Radrappy wrote:Popcorn wrote:I hate Looney Tunes in its entirety, as I do the golden age of American animation. It is all sickly and hateful.
This has got me in trouble before.
out of curiosity, what does this entail for you?
Wiki sez:
The Golden Age of U.S. animation is a period in the United States animation history that began with the advent of sound cartoons in 1928 and continued into the early 1960s when theatrical animated shorts slowly began losing to the new medium of television animation.
Many memorable characters emerged from this period including Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Goofy, Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Betty Boop, Mr. Magoo, Woody Woodpecker, Mighty Mouse and a popular adaptation of Superman. Feature length animation also began during this period, most notably with Walt Disney's first films: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi.
That just about covers it, but I'm thinking of Hanna-Barbara stuff like the Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, too. I dislike all of those characters/franchises, in some cases rather strongly. I
despise "squash and stretch". I am not exaggerating when I say I find it nauseating. I appreciate, of course, that a tremendous amount of craft went into those productions, with passion and innovation that possibly isn't matched today, but yikes do I hate it. It's something to do with how abstract it is, everything dancing and wobbling like a flu hallucination, faces drooping like rotten fruit. I like that stuff when it's done in an anarchic, punk rock sorta way, like that bit in Beavis and Butthead Do America, and Ren and Stimpy to an extent, but not here. (I differ hugely from Ren and Simpty creator John Kricfalusi in that regard, because he argues that animation more or less has a
duty to be as expressionistic and crazy as possible.
Check out his redesigns for the Simpsons cast, for example - hurl.)
I guess on the whole I prefer animation that's more realistic than not, because it takes reality and reduces it to a slightly more abstract, impressionistic form. (Which I guess all art does to some extent?) As much as I reliably enjoy Pixar movies, I prefer much 2D animation to 3D because of this 'impressionistic' vibe... it's just so much more beautiful to me. The thing is that animation, for me, if it's done right, is the most moving thing in the world. Maybe you guys have seen
this animated short, "Thought of You"; the music choice is a bit sappy but the animation and choreography is so gorgeous I forgive it entirely. I wept through the first twenty minutes of
The Illusionist just because I was so in awe of how beautiful it was. I'm not kidding. The first time I saw Princess Mononoke, aged 14, it was - again, without exaggeration - a life-changing moment, because I never knew fantasy stories with that kind of romance and drama purely on a visual level existed, and it has affected my imagination ever since.
When I was a kid I sat watching the Sonic CD animations for hours just because they moved with such urgency and dynamism and precision. It was worlds away from the sloppy, pukey "charm" of Loony Tunes et al.
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