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Why don't Disney make animated musical a al their golden age?

Zeze

Zeze

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Stumbled across this and made me think.

I've been to many broadways (Rent, Wicked, etc) and I realized I just don't care for musicals. It's just silly.

But for some reason animated musicals by Disney just effin' melt my heart. Every words are so catchy and cleverly written, notes are just perfect, and tunes are beautiful.

Sure Pixar films are great, but they lack that certain magic of Disney had in 90s. Hell, they don't even have it anymore themselves.

LOOK AT THIS SHIET:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEryAoLfnAA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4tE7XRTUA
And so much more.
 
Beauty and the Beast + Aladdin + Lion King = best 1-2-3 combo of movies ever. 92 to 94 were the best 3 years of my life partly because of these movies.
 
pocahontas was alright but that was where disney started to lose that golden touch imho

either that or i simply matured at that time
 
brianmanahan said:
pocahontas was alright but that was where disney started to lose that golden touch imho

either that or i simply matured at that time
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Their golden age ended in its totality with Lion King (1994). Poca was (1995).

It has nothing to with 'maturity'. Pocahontas, Mulan, Hercules, etc all those are just objectively inferior films.
 
Zeze said:
Stumbled across this and made me think.

I've been to many broadways (Rent, Wicked, etc) and I realized I just don't care for musicals. It's just silly.
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i generally have zero interest in such things but i really would like to see "the book of mormon" because it has to be hilarious. the creators of southpark wrote it and the soundtrack is great

I believe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHEqCXY2B-w

turn it off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjCfE1n6nW4&feature=related
 
I thought the Hunchback of Notre Dame was good. I definitely enjoyed the soundtrack and the show left a much stronger impression on me than Pocahontas and any Disney shows post-1996 did.
 
Zorander said:
I thought the Hunchback of Notre Dame was good. I definitely enjoyed the soundtrack and the show left a much stronger impression on me than Pocahontas and any Disney shows post-1996 did.
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I think the movie itself was okay but the soundtrack is absolutely fantastic.

I bought the Hunchback soundtrack album several times in different formats throughout the years. One in cassette tape and at least two copies in CDs.
 
Because Disney no longer promotes Christian values in its art, instead bringing young girls to short and devastating drug-fueled fame as pop singers. Like the rest of Western culture.
 
HamburgerBoy said:
Because Disney no longer promotes Christian values in its art, instead bringing young girls to short and devastating drug-fueled fame as pop singers. Like the rest of Western culture.
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As a former Imagineer at Disney I'll tell you exactly why Disney lost its touch. It's because the accountants took over. Disney didn't want to keep paying for that magic, decided to squeeze profits out of wherever and whatever they could, and imagined they could reproduce that magic with inferior talent and outsourcing.

Good luck to those assholes. Until another Michael Eisner comes along they will continue to strangle themselves, stagnate, and try to survive on past glories.
 
TastesLikeChicken said:
As a former Imagineer at Disney I'll tell you exactly why Disney lost its touch. It's because the accountants took over. Disney didn't want to keep paying for that magic, decided to squeeze profits out of wherever and whatever they could, and imagined they could reproduce that magic with inferior talent and outsourcing.

Good luck to those assholes. Until another Michael Eisner comes along they will continue to strangle themselves, stagnate, and try to survive on past glories.
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Now that is one of the more interesting posts on ATOT.
 
Ichinisan said:
Tangled and The Princess and the Frog were both good.
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Yeap. Both of these were very solid.
I think the bigger problem is kids aren't buying into it anymore. With direct competition with all the other animated works out there, kids are shuffling off to other pastures while good movies/stories/musicals like the two mentioned are overlooked.
 
Sorry but Disney's golden age ended after the death of Walt Disney. All of the stuff they have released since pales in comparison to "Snow White", "Pinocchio", "Fantasia", "Bambi", "Song of the South", "Cinderella", "Peter Pan", "Sleeping Beauty", "Lady and the Tramp", the original "101 Dalmatians", and "The Jungle Book".
 
Squisher said:
Song of the South
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Hell yea!

Disney movies ended for me after Aladdin. Got too old.

Times change, styles change. Movies arnt some special event people get dressed up and go to anymore, so no one should expect them to put in a good effort on making them. churn out crap that the masses lap up and make $$$. Its the order of the day.
 
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