"Lacking in character development and psychological depth"?
American Pop goes through four generations in 90 minutes and they sing songs during a lot of that time. The depth and psychology of the film is in the songs.
Alice in Wonderland is pure surrealism. It would defeat its purpose to offer depth - it's total anarchy, which in and of itself is social satire. So you didn't like
Alice. Big deal, neither did Walt Disney. Your condescension reeks with stinkness. You just want to make a "sociological observation" that Disney sucks and Miyazaki deserves a suck-off for about the hundredth time. Your posts are the sociological observation. Other than that, awesome comments, Guap. full of great pith.
Don't take it personal. I also made the mistake earlier of taking people's opinions on movies on a personal level but one should notice that tastes are subjective.
I am reading Miazaki's books:
He is very critical of Disney in general. I never actually said that Miyazaki's movies are better than Disney movies, first, because they are completely different movies that aim to be different things and are made for entirely different audiences. I only noticed that after reading those books and watching Disney movies I noticed Miyazaki's observations on these movies make sense to me. He said that Disney movies are technical milestones in animation but suffer from simplistic character development and are lacking in psychological depth and emotional power, he also explains that Disney's movies shows their contempt for their audience. He said that he was inspired to be an animator after watching Japanese, French and Soviet animated movies, which he found superior. I agree with his assessments.
Also, it's true that American Pop also lack's in character development and psychological realism. Overall I never watched an American or European animated film or series with truly good mature writing like Patlabor 2, Texhnolyze or Legend of the Galactic Heroes, for example. I guess people in the west just don't try to adapt novels into animated films or series, the concept of animation as a general medium of storytelling is alien to western animators while I read a definition of anime in an anime series as "a way to tell stories using drawings".
I know that Alice is among your favorite movies and that jal90's also loves Alice and Tangled but I couldn't bring myself to like either of those movies. I just found them boring overall.
It's normal for different people to have different tastes and so you shouldn't be so worked up over the fact that people have different scores for your favorite movies (I didn't have any urge to personally attack you after you rated Tarkovsky's The Mirror and Stalker
, lower than my score for Alice). If you continue to behave in such a way I will add your name into my ignored user list.