I intend to bring it up every time there's a film well-regarded in the UK and unknown in the US to compare it to. So, not until it shows up.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
wallace and gromit are not unknown in the US
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
Gandahar is by the same dude as Planet Sauvage, yes? I had to cut that from my ballot as I've only seen clips and not the whole thing all the way through, but his animation style really is amazing.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Sad, I'm reminded that I didn't beg my pop hard enough to have him take me to see Gandahar when it played in theatres (as Light Years in the US).
― Spectrist, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
#97: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostroaka Rupan Sansei: Kariosutoro no Shiro, ルパン三世 カリオストロの城dir. MIYAZAKI Hayao1979, Japan80 points, 2 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/OoD1K.jpg?1trailer
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, really, When the Wind Blows that low? I thought for sure it'd be in the top 20.
have never been able to make it through a full minute of this, lrn 2 read u heathens my seven-year-old self thinks
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
Have seen Cagliostro twice and still don't remember much about it, except that despite being straightforwardly cartoonish and not at all yer typical Miyazaki film, it was hella fun.
― ledge, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
lrn 2 read u heathens my seven-year-old self thinks
I'm not sure what you mean here? As in, we should read the book instead and thus the film is worthless? Does that mean you've never enjoyed any adaptation ever? No matter how skilfully directed/acted/edited?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
Um... What's the projected time scale for this poll?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
Faster than it has been; my life is unexpectedly ridiculous lately. Progress shall be made.
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
All good, I was just wondering if the pace was deliberate!
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
#95T: 8 Ball Bunnydir. Chuck Jones1950, USA80 points, 3 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/Lh26o.jpgfilm
#95T: Bad Luck Blackiedir. Tex Avery1949, USA80 points, 3 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/n65uK.png?1film
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
#92T: Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamiseaka Ōritsu Uchūgun: Oneamisu no Tsubasa, 王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼dir. YAMAGA Hiroyuki1987, Japan82 points, 2 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/pvJDD.jpgempire magazine's jeff yogel gave it four stars, saying 'animation equal to anything from uncle walt'
#92T: The Plague Dogsdir. Martin Rosen1982, UK82 points, 2 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/g86ia.jpgtrailer
#92T: Bimbo's Initiationdir. Dave Fleischer1981, USA82 points, 2 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/S6ct3.jpgfilm
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
Not seen any of that lot. Heard of Plague Dogs due to the Watership Down connection, but never watched it.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Wings of Honneamise is great; there's such loving attention to detail in the construction of its alternate Earth, and it's amazing they managed to produce a big-budget sci-fi movie that's essentially a slow-tempo meditation on what drives humanity forward. It's kinda like a anime counterpart to 2001: Space Odyssey, except that it's not boring.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
and the trailer posted above says ryuichi sakamoto did the soundtrack!
― your friend, (Z S), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
Oooooh Sakamoto. Cool!
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
(Also: ignoring Tuomas on 2001, nyah)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
The soundtrack is awesome too.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
Plague Dogs is great, one of my favorite movies. But totally heartbreaking, esp. if you like dogs.
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
Now I am wishing I had had the time to vote in this poll!
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
#91: Kung Fu Pandadir. John Wayne Stevenson and Mark Osborne2008, USA82 points, 3 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/Mz99n.jpg?1trailer
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
too low for Bimbo's Initiation!
I'm slightly less hardline about this as a principle than when I was 7. but in this specific case, Briggs is so warm and inviting at first, and (as in all his work) the audience is drawn in so much by how much of a hand-made, one-creator artifact each page and panel is, with the colour so splotched and unblended; and then the adaptation hurls all of that charm away with herky-jerky motions and smoothed-out character models with dead eyes and iirc a really stiff clash btwn flat-colour figures and immobile painted bgs.
