I know I've seen the one with that scene, but I couldn't tell you anything else about it. Most of the LT/MM shorts blur together for me.
― abanana, Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
LT/SS rather (looney tunes/silly symphonies)
― abanana, Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
no, i was right the first time. aaargh
― abanana, Thursday, 27 December 2012 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
Just watched that one, thanks for the link. It's about like I remember it from when I was a kid, maybe a little slower and less completely nutso? In my mind these things are always Daffy and Bugs just upping the ante continuously, getting closer and closer to berserk but it's a little more evenly paced than that. Not a negative, though, this thing has some great gags.
God, I'd forgotten what a delicious MORON Elmer Fudd was! He wouldn't be funny at all except that he really is simple-minded enough to be fooled by these jokers and their terrible costumes and tricks, it makes him sympathetic in a way that, say, Yosemite Sam never is. Great character.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 27 December 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
Don't get your hopes too far up with the gifs, chums.
DC, the less-zany-than-I-remember thing happens to me with other WB toons.
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Thursday, 27 December 2012 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
#65: Porco Rossodir. Hayao Miyazaki1992, Japan120 points, 4 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/NQ21g.giftrailer
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Thursday, 27 December 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
the pacing in chuck jones cartoons is always really deliberate -- the 'zany' stuff's more early '40s, when it was more explicitly cartoonish and crazy. there's at least three cartoons with that same basic plot but the one that always reduced me to hysterics was 'you keep out of this! he doesn't HAVE to shoot you now!'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 27 December 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Remember really enjoying Porco Rosso except for extended brutal fist fight in the middle.
― ledge, Thursday, 27 December 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
just rewatched porco rosso last week; it's gorgeous and i love it but i ALWAYS fall asleep during the dream sequence
― ILX is not a non-profit — we are just not profitable (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 December 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
Have never seen! Need to keep my eye out for that one.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 27 December 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
#64: Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)dir. Stephen R. Johnson1986, UK123 points, 4 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/YprzW.jpgfilm
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Thursday, 27 December 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
#63: Beep, Beep!dir. Chuck Jones1952, USA125 points, 5 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/PbdGs.jpgfilm
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Thursday, 27 December 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://api.ning.com/files/e9HWZjeuNesQRncKm8YlvkhZRzlajLwKhI75LDcXiHobRSRcyZJjgEiV16Zdpw1YTk8dCujQ0ehCCkNoGrlt6ovP*MCO*6eQ/Animal_Man_5__Jan__1989_Closeup_A.jpg
― Mordy, Thursday, 27 December 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
I need to re-read Animal Man.
Next batch: loads of Disney.
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Friday, 28 December 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
Animal Man is great.
I love Roadrunner cartoons. That one in particular feels a little funky; I think it's an early one before the formula got exactly refined, and before some of the iconic bits (like the super-slow fall) were even in place. But they're all basically the same in some sense. The format does have the problem of being fundamentally episodic, with each gag setting up, ending, and then fading to black before another one starts. In that sense, you could basically stick every Roadrunner segment in a computer and tell it to spit out a five-minute cartoon and you'd never know the difference except for changes in animation style and background painting. The cartoons don't really build and they rarely have much momentum or payoff; watching that one, I was surprised that the ending actually bothered to pick back up a thread that was teased much earlier in the episode.
Thing is, if the gags are inventive, the whole thing works. It's just enough of a premise on which to hang whatever bonkers sight gags and surprise pratfalls the writers could think of. You never are in any doubt that the coyote will fail, so they genius is coming up with a way that the latest ACME invention can fail that doesn't occur to you before it happens. Some great ones in that short, especially the one with the boxing-glove. And no matter how many times you see one, a well-made "imaginary train is real" gag will still do it.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 28 December 2012 06:39 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, the copy/paste nature of Roadrunner shorts is very formulaic, and hasn't aged particularly well for me (and "Beep, Beep" is the only one that I voted for). I also get the vague sense that as a child, I in fact rooted for Wile E. Coyote for some reason (partly because of my love of nature documentaries, which rarely featured actual roadrunners).
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Friday, 28 December 2012 07:06 (eleven years ago) link
Sledgehammer is total classic of course.
― ledge, Friday, 28 December 2012 09:33 (eleven years ago) link
Well, of course you rooted for Wile E. Coyote! He's the protagonist as well as the underdog. It's just like wanting the rabbit to finally get a bowl of Trix.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 28 December 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
#62: Lilo & Stitchdir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders2002, USA127 points, 4 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/H4Ib8.giftrailer
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Friday, 28 December 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
This is a great movie. I'm not sure why I saw it in the theater, in my twenties - might have been the only appealing thing playing while I was home for the summer. Anyway, it just charmed the bejeezus out of me. Loved how anarchically destructive and nutso Stitch was, and how convincing the human cast was...Lilo is maybe a little precocious but it played well IIRC. "Oh no, that's from my blue period!!" I remember not liking it as much on the second viewing but I might have just not waited long enough in between.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 28 December 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
xp For whatever reason "Beep Prepared" was up for an Oscar http://media.kickstatic.com/kickapps/images/66470/photos/PHOTO_12462082_66470_18660554_ap.jpg
― billstevejim, Friday, 28 December 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
xp Apologies if the gif is not from the right movie, which I've never seen.
