That's a pretty ridiculous comparison. ...
Wow ... did the time change cause you to get out of bed on the wrong side?
I'm not comparing to Bluth's accomplishments to Kennedy's ... there is no real comparison.
I'm comparing the mindset of some of us older-folks who want to go back 30+ years and get people to fund their dream of reliving it.
As great as Don Bluth's animation skills are ... that still doesn't make it likely that some large company is going to throw $70M-$170M at a movie-based-on-a-game-with-no-story.
If you want to give him money out of sentiment for his work, or if the KickStarter "rewards" appeal to you ... then fine, go for it.
But it's still just going to be $550,000 that gets spent and almost-certainly leads nowhere.
I won't disagree about the Dragon's Lair game either, the main appeal was Don Bluth's animation.
But if you weren't there at the time ... it was also an
amazing piece of technology to see in an arcade back when it came out. There had never been anything to play that was like it.
You wouldn't have even had the opportunity to
see that animation if it wasn't for the company that invested their money to pay Don Bluth and to make the game itself, because it wouldn't have existed ... and so it's a bit shitty for you to rag on those folks.
I was asked about stories surrounding Dragon's Lair ... and the legal issues are one of them. Sorry if it's not one that happens to fit your perceptions of Don Bluth.
My friend doesn't claim ownership of any of that stuff ... he was an employee, working part-time while at college and having fun, just like a lot of people back then. He doesn't get royalties, and he doesn't live in the past.
It was Bluth's desire to revisit the past that brought the whole conversation up.