UGH I just looked at the first minute or so on youtube to check my decades-old memory and opening with real news footage! having him read TV coverage in the newspaper? crossing back and forth btwn film and cartoon! COMPOSITING FILMED SKIES INTO CARTOON BGS! him on the bus where Jim is animated by one person or team, the teenage couple on the other side are obviously animated by an apprentice team, rocking that 30's bouncy motion, LOOPING one second's action even though they then move afterwards, and the couple up the back being non-animated part of the background UGH UGH UGH
The Snowman can fuck off too imo (actually I've never seen it. I did see the Irn-Bru ad that parodies it, on the internets, though.)
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
I'm p mad at D&Q just for making their G. Jim GN half-size too tbh, I dig my Briggs
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway I voted for it.
wouldn't have voted it so high myself if I hadn't been reacquainted with it by Jim Woodring showing the whole thing during a lecture at Sydney Opera House last year tbf
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
is Kung Fu Panda actually good
― Number None, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
No.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
kung fu panda is the first one where i'm really kicking myself i didnt get my shit together enough to vote.
― big-mammed punisher (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
don't blame me, i voted for Kung Fu Panda 2
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
the way i feel about kung fu panda is that if fern gully had come out 4 years ago it might've appeared here too
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 July 2012 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
for the Tone Loc rap
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
Kung Fu Panda is one where I spent some time reconsidering where to put it in the ballot - it's shiny and corporate and it has a terrible sequel, but on the other hand it's flawless for what it is, it's funny and fat-positive and a great Kung Fu film made by people who clearly love Kung Fu. That trailer, though, is terrible.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 19 July 2012 07:00 (eleven years ago) link
Found The Wings of Honnêamise pretty dull tbh, protagonist a tool.
― ledge, Thursday, 19 July 2012 08:21 (eleven years ago) link
is the sequel terrible? charlie kaufman's involvement gives me certain expectations
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Thursday, 19 July 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
8 Ball Bunny -- didn't find a decent YT of this, but damn did I feel the surge of memories, I couldn't believe how much empathy it elicited from me (well, there *is* the cute as hell penguin).
― Nothing cracks a turtle like Leeeon Uris (Leee), Friday, 20 July 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
#90: Illusionist, Theaka L'illusionnistedir. Sylvain Chomet2010, France83 points, 3 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/HoFCg.jpg?1trailer
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Friday, 20 July 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
The Illusionist also made me cry like a maniac! I really loved it.
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Friday, 20 July 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
#89: Allegro non troppo84 points, 3 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/bAopx.jpg?1'Bolero' segment
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Friday, 20 July 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
oh and that'sdir. Bruno Bozzetto1976, Italy
Ir's so good! It also made me cry! And get high!
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Friday, 20 July 2012 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
'allegro' is amazing!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 20 July 2012 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
Will watch Allegro but I guess I should watch Fantasia first. (Was going to before the poll but didn't manage to get round to it.)
― ledge, Friday, 20 July 2012 10:03 (eleven years ago) link
yay allegro! i didn't vote and i figured it wouldn't get in without mine so gj. the valse triste segment still makes me sob just to think about it
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Friday, 20 July 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
It has some sad stuff, it has some trees made of boobs.
― in charge of refreshments tonight is (Abbbottt), Friday, 20 July 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
#88: Animal Farmdir. John Halas & Joy Batchelor1954, UK85 points, 3 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/fKn9N.jpg?1film
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Friday, 20 July 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
the idea that any aardman animation thing belongs on a list of the best anything is so bizarre, to me
― thomp, Friday, 20 July 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
I've now got "Animal Farm! Animal Farm!" stuck in my head to the tune of Beethoven's 5th. This is going to take some shaking.
― emil.y, Friday, 20 July 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
― thomp, Friday, 20 July 2012 16:53 (6 hours ago) Bookmark
how come?
― Number None, Friday, 20 July 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
I like ours better.
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
Just watched Coraline, pretty disappointed. It seemed so sparse, full of dead air or cursorily written lines like it was just a draft script. The music was similarly thin and the set pieces were just odd - the mouse circus was boring, the old actresses' mermaid & venus double act frankly bizarre. And the story was cut and pasted from a bunch of traditional fairy tales with no spark of its own.
