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Disney Show/Movies you loved or hated watching.

Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 4:37 am
by King Green
Any shows and/or movies you liked before Disney had the audacity to trademark viewership to its betrayed fanbase?

My fav sci-fi cartoons is Tron:Uprising, Gravity falls, Amphibia, original duck tales and mickey mouse and pals in the early 90's that was rerunned until late year 2000.

Loved the live action shows of Suite life of zack and cody, that's so raven, phil of the future early Hannah Montana(goodbye Bluejeans you magnificent horse :' -( ) possibly Boy meets world.

What's yours?

Re: Disney Show/Movies you loved or hated watching.

Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 5:49 pm
by clearspira
The Little Mermaid. Seriously. It has a pretty timeless story of not realising what you've got and pining for the grass on the other side. How many of us have sat and wanted to be someone or something else despite the fact that its impossible?

I also think that no one here is in the right. Triton only wants what is best for his daughter - and that is NOT the human world. The humans eat fish and thus would probably eat her (or worse). He does however do a poor job of explaining this. Arial on the other hand is right that not all humans are evil - but she is a dreamer who puts herself and her family and friends at risk by turning to Ursula.

Where Triton f-ked up though was that he never dealt with Ursula when he had the chance. Didn't he care that she had turned a good hundred of his people into pelops? I guess though the argument could be made that she wasn't doing anything wrong - she never hid the consequences of her magical contracts after all. ''Do this, this is the payment, this is the forfeit''. She never once lied.

Re: Disney Show/Movies you loved or hated watching.

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 6:47 am
by Beastro
I wasn't a Disney Kid by any means. Never had any desire to go to their parks, but I didn't mind watching their shows or movies, though they often weren't my thing.

Probably the one I most loved was Darkwing Duck. Had a nice satirical flare and humour, and now that I think about it, I should take a peek at some episodes to see if it has held up. Others are Rescue Rangers, Ducktales and Talespin, you know, the usually 90s fare.

Gargoyles here in Canada was shoved off into Saturday morning, so I never got a chance to really watch it (like Exosquad) due to not being a morning person.

It was after my time, but catching bits of it here and there I think I would have enjoyed Recess as well. I always recall a bit where the nerdy kid talked to his military father about fighting bullies and the father told him about Belgium in World War I and the fight they put up. The kid brightened up and assumed the war ended with Belgium fighting off Germany in triumph only for his father to laugh and tell him Belgium got their ass handed to them.

Here it is: https://youtu.be/1mLoa6vOzkY?t=371

Not one I necessarily hate, but one I found odd as a kid, and now find cringy recollecting, was Goof Troop. The concept of creating a family sitcom centered around Disney characters for kids was a rather odd hybrid of 80s sentiments mixed with a lot of 90s cool thrown in.

Still, we got the intro for it, which was rather catchy (Though that was in a time in TV when often the best thing about many series were their intro and little else; see Baywatch).
Where Triton f-ked up though was that he never dealt with Ursula when he had the chance. Didn't he care that she had turned a good hundred of his people into pelops? I guess though the argument could be made that she wasn't doing anything wrong - she never hid the consequences of her magical contracts after all. ''Do this, this is the payment, this is the forfeit''. She never once lied.
The "father-figure who is willfully ignorant to the threat close to him" is a trope that is near literally timeless. Osiris is betrayed by his brother Set because Osiris refused to see the threat his brother posed, for instance.

Keeping on topic, it's the same with the Lion King and how odious Scar is, yet is kept around by Mufasa without any distance being made between the two which might have allowed the betrayal to not be as sudden.
clearspira wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2020 5:49 pmThe humans eat fish and thus would probably eat her (or worse).
I think we all can see the lewd joke in this, so I'll leave it to your imagination to make.

Re: Disney Show/Movies you loved or hated watching.

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2020 8:56 am
by BridgeConsoleMasher
I saw A Goofy Movie with my dad in the theater. Pretty good theater experience.

Re: Disney Show/Movies you loved or hated watching.

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:45 am
by Zargon
Bedknobs and Broomsticks I love that movie. It has great songs(that are stuck in my head forever), and has Angela Lansbury as a witch that animates a whole army of shits of armor to fight the Nazis (and has the great visual of the Nazi machine gunner shooting the suit of armor...then the armor takes off it's metal boot and empties all the shot bullets out of it).

Oh, and the Cat from Outer Space.

Re: Disney Show/Movies you loved or hated watching.

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:33 pm
by ProfessorDetective
Tomorrowland... It wasn't perfect, but I do not get the hate...

Re: Disney Show/Movies you loved or hated watching.

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:04 am
by Beastro
ProfessorDetective wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:33 pm Tomorrowland... It wasn't perfect, but I do not get the hate...
I vaguely recall family watching that movie years ago while I was doing something on the laptop.

It wasn't subtle with its message, like getting into Captain Planet territory, and that kind of thing pisses me off.

Re: Disney Show/Movies you loved or hated watching.

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:08 am
by ProfessorDetective
Beastro wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:04 am
ProfessorDetective wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:33 pm Tomorrowland... It wasn't perfect, but I do not get the hate...
I vaguely recall family watching that movie years ago while I was doing something on the laptop.

It wasn't subtle with its message, like getting into Captain Planet territory, and that kind of thing pisses me off.
Skip The Incredibles, if you haven't watched it, yet. Same director, similar message.

Re: Disney Show/Movies you loved or hated watching.

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 3:35 am
by Beastro
ProfessorDetective wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:08 am
Beastro wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:04 am
ProfessorDetective wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:33 pm Tomorrowland... It wasn't perfect, but I do not get the hate...
I vaguely recall family watching that movie years ago while I was doing something on the laptop.

It wasn't subtle with its message, like getting into Captain Planet territory, and that kind of thing pisses me off.
Skip The Incredibles, if you haven't watched it, yet. Same director, similar message.
People creating a prescience machine that winds up creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of despair and destruction that is ended by an annoying kid whining at them to give that up for vague blind hope is the same as a malevolent nihilist who wants to destroy what makes some people special and unique by making their exceptional nature the new lowest common denominator are the same message?

Re: Disney Show/Movies you loved or hated watching.

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:55 pm
by ProfessorDetective
Beastro wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 3:35 am
ProfessorDetective wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:08 am
Beastro wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:04 am
ProfessorDetective wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:33 pm Tomorrowland... It wasn't perfect, but I do not get the hate...
I vaguely recall family watching that movie years ago while I was doing something on the laptop.

It wasn't subtle with its message, like getting into Captain Planet territory, and that kind of thing pisses me off.
Skip The Incredibles, if you haven't watched it, yet. Same director, similar message.
People creating a prescience machine that winds up creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of despair and destruction that is ended by an annoying kid whining at them to give that up for vague blind hope is the same as a malevolent nihilist who wants to destroy what makes some people special and unique by making their exceptional nature the new lowest common denominator are the same message?
That exceptional people should just be left alone by society so they can do their exceptional stuff.