Petition to bring back real Disney Classics

[james4023464]

Guys I'm just here to complain about the past couple animated features. Ok they were good but not really true disney movies. One exception Lilo and Stitch was one of the best Disney movies ever made. But Treasure Planet and Atlantis 2 hyped up big budget action movies aimed for teen boys. Hello Disney this market sucks your waisting all this money and losing profit you need to go old school. Look at Lilo and Stitch old school animation low budget movie made 144 million dollars. Disney needs to back to musical type movies like Cinderella, Snow White, Lion King, Beuty and the Beast, Aladdin, etc. Luck at all the money these movies have grossed, its a bigger market and disney is taking a wrong road in animation. I don't know about Home on the Range(the next animated feature), or Bears(after HOTR) but I hope they are musicals and use real hand drawn animation. I just love watching these Disney movies and singing along with them. I hate these original songs there doing now sung by pop artists.I believe the last true Disney musical was Mulan witch was a box office hit. I just speaking my opinion does any one else agree with me.

 

[General Grizz]

Long live musical magic!! :sohappy:

 

[MKCustodial]

I guess they should resort to making good stories, whether they're musicals or action. In the past, te team wouls spend months working on the story alone, trying to figure out a good way to bring it to the screen. Like Beauty and the Beast, Walt tried to do it, couldn't, and it was only done decades later. And Monsters Inc., whoever saw the DVD knows how much the story actually changed before taking the format we all know and love.

So it's all about pride and care. Disney needs to take pride and care with teir stories, instead of taking the easy way out for the money.

Now mind you, we only get Treasure Planet down here in January 31st, so I can't speak for that one. But Atlantis get better every time I watch it. The problem with it, in my opinion, is that it has too many characters for you to care about and too much going on without that much time to do it all in. So everytime I watch it I can notice new aspects and new details, so it gets better. Makes any sense?

 

[dreamer]

Remember, the old classics were new once.

If Disney lives in the past it will die. Creativity is their business and that means trying new things. The risk of failure will always be there.

 

[james4023464]

just found out Disney is going back to musical format with Home on the Range coming out 2004. I'm so happy. And Bears coming out Nov 7th 2003 looks like a decent movie. I think disney is going in the right direction again.

 

[Goofster]

I agree with MKCustodial and Dreamer:

Disney should continue to push the boundaries of animation and at the same time focus on story. Story needs to be the backbone and main focus of any movie, not music. If songs sung by characters will help the story of a movie or add to the experience, then that's great, use songs. If not, don't make it a musical.

And it's not Treasure Planet's fault that it bombed, it's whoever's idea (McDonald's) it was to open the movie thanksgiving weekend. For me, Treasure Planet really delivered and it was an awesome movie. Did it need to be a musical, no, but man, did that soundtrack rock!!!!

Anyway, musicals are good and i think Bears is gonna be awesome, but every Disney Animated movie definitely doesn't need to be a musical.

One last thing, I don't think disney ever said, "You know what, I don't like these musical Broadway movies, let's never do another one of those again." It's not the end of the world since the last three or four Disney animated movies haven't been musicals, and it won't be the end of the world if the next movie after Home on the Range isn't either.

Ok, I think I'm done now

 

[gjpjtj]

I think some of the new "claasics" are Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Monsters Inc. I know Pixar has done the majority of the work on these films, however I think they are great.

Why does it have to be one format or the other? I would much rather see more of these type moveis, mingled in with an occasional musical. Just my opinion.

 

[prberk]

Both formats are viable, but story and HEART matter the most. Walt said this in The Walt Disney Story, referring to the failure that was Alice in Wonderland. He recognized that Alice failed b/c it didn't have heart. You need a story with characters that people care about, period.

Traditional animation, even merged with computers like in The Lion King, is wonderful for many stories, while CG is great for others. Keep them both, but mostly make stories with heart, that all of the family can enjoy.

Walt himself was all about new technologies (like the multi-plane camera and Technicolor), but he was mostly about stories with heart and timelessness.

Watch "The Lion King" (and "Jungle Book" and "Beauty and the Beast") again!

 

[prberk]

One more thing: go back to animals. They have univeral, non-race or ethnic appeal, and they allow more people across the board to identify with them.

 

[james4023464]

Originally posted by prberk
One more thing: go back to animals. They have univeral, non-race or ethnic appeal, and they allow more people across the board to identify with them.

I agree prberk, Disney should defenitly go back to animals or non fictional characters that are not possible in real life. Well with Bears, wich is probally going to have bears as main characters, and Home on the Range witch has a trio of Cows as main characters Disney is returning to animal characters I just have a good feeling these films are going to be box office smashes. Bears comes out Nov 7, 2003. And there is going to be no Harry Potter or Bond so that looks good I'm gonna check on what other movies are going up against bears. see ya.

 

[Goofster]

Well, lets check out the November Openings from yahoo movies:
November 7, 2003
• Bears
• Elf
• Love Actually
• The Matrix: Revolutions

November 14, 2003
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action

November 21, 2003
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
• Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2
• Mona Lisa Smile

November 26, 2003
• The Haunted Mansion

The Matrix could give bears a little trouble in teens, but aside from that, Disney's got it made. I would love to see bears walk all over the looney toons, too.

 

[james4023464]

Originally posted by Goofster

November 21, 2003
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
• Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2
• Mona Lisa Smile

The Matrix could give bears a little trouble in teens, but aside from that, Disney's got it made. I would love to see bears walk all over the looney toons, too.

well I'm a little woried about the Cat in the Hat, that could bring Bears and Haunted Mansion some trouble. I guess we'll have to wait and find out.

 

[WDWspider]

I voted Yes, cause I feel stronger that way, but I wish you had a "I wish they would do some of both" option.

 

[TURKEY]

Originally posted by Goofster
Well, lets check out the November Openings from yahoo movies:
November 7, 2003
• Bears
• Elf
• Love Actually
• The Matrix: Revolutions

November 14, 2003
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action

November 21, 2003
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat
• Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2
• Mona Lisa Smile

November 26, 2003
• The Haunted Mansion

The Matrix could give bears a little trouble in teens, but aside from that, Disney's got it made. I would love to see bears walk all over the looney toons, too.

I'd wait a little closer until the scheduled release date before I start projecting how it's going to do.

A lot of release dates can change in 11 months.

 

[SirNim]

The public's favor seems to be in animated, traditional, magical, musical animation...

Let's hope the next Disney animated movie touted as "big" incoprates at least some of these elements...