TBH never thought of him that way! Mostly because there seems to be an unwritten rule that predatory animals typically figure as villains (and the corollary, that herbivorous animals are the protagonists), and the novelty with RR+WEC then would be that this rule gets inverted.
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Friday, 28 December 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
idk that's like considering Tom the protagonist of Tom & Jerry films, or Elmer Fudd.
Lilo & Stitch way way too low, obv.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 28 December 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, which one's Tom and which Jerry? Anyway, I considered the mouse the protagonist, at least!
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Friday, 28 December 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
I think Tom & Jerry and Roadrunner both do kind of interesting things with the protagonist/bad guy formula, but I am not really going to claim expertise here since folks here have voted for single episodes whereas I'd struggle to single out any.
But as a kid I always thought it was pretty evenly spread out whether you felt sorry for Tom or Jerry (though I am a crazy cat lady so I bring my own special variety of insanity bias), and while Wile E. is more obviously a Bad Guy he's more or less the focus of the show while Roadrunner doesn't do anything interesting except dash through making annoying noises and foiling plans - I mean maybe you don't exactly root for WEC, there's nothing about RR as a character to root for - whether you are invested in the coyote or the coyote's comeuppance, he is the character
(Wacky Races does this too, I guess, and probably many other things. anyway, like I said, it's been a while, so this may all be crazy talk. also pls excuse typos as I am too lazy to go and look for my glasses)
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 29 December 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
maybe daffy duck is a character who is more neatly placed right in the middle of the protagonist/antagonist continuum?
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 29 December 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
my son just discovered Lilo & Stitch so i have watched it maybe 50 times in the past month. great flick, holds up.
― fanute me or shoot me (some dude), Saturday, 29 December 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
#61: Pinocchiodir. Norman Ferguson, T. Hee1940, USA127 points, 5 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/XkOo9.giftrailer
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Saturday, 29 December 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
Probably my favourite Disney.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 29 December 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Only 61?!
(I didn't vote)
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Saturday, 29 December 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
I should see that again - I definitely haven't seen it since the 80s, and it's pretty hazy. Same story with Bambi, Snow White, all the classics really.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 30 December 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
Warning: it's pretty fucked.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Sunday, 30 December 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
2nd most terrifying disney movie, only surpassed by fantasia.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 30 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://la.gopride.com/c/I/22771-68318.jpg
― PliesStripAThon5Jan20th@gmail.com (some dude), Sunday, 30 December 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
i have to admit, i just got really scared for a second.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 30 December 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i rewatched pinocchio a few years ago and found parts of it horrifying. can't really remember which parts though, besides when i was thinking about how much it would suck to turn into a donkey forever just for a little boozing and smoking.
semi-inspired by this thread i watched grave of the fireflies last night, now that's what i call horrifying. but also beautiful. the scene with the fireflies inside their mosquito net especially. in my retroactive vote for this poll i put it top 10 somewhere i guess.
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 30 December 2012 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
#60: Transformers: The Movie, Thedir. Nelson Shin1986, USA129 points, 4 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/ZIJnV.pngtouchfilm (have at it nerds)
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Sunday, 30 December 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the toys, but I never cared for Marvel's space alien war story.
― abanana, Sunday, 30 December 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
what about Furman?
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Sunday, 30 December 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
i've never enjoyed transformers but i'm open to conversion. if i'm going to blaze and watch one transformers flick, is it this one?
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 December 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
this is the only one iirc
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Sunday, 30 December 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
Orson Welles' last work!
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 30 December 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
#59: Der Fuehrer's Facedir. Jack Kinney1942, USA130 points, 3 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/QVqvS.jpgfilm (caution: swastikas everywhere, yellowface)
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Sunday, 30 December 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
#58: Alice in Wonderlanddir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske1951, USA130 points, 5 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/Cea5a.jpgtrailer
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Sunday, 30 December 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
Next three have Japanese flavor.
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Monday, 31 December 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
#57: Millennium Actressdir. Satoshi Kon2001, Japan133 points, 4 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/pDxAt.jpgtrailer
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Monday, 31 December 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
just watched Alice the other day, such an awesome, visually imaginative movie
― some dude, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
Millennium Actress is soooooo good, really need to rewatch that soon. sad that Dreaming Machine might never see the light of day though.
― ばかザッピ (zappi), Monday, 31 December 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
How does MA compare with Paprika (the lone Satoshi Kon I've seen)?
― Only Built For Cuban Linux (Leee), Monday, 31 December 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
#56: Grave of the Firefliesdir. Isao Takahata1988, Japan133 points, 4 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/tBCcv.jpgfilm