although I despise Disney, I have some slight attachment to The Lion King since it came out at the same time as my EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.
meanwhile, I tried watching the 80s Transformers cartoon, which I liked when I was a kid, and I could physically feel myself becoming dumber as a result of it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
For me that falls under the same suspension of disbelief that allows me to accept animals in the African wilderness speaking English to each other--i.e., it's something done so the human audience can understand it--but I can see why that might niggle at you
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Well it might not help that The Lion King is supposed to be part of the same shared reality as all the other entries in the Animated Canon (at least corporate wants us to think it is, though it feels more like its own world)
It would make sense for the characters in Lady and the Tramp and One Hundred and One Dalmatians to talk about throw rugs and such, but maybe I'm not using my imagination enough and figuring that humans have passed through the Pride Lands and Elephant Graveyard and the animals overheard their lingo and picked up detritus from them
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Ah, there's the thing. I always sorta mentally separated out The Lion King from the rest of Animated Canon universe, somehow
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
the problem with the works of animation studios with a strong identity sharing a universe is that once they sprawl enough you run into kinks - Yogi and pals live in "the present", meaning they can't interact with Fred Flintstone or Astro without the aid of time travel, for instance
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
there's also Lilo & Stitch, returning to Disney, being more the product of one person's artistic vision than of some huge "bigger than oneself" undertaking like most of the Animated Canon
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
a lot of people, myself included, blame him for the further commoditization of American feature animation
bringing in lots of celebrities to do voices instead of lesser-known actors or specialized voice actors (one of the drawbacks of this is that, aside from a sense that it's turning the movie into more of a "product", is that it makes it tough to use the characters they voice outside of the movies because the budgets will be lower and they have to get soundalikes), a lot of the failings of DreamWorks Animation's lesser efforts are pretty much his fault...
Considering Alice In Wonderland had people like Sterling Holloway, Ed Wynn, and Jerry Colonna, you can hardly say animation was lacking in celebrity voices.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I already knew Sterling Holloway as the voice of Winnie the Pooh, and Ed Wynn for having been the basis for the voices of Captain Peachfuzz, Wally Gator, and King Candy (who is already based on the Mad Hatter)...
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The look is TOO "perfect", I felt a bit of Jeffrey Katzenberg's Hollywood taint on it, but it still has good songs though
meanwhile, I tried watching the 80s Transformers cartoon, which I liked when I was a kid, and I could physically feel myself becoming dumber as a result of it.
What exactly does Katzenberg do that's so horrible?
Not that the snowball wasn't being formed, but that was a launch.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
(The other Jane)
(I also liked Renaissance and after)
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead