Disney

Disney cartoons, I like Donald Duck. The rest is just very twee, and not a patch on Warner Brother's cartoons.

I don't think the 20th century could have been the 20th century without him.

Bill

I was very interested in animation as a youngster & read all the books I could about it. Unfortunately, all the ones at the library were about Mr. Walter Elias Disney. They were also very cocksucky. I would have liked something more objective. The only other point-of- view I got of the man was offered in Bill Peet's autobio, wherein he was a very bad man. Disney did help progress animation, though, i.e. the invention of multi-plane camera.

He was not really cryogenically frozen.

Disney cartoons were my main introduction to many popular stories, i.e. The legend of Sleepy Hollow. I thought Ichabod Crane was very good looking in the cartoon of it.

Many of the pre-1940 cartoons were very dull. There was one that won an Oscar, it had a barn and an owl and a windmill, and it was very windy and incredibly dull, especially when you are impatient and four. This film was basically a show-off for the multi-plane camera.

Pinnochio scared the feces out of me. Stromboli was awful, but worst of all was the evil white-haired man on Pleasure Island. 1. He said "jackass", which was the only swear word I knew when I saw it. I thought, "This film should be rated R." 2. He was so happy to send off the donkey children to salt mines. Pinnochio by Carol Collodi blew my mind when I read it to see if it was less scary. That is a perverse book.

Disney films (animated) after he died were not very good at all. I think Aristocats was made after he died. The Great Mouse Detective was pretty regrettable (even Vincent Price could not save it), but it was made in somewhat of a transitory phase right after they got a new president. They had some troubles for a while, but "saved themselves" after the Little Mermaid.

That is all for now.

Disneyland vs. Magic Mountain? Come on!
Herbie the Love Bug vs. KITT? Please!
Domestic partner benefits vs. Turbonegro? Whatever you say, apocalypse dude!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhfp6Z8z1cI

3:25-4:12 or so.

"...hundreds of pretty girls..."
"...expert chemists..."
"...where even more pretty girls..."

I mean, if the expert chemists in the paint lab actually were pretty girls, more power to 'em.

I just took Hannah to see The Princess and the Frog and imo it's pretty fucking wonderful

http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/shocker-rich-ross-out-at-disney-more/

between recent disney films + his (financially successful but) aesthetically bankrupt tenure at Disney tv, the worst Disney Chairman ever?

Animator/"imagineer" Frank Armitage dies

http://deadline.com/2016/01/disney-imagineer-and-illustrator-frank-armitage-dies-at-91-1201677878/

oh shit it's going down
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/business/dealbook/disney-fox-deal.html

All of a sudden their little Avatar land in Florida makes more sense.

so they have all the x-men and f4 rights now right??

(what i truly care about the most)

well, I won't have to give money to the Murdochs when I watch a movie. makes sense in the same way as phillip morris ditching their Kraft division.

xpost Yeah, it's funny how my excitement over that development eclipses the misgivings I should be feeling about the slow conglomeration of corporate entities into a single planet-consuming monolith. Kinda like Galactus, who might be in an Avengers movie now! Whee!

Actually, the biggest bummer about this deal is that Disney isn't buying Fox News and mercilessly smothering it with a pillow.

cringing at how the antitrust and consolidated media implications of all this is overlooked everywhere cos the internet is gaga over the possibilities of getting superhero in Y franchise and salivating over IP synergy

if only we could all be enlightened like you

cue the auto critique. the state of modern consumerism has com-modified criticism as a self aware product. you have defined yourself the dominant consumer in this case since you have demonstrated meta awareness of your role as consumer (and thus normalized and internalized it, subsiding any rebellious instincts). i conceded to you.

fwiw i will be buying tickets to Star Wars to watch with my family and think it is actually cool that Princess Leia is a Disney princess.

it's just so banal. we're all fluent in critiques of capitalism/consumerism/monopoly issues around these parts. when you bring it up all exasperated like no one understands that the acquisition has ambiguous and even negative features it's a bit self-aggrandizing.

20th Century Fox does not exist anymore, I'm weirded out.

imo, the only indisputable value that Walt and his legacy corporate litigation machine provide to an intellectually undernourished world is their enduring commitment to the truth that good songs always improve movies aimed at entertaining popular audiences. This almost offsets their enduring commitment to simple-mindedness and formulaic scripts.

I was watching GMA at the gym the other day and it's wild how much of a cross-promotional dystopia it's become, exactly as predicted. There were promos for multiple disney movies, a tribute to Bob Iger for winning Time businessperson of the year, etc. There was also some bullshit about a "shopping revolution" bc you can now shop through instagram or something, but I don't really know if that had to do with disney/abc or was just generally sad. None of this really matters, GMA is garbage regardless, but it was still striking.

Iger out (drops mic)

Lol that's sudden

WDW snobs recognize new guy bob chapek as a general no-good idiot

Not that they cared for iger either

It's way less sudden than it seems, all the succession planning's been in place for a while. Maybe he just got bored.

What's the speculation on the reason for this? I thought he was one of the most successful CEOs ever.

He was supposed to step down a few years ago but his intended successor was deemed unworthy by the board or something

I think this was just about finding time to mold another successor into the exact kind of bumbling yes man investors wanted

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