― ledge, Saturday, 16 February 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
On further reflection I think it just wasn't creepy or weird enough. Don't really know the age range of the book but this was firmly in young kids territory where it could have been closer to young adults; and having the entire film animated meant the other world never seemed other worldly; if the real world had been live action or even just done in a different style... would like an idea of what the book was like but bleugh.
― ledge, Sunday, 17 February 2013 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
and having the entire film animated meant the other world never seemed other worldly; if the real world had been live action or even just done in a different style...
the 3D handled this beautifully though - when she first looks out into the "other" backyard and the rear of the image just plummets away from you, and then the whole world stays so depth-enhanced for her whole adventure there
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Sunday, 17 February 2013 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
my ballot:
1. Fantasia2. What’s Opera, Doc?3. Wall-E4. Wrong Trousers, The5. Duck Amuck6. How the Grinch Stole Christmas7. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown8. Nightmare Before Christmas, The9. Iron Giant, The10. Ratatoullie11. Robin Hood12. Robin Hood Daffy13. Hobbit, The14. Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)15. Incredibles, The16. Up17. Rabbit of Seville, The18. Porky in Wackyland19. Rabbit Seasoning20. Pinocchio21. Charlie Brown Christmas, A22. Monsters, Inc.23. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?24. Little Red Riding Rabbit25. Little Hiawatha26. Emperor’s New Groove, The27. Aristocats, The28. Charlotte’s Web29. Creature Comforts30. Sword in the Stone, The31. Finding Nemo32. Rabbit Fire33. South Park34. Transformers: The Movie, The35. Toy Story36. Close Shave, A (Wallace and Gromit)37. Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½th Century38. Alice in Wonderland39. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs40. Last Unicorn, The41. Jungle Book, The42. Fantastic Mr. Fox43. Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The44. Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The45. Lilo & Stitch46. Gulliver’s Travels47. Grand Day Out (Wallace and Gromit)48. One Hundred and One Dalmatians49. Anastasia50. Birds Anonymous
― weed, tumblr whites and wein (some dude), Sunday, 17 February 2013 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
Think this was my ballot
1. Wall-E2. Secret of Kells, The3. Spirited Away4. Iron Giant, the5. Dumbo6. Ratatoullie7. Ghost in the Shell8. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm9. Duck Amuck10. Paprika11. Incredibles, The12. Toy Story 213. Monsters, Inc.14. Finding Nemo15. Brave 16. Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½th Century17. G.I. Joe: The Movie18. Feed the kitty19. Scarlet Pumpernickel, The20. 8 Ball Bunny21. Great Piggy Bank Robbery, The22. Operation: Rabbit23. Robin Hood Daffy24. kiss me cat25. Bad Luck Blackie26. Rabbit Fire27. walky talky hawky28. Beep, Beep!29. Toy Story 330. Brave Little Toaster, The 31. Porky in Wackyland32. What’s Opera, Doc?33. I love to singa34. Amazing Screw-On Head, The
Should've included Ponyo.
Also, Russian shorts like this that I just found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUXNN9kk89o
― Liz Phair Dinkum (Leee), Monday, 4 March 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, so I'm in a fairly bad place at the moment anyway, but Film4 just showed Grave of the Fireflies and I basically just wept continuously for half an hour at the end. Really good film.
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 September 2013 02:13 (ten years ago) link
haha just the thing to cheer you up! i bought some of these the other day
http://i.imgur.com/o3zYFZf.jpg
Hiroyasu Ishida is a name to watch out for, he made the following two short films on his own while at university, the second one was his graduation film. both won nearly every award going.
Fumiko's Confession
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QqT1P4VO30
Rain Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLAfM1RXwRs
his first "proper" film is coming out soon, here's a key visual
http://i.imgur.com/50uQMA7.jpg
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 12 September 2013 10:16 (ten years ago) link
looks gorgeous.however, suspect i will forget to record it with film4 show it at 2:45am in 2 years time.
― mark e, Thursday, 12 September 2013 10:49 (ten years ago) link
poll of 100+ animation mavens
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-animated-movies
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
problem with the ILX poll (wait for it):
too much from the last 25 years
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Finally, a list that includes Heavy Traffic!
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link