The Batlord

I wanna hit you tbh. I love the Lion King, love it hard, once of my favorite movies ever, but tbh I think I'd still put Beauty and the Beast just over it. The settings, Lumiere and Cogsworth, the gothic art design, a romantic storyline which actually works and doesn't feel rushed and/or pointless and is easily the OTP of Disney, a soundtrack which is at least as good, and... well Belle just does things to me. But seriously if you haven't seen Beauty and the Beast then you simply can't consider yourself a fan of the Disney Renaissance any more than you can if you haven't seen The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, or the Lion King. Those four movies and all four movies are simply required watching for any Disney fan. **** Sleeping Beauty, go and ****ing watch Beauty and the Beast right ****ing now. Like, srsly right the **** now and don't sleep till you have.

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MicShazam

Considering it's 3:47 in the night here, I don't think I can watch any movie and not fall asleep in the middle of it. But yeah, I've seen three out of four of those "Disney Renaissance" movies you mentioned, and I probably like all of them fairly well. It's been ages since I've seen any of them.

I'd like to watch Beauty and the Beast, but honestly, the 50's classics have a stronger pull on me right now. I think Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are the two I would most like to watch at this point.

The Batlord

I'll just say that after Beauty and the Beast that Aladdin introduced a more modern sensibility and humor with the performances of Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried that all subsequent Disney movies have tried to ape that have killed the timelessness of Disney. I love Aladdin and The Lion King, but Beauty and the Beast was really the last Disney movie that truly felt like a timeless story while still reaching the heights of the modern Disney story. It's wondrous and beautiful.

Seriously go rewatch Aladdin and tell me that the Genie still holds up the same as he did when you were a kid. As much nostalgia as I have for the Genie he was kind of the original sin for modern Disney.

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Akai

Hitler likes Disney, what a suprise.

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Frownland

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Get on dat deep Hamlet ****, Bats.

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The Batlord

Beauty and the Beast is just the more intimate movie to me and I guess that means just a bit more.

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Frownland

I'm not much into voyeurism.

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The Batlord

You mean human emotion? It is kind of unsettling at first.

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Frownland

It's not like Beauty and the Beast is bad, it's just that Lion King is just like, you know, better and a lot more interesting.

Also kinda ****ed that they killed the guy trying to save a kidnapped woman just because the animators had a grudge.

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MicShazam

I don't even have to rewatch it for that, since I remember Genie bothering me last time I watched it several years ago. I think I wanted the movie to feel more like a 1001 Nights fairytale, while genie is very... "modern" in his presentation, if you know what I mean. Not to mention pretty over the top. I remember being a big fan of Mulan many years ago. Probably way back when it came out, so around 1999 or so. Last time I watched it (10+ years ago), it didn't hold up as well, buck back then, I thought it was a real classic. Not sure what I would feel about it today.

Back then, I remember not liking Hercules all that much and that one where an Incan ruler is turned into a Llama or something... I just hated it. So Mulan was the last great one for me. But like I said, I don't know if I would think it is great now.