Questions about your animated likes

[mythicmistress]

I would like to get some activity going, so here are some questions/discussion starters. (hopefully) I hope I'm not overstepping any boundaries by doing this.

1. What is one of your favorite animated films growing up that is from a foreign country, if there is one?

2. What are five of your favorite animated films and why do you like them?

3. Do you like any web cartoons? If so, what are they?

4. Do you watch anime? If so, name some of your favorite anime.

5. What are five cartoons that you grew up with that you still enjoy?

Comments

[frith]

1. When I was growing up, I'd usually only get one chance to see any given animated film as this was before there were VCR's. Ergo, I nominate Fantastic Planet, which I saw only once but liked a lot. I think it was a short that played before Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

2. The big 5: Bambi (the best film Disney ever made and such a high water mark that it took Disney over 40 years to make another film approaching that artistic quality).
The Secret of NIMH (astounding art that deserves to be poed over frame by frame. I think TSoN is what kicked Disney out of making cheapo xerox-cel animation.)
The Land Before Time (Bambi with dinosaurs)
Princess Monoke (art!)
Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron (For the art, but with Matt Damon's droning narration and Bryan Adams songs muted)

3. Web cartoons: Bitey of Brackenwood on Newgrounds and the Pony.mov series (horrible, grotesque, eye-searing satire, it's just... words fail me)

4. Anime. I watched a bunch of Kimba the White Lion and a big chunk of Dragonball? A few episodes of Card Captor Sakura (because someone did a beautiful Derpy Hooves parody of the intro). A lot of Pokemon. Mostly I haven't watched anime because of the heavy use of animation shortcuts, but I did like Ulysses 31 a lot, for the story. Ulysses 31 was a Japan/France production and I watched it in the original French, on broadcast TV. Movie wise: Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Akira, Spirited Away.

5. Five cartoons: Warner Brothers Loony Toons (before they were censored), Rocky and Bullwinkle, Pink Panther (rolled into The New Pink Panther Show plus the Blue Aardvark), Underdog, Mighty Mouse.

[mythicmistress]

I remember watching Rocky and Bullwinkle back when Cartoon Network used to air it when I was kid, along with Pink Panther and (most likely censored) Looney Tunes. I'd llike to watch them again, honestly! I do agree that TSON most likely gave Disney the kick in the tail they needed to step up their game. Thanks for answering!

[frith]

It took some time to remember all these old titles but it was fun! ^_^