survived in the first place) Again. Then they gotta hope and pray that their supplies last long enough to get to the main ship(which makes me doubtful, cause of their wasted fuel escaping the lobster and the submarine that got destroyed which they took , probably went through most of the trip underwater, which means more fuel that the escape pods could not have carried/used.

Also, if that escape plan was more thought out, they could have waited for the Atlantians to rediscover their technology,get a better ship, maybe use them to help them control the lobster or find a way to defeat it, then get the heck out.

This is always what confused me about the movie.

[luseylottay]

Sept 18, 2011 19:55:27 GMT -5 shadowlillium said:

I liked this movie, but there is one plot hole that still racks at my poor brain.

If the villians are taking those air balloons up, they still have to get back to their little escape pod ships. Then they have to face the Leviathon lobster(which they barely survived in the first place) Again. Then they gotta hope and pray that their supplies last long enough to get to the main ship(which makes me doubtful, cause of their wasted fuel escaping the lobster and the submarine that got destroyed which they took , probably went through most of the trip underwater, which means more fuel that the escape pods could not have carried/used.

Also, if that escape plan was more thought out, they could have waited for the Atlantians to rediscover their technology,get a better ship, maybe use them to help them control the lobster or find a way to defeat it, then get the heck out.

This is always what confused me about the movie.

They wouldn't have to go passed the Leviathan again, they were going up the inside of a volcano. If the volcano had been underwater or in a cave, the place would have flooded or you wouldn't see any light, so it was a route to the surface

In regards to the part two...
Americans are stuck up dumbasses, that's why (and I'm an American saying this lol)

[beccawolf16]

Sept 18, 2011 18:33:54 GMT -5 luseylottay said:

Always a favorite in my book, even if bits and pieces of it seemed a little poorly written/cheesy ^^;

Well, they probably could have done better with it if they weren't within the constraints of a two-hour time limit and a pg rating. I always thought Atlantis should have been a bit longer (3-hour-long movies are my thing), but all the other kiddies get bored after sitting still for and hour or so, so any chance of a complex plot or further character development gets flushed.

Oh, well, I still love Milo's epic two-sentence speech:

"I'm going after Rourke."
"Milo, that's crazy!"
"I didn't say it was the smart thing, but it is the right thing."

[alwaysbeenkitt]

A:TLE remains one of my favorite Disney movies alongside Treasure Planet.

Growing up, my parents gave me a lot of the princess movies to watch but I didn't really relate to them as well as movies like Atlantis, which I really enjoyed just for how "pretty" Atlantis looked to my little kid eyes but for the animation and obscurity for a Disney movie as I got older. I love the look of it as well, it's so stylized. <3

[beccawolf16]

Oct 2, 2011 21:06:27 GMT -5 alwaysbeenkitt said:

A:TLE remains one of my favorite Disney movies alongside Treasure Planet.

Growing up, my parents gave me a lot of the princess movies to watch but I didn't really relate to them as well as movies like Atlantis, which I really enjoyed just for how "pretty" Atlantis looked to my little kid eyes but for the animation and obscurity for a Disney movie as I got older. I love the look of it as well, it's so stylized. <3

YES! Thank you, tresure planet is one of the best too, and just like ATLE it's sooo unloved! I really think disney would have been better off today if they'd made more of those animated adventure movies instead of all those princess ones (I've never liked the princess ones much either... too much "happily ever after" and not enough action. Bleh.)

Oh, and I agree with you, one of the reasons why I can appreciate Atlantis now is because of the stylized animation. Even as a kid, I was like "Ooo the buildings.... they're so pretty..."

[alwaysbeenkitt]

Oct 2, 2011 21:27:27 GMT -5 beccawolf16 said:

Thank you, tresure planet is one of the best too, and just like ATLE it's sooo unloved! I really think disney would have been better off today if they'd made more of those animated adventure movies instead of all those princess ones "

Yes and yes! There's nothing wrong with the princess movies, but I think adventure has more substance that romance. When the two are combined, you can get a pretty good deal (Like in A:TLE itself, depending on how much of a shipper one is) but personally romance or a fairy tale by itself doesn't have much substance for me. Besides, animated fight scenes are pretty darn impressive, and I think Disney's adventure movies like A:TLE and Treasure Planet brought out a lot of strong female characters like Helga, Kida, and Captain Amelia. I loved seeing bold female characters as a kid, and still do to this day!

[beccawolf16]

Oct 2, 2011 21:39:52 GMT -5 alwaysbeenkitt said:

Oct 2, 2011 21:27:27 GMT -5 beccawolf16 said:

Thank you, tresure planet is one of the best too, and just like ATLE it's sooo unloved! I really think disney would have been better off today if they'd made more of those animated adventure movies instead of all those princess ones "

Yes and yes! There's nothing wrong with the princess movies, but I think adventure has more substance that romance. When the two are combined, you can get a pretty good deal (Like in A:TLE itself, depending on how much of a shipper one is) but personally romance or a fairy tale by itself doesn't have much substance for me. Besides, animated fight scenes are pretty darn impressive, and I think Disney's adventure movies like A:TLE and Treasure Planet brought out a lot of strong female characters like Helga, Kida, and Captain Amelia. I loved seeing bold female characters as a kid, and still do to this day!

True true! Plus, I do feel the villans in the action movies are more... realistic, I suppose. Like, Rourke for instance. He wasn't some kind of crazy wizard man who put a magic spell on a princess for no odd reason. He was on a mission for personal gain and had a bunch of guns and a posse of gasmasked men to back him up. No magic-mojo (well, at least until the end, when he got turned into some kind of creepy crystal-glass-man, but that's besides the point.) He had proper motive to be the villian and, unlike most disney villians, it wasn't compleatly obvious that he was the villian at first, and I like that.

[alwaysbeenkitt]

Again, I agree! In both visual design and character it was hard to tell he was the villain. In turn, Milo wasn't sent on the journey for an epic quest to save a pretty girl, he had real motives and real problems; wanting to redeem his grandfather's legacy and dealing with rejection from other historians.

I also thought the secondary characters had just as much substance as the main ones, like Audrey, Sweet, and Vinny. They all (literally and in the context of the plot) had jobs to do both to help Milo and for their own gain, that independence was awesome to me. They weren't just there to be Milo's friends or provide comic relief.

[maddlythedumbass]

this movie.
it has some really funny stills.