Disney movies, are you ever to old?

[Overread]

I often get the feeling that Disney burnt out after Lion King - certainly it seemed to mar the end of films and the start of the marketing department (sequals for everything!)

 

[Rodders]

I though Beauty and the Beast was one of their best efforts. Didn't it win an Oscar?

Disney now is just a corporate Brand now, like Coca Cola. I don't respect it.

 

[clovis-man]

Showing my age again: No problem with any of the animated output, but I really got sick of the so called "True Life Adventures" wildlife films (from the 1950s, mainly). There was always a baby deer or some other cuddly creature being stalked by an evil predator. But, of course, they always escape just in time.

 

[WizardofOwls]

I'm 44 and I still enjoy Disney movies. I even like a few of the newer movies that it seems no one else liked - like Atlantis and Treasure Planet. I loved The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

In my opinion, some of Disney's movies will never grow old, and for those movies I will never be too old.

A lot of what comes out from Disney now I have no interest in seeing; but then, I don't see many movies these days anyway.

 

[weirdside]

I'm 20 and I always flaunt my love of Disney movies. You're never too old to enjoy one. It's silly to be embarrassed about something you like. I'm totally with you Wizard about loving Atlantis and Treasure Planet. Those movies were great speculative adventure.

 

[Trebuchet]

Atlantis was far too suspiciously close to Stargate for me.

If you read some of the articles and interviews by John Lasseter, you see just how bad things had become at the animation studio.

All the animators were shut away in their own offices, too many studio notes, too much focus on making things commercial (promoting the brand) rather than just making good stuff.

They've since changed a lot of it, and the end result was Bolt. (Which actually wouldn't have been so great but for Rhino!)

I love Disney films, but they've always seem too reliant on adapting existing stories, rather than creating new ones.

And I hate hate hate hate HATE the merchandising they produce. Simpering Princesses (and not all of them animated!) without a thought in their vacant heads other than pretty things and social climbing.

 

[sdorot]

I don't think you're ever too old to watch them and enjoy them. I think it might get to a point where you're too old to rave about them and wear disney gear, etc. I also think that sometimes it's cool to rewatch disney movies you loved as a child to see if there are things you didn't understand or realize when you first watched the movie.

 

[Interference]

*ahem* Hi, Sweetjoanna, thought you might have missed this ...

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/10915-terms-of-use.html (item 5)

Unless it was a joke, in which case it was very funny and I apologise profusely.

 

[manephelien]

No, you're never too old to enjoy Disney or Pixar, or for that matter the claymations produced by Aardvark (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, or even Shaun the Sheep!).