Favorite Disney Animated Classics?

Tarzan always seems like an odd favorite to me. It doesn't really stand out to me in any specific way.

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I don't know what it is. But I love it very very much.

I did post quite a long post on why I like it and think it's great. If you follow the link in that post I just posted, it comes on the next page.

When I was 5-6 I already considered Disney's movies stupid. When I was 10 I liked movies like Terminator 2 and The Matrix.

Children around the age of 10 already smarter than adults, specially because their brains are more "flexible" so they can learn new things more easily. The brain after the age of 25 starts to deteriorate and the capacity to learn new things decreases, that's why, for example, an old person's favorite movies or music is always from the time they were young and why all chess masters start playing when they are very young.

So I disagree completely with Disney's method of underestimating their audience's intelligence. Many of which are already smarter than the aging brains of the company's executives. It just ends up making the audience feel insulted (a point Miyazaki made in his Starting Point, I wrote an essay about Miyazaki and children's movies in my animation thread: Miyazaki and Children's Movies).

Not all American children's movies follow that logic: Pixar's movies, for example, have a complexity that most Disney's movies lack. Also, Wreck it Ralph is an example of a more complex Disney movie as well (and an excellent one at that). Dreamworks movies like How to Train your Dragon and Shrek are also more complex than typical Disney fare.

Overall, it's clear trend that for modern Hollywood, children's animated movies are getting as complex as "normal" movies. That started out with Pixar and Don Bluth in the 1990's.

Alright. You're in a pretty big minority there.

I find this all very questionable.

Because they're 10?

Yeah, I saw that, I still don't really agree with it.

They're different, that's for sure, but Shrek's status as a parody of typical Disney tropes doesn't exactly make it more complex.

I agree there's something to be said for the likes of Secret of NIMH, buuuut...

Are we just talking about Disney princess tropes? Or is Brother Bear just that irredeemably bad? Let's hear some specific examples.

Oh hell no.

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I think the best is Lion King hands down.

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Was it the Brother Bear comment?

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specific.

Uh-oh.

Pinocchio is the best by far.

By far you say?

Why, praytell how you have come to such an earth-shattering conclusion, my dear constable?

It looks the best, has the best music, best story, and is the most fun to watch.

Yes, Pinnochio is the best. But, although there was no ratings system when it first came out, and it was eventually rated G, I think that some of the scenes in it would now be considered too frightening for young children.

How about live action Disney? I vote for "Darby O'Gill and the little people."

I can't see how I could possibly argue with that.

Since i keep track of the movies i'm watching (14 months), i've seen 16 Disney films. I'd rank them like this:

Love it:
The Lion King

Really like it:
Wreck-it Ralph
Tangled
Mulan
The Little Mermaid

Like it (above average):
Bambi
The Jungle Book
Aristocats

It's ok:
Big Hero 6
The Rescuers
Frozen
Pocahontas

Don't like it:
Cinderella
The Rescuers Down Under

Hate it:
Chicken Little
The Emperor's New Groove

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Here are my favorite animated Disney films, in no particular order:



Fantasia (the original 1940 movie)

Fantasia 2000 (although not quite as good as the original Fantasia)

Pinocchio

Sleeping Beauty

Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs.

The Lion King

Ponyo

Lady & the Tramp

Peter Pan

Cinderella

Sword in the Stone

Dumbo



My Favorite non-animated Disney movie:

Old Yeller.

Davy Crockett

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Not Disney, but Studio Ghibli.

Okay, thanks for the heads up, Max.
didn't know that.

Another favorite animated Disney film of mine, however, is 101 Dalmatians.

It saddens me that some think Ghibli's films are actually Disney's because they release them over here. I remember someone had Spirited Away on their favourite Disney movie list over here . It's not their fault it is they way Disney releases them as if they are their own.