Ah. I see you’ve found more of the Jonas Brothers.

You know, I don’t even know what do say. I’ve been desensitized. I’m sorry for you pain.

Disney has fallen rather far, hasn’t it?

Such whiny voices…

No, they probably don’t. They sold them to the Disney machine thingy.

Sniffles I miss my Disney! The one with the 2D drawings, and the pretty princesses, and the family friendly action/romance.

Any else ever see those old disney live action movies? Kidnapped, Swiss Family Robinson…. they were so good.... even Pirates of the Caribbean showed promise, at least the first one was hysterical…

And now we have fifty sequels per movie, all of which suck, and, and…. the crappy 3D, and the lameness, and the fart jokes….

Dammit, Disney!

Sniffles I miss my Disney! The one with the 2D drawings, and the pretty princesses, and the family friendly action/romance.

I miss my 90s Disney movies. I hope I’m not alone.

You forgot Aladdin, Pocohontas…

weeps

I grew up with those movies!

Oh, and for any JoBros haters, check out the related South Park episode. It’s HILARIOUS!!!

Oh! Aladdin and Pocahontas too….

DAMMIT Disney! Stop ruining our childhoods! Go back to basics! Stop reinventing! Do 2D fairy tales! You haven’t done Rumpelstiltskin yet, or The Snow Queen, or Rapunzel! There’s three good ones there, two of which could be SPECTACULAR (Rumpelstiltskin would be a horrid name for a movie).

Pocohontas

Hunchback of Notre Dame

My two favorite Disney movies ever. Although they are planning a new movie in the style of the old ones, except the princess is black and the villian is a witch-doctor.

I want my old Disney back. Pixar is excellent, but it isn’t the same. Granted, it’s better than anything Disney has done in ten years…. I want my pretty princess fairy tales :(

Come on, Rapunzel and The Snow Queen would both be awesome, you know it….

Kristin Chenowyth as Rapunzel? Oh God, no…. she’s great, but way too whiny for a princess! And too old!

Nowhere to go….

Well, there is the problem of her hair being attached to her head…. the minute she climbed out the window, her braid ladder would fall down.

Come on, they filled out Sleeping Beauty magnificently, why not Rapunzel? Act I: The parents promise the girl, little girl grows up with witch. Act II: Prince meets her, talks to her at the window for a while, is hurt by the witch. Act III: She goes on her journey to restore his eyesight, they marry and she is reunited with her parents.

Gerda is a little Sue-ish, but that can be easily fixed. Make her pure of heart, sweet and kind… but make her weak, clumsy, and prone to cloudcuckoolanderism.

She could cut her hair off, couldn’t she? Unless the witch doesn’t allow her sharp objects…which is probably the case.

I just like villainesses. I mean, the Snow Queen had no real motivation I could tell.

Why’d the witch kidnap her anyway? Something about a debt, right? The father stole her cabbages or something? So why would the witch keep her locked up in a tower, wasting away? Unless all the witch really wanted in the first place was company who wasn’t biased against her…

Say, why doesn’t anyone ever write Rapunzel from the witch’s POV? I just gave you an idea right there.

Because she’s evil. Like Galbatorix.

See, this is exactly why fairy tales aren’t as much fun for me anymore. I still do enjoy them, but little things like this ruin the pleasure.

Yes, and she knows HOW to make a pulley (they were real big on educating women in science back then). And of course the requisite metal and wood would be in easy reach…

The witch has a garden full of magical herbs. A neighboring woodsman has a pregnant wife, who craves one of the witch’s herbs(rapunzel). He sneaks into the garden to steal some. The witch catches him and tells him she would have given it to him freely, if he had asked. Since he didn’t… she demands payment. He has nothing, so the witch demands his unborn child (the witch is lonely). He gives her the baby, the witch raises her, apparently pretty well. But she keeps her in the tower, selfish of her company, afraid of the girl leaving her.

Then the prince comes while the witch is out, romances Rapunzel, Rapunzel betrays the witch, the witch cuts her hair and banishes her, then catches the Prince and throws him off the tower (he falls into a thorn bush at the base of the tower; he goes blind). Both lovers search for each other, and eventually the Prince finds Rapunzel by the sound of her voice as she sings. She weeps for him and her tears restore his sight. Happy ending.

Well, she wasn’t discontented, so she didn’t try to think of ways to escape.

I have to agree with previous posters in this thread about missing the old 2D Disney (my favorite happens to be Tarzan). Fortunately, with this Princess and the Frog thing in the coming winter, Disney may be returning to its roots.

Right now, the animation company I’m pissed off at the most is Dreamworks. Why do all of their movies have to be 3D comedies? Can’t they do a serious movie like Prince of Egypt for once?

Scar’s song was awesomesauce.

His ‘style’ was also awesomesauce.

I’m ticked off at Dreamworks too. I miss stuff like Road to El Dorado. And oh God, why so many Shrek sequels? They’re planning two more of them! And even Shrek makes me mad, they overdo the crude humor so much. I’m sorry, I like animation, but it’s for KIDS, stop with the damn fart jokes!

Yeah, but she was a COOL hyena!

And that Scar is the darker lion, while Mufasa is gold?

Color doesn’t matter. He’s still the Evil Rich White Guy.

The animators were probably drawing on the “black clothing = evil” trope when giving the Outlanders darker fur.

The animators were probably drawing on the “black clothing = evil” trope when giving the Outlanders darker fur.

And where does that come from?

There was a Lion King 2?

Um, yeah. Based on Romeo & Juliet the same as #1 was based on Hamlet. They also made a Lion King 1 1/2.

it happened, sadly.

