That jab at the original Doogie Howser tells me everything I need to know. "She isn't like that fake Doogie Howser, she's even better because she's real (and a whaman)". Good thing I'm not a Doogie Howser fan.
Same, but I do like Neil Patrick Harris, so it does piss me off a bit.
I'd say start with the 30s-50s era movies (Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, Cinderella, etc.) as they heavily influenced anime in the first place. If they don't appeal to you, I'd say about 90% of their other stuff won't appeal to you either. The other 10% consists mostly of their movies from 2000-2002 and Wreck-It-Ralph. Also, Pixar. Did you grow up with Pixar, or did you ignore that studio as a kid as well? If so, I'm surprised you haven't been crucified by your fellow peers yet.
Same man. He always seems like a great guy in every interview I see with him. Plus, I will always respect him for standing up to the twitter mob and saying it is perfectly okay for straight actors to play gay characters and gay actors to play straight characters and it is all about hiring the best actor for the role.
You'll have to keep in mind Walt Disney was a legit kid at heart, so he had very idealistic views that were there in his work, both animated and live-action (hence the coined term of "Disney magic"). If it appeals to you as an animation fan or if you want some charming cheese, I think you can appreciate his vision. Some of that even still managed to carry over after his death, but it definitely changed during the 2000s.
I guess I grew up with pixar movies at least more than disney, my first movie at the cinema was a bugs life and I loved it to hell, even had the VHS. Also liked Toy Story, UP, Wall E, but never watched anything beyond TS 3.
You are a person of culture. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. Also, don't be ashamed about mistaking those for Disney - people thought Anastasia was Disney for the longest (and still do, as a matter of fact!).
Oh, if you liked those, you'll definitely like at least some of their Renaissance movies (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, etc.) although your mileage may vary on each individual one. I'd also say to give their early 2000s movies a shot (especially Lilo & Stitch. That one, in my opinion, is Disney's best original movie NOT based on a fairy tale, for reasons I've already elaborated on in the past here on this forum so I'll STFU about it now).
I am not sure I will ever get the meme disney magic. I can understand the idealistic view, but I am also a gigantic fan of Osamu Tezuka, I fucking adore the man, and even in his adaptations of similar works that Disney also did it (Pinocchio). He puts the more mature stuff too, to not even talk about his original works that I can sure as hell guarantee that are all over the spectrum of intent, darkness, playfulness and so on, a complete author that could tackle any type of story.
I remember watching Anastasia as a kid and liking the non singing parts and not the animals, it was very pretty and well animated. My favorite take on Anastasia story is and will always be Spring Breeze of Sunegurachika by Hiroaki Samura.
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To be fair many of the same people that worked on those were either former Disney staff that jump ship with Katzenberg to Dreamworks or decided to be hired later.
It doesn't help now that Disney bought 20th Century Fox, so Anastasia technically is Disney now. The movie's on Disney+ which is bound to cause even more confusion.
I'll always find this interesting. Walt grew up in the time period where humanity's horrors were on full display with mechanized warefare and the Holocaust and that dude was STILL optimistic about the future.
This last year had a comic book talking about the history of animation and it was pretty nice, It didn't focus on Walt, but Walt is a funny character on its own, what a strange man
I'm going to have to find a copy so I can see whether they get anything wrong. I get you have to simplify when you cover so much ground but...This last year had a comic book talking about the history of animation and it was pretty nice, It didn't focus on Walt, but Walt is a funny character on its own, what a strange man
Yeah, actually, the dancing was rotoscoped.
I recommend reading with youtube open in the side to look for the examples used, it was pretty cool seeing the images on the pages and the actual animation mentioned.
Figured it was, it was too human like, but it kinda feels that the whole movie was rotoscoped. Actually, disney/fox should do a live action version of this movie instead of the others. This one kinda feels like it would be a bit better without the animals, and they could develop more the historic context of the movie.
Not really surprising, Don Bluth used rotoscoping in other projects to varying degrees. But hell, many Disney movies have done similar by filming a reference for animating a specific scene. Many of them involving, yup, dancing. And Don Bluth is also a former Disney animator so there you go.
How ironic that decades after his death, the company bearing his name would end up being one of the biggest sources of evil in the modern world.
