Give
A Little Whistle... of Dismay
 Richard
Corliss has compiled a list for Time Magazine
of the “25
All-Time Best Animated Features”.
Prepare to be appalled:
1. Pinocchio (1940)
2. WALL-E (2008)
3. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
4. Dumbo (1941)
5. Spirited Away (2001)
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
7. Up (2009)
8. The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
9. Finding Nemo (2003)
10. The Little Mermaid (1989)
11. Toy Story 3 (2010)
12. Toy Story (1995)
13. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
14. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
15. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
16. Happy Feet (2006)
17. Akira (1988)
18. The Lion King (1994)
19. Tangled (2010)
20. Paprika (2007)
21. Kung Fu Panda (2008)
22. Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
23. Yellow Submarine (1968)
24. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
25. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
I don't know about you but I'm a little underwhelmed at this list. Actually,
I'm
completely
pissed-off.
I
mean,
The
Bugs
Bunny/Road
runner movie at #3? Really? Shoot me! And I loved Wall-E but it is NOT the second
best
all-time animated feature.
And Tangled? Dr. Seuss? Paprika? South Park?
Oh. My. Cthuhlu!
I'm really surprised that a movie reviewer who is
in his mid-60s could devise a list so heavily weighted in contemporary animation. No
Bambi? No Fantasia?
Sigh.
That being said, Beloved Girlfriend and I decided to crack open our copy of Pinocchio
this weekend just to see how it compares as #1. As remembered, it is
way awesome in the animation department, and Jiminy is an amazing
douche-baggy horn-dog, but
the
music
is
simply
geriatric.
It's
about
time
someone with real musical skills overdubbed the soundtrack with something a
little
more "Beauty and the Beast-y". That's a challenge, BTW.
I know this sounds like heresy to you cartoon purists out there but keep in mind
the
movie
is
already dubbed into many languages, and the Russian version of Jiminy Cricket
is totally butch. Letting Neil Patrick Harris voice something written by Trey Parker
and Matt Stone might be fun.
BTW, I stole borrowed this information from Cartoon
Brew, a site I frequent regularly. If you're as animation bananas as I am
you'll enjoy it, too.
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Two things to piss you off... hopefully:
First:
The governmental reluctance to decriminalize
drugs
isn't
due to its clinging to conservative values, it's because the private
prison
system that has resulted over the past thirty years is monstrously profitable.
America leads the world in incarcerations, and now you know why.
Second: We invaded Iraq not because Saddam Hussein was any sort of military threat
to America,
but because he was an economic threat. In 2000 he began planning to
sell
his
massive oil
reserves using Euros, which would have dented the Dollar-based investor class
in
this
country. A trillion-dollar war ensured and millions died.
Now we're in Libya because Khaddafy planned to begin selling his oil
for gold
Dinars.
Everything is about oil.
For these two reason alone we need to begin investing more money into alternative
fuels. Solar, wind and geothermal.
=Lefty=
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 "We're
going to have a relentless focus on creating
jobs." -
John Boehner, February 10, 2011.
The following is #45 in a list of accomplishments
by the GOP since they gained control of the House in
2011. None have yet to result in one, single new job.
(45) 6-27-2011: The Republican Congress voted to raise
the debt ceiling EIGHTEEN times for President Bush. Now
they're holding their breaths and pitching fits and perfectly
willing to cause world economic collapse just because
that darned
old spendthrift
Obama wants to eliminate their corporate jet depreciation
tax credit. Oy
vey.
For the entire list of GOP futility, click
here.
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