#non disney movie

[glossytreasures]

watership down [1978]

[missjashin]

If Robin, Steve and Eddie were cats

[yen-sids-tournament]

SuperbOwl Day!!!!

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[princess-ibri]

Some of the Rapunzels' of my life I’ve enjoyed for ya’ll :)

[sentiniel]

hbomb's blast of james somerton really makes me think back to other older youtubers who have been doing their good work, performing critical research and analyses into niche fields who then had their work plagiarized from their videos and henceforth wanted to stop making content.

yeah and also they got pushback from the internet saying the degree of plagiarism they'd experienced is a made up problem.

this is a sideways post.

[prokopetz]

The one bracket I'd love to do on Tumblr but would never work in practice is 1980s Star Wars bandwagon-jumpers – both because we'd end up with a situation where about 80% of the people voting have never actually seen any of the films in question and are just going with the one they've heard of/the one with the most fanfic on AO3/the one with the coolest-sounding title, and because I'm reasonably certain that asking 80s kids to choose between The Last Starfighter and Krull would result in actual, physical violence.

[drbatsponge]

You Marvel and DC fans think you have it hard?

Try being a TRON fan in today's age, we have to look forward to a movie starring Jared Leto with a director who was openly a scab during the strikes.

Disney just make Uprising Season 2, I stg. 😭

[ilovescaredysquirrel2]

Alternatives to overrated animated movies

PLEASE REBLOG AND COMMENT IF YOU AGREE!

[starberry-cupcake]

Beauty and the Beast (1991) // Belle (竜とそばかすの姫) (2021)

I was doing some content for my virtual workshop (because we start with the Villeneuve and Beaumont Beauty and the Beast versions tomorrow) and I thought the parallels from these two were super interesting to look at clearly and that maybe someone in here would appreciate them too.

[the-indie-owl]

Is it Me or do these Characters from the 70s

Look like these Characters from the 80s?

[midnights-dragon]

since it’s 2023 it’s finally time to admit that Dreamworks is far superior to Disney

[deenadraws]

Been a bit but here’s my Anastasia piece for this years cons!

[onceupona-crossover]

Judy hopps x kitty softpaws Seasons (winter) for day 1 for disney femslash week

Requested by:n/a

-Mod rapunzel

[darkside-skyguy]

Okay so I saw Wish last night and I have some thoughts. Spoilers below!

The movie wasn’t bad. It wasn’t particularly good either though. It had all the elements that should have made a great Disney movie but it fell flat. And I think it all stems from the way the movie is so non-specific.

First, the world building. King Magnifico built a kingdom where everyone would be safe in exchange for giving him their wishes because…….. something bad happened to his family when he was young? And it prompted him to learn all the magic in the world and become the most powerful sorcerer so that he could…..NOT grant everyone’s wishes? We weren’t given enough background on the kingdom and the way it functions to have any kind of emotional impact in the end. Why does everyone agree to give up their wish? It seems like a raw deal. And also why does everyone only get ONE wish their whole life?? And if the wish is the best part of the person and they give it up, shouldn’t everyone over 18 be like Simon? Boring and sleepy and wish less? But this does not appear to be the case. It’s all too vague and muddled to make much sense.

(On a contrary note, I actually thought Chris Pine as Magnifico was the best part of the movie. You could tell he was having a lot of fun with it, even though the character was so shallow! I’m happy about a return to traditional Disney villains, even if this one wasn’t the best example of it.)

Okay, then there’s the music. It was bad. It was like a pop rip off of Lin Manuel Miranda but with terrible lyrics. (“When it comes to the universe we’re all shareholders”?? SHAREHOLDERS?) None of the music seemed to take inspiration from its vague Mediterranean setting and even the big I Want song was bland. In This Wish Asha sings “I wish for more for us than this.” Okay? So uninspiring! In all other Disney movies you know exactly what the mc wants and why they want it. Ariel wants to be humans because she feels trapped and misunderstood under the sea. Belle wants an adventure because she feels she does not fit in in her small village and she longs for her life to resemble the fantastical stories she reads. Mirabel wants magic so she can fix the cracks in her family. I could go on. Asha wants everyone to get their wishes granted because her grandpa is 100 and hasn’t gotten his wish granted. Very noble. But his wish kinda stinks—he wants to inspire people but we’re never told why or in what way. We never find out what Asha wishes for before she learns about Magnifico. She’s just a cookie cutter heroine with a mix of likeable qualities—loves her friends and family, adorkable, passionate—that all add up to a lot of nothing. She could be any one of us watching, I guess, but the thing that truly makes characters complex and relatable is specificity. And Asha is as vague as they come.

Then there are the other characters. None of them are developed enough. Her friends are the seven dwarves basically, but none of them grow past their one-word personalities (bashful, grumpy, sneezy, etc.) except maybe Simon, but even that isn’t really explored. There are too many of them and none of them are distinct. The goat is whatever. The star is adorable (though I’ve seen the concept art for the star boy storyline and I’m so upset we didn’t get that movie! But that’s a whole other post). The queen could have been interesting, but we never got any backstory on her. How and when did she fall in love with magnifico? What were her plans for their kingdom and do her hopes and wishes mirror what the kingdom has become? Asha’s mom and grandpa were just kind of there. And…. That’s it’s really. No one and nothing stands out.

The end was non specific as well. The people are inspired by the whole “we’re all stars” thing but they weren’t even there for the song the woodland creatures sing to Asha so how come all of a sudden they are so into this idea and it saves them when it never came up for them before? It should have been an emotional gut punch moment but it just felt rote and predictable. I didn’t feel any sense of triumph for any of the characters. There was no real magic behind it. Asha is given a magic wand and the king becomes a magic mirror and that’s it, the end. Overall it was very disappointing and I found myself bored in a lot of places.

I’ve read a lot of critic reviews and the one thing that I disagree with is the references to other movies. They didn’t bother me like they seem to be bothering others. Some of them were silly and over the top but like whatever. Even though they didn’t bother me they added absolutely nothing to the movie or my experience watching it 🤷🏻‍♀️

[kabishkat19]

New “NextGen” series …

Time to vote on which Next Generation I will create