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Hourglass · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject:

I didn't see that some of you fell in love with the sequels rather than the original. I personally fell in love with the original, and that's what got me hooked... the sequels just kept me there.

When I look at Aladdin, I look for the original... and that's what I know most about.

Robin Williams helped that, because he was WONDERFUL as the Genie!!! Dan was too, but he didn't have that energy. The reviews for Aladdin always said that Genie was the focus point for the movie because the other characters were quite boring.

I didn't understand that you guys didn't like the original as much as the sequels... my mistake.
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AladdinsGenie · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject:

Well, not EVERYONE is like that Laughing

. I personally love the first film along with the sequels and series. I'm a fandom tramp, what can I say? Wink

The first is the first and what got me hooked to begin with. I could have cared less who was playing what character because I didn't know/care when I was little kid. (Except Gilbert, that voice is world renowed, lol). Others got hooked through the series or the sequels first. It's a rare fate, but it does happen.
I think once you have seen a series that comes after a movie, you tend to think the characters in the first movie were boring. You don't have that subtext in the first movie until after the series, which I like because you can do so much with their past from the point of view of the first movie that way. Al in the first compared to Al in "The Return of Malcho" is a huge difference. Just by Al saying he's had a ton of girlfriends before he met Jasmine started me with calling him Pimp Ali Very Happy

So I don't think of the characters as boring, but more so bases to either what a series or sequel has in store for them or what you can do with them, which is always fun. Very Happy

Hourglass · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:50 pm Post subject:

Calluna · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

Okay, let me put it this way: I loved the original when it came out - as a movie. But I wasn't really a fan until I saw RoJ, because until that point I never thought of the characters as having a life outside the plot, but after RoJ I started wondering what the series would be like, and coming up with fanfic ideas (although I didn't know what fanfic was at the time), and that was pretty much it.

(I had a much longer version of this post, but I got that worm thing in the middle of posting it yesterday. Rolling Eyes

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Salukfan · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject:

Calluna · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject:

That's exactly why I try not to watch any of the movies/episodes too much. I'm afraid I'll get tired of them if I do. Confused

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Salukfan · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

I've seen KOT *tons* of times, and I've yet to get tired of it. At this point, I'm starting to like things I didn't like before...

But "The Return of Malcho" is another story. I watched it alot, and I haven't been able to motivate myself to watch it in a while. *Grumbles*
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AladdinsGenie · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:36 am Post subject:

Boz · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:04 pm Post subject:

I feel kind of weird admitting this but I have never seen KOT. I saw ROJ once but I don't remember it, except for that song that genie sings when he returns. I used to watch the series religiously when I was a kid but now I only catch it from time to time. I watch the original movie a lot, especially since I have the DVD.

By the way, can you explain the Ethel Merman reference to me? I never understood it. All I know is that she was a Broadway singer.
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Hourglass · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject:

Salukfan · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:39 pm Post subject:

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject:

Boz · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:47 pm Post subject:

Hourglass · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject:

Salukfan · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:01 pm Post subject: