Thursday, August 11, 2005
Favorite cartoon movies?
I was having a conversation last night about three of my favorite cartoon movies from back when I was a kid. Here they are: The Last Unicorn, The Secret of NIMH and Watership Down. Oh, there were lots of others of course. But even with all of the great cartoon movies I loved as a kid, these three are without question the top three on my list.Have you seen them? The person who I was talking to last night, a mother of two, has not seen a single one of them and neither have her kids. That kinda made me sad. I have seen quite a few of the cartoon movies that are coming out today -- including Disney's recent import, Howl's Moving Castle, which I saw last month. I have to say I'm not impressed. The cartoon movies today are just not as memorable as the classics I remember. They were brilliantly done, and wonderfully dark. The new movies are just flash.
Unfortunately -- though I actually think this counts in their favor -- the cartoon movies I love were made before all of the new fancy animation techniques came around. They're old-school. And they're incredible. So why don't they get watched?
Maybe they just don't hold people's attention anymore. Do they seem dated? I don't know. It's also always possible that I am just getting old and starting to think that the stuff I was exposed to was so much better than what is out today. It just seems to me there once was more art involved. And I also believe that movies like these helped me to develop an aesthetic when I was younger. They weren't the end of that development, thank God, but I think I might be a different writer were it not for them. What will the poets of tomorrow start with?
What were your favorite cartoon movies? Anyone want to tell me?
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5 Comments:
1. Pete's Dragon (part cartoon)
2. The Fox & the Hound
3. The Sword in the Stone
4. Sleeping Beauty
I loved Disney movies, too! My brother & sister & I could agree on Pete's Dragon, so we watched it over & over.
Surely you're not including Spirited Away in your list of contemporary disappointments??
Wow - The Last Unicorn, definitely number one. Secret of Nimh is up there as well. Wow. And better than Howl or Spirited Away, Princess Nausicaa and the People of the Wind (which was called, when I was a kid, Warriors of the Wind)
mine was The Last Unicorn, Sea Prince & Fire Child,
Anyone who hasn't seen those three movies is a communist.
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