So you don't understand?dvdjunkie wrote: I don't understand how anyone can be moved to tears in a 'cartoon' movie. Doesn't anyone here watch "real" movies.
Obviously, it's choice 2.Marky_198 wrote:So you don't understand?dvdjunkie wrote: I don't understand how anyone can be moved to tears in a 'cartoon' movie. Doesn't anyone here watch "real" movies.
Let's see what the reason can be that many people cry when watching the classic Disney films.
1. All the people are dumb
2. The films have real emotions
Which one is it?
We question him simply because he questioned US first when he said "Don't you guys watch real movies?". It would have been fine had he just said "I've never cried during any movie". But not only does he question us, he goes on to talk about how animation isn't a good medium for storyline. Considering that this is a Disney centric forum, and one of Disney's many ideals was that animation could tell just as great of a story as any other medium, can you blame us for trying to refute his comments?Super Aurora wrote:Why is everyone attacking dvdjunkie? Half of what he says I can agree on. Films in general never really provoke emotions out of me. I can understand it, I can grasp what the story is trying to show and tell, I can comprehend the reason behind it, but never had I cry about any animated or live action film.
I don't necessary agree with him on saying animation films don't show emotions. On the contrary, animation film express more emotions than most live action films. This is because in animation, the characters are able to exaggerate and expand the emotion to a further degree than in reality. They also cause express it by background mood. Ren and Stimpy is good example of that.
Never heard of that particular film, but if it is Japanese Anime' then everyone here knows how I feel about that type of animation.Have you seen Grave of the Firelfies? If your face is dry at the end of that movie, you don't have a soul.
dvdjunkie wrote:Never heard of that particular film, but if it is Japanese Anime' then everyone here knows how I feel about that type of animation.Have you seen Grave of the Firelfies? If your face is dry at the end of that movie, you don't have a soul.
It's a Studio Ghibli film. If you've seen and tolerated the studio's Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, you'd be able to tolerate Grave of the Fireflies. It's also an anti-war film and I don't recommend watching it when depressed.dvdjunkie wrote:Rudy Matt wrote:
Never heard of that particular film, but if it is Japanese Anime' then everyone here knows how I feel about that type of animation.Have you seen Grave of the Firelfies? If your face is dry at the end of that movie, you don't have a soul.
That, of course, is presuming he's seen any of those films. Which judging from his posts, I doubt.Sky Syndrome wrote:It's a Studio Ghibli film. If you've seen and tolerated the studio's Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, you'd be able to tolerate Grave of the Fireflies.
Even though it's a Studio Ghibli film, it's not by Miyazaki so I wouldn't really lump it together with Miyazaki's works.Sky Syndrome wrote: It's a Studio Ghibli film. If you've seen and tolerated the studio's Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, you'd be able to tolerate Grave of the Fireflies. It's also an anti-war film and I don't recommend watching it when depressed.
Oh yes, that first scene you mention also makes me cry, but not the second one when she is locked in her room. I guess it is because I concentrate on Jack and Gus trying to get the key to the room upstairs.bradhig wrote:When Cinderella is outside crying after her dress got trashed and when she is locked in her room.
That scene also makes me quite tearful because "Pollyanna" was one of the movies that my grandmother and I used to watch all the time. Now that she is gone, it's doubly sad for me.Cosmic Creepers wrote:There are many sad moments in many Disney films. Yet, to me one of the saddest is in Pollyanna. It happens near the end of the film when Pollyanna [Hayley Mills] is leaving her Aunt Polly's [Jane Wyman] house to board the train to get medical help with her injured legs. The whole town comes to see Pollyanna off and they gather in her Aunt Polly's house. When Dr. Chilton [Richard Egan] carries her down the stairs and everyone tells her goodbye it is one of the saddest Disney moments. It is especially sad when Angelica [Mary Grace Canfield], the maid who had been rather smarmy to Pollyanna {mainly over "the glad game"} tells her bye and asks her to hurry home. Also, when Mrs. Snow [Agnes Moorehead] tells the others she doesn't know why they're all so sad and tells Pollyanna bye and then she cries it is very sad. While it is a happy occasion, as Pollyanna is leaving to hopefully get help with her leg trauma, it is also so sad because everybody is worried about her and they came to say goodbye to show that they care.
What I was trying to do was list films put out by the studio that were more on the mature side. It kinda seems like he thinks all anime is silly and has no depth like the kids' cartoon shows churned out today by Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. I'm curious if he's ever been tempted to see the Studio Ghibli films with Disney being a distributor of them.Super Aurora wrote:Even though it's a Studio Ghibli film, it's not by Miyazaki so I wouldn't really lump it together with Miyazaki's works.Sky Syndrome wrote: It's a Studio Ghibli film. If you've seen and tolerated the studio's Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, you'd be able to tolerate Grave of the Fireflies. It's also an anti-war film and I don't recommend watching it when depressed.
