TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Oh, and if we're going to pick a nearly-arbitrary set of years, 88-98 was the great flowering of animated near-classics, classics and super-classics.  Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Aladdin, TS 1, Hercules, Mulan, Antz, Anastasia, Land Before Time, Prince of Egypt... all better than Dragon.  Also there's The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, if you're into them (I'm not, especially B+B,* but most are).  I think All Dogs Go to Heaven was pretty good, but it's been a while...  That's more awesome movies than 2000-2014 seems to have produced (and I still think movies from 2000 kind of do not count for "21st century" movies) in four fewer years.

*It's arguably the most insidious, socially irresponsible movie ever made.

[Ed Anger]

Antz. You have got to be kidding me. At least you didn't mention that turd A Bug's Life.

[The Larch]

How the hell is Wall-E fascistic? 

[Eddie Teach]

The Lego Movie, A (though I'm thinking of knocking it up..

Hott?

[Ed Anger]

Batman better not bend over.

[FunkMonk]

No mention of An American Tail 

http://youtu.be/l_iRdgGZ6Xc

http://youtu.be/2bC07e7PReM

http://youtu.be/Ql1IFJwF0SQ

[frunk]

Toy Story 2 was released in 1999.

I'd add Ratatouille, Spirited Away and Triplets of Belleville for 21st Century, and Akira, and Princess Mononoke for 88-98.  Iron Giant and South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut are in the curious space in between.

I'd take off  Hercules, Mulan, Antz, Anastasia, Land Before Time, Prince of Egypt and Lion King.

[Ideologue]

Well, I was just picking a decade and couldn't just say "90s" because that would leave out Mermaid, the crown jewel of the Disney Renaissance/Disney history.

Totally assumed Toy Story 2 was post-2000.  Oops.

American Tail was '86.  Hey, I'd have loved to have included NIMH too, but that was even older.   (That said, I have not seen American Tail in at least twenty years.  I don't think I loved it, or its sequel, but do recall it being pretty good.)

Edit: Rataouille is also pretty damned good.  But I've never once seen an anime film that I really loved (however, Death Note is possibly the best thing ever made out of moving pictures).

[Ideologue]

How the hell is Wall-E fascistic? 

Maybe read the two sentences right next to where I call it fascistic.  One guy decides to radically reshape society based upon a romantic vision of an agrarian past and uses the literal machinery of the state to force them into it, without a vote, and destroying the ineffectual technocrat that tries to stop him?

How isn't Wall-E fascist?

[frunk]

Well, I was just picking a decade and couldn't just say "90s" because that would leave out Mermaid, the crown jewel of the Disney Renaissance/Disney history.

Totally assumed Toy Story 2 was post-2000.  Oops.

American Tail was '86.  Hey, I'd have loved to have included NIMH too, but that was even older.   (That said, I have not seen American Tail in at least twenty years.  I don't think I loved it, or its sequel, but do recall it being pretty good.)

If you take 86-99 and compare it to 2000-2013 that'll get you your crown jewel and be equivalent date ranges.

[Ideologue]

And The Great Mouse Detective!  Which may or may not be any good.  It's the only Clement/Musker joint that I haven't seen in recent memory.  Man, were those guys on fire between '89 and '97.  HERCULES WAS AWESOME.

Treasure Planet, er, less so.

[mongers]

'World's End' - mildly amusing. 

[Sophie Scholl]

No love for Shrek?  Seriously?  Fuck all ya'll.

[Syt]

If you take 86-99 and compare it to 2000-2013 that'll get you your crown jewel and be equivalent date ranges.

Wasn't that period, besides Disney's Golden Age, a bit crap for animated feature movies?

[The Larch]

How the hell is Wall-E fascistic? 

Maybe read the two sentences right next to where I call it fascistic.  One guy decides to radically reshape society based upon a romantic vision of an agrarian past and uses the literal machinery of the state to force them into it, without a vote, and destroying the ineffectual technocrat that tries to stop him?

How isn't Wall-E fascist?

I don't know what's worse, if your way of interpreting things or your political references.

The captain (not one random guy) decided to change route back to Earth because he found proof that it was habitable again, which was completely in line with the objectives of the original inhabitants of the ship-ark.