yay catbus
― oh no! sirap notlih vs. ognir rrats FITE!! OH NO!!! (Eisbaer), Monday, 14 January 2013 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
I know I've seen Millenium Actress, but up until seeing it in the countdown here I had no memory of doing so, and it remains a very faint and hazy sense of deja vu. When did I see it? Why? What was it about? I have only the faintest notions. There's something kind of off-putting, to me, about Kon's (or Studio Madhouse's?) animation style... the character designs have this sort of wooden, distant quality. It's maybe an intentional effect, fitting the themes of the story, or maybe they're going for realism and my eyes, accustomed to very stylized anime, don't really process it as such?
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, January 13, 2013 10:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fits in pretty well with the theme of the movie probably, or at least in the general themes of satoshi kon? haha
― ;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝;⃝‿⃝ (乒乓), Monday, 14 January 2013 12:19 (eleven years ago) link
CATBUS
― Mordy, Monday, 14 January 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
CATBUS my #9
― heartless restaurant reviewer (ledge), Monday, 14 January 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe MNT should just be renamed CATBUS? It seems to be what's swinging it. Though Totoro itself is also cool, obv.
― emil.y, Monday, 14 January 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Also:
while i accept these results, i also recognize in reality that "the incredibles" is not actually one of the 10 best animated films
― billstevejim, Monday, January 14, 2013 9:00 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM.
totoro is a top five alltime film for me, animated or not
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 January 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
millennium actress is really good & sorta uniquely lyrical i think?, i am maybe not qualified to say 'uniquely' because i am not great with japanese film or with modern animated cinema, but i feel like it imbues some fairly standard settings & scenarios with a weird emotional pitch. which you can say about miyazaki too, right. like kiki's delivery service is such a reassuringly depression-permeated kids movie.
toroto is so lovely.
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
#8: Iron Giant, Thedir. Brad Bird1999, USA344 points, 10 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/V0DRE.giftrailer
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
So good.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Love that film.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Also, go Brad Bird for having all three of his (animated) films place!
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
#7: Akiradir. Katsuhiro Otomo1988, Japan363 points, 10 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/RLJ2u.jpgTETSUOOOOOOOOO (trailer)
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Really need to see this film, huh?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think so, but I've only seen it once, in HS.
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Actually in school? I wouldn't have thought that an ideal environment tbh, there's a lot of lovely (and eerie) quiet moments in the film.
Disclaimer: I have never watched a film in school, and would assume that it gets a little rowdy, particularly if there's arm-disintegration and laser bikes.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
On the other hand I've never seen The Iron Giant, so wtf do I know about anything.
Common theme of these films: I expected them a lot higher.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
Iron Giant is amazing thru and thru (SUPERMAN)Akira is still great animation and among the all time great soundtracks but the story is rushed and a lil boring
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
The Iron Giant has one of the best endings of anything ever
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
akira is too low ;_;
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
the story is rushed and a lil boring
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, January 15, 2013 9:40 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the manga is apparently ~2000 pages so
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
need to see Akira myself.
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby)
Yeah, I've read it. It has way more scope and detail, and the big event at the climax of the movie occurs about halfway through. Highly recommended.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'd say it's the best manga I've ever read, but thinking about it it's the only one I've read all of the way through.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
i'm very familiar with akira as manga; i own about eighty percent of it! I like otomo but the plot is harried and the ideas are a bit cliche by now.
― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
the second half of the film Akira is a mess plotwise, have always meant to read the manga but never managed to get round to it (its always been hella expensive!)
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
The manga is great, especially with the freqeuent 70+ page climaxes. Extraordinarily different from the movie.
― Magic Miike (R Baez), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
Akira manga confounded me. Saw the film as a HSer for clarity sake.
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
toy scene in akira remains one of the scariest scenes of all time.
