LockeColeMA wrote:
Ambrya wrote:
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
LockeColeMA wrote:
I've really been looking forward to this movie. It's kinda sad that I'll be a 24-year old straight guy going to see it, but I'm pretty excited about it!
Just do what I do if anyone asks why you're going to see it.
"I hate myself for missing the chance to see Mulan in theaters, so now I go to every Disney movie."
I gave up on Disney animated movies after I wasted my hard-earned money and irreplaceable time on
Pocahontas, but this one just might bring me back. While likely not as enduring as
Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and
Cinderella, it looks like it could be on par with
The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and
Aladdin.
This strikes me as funny, because I always felt that Pocahontas had great music, even if it butchered history. And I didn't like Cinderella at all, even as a kid, but especially as I got older. Snow White was good, and I don't believe I ever saw Sleeping Beauty past age 4 or so, so I don't remember it.
But I loved the last three movies you mentioned. Those, plus the Lion King, are my favorites.
I found the music of
Pocahontas to be so-so, it was so excessively happy-happy-PC I just wanted to gag. The early Disney films aren't actually MY favorites, but they have a staying power that is actually quite impressive. They truly are classics and have stood the test of time (admittedly, this may be more due to Disney's marketing machine always keeping them in the forefront of our pop-culture conscious than the quality of the films.)
Personally, I loved the last three I mentioned the best, but by that time the films were starting to get overrun with cutesy side-kick characters, and after those films, Disney would start to deviate from the fairy tale template quite a bit. I saw
Aladdin probably half a dozen times in the theater and adored it, but unfortunately I don't think it's going to stand the test of time the way the others did, because too much of the material is topical and thus subject to being dated. I mean, what kid nowadays is going to understand why the genie's ******* Hall impersonation is funny?
As for
The Lion King, it was ruined for me when the lesbian friend I saw it with started chanting under her breath to the lionesses, "Overthrow the patriarchy!"