Not clicking that. Next thing you know, you’ll tell me there was a Rocky 5 or a Devil May Cry 2 or Star Wars 1-3.

It was good. For a sequel.

Yes.

Oh my god, now I have to start a thread about What Disney Character Are You?

Personally, my current pet peeve is when all the Disney starlets cover the classic Disney songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjqJnnqO3wM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMTccRFnq-g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSQehAGHtEk&feature=related

Seriously, what is this? Granted, I can't stand most Disney, even the classic ones, but this...ouch.

UGH, just leave them be!

(Okay, I will start a ‘What Disney Character Are You?’ thread)

That’s because Pixar is 3D. There’s a special nostalgic charm about 2D.

“Fantasia 2000” is amazing. I remember “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” the most, as well as the Tin Soldier bit, and the blue lady goddess thing.

Though I may be saying this out of nostalgia as I haven’t actually watched it in years.

I miss my 90s Disney movies. I hope I’m not alone.

Damn straight you’re not. I realised that my little brother, who’s only four years younger, doesn’t know the classic Disney movies, though. D: I guess it must’ve been mainly the late-80s/early-90s kids that caught them. ;_;

@Liadan—I hate you. You killed my brain.

._.

@ Elanor, if you hadn’t made me youtube Lucas Grabeel and Corbin Bleu I never would have found this.

Hey. Lucas Grabeel isn’t that bad. Comparatively.

>:|

Zac Efron HAD to be mentioned? Bleurgh. Ear acid! Ear acid!

/dramaticcrispeating

But if you do it too often with the same people, you come across as atrangely obsessed with them yourself…

The witch has a garden full of magical herbs. A neighboring woodsman has a pregnant wife, who craves one of the witch’s herbs(rapunzel). He sneaks into the garden to steal some. The witch catches him and tells him she would have given it to him freely, if he had asked. Since he didn’t… she demands payment. He has nothing, so the witch demands his unborn child (the witch is lonely). He gives her the baby, the witch raises her, apparently pretty well. But she keeps her in the tower, selfish of her company, afraid of the girl leaving her.

Then the prince comes while the witch is out, romances Rapunzel, Rapunzel betrays the witch, the witch cuts her hair and banishes her, then catches the Prince and throws him off the tower (he falls into a thorn bush at the base of the tower; he goes blind). Both lovers search for each other, and eventually the Prince finds Rapunzel by the sound of her voice as she sings. She weeps for him and her tears restore his sight. Happy ending.

This is the version I remember, though it’s more of an interpretation. It depends on who reads/tells you the story. My mother was of the opinion that the witch was evil and Rapunzel was good. Most people are. I always felt sorry for the witch and really disliked Rapunzel. It’s mentioned in the version I read that the witch raised and loved Rapunzel as her own child. As far as I’m concerned, Rapunzel did not deserve a happy ending seeing as how she betrayed the only mother she ever knew. u_u

I have now converted my mother to this interpretation. :3

@Kyrollac: I don’t think either Rapunzel nor the witch are evil. The witch is lonely, but she’s selfish too. She hasn’t given room for Rapunzel to really fulfill her potential. Granted, once Rapunzel marries the prince, I don’t think she’s going to be doing much adventuring or anything. On the other hand, Rapunzel does betray the witch, who was kind to her, despite smothering her. So I think they’re both partly to blame and both sympathetic.

I would really like to write a short story on this interpretation, actually.

@ Swenson: What happens in the original Cinderella?

curls up into defensive ball in case it’s explosive

The stepmother says that it’ll be fine because when they’re royalty, they won’t need to walk; servants will carry them.

And on the way to the wedding, birds come and peck out their eyes.

And the prince finds out that they aren’t the right one to fit the shoes because the little birdies (who are Cinderella’s friends) sing “Look back, look back, there’s blood on the track.”

Because, you know, somehow he totally missed that their foot was gushing blood when he was checking to see if the slipper fit.

Also, there is no fairy godmother- Cinderella actually goes to a witch for help, which is why it only lasts till midnight… because the witch is an evil old hag who thinks it’d be funny to make everything disappear at midnight. In some versions there is also an evil witch who helps the stepsisters and magically keeps Cinderella from going to the prince and saying it’s her shoe. In at least one version I read, the stepmother is also not actually a stepmother… she’s Cinderella’s birth mother. The Brothers Grimm changed all of that when they wrote the stories down, though… apparently the idea of a mother being cruel was worse than a stepmother being cruel.

And getting back on topic, it seems that Disney’s bought Marvel. So now, my childhood memories of Spider-Man and X-Men could potentially be at risk.

Well, don’t forget they also own Miramax, and you can’t really accuse them of kiddying that up.

I’m sorta torn about it, because I can see the upsides of such an arrangement. Pixar being able to make use of Marvel’s IP? YES PREEZ

Also, some of the more terrible stories I’ve read in comics recently(Ultimatum, I’m looking at you) could’ve done with some major sanitizing.

This is the occasion where I should be pointing you toward Marvel’s Ultimate line, specifically Ultimate Spider-Man, but they let Loeb RUIN IT FOREVER.

I dunno much about DC, except I heard Countdown was utter balls.

Well, if anyone has suggestions other than Batman, I’m open to them, too.

Oh, try All-Star Batman and Robin, swenson. You won’t regret it.

Yeah, that doesn’t sound… suspicious… at all… because I always put chokes when recommending things… :eyebrow raise of utter suspicion:

Uh-huh. Yeahhhh…

_{To Google! Let’s see what “All Star Batman Robin reviews” brings up…}

Don’ t bother googling it Swenson, it will ruin all the twists and turns.

Frank Miller wrote it! FRANK MILLER