Animated Creatures: ILX's top 100 animated films (results thread)

I think Totoro's unconventional pacing (and the effect this has on the story) is one of the things that its fans really love about it!

Haha, really? I guess I'm not that steeped in the critical discourse around this stuff. It is probably because I am horrendously mean and evil, but I find "kids with ailing parent find refuge in a magical world" to be a terribly clichéd and trite storyline, so the pacing of Totoro doesn't really do it any favours for me. Still... CATBUS.

A hi-quality Duck Amuck on Vimeo.

Kiki is a million times better than Howl!

cool, so mind game in the top 2, psyched!

I mean I get that Howl has its fans, but I really remember the latter as being kind of a mess, with inscrutable characterization, an incoherent conclusion, and too much striving for the "overflowing of magical wonders" that Spirited Away made look easy. I'm pretty sure I enjoyed it okay while I was watching it but I immediately had no desire to see it again. Whereas Kiki's just grows deeper with each viewing; it's a story comfortable in its smallness and unapologetic about how much the small things can matter to children (or to people generally). Yeah, it finally swings for a big action climax that comes out of nowhere, but the outcome of that sequence depends on stuff that's actually central to the movie and the main character's arc. I can think of very few kids' movies which are as finely executed.

I'm not sure about critical discourse, it's just a slow gentle film where nothing happens and (spoilers) it turns out that even less is happening that it appeared. Some people put up with that for the characters, some people luxuriate in it.

Basically, I liked Howl a lot and thought it worthy of a place. I don't really want to sound like I dislike the others, because I do like them. Even Kiki is a nice little piece, though it's not close to being one of my favourites.

(And on checking, Totoro made my ballot where Howl did not, so, hey, whatever.)

'howl' is the only miyazaki that hasn't done anything for me. there are non-miyazaki ghiblis -- like 'arrietty' -- that i like more.

'totoro' is definitely the best IMO -- there's probably never been a better portrayal of children in any movie, animated or otherwise.

I sorta can't stand much of Totoro. I think all of his post Mononoke movies are stronger.

i kinda quit taking that dork john k seriously when i found out how scornful he and his followers are of chuck jones.

In that interview posted upthread it sounded like John K's a huge admirer of Chuck Jones.

a true and correct poll.

(I.E. in a just world, GI Joe would have as well, oops, spoilers.)

aaaah I love GI Joe the movie

Loool, Leee.

heh, i just did a google search and found about a zillion blog posts where john k gushes about his favorite chuck jones cartoons. so i guess i stand corrected.

surprised Beauty and the Beast isn't going to place

#2 received the highest number of votes.

(This is your chance to post joke results!)

Hahaha imagine if it was Wall-E at #2, that'd be a pretty wild ride, huh?

If I were the type to post joke results I would've put "9" because that movie is awful.

Well imagine no more.

#2: Wall-E
dir. Andrew Stanton
2008, USA
556 points, 15 votes
http://i.imgur.com/UmcOu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xDo2W.gif
http://i.imgur.com/fPQcG.gif
trailer

A probable contender for #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2zJGl5czk8

Jesus. Did it get many #1s?

I'll refer that question to silby.

I like Wall-E, so yay Wall-E.

Fern Gully #1

#1 Howl's Moving Castle

Hahaha.

#1: Spirited Away
dir. Hayao Miyazaki
2001, Japan
593 points, 14 votes
http://i.imgur.com/sUwFC.jpg
CHIHIIIIIIRRRROOOOOO (trailer)

I like Wall-E too, but 100 points over Duck Amuck is cray-cray.

yeah I will recover the #1 vote data this weekend or in like August or something

Spirited Away otm though, imo

I did not vote in this but I will submit a posthumous ballot to the ballot thread (which is where all the real shit goes down anyway ;D)

Thanks to silby for kicking this thing off! And everyone in this thread!

Far and away my favorite Miyazaki. Stellar art, hilarious characters, perfect fairy-tale logic, wonderful active hero, best Miyazaki soundtrack.

and thanks to Leee for bringing it home! If I ever run another poll I will appoint a rollout czar in advance because this is obviously the part I'm no good at.

if anyone (silby? Leee?) has a copy of my ballot... i'd love to post it. i lost my copy tho.

I can recover your ballot yes.

but not right now.

A worthy winner!

Pretty great top 4, really.

Bravos to silby and Leee!

I loved Spirited Away the first time and was oddly bored/distracted the second. Maybe should have given it more time in between. I bet I'd be very happy watching it now.

xpost I mean, given that we probably weren't going to see any high placements for, say, Tango

Worth it in the end, well done folks. Must get around to watching 'Howl's Moving Castle' I suppose.

Yes, well done silby & Leee!

Excellent thread, y'all.

and thanks to Leee for bringing it home! If I ever run another poll I will appoint a rollout czar in advance because this is obviously the part I'm no good at.

http://www.blacktoptens.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tag-team.jpg

de-lurking just to say that this might be my favourite ilx poll yet & I can't wait to read all yr ballots! Personally would have liked to see more fleischer, some ub iwerks, svankmajer shorts like dimensions of dialogue, maybe a token norman mclaren... Also this, which is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkQ6X7g25H0

Yay at Bill Plympton, double yay at Aladdin not placing. That film is hella overrated imo

It's been fun, thank you!

I didn't vote because I had too much angst looking at the nominations thread, where I initially had some crazy idea that I should watch at least all the shorts before voting time, and then ran out of time without, uh, watching any of them. But I'm interested to see other people's ballots.