Who says Disney lost their touch?

[Sayara]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zqZIsgViyI&mode=related&search=

[Moo2u]

The Little Match Girl is the most depressing story ever!

That being that, that animation was incredible. But Disney said they've given up on 2D classically animated feature films, those bastards.

[DizzyDi]

I agree with Moo, the animation was beautiful.
If only they made movies like this again. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[Sord]

yes, the animation was very well done. If Disney ever had the guts to do it, they could probably raise awareness for things such as this. Hell, even I feel a little pity toward the girl.

actually, this could make decent content for Offtopic as well. It is certainly serious enough.

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[Augustin]

wow... my eyes are all wet... that was really beautifull http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[Moo2u]

Siriously, can this be moved to Off topic? Not enough people will see it in this Landfill.

[Out_Kast]

On 2006-11-15 09:12, Moo2u wrote:
Siriously, can this be moved to Off topic? Not enough people will see it in this Landfill.



If this is being moved to Off-Topic, does that mean I can post here? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif
I think that Disney should make their movies 2D/like that. They just seem so much more... classic, whereas their newer style of 'realism' (if you could call it that...) just makes me think that the producer of a Disney movie ISN'T Disney, just some other company.. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_disapprove.gif . I was watching Mulan recently, after playing KH2 for what seemed like hours, and I thought, 'Why aren't all Disney movies like this?'

[RavenTW]

Awww, so cute. The girl reminded me of a mini-Mulan, though. It HAS been a while since Disney did 2-d, it would be nice to see so more, lest they turn into another George Lucas

[Moo2u]

I wouldn't worry about people Lucasafying Disney. Directors change from Disney film to film for the most part. Plus, I don't think Disney re-released Lion King adding extra hyenas in the background, or something like that.

Disney did loose their touch though, and this short reminded me of that fact. I mean Home on the Range (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299172/)? What the hell were they thinking?

[RoninJoku]

On 2006-11-10 13:00, Moo2u wrote:

But Disney said they've given up on 2D classically animated feature films, those bastards.



Not completely true... infact, non-other than Pixar's big man John Lasseter is trying to respark the Disney 2D cannon. They even have a 2D film in the pipe. "The Frog Princess" Set to come out... who knows when! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[Blitzkommando]

Haven't cared too much for the more recent Disney 'brand' movies. The Pixar studio movies have been very nice though and I found Cars particularly enjoyable (then again, I like cars and understood a lot of the 'inside jokes' so to speak such as the ricers). I haven't watched the Disney channel since... Man, since they started doing commercials just as often as all the other channels. I grew up watching a Disney channel that only had the commercials between the shows just as a way of saying what was coming up in the near future to watch. I thought that made a lot of sense and made watching the channel enjoyable. I realize that this is off tangent but I feel it pretty much sums up how I feel about Disney as a whole today. They've gone from being a leader in creativity and entertainment to using that for enormous commercial gain and little substance or creativity to it. All that seems to be on the channel anymore, out of the times I've seen my cousin who somehow enjoys the shows, is a bunch of teenage soap operas. Nickelodeon suffered the same fate, although I never cared much for it in the first place. The only reason I even noticed it was because I would watch Nick-at-Night all the time growing up watching all those wonderful shows from the 1950s-1980s.

[RavenTW]

I watched Nickelodeon for one show only, and that was GUTS.

Pixar has been doing some good stuff, and I particularly liked the One Man Band short on Cars. Funny one, that. Still, good 'ole 2-d is always appreciated.

[Blue-Hawk]

That was just beautiful. Shame there's no way to save this to my drive. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[Moo2u]

On 2006-11-16 22:10, RoninJoku wrote:

On 2006-11-10 13:00, Moo2u wrote:

But Disney said they've given up on 2D classically animated feature films, those bastards.



Not completely true... infact, non-other than Pixar's big man John Lasseter is trying to respark the Disney 2D cannon. They even have a 2D film in the pipe. "The Frog Princess" Set to come out... who knows when! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif



That man is siriously saving Disney. Good thing they payed Pixar like billions of dollars to stay with them, otherwise Disney would just be stupid. Although, part of me wonders how Pixar would do if they actually got free from the mouse....

The pixar movies have much more heart than the regular Dinsey film nowadays, so if he resparked the 2D devition, I would probably drool a pool of excitment.

[Sord]

i'm not sure how many people bothered to check it out, but this short was actually cut from Fantasia 2000 and then expanded upon as an individual short. Apparently there are other ones to.

Anyways, my point being, if you really like this kind of animation and feeling, I would definitly suggest watching Fantasia 2000. It is pretty much all 2D with the only exception (i think) of a whale one, and even that one is pretty well done. The funny thing was we actually bought the movie by mistake, and then my sister opened it and thus we couldn't return it. Well, I watched the original Fantasia a lot when I was a kid, the animations always kind of weirded me out, but I liked it. I still have the VHS cassete around here somewhere, probably in my basement.

So I figured, hey, we had the movie so I might as well watch it. As I said, it's pretty good. I'd at least give it a rental if you haven't seen it.

[Daikarin]

:'(

Beautiful.

[Moo2u]

Actually Sord, it was suppose to be part of Fantasia 2006, a film obviously supposed to be released this year, but Disney scrapped it cause they assumed no one cares about 2D movies and thinks only 3D stuff makes money....someone needs to slap some sense into them.

[Sord]

On 2006-11-17 22:34, Moo2u wrote:
Actually Sord, it was suppose to be part of Fantasia 2006, a film obviously supposed to be released this year, but Disney scrapped it cause they assumed no one cares about 2D movies and thinks only 3D stuff makes money....someone needs to slap some sense into them.


meh, my bad. regardless, I would still check out 2000. now then, let's form a slapping party and go mob Disney studios >_>

on a more serious note, according to Wiki there were 3 others that were developed, and The Little Match Girl was the last of them, making 4 total. I'm trying to find what the others were at least called, but not much luck.

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[opaopajr]

i adore excellent quality animation. and as much as disney has been getting flak, some of it very much deserved, they will always hold a place in my heart for doing some of the best hand drawn animation in animation history. what i truly wish is for a section of disney to work more mature themes and stories. once i saw the moral conundrum scene of the bishop in hunchback of notre dame i was floored with the possibilities. there is so much to be tapped, from period pieces of the 19th century, to complex mythology and parables filled with moral ambiguities, that it is a tragedy unto itself that disney does not lend its economic might and previous legion of hand drawn artists to render faithful animations for posterity. could one imagine such epics such as les miserables by victor hugo to the brothers karamazov by dostoevski rendered faithfully by the animation excellence of disney? one weeps for what is lost for lack of imagination and courage.