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[–]OuroborosTheory 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

"cartoons aren't for children, they're for 30-somethings in Portland!"

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

See that's the thing. I'm pretty much a fan of the idea of animation in a movie, can be very creative with it, the problem is they aren't creative at all. Can make a mature adult film using animation I'd probably watch it, but they make this , shit. Like there seem to be two modes that cartoon makers do now, family guy rip offs that think "adult cartoon" means being as offensive and crass as possible (and well there is a value in that if the writing is actually funny, usually they think saying fuck a lot or making sex puns is a good replacement for having a script) or it's this bizarre blob Stephen Universe style shit. Who watches that?

Old Disney shit was still made with kids primarily in mind I guess, but it feels to me like the whole point was more to just show off the art than anything. That's why shit like Fantasia is the shit. Trippy colors set to classical music. Hell yeah. More please.

Shit like Pinocchio was pretty adult I guess, compared to modern standards, very entertaining to watch as an adult as see all the little things that go over your head as a kid, like how Pinocchio's conscience spends most of the movie chasing skirts. Hilarious.

These days it's like Disney doesn't have a singular original idea to save their ass, and the talent is all dried up.

I don't get these Disney adults though. It's like, I will watch the occasional Disney film that catches my interest, but that's rare anymore, I'm a big fan of their old shit, but some of these people just are like obsessed with collecting the merchandise and going to Disneyland. Why the fuck would anyone waste their vacation going to stand in line all day. When I was a kid I'd want to sure, but I mean I'm a fucking adult given the choice between say, going to Disneyland, or going on vacation in Europe, why the fuck would you ever pick the former?

Go once sure but these people go multiple times a year. They don't even have kids that want to go. Bizzare.

[–]OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

the theory is that animation used to appeal to children and adults at once until TV, when you got kids-only shows designed for a black-and-white small screen and designed to be a babysitter 70s and 80s (though of course Rocky and Bullwinkle and Flintstones went a bit further than "throw in some adult jokes as winks to the housewives forced to watch")

it's like how books written for kids can hold up to adults a century later (like, Norton Juster or Roald Dahl), while YA writers just read other YA writers and it's always Queer Princess Series XVI or Dystopia Type #3 Asian-American Resistance II and it's like they're written to be forgotten after next year (even The Hunger Games is more sophisticated, the person leading the revolution turns out to be a villain manipulating everyone's resentments all along)

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

In a world where dogs are extinct, one woman is unhappy with her boring family, but after meeting a cool guy who is totally into her for no reason, her life is about to turn topsy turvy when she finds out her best friend is actually not friends with this guy, because she knows that he knows that the protagonist is actually the secret to puppikenesis, and ancient alchemist recipe lost to the ages that lets her create puppies from thin air. And with the unconditional love of puppies the vaguely dystopian society will no longer be able to control people with kittens.

"Dogvirgent" in theaters this Septober.

[–]Femaleisnthateful[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I would watch this.