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
among the all time great soundtracks
This can't be emphasised enough.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
co-sign
― ledge, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
#6: Triplets of Belleville, Thedir. Sylvain Chomet2003, France374 points, 11 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/tQRfR.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/cfMZw.pngtrailer
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Thursday, 17 January 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
#5: Updir. Pete Docter, Bob Peterson2009, USA402 points, 13 voteshttp://i.imgur.com/nQ9Jh.jpgtrailer
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Thursday, 17 January 2013 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
Love Up, but it ranking higher than either of the Brad Bird's is weird.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 January 2013 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed times a million.
― sunn o))) dude (Leee), Thursday, 17 January 2013 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
Belleville is idk, v impressive stylistically but I didn't really get on with the characters. Champion is just a cipher and the triplets are frankly terrifying.
― ledge, Thursday, 17 January 2013 09:12 (eleven years ago) link
Am more than happy with Up ranking above Ratatouille and The Incredibles.
― ledge, Thursday, 17 January 2013 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
Myself also, it just seems odd that any of them are ranking above either of the Toy Storys.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:16 (eleven years ago) link
Tho this is sensible as a dictionary compared with what lurks in the remaining 4 - or Belleville above Akira for that matter!
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:20 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know Iron Giant was supposed to be good. I'll have to check it out.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
Very pleased to see Triplets of Belleville so high. I've used that "vacuum cleaner" jam in techno and house DJ sets before, it's a real trip.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:49 (eleven years ago) link
Up is clearly miles better than Ratatouille, and may be better than Incredibles, I can't decide on that one.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I find that Up has increasing returns with every viewing. I like ...Belleville, but can't quite square it being in the top 10 when The Illusionist was back at #90, I far prefer that film.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
(oh, and great work on the poll and results thread, one for the ages this and full of treasures)
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
The Incredibles is very "watchy", but it's not that good.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 17 January 2013 11:56 (eleven years ago) link
hated UP so much when I watched it, can't believe it placed this high
― 乒乓, Thursday, 17 January 2013 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
Really want to watch Akira anew some day -- loved it as a teenager, when this whole anime thing was pretty new to me. This was in the mid-90s, in a small town in Norway, where this stuff wasn't really distributed, so this stuff was almost mythical to us -- occasionally someone would come back from Oslo bearing the gift of a tape or two of some Manga release. The highlights as I recall it were _Akira_ and _Ghost in the Shell_. Also watched _Fist of the North Star_ a bunch of times, but I didn't exactly like it. _Wings of Honneamise_ bored the hell out of me -- clearly it needed more exploding heads -- but I'm kinda curious to see it again now.
Come to think of it, I've hardly seen any of the Disney cartoons that didn't come out in my lifetime. Have some vague memories of having seen _Pinocchio_ at a birthday party and being REALLY disturbed by the donkey stuff. But I might just have read one of the childrens book adaptations of the movie. (Definitely didn't read the -original- book)
_Triplets of Belleville_ is a movie I'm kinda wondering if I disliked so much simply because of the enthusiasm with which it was recommended. I mostly remember finding the drawings really ugly. Oh, and the goddamn voodookaka bullshit songs.
Do we have a thread about early non-cartoon animations? I plan to spend some evening on Youtube and Archive.org watching shit like the 1912 The Cameraman’s Revenge. Figure I should put together a little playlist first.
Really enjoying the thread btw, though I didn't take any part in the voting. So far you've inspired me to order _Paprika_ and the first English omnibus of the Akira comics at the library; vaguely recall digging Katushiro Otomo's _Domu: A Child's Dream_ back in the days.
― Øystein, Thursday, 17 January 2013 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't a huge fan of Belleville, but I loved that the dog was tricked into paddling across the Atlantic with a piece of caramel, and was still chewing on it when they arrived on shore in America.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 17 January 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
Belleville really got to me as a tear-jerker; as I've said on ILX before, I lost my mother about a year before seeing it, and the tireless selfless love of the mother character just got to me. I also remember finding the dog really charming, and I don't have any general affection for dogs to support that. Fourth-best cartoon of all time, no, but I can see how it racked up a bunch of votes.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
I loved Belleville. Perhaps not the fourth best animation of all time, but hey, The Incredibles is DEFINITELY NOT top ten of all time, this isn't a definitive list, it's what ilxors who could be bothered to vote did in fact vote for.
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link