Favorite Walt Disney Movie

NumberNineDream · 09-17-2009, 09:56 AM

^This conversation is really tiring.

Anyway, Beauty & the Beast is my choice for now. I used to watch it everyday when I was 3, tho I couldn't understand English. When I was 4 and speaking in a weird tongue, my parents finally decided to get me the French version.

I think Alice in Wonderland can be a favorite if I re-watch it now. It really freaked me out when I was a child. I was never able to watch it entirely.

Fantasia is also a masterpiece.

NSW · 09-17-2009, 10:09 AM

Fantasia! How could I have forgotten about that epic? I can't even count the number of times I watched that as a child.

**Janszoon** · 09-17-2009, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife

Fantasia! How could I have forgotten about that epic? I can't even count the number of times I watched that as a child.

I always especially loved the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment as a kid.

QuickDime · 09-17-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by nonsubmissivewife

Fantasia! How could I have forgotten about that epic? I can't even count the number of times I watched that as a child.

This would be my answer if it had to be there studio, I really like allot of the shorts they put out in the mid 30's!

boo boo · 03-12-2010, 06:52 AM

This is so tough, Disney is the only studio that is as consistant as it is in terms of animation. Only thing that can compare is Studio Ghibli, but hey, who distributes those films over here? That's right, Disney motherf*cker.

In terms of live action Disney. The obvious choices would be Mary Poppins, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Old Yeller and the old Davy Crockett films. Bedknobs and Broomsticks is also a classic.

Oh, Disney also owns Miramax so I guess anything by them can qualify. Wouldn't it be great if Disney Land had a Pulp Fiction themed attraction?

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I always especially loved the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment as a kid.

You must have been one twisted kid. I'm 23 and I still think that is one of the scariest things ever put on film.

Burning Down · 03-12-2010, 07:31 AM

NSW mentioned Fantasia, which is also one of my absolute favourites. But I agree with boo boo in terms of the "Night on Bald Mountain" scene. When I was a kid that scared the living **** out of me! Fantasia 2000 is also just as epic.

Mary Poppins was good but I've seen it way too many times. I can basically recite every line in that movie. As for the animated stuff, I always liked The Lion King. The music from that movie is just amazing as well. Elton John and Tim Rice did an excellent job with the score.

boo boo · 03-12-2010, 08:08 AM

Fantasia 2000 is very damn good and way too often overlooked.

Only real problem I had with it was the celebrity segments which could be a little annoying, like when Bette Midler refers to Salvador Dali as "the melting clocks guy".

The best segments were the flying whales treatment of Pines of Rome, the Rhapsody in Blue segment with the Al Hirschfeld style characters and the Firebird suite with the forrest sprite, those were all amazing. So was the one pairing Beethoven's 5 Symphony with abstract triangle shaped butterflies, that was incredibly creative and now I can't listen to that piece of music without thinking of Fantasia 2000's visualization of the piece.

I thought it was rather lazy to include the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment though, don't get me wrong, it's f*cking awesome. But still, just adding a segment from the original film is pretty cheap. The Donald Duck and Yo-Yoing Flamencos segments were cute but it was like they were thrown in to appeal to kids who were mostly familiar with saturday morning cartoons, compare that to the original which only had one really "cartoony" segment, the one with the hippo and the alligator. In other words, half of the film is really ambitious but the other half was a bit more pedestrian with traditional kids stuff.

The first Fantasia was very ballsy throughout, animation paired with classical music and no dialogue was pretty out there, kids weren't really thrilled by that concept and thus the film was a commercial failure. Disney still took risks with the remake, but not as many, I can't blame them though.

Also, the first Fantasia had Satan, Dinosaurs and Mickey Mouse murdering an anthropomorphic broom with an axe. It's really hard to outdo stuff like that.

Bulldog · 03-12-2010, 11:03 AM

I've not watched much, if any Disney since I was a nipper, at least not knowingly anyway. Never really was very much into their output even as a kid. Fantasia is absolutely extraordinary though, and it's quite possibly the first film I can remember watching, so I'll go for that.

Scissorman · 03-12-2010, 03:36 PM

Insane Guest · 03-12-2010, 03:46 PM

If Fantasia was the one with the music, and all the brooms that danced around, yeah, that movie was intense.

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Burning Down The Music Guru. Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Beyond the Wall Posts: 4,858	NSW mentioned Fantasia, which is also one of my absolute favourites. But I agree with boo boo in terms of the "Night on Bald Mountain" scene. When I was a kid that scared the living **** out of me! Fantasia 2000 is also just as epic. Mary Poppins was good but I've seen it way too many times. I can basically recite every line in that movie. As for the animated stuff, I always liked The Lion King. The music from that movie is just amazing as well. Elton John and Tim Rice did an excellent job with the score.

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Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	I've not watched much, if any Disney since I was a nipper, at least not knowingly anyway. Never really was very much into their output even as a kid. Fantasia is absolutely extraordinary though, and it's quite possibly the first film I can remember watching, so I'll go for that.

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Insane Guest Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: CA Posts: 1,322	If Fantasia was the one with the music, and all the brooms that danced around, yeah, that movie was intense.