Disney fairy tale stuff bores me

Anonus

People seem crazy over Moana but blehh

Princess Alice

Ok.

Crystal

Aight.

Imipolex G

Me too, high five fist bump etc .

Princess Alice

I like a lot of Disney fairy tale stuff, though admittedly a lot of it has been pretty samey.

I'm just a sucker for fairy tales in general. In fact, I kinda wish other studios did fairy tale movies more often

Anonus

In the past the result of that has often just been aping Disney

Section42L

Imipolex G said:

Me too, high five fist bump etc .

Sredni Vashtar

I'm vaguely interested in Moana because it's drawing on entirely different cultural resources but Disney is just a very "OK" studio, much of the time. Strong quality control, but rarely anything particularly exciting or intriguing. Boring technical perfection, in fewer words.

Crystal

Sredni Vashtar said:

I'm vaguely interested in Moana because it's drawing on entirely different cultural resources but Disney is just a very "OK" studio, much of the time. Strong quality control, but rarely anything particularly exciting or intriguing. Boring technical perfection, in fewer words.

Yeah... yeah. I very strongly feel this. The films that really lean into cultural stuff, be it mythological or otherwise (I again think of Atlantis as it's essentially my favorite film by them), like with Atlantis and it's solid combination of likable and endearingly expressive - to my memory - characters, strong historical and literary inspirations, and a good execution.

I, personally, struggle to think of even a few of the films that have even two of those components (plus some which I almost certainly left out), and I quite like fairy tales. They're serviceable but flavorless.

Anonus

My favorites of theirs are One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Lilo & Stitch, the latter of which was the brainchild of someone John Lasseter pushed out because ???

Viani

Disney plays it safe. It's boring,but it's not about to test what it's audiences boundaries are.

And the team behind Moana did a lot of research when they jumped into that culture. Which is great. 

Anonus

personally I can't wait for the Lasseter-Catmull regime to tire itself out so we can get some more quasi-experimental stuff like they did in the early 2000s

they have no excuses to revert to being the shambling zombie they were in the '70s and much of the '80s

Sredni Vashtar

Lilo & Stitch was exceptional.

Also I'll probably watch Zootopia because I'm furry garbage.

Crystal

Oh, and L&S.

I know I'll watch Zootopia at some point because it's on Netflix.

Section42L

I know I should watch Zootopia at some point myself, too.

Imipolex G

I would watch Zootopia if it were called Mootopia.

Anonus

I half-wonder how conventional my choices are

Most people my age seem to prefer the Renaissance

Viani

I watched Zootopia in theaters and never got a single "This is for furries" feel at all. Like isn't most of their most popular characters Bipedal animals? Like I swear I was waiting for Goofy or Donald to pop up there once but I guess they didn't want to disrupt the feel.

Tanya

Anonus

Counterclock said:

Not #brand enough, doesn't count