re: Must buy Disney movies

Not to bust your chops but Prince of Egypt and El Dorado aren't Disney

and if we are going to include NonDisney American Animated...Iron Giant, Shrek, and How to Train your Dragon need to be mentioned as well.

Fox and the Hound
A Goofy Movie
Sleeping Beauty
Toy Story 1-3
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Alladin
The Lion King
The Jungle Book
Heavyweights
Zootopia
The Princess & the Frog
Tangled
Up!

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Not to bust your chops but Prince of Egypt and El Dorado aren't Disney

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Woooops, you are correct. Sorry

I still really like those two FWIW.

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I still really like those two FWIW.

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To be honest, I think it’s a tragedy Disney did not make “The Prince of Egypt”. I do think it is the best rendition of the Exodus story ever put to film. Jeffrey Katzenburg for years tried to get Disney to make this movie, but Michael Eisner refused, which led to Katzenburg leaving Disney and founding Dreamworks.

And it just fits in so well with the other Disney Renaissance films. If they had followed up Hunchback with this movie, the Renaissance may have lasted another 5 years. While James Woods is great in Hercules, it just wasn’t going to cut it.

And sadly I think the Prince of Egypt has largely been forgotten by the masses. The scene where Ramses comes to terms with what Moses has returned for is masterful filmmaking and animation. Not a wasted frame: LINK

The Plagues was brilliant. I do love how this movie had the balls to say “Yeah the Plagues could last for well over an hour, but let’s instead gloss through something everyone knows and instead just focus on the character development between the two main characters.”

Going back and watching the Ten Commandments just doesn’t do it for me anymore, because the movie glosses over the most interesting part: that they were raised as brothers. This is the core of The Prince of Egypt, and it just works so well. You completely understand all of Ramses and Moses’ actions through the film, while I can’t say I do in the Ten Commandments.

Beauty and the Beast. Both versions.

For old school, The world's greatest athlete and The computer wore tennis shoes

Moana is my favorite Disney movie ever

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The Rescuers: Honestly, a little boring. And I didn’t like the animation. My wife hated it.

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Honestly... this is really the case for most of Disney between Sleeping Beauty and the Great Mouse Detective. I have a soft spot for the Jungle Book, but that era was mostly shite. I rewatched Robin Hood recently, and I was taken aback by really how bad it is. There’s a bunch of dumb narrative and lazy Animation.


I’ll add Pixar in this, but I do think this would be my Top 20 from them:

1) WALL-E
2) Beauty and the Beast
3) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
4) Pinnochio
5) Inside Out
6) The Lion King
7) Coco
8) The Incredibles
9) Aladdin
10) Sleeping Beauty
11) Toy Story 3
12) Bambi
13) Tangled
14) Toy Story 2
15) Toy Story
16) Mulan
17) Alice in Wonderland
18) Ratatouille
19) The Jungle Book
20) Up!

And I know that you’re thinking that I left out “The Little Mermaid”, but Ariel is a dumb fricking whore who learns that putting everyone you’ve ever known in mortal peril for the sake of fricking a piece of manmeat you’ve never met will be rewarded in the end. I wouldn’t want my kids taking lessons from this despicable slut. She’s bar none the worst of the Disney Princesses, and it’s not even close.

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