Disney-freaks, over here!

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So.

I'm suspected AS, or at the least, ASD tendencies. One of the "alarm bells" (anyone else hate that word- OMG, He likes tracing vertical lines over and over ALARM BELL)

anywho, one of the alarm bells for me is my obsessions.

By the by, I LOVE my obsessions, and they often spur me to do things (animal obsession is what is going to get me employed, yaya)

DISNEY

Anyoen here LOVE Disney as much as me? Its my EVERYTHING. It makes me feel so special.

One of my favorite songs rgth now is the "Welcome fo our Family" Parade version, for the current Parade of Dreams.

I'm obsessed with knowing the order of the films, and becuase its so difficult to have just one fave film, I divide the Canon into its distinct "eras" and have faves within them!

DISNEY DISNEY DISNEY!



yay!

I was obsessed with 101 Dalmatians. I also liked The Aristocats. I can remember I was fixated on the song "Everybody Want to be a Cat." I dunno if I was obsessed with it, maybe it was short term then.

When I was a kid apparently the Lady and the Tramp was the only thing that would calm me down. Dad can't watch it any more because he had to watch it so often with me. XD

My current obsession is probably films, but it's deffinatly focused more on animation. I adore Disney, although I hate the man and the policies behind it. My final project for Media last year was a comparison between Disney women (Mulan, Belle and Pochahuntas) and Studio Ghibli women (Nausicaa, San and Chihiro), for which I only dropped one mark. ^____^ I'm thinking about doing something similar for my final uni project, even though I've still got a year to go before I need to start that.

My favourite Disney films are the ninties ones, although that's probably partly because they're the ones I watched growing up. And with the exception of the princesses' films and the very recent ones (ie, Lilo and Stitch, Treasure Planet and Enchanted). My current favourite is Tarzan, but I rarely stick on one for a long time. XD I don't like the Disney CGI films, but I adore all of Pixar's work except for Cars. And I don't count Disney sequels as cannon, and haven't watched most of them. Toy Story 2 is an exception there though (probably because it's Pixar, even if it was the film that caused Disney to buy Pixar outright), because it's just so good.

I really like the 1985 animated Disney film "The Black Cauldron". I used to love the Sierra computer game before I saw the actual movie. The Black Cauldron isn't a musical like many of the others in which they keep bursting into song. It is also rated PG unlike most other animated Disney movies.

I love the movie, 102 Dalmatians. I especially love the beginning of the movie, where Currila Deville is laughing and everything is white and covered with black spots.

It's hard to believe how pretty the streets of London were, only 8 years ago.

I grew up watching and loving Disney movies as of today! But they made alot crappy movies lately like sequals that don't need to be made like High School Musical 3. BTW I can't wait to see WALL-E that looks so cool. And I've seen all the PIXAR movies and one of my favorite ones out of all of them is A Bug's Life.

I've also been to Disney World a couple of times.

So yeah I'm a Disney Freak and I'm proud of it!

That's easy enough. Disney has several distinct phases:

The Golden Age: Snow White, Pinnochio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi.

Any one of these five can be legitimately called the greatest animated movie ever. My personal favorite was Dumbo. All hail Tytla!

The WWII package films: Melody Time, Saludos Amigos, The Three Cabelleros, Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, The Adventures of Ichibod and Mr. Toad.

Cheap movies that Disney made because the European markets were dry and there was no way he could get funding for his ambitious projects.

The 50s classics: Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty.

No where near as ambitious or intricately thought-out as the Golden Age films, but classics nonetheless. I have fond memories of Lady and the Tramp.

Beginning of the Xerox age: 101 Dalmations, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book.

Disney uses xerox technology to make their films cheaper. The quality of the lines disintigrates and looks rather ugly. 101 Dalmations makes the best of a bad situation with their black and white title characters and The Jungle Book is a decent film, but it says a lot that Disney was willing to make such a sacrifice in quality after decades of pushing the artform forward.

Post-Disney: The Aristocats, Robin Hood, Winnie the Pooh, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver and Company.

Ugh! I like the Fox and the Hound, The Rescuers is decent, and The Black Cauldron is at least ambitious if not particularly well-done. The rest is eye-poppingly horrid.

90s Classics: The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King.

Yeah, I know The Little Mermaid is from the 80s. About on par with Disney's 50s classics and the best American features since his death.

Post-classics: Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan, Fantasia 2000.

A set of mostly good films capitalizing on the inertia of the early-90s boom and reliance on formula.

Shark era: The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis, Lilo and Stitch, Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, Home on the Range.

I liked The Emperor's New Groove (it had a good energy to it), but there's little debating that it marked the point where Disney's brand-name was waning while the age of CGI was beginning to take over everything. Lilo and Stitch was the last really successful Disney animated film before Treasure Planet flopped and Disney shoveled out two more halfassed films before calling it quites.

CGI crap era: Whatever

There's a rumor that Disney made awful CGI movies and called them canon animated features. Blasphamy! Luckily thanks to selective amnesia these crapfests don't sully my memories of real Disney animation.

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I love the original Incredible Journey and That Darn Cat.

*applause* That's deffinatly the funniest and truest thing I've read all morning (all 40 minutes of it, but none the less). But Enchanted was good, and I have hopes for the Frog Princess, or whatever it's going to be called.

I was never really into Disney movies except for Lion King. The sequels and the stageshow raped it. Lion King was my main obsession for years and was even the basis for my new main one, meerkats. I was so into Lion King it helped get me diagnosed. I even scare other LK fans I am so obsessed and have gotten kicked off a Lion King messageboard. It makes me so sick that people can claim to love something and not. I found most Disney movies annoying and even irrating because everyone brakes into song every five seconds and had people in them. I wanted (and still dO) to hang the person who made the stageshow for showing the people's faces and making it a people story. The main reason I love TLK so much is that there are no people. I was abused on the messageboard when I said how much I hated the stageshow.