Richard Williams Studios

[stika]

So I've just recently discovered the animation studio behind the movie "Who framed Roger Rabbit" has also made tons of animated commercials and honestly a lot of them were amazing!

How come we don't get stuff like this anymore?

I'm also amazed commercials at how risqué some of them were:

[Say]

I had never seen these before, whatever happened with the studio?

My favorite one was the first one - NEVER FOR EEEEEEEEEEEEBIL D: haha :p

[stika]

If I had to guess, I'd say with the success of who framed roger rabbit they became too big for commercials

[Oldbushie]

Man, I love that movie.

[stika]

all awesome people do! 

[Rosella]

Absolute statements like that are almost always wrong.

(I can't stand that movie. )

[snabbott]

Absolute statements like that are almost always wrong.

(I can't stand that movie. )

...and there's no denying that Kelsey (Rosella) is awesome!

[stika]

Rosella is the exception that proves the rule?

[snabbott]

The Princess Bride, on the other hand... 

[stika]

even if you don't like Who framed Roger Rabbit, you gotta admit, these commercials are bad ass!

[Rosella]

Rosella is the exception that proves the rule?

The exception that proves the rule refers to a specific statement where, by saying there is an exception, you imply there is a rule. For example, if a sign says "No parking on Sundays," you could logically infer that there is parking Monday-Saturday. The exception (that you can't park there on Sundays) proves that there is a rule (that you can park there in general). If something is just an exception to an already stated rule, it's just an exception and does, in general, have a tendency to disprove the rule.

That said, The Princess Bride is an amazing movie.

[stika]

Fine fine I retract my statement

[Deloria]

Buttercup is the most annoying character ever.

[GrahamRocks!]

  Well... that's a new one. The only other person I know who didn't like The Princess Bride was my dad, who hasn't watched since it came out in 1987.

[Deloria]

I love the movie! I love the rest of the cast! I love the sword-fighting! I just hate Buttercup and her incessant need to be saved.

[GrahamRocks!]

  Well, she's a classic Fantasy princess! So are Rosella and Cassima.

[Deloria]

But Rosella and Cassima also have brains and can be independent and don't always rely on people to save them. With Buttercup it borders on being ridiculous: she is astonishingly accident-prone, incapable of getting herself out of any jam, and possibly ineptly suicidal (considering the way she was holding that dagger ).

[spoiler]
Let's count the ways Buttercup the Moronic nearly gets herself killed and needs to be saved by a number of people:

She jumps into the eel-infested waters. Great, so you've escaped your captors who are in a vessel that can travel much more quickly than you can. Oh, and you're weak and there's no land in sight, so, you know, you're going to die. Even if there were not any eels, you would still die. Incidentally, if you do ever get to land, they move more quickly than you do, so they'd beat you to it. And recapture you.

When they get into the fire swamp, she successively manages to set herself on fire (and does nothing about it, except scream while someone else puts it out), falls into a pool of quicksand (okay, that was unfortunate, but you knew there was quicksand, so why weren't you being more careful?) and get attacked by a gigantic rat, which then attacks Wesley (during which she does absolutely nothing to help. Here's a thought: if the rat finishes him off, does she not think it's going to go for her next?).

After she leaves the swamp, she successfully makes any intelligent audience hate her by being headdeskingly naive and hopeless at diplomacy, but fine, she's a girl. Whatever. Why would she have a brain?

And then there's the "almost suicide attempt" where she holds a very small dagger against her chest and expects it to do something. It's not sharp enough to draw blood, you moron. Why the hell would it kill you if you hold it against your chest? Do you think it's going to miss all the bones? Do we, at this point, seriously think the girl is clever enough to know where her ribs are and how to avoid them and her sternum?

Protip: your body is resilient and can get over almost anything. It can definitely get over being "stabbed" with a very small dagger WITH NO MOMENTUM by a moron who doesn't know where any of her vital organs are. [/spoiler]

Seriously, it's a great movie. I wish the female lead were written as a clever, independent woman. 

[Blackthorne]

It must be hell inside your head.


Bt

[Lambonius]

And these are the people that won't pay $15 for a new adventure game.

[Deloria]

It must be hell inside your head.


Bt

I have a beautiful mind, thank you.

And these are the people that won't pay $15 for a new adventure game.

If you'll reread the thread (in between your tantrum posts), you'll actually see that very few people answered that they wouldn't pay $15 for a new adventure game. Most people just said they waited for sales (that means they usually won't buy them until they stop being new ).