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The Emperor's New Groove
2000 · Film · 78 min
Directed by Mark Dindal
AdventureAnimationComedyFamilyFantasy
When the self‑absorbed Emperor Kuzco is accidentally transformed into a llama, he must rely on a humble villager to survive the jungle and reclaim his throne.
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The Crow
The Machine (if you like Ex Machina, try it)
Alien
Prometheus
Fight Club
Secretary
Casablanca
Kill Bill
The Emperor's New Groove
Star Wars Episode IV - The original goodness, not the CGI horror-show.
Star Wars: Rogue One
American Beauty
Dredd.
Hellboy (directors).
Blade Runner (theatrical).
Chocolat.
Noise (Australian film, 2007. Love that one).
I try not to watch films too many times in quick succession. The repetition dulls the experience for me.
Part of the problem for people here is, dashed lines on maps do mean something. They're very common, and their meaning in the US is widely understood. Especially when maps are used in movies, it's long since been a cliché (and leads to one of the best jokes in "The Emperor's New Groove").
If you actually look at the link prpi provided, there are several examples. E.g., Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (yes), Hiawatha, and Kings of the Sun; if you allow animated films, there's Pachamama and The Emperor's New Groove. More recent examples not in that list include the Canadian movies Maina (2013) and Edge of the Knife (2018).
On a similar note, I highly recommend the documentary "The Sweatbox", which is a behind-the-scenes look at the process behind the creation of "The Emperor's New Groove". It was originally meant to be a very different, more serious film, but despite all the effort into creating the storyboards, characters, music etc the producers rejected it and they had to change direction. The documentary was never supposed to be released, but it eventually was leaked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sweatbox
https://archive.org/details/SweatboxDocumentaryUneditedVersion
It's amazing to compare this to animated movies before and after - it really paved the way for zanier, more off the wall humor in children's movies. I can't imagine Shrek being made without The Emperor's New Groove. Necessity breeds invention.
It's also amazing how many good principles you can learn from this process: the value of iterating often, working quickly but precisely, knowing when/how to pivot, etc.
I re-watched The Emperor's New Groove with my kids a year or two back. Still a great film as an adult.
Hah, I know the feeling. Flying to India I couldn't sleep and watched so many movies with my brains just fried from low oxygen. I have no idea what Emperor's New Groove is about.
It's the weirdest thing with me, but I'm a parent of a certain age and though my kids are now teenagers soon to be off to college I still remember their pre-school years vividly and one aspect of those years was that I saw "The Emperor's New Groove" about 9,000 times, and as a result any time someone on the Internet ends a sentence with ", eh", my brain automatically attributes the whole thing to David Spade's voice role as Kuzco (because "... eh, Pa-cha?") not just for that comment but, like, forever. There is a small group of people for whom I can only read their comments in David Spade's voice while imagining them as a talking llama, and, as you can now surmise, that group is slowly but surely growing, and it is a weird way to live life but that's how it is.
(Incidentally, if you haven't seen it: it's one of the very best Disney movies, and one of the few I'd go out of my way to see as an adult.)
Why the Treasure Planet hate? I really liked that film when it came out. It was just torpedoed by interdepartmental politics that hurt theatrical sales, like Emperor's New Groove. IIRC, they weren't allowed to make a trailer for it until the last minute, so the boring and uninformative one that aired in theaters came to be.