Favorite animated movie
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It's a three way tie for first place. One would be Waltz with Bashir. If you haven't seen it then you really should. It's like watching a sad dream, and the musical score is just whipped topping.
Another is The Place Promised In Our Early Days. Every time anime starts looking like a dilapidated sewer of jailbait/Lolita fanservice Makoto Shinkai always makes me feel better.
The third on in the overcrowded first place spot would be a Scanner Darkly. A Scanner Darkly proves three things. 1. Keanu Reeves has acting talent. 2. American animation for grown ups should be taken more seriously, and 3. American animation for grown ups will probably always be underrated. I'm gonna blame Japanophiles who won't even look at anything that wasn't made in Japan. Why? Because willfully ignorant people piss me off. now go cuddle with a Haruhi love pillow you sad deranged bunch.
please note the last few sentences were meant in good fun
Another is The Place Promised In Our Early Days. Every time anime starts looking like a dilapidated sewer of jailbait/Lolita fanservice Makoto Shinkai always makes me feel better.
The third on in the overcrowded first place spot would be a Scanner Darkly. A Scanner Darkly proves three things. 1. Keanu Reeves has acting talent. 2. American animation for grown ups should be taken more seriously, and 3. American animation for grown ups will probably always be underrated. I'm gonna blame Japanophiles who won't even look at anything that wasn't made in Japan. Why? Because willfully ignorant people piss me off. now go cuddle with a Haruhi love pillow you sad deranged bunch.
please note the last few sentences were meant in good fun
Oh, man! That's so tough.
Spirited Away
Batman The Mask of the Phantasam
The Simpson's movie
Dragon Ball Z Bojack Unbound
and many more
Ehh, I guess when it comes down to it... Spirted Away.
Spirited Away
Batman The Mask of the Phantasam
The Simpson's movie
Dragon Ball Z Bojack Unbound
and many more
Ehh, I guess when it comes down to it... Spirted Away.
Easy. I can list my top five right now and, oddly enough, four of them are fairly recent and by the same studio.
5: Up
4: Ratatouille
3: Wall-E
2: Iron Giant
1: Toy Story 3
(The Incredibles is just barely nudged out of the list)
Frankly, I consider Pixar to be not only the best animators in the industry, but by far some of the best story tellers in film making. Save for Cars and A Bugs Life (arguably their weakest films, but still leagues better than most animated films), their films are timeless classics. There are few other film makers that can elicit so much emotion and personality from what are digital renderings of monsters, cartoonish creatures (and humans), and even inanimate objects.
Ironically, the Iron Giant was directed and co-written by Brad Bird. The same man who directed Ratatouille. (and is usually involved with directing or writing most of Pixars films)
I also have to add that I am also an avid admirer of Hayao Miyazaki's films. From Spirited Away to My Neighbor Totoro to Howl's Moving Castle. The man was one of the most brilliant animators I've ever seen.
5: Up
4: Ratatouille
3: Wall-E
2: Iron Giant
1: Toy Story 3
(The Incredibles is just barely nudged out of the list)
Frankly, I consider Pixar to be not only the best animators in the industry, but by far some of the best story tellers in film making. Save for Cars and A Bugs Life (arguably their weakest films, but still leagues better than most animated films), their films are timeless classics. There are few other film makers that can elicit so much emotion and personality from what are digital renderings of monsters, cartoonish creatures (and humans), and even inanimate objects.
Ironically, the Iron Giant was directed and co-written by Brad Bird. The same man who directed Ratatouille. (and is usually involved with directing or writing most of Pixars films)
I also have to add that I am also an avid admirer of Hayao Miyazaki's films. From Spirited Away to My Neighbor Totoro to Howl's Moving Castle. The man was one of the most brilliant animators I've ever seen.
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I have a top 15 list (They're all anime movies, by the way):
I didn't want to leave anything out.
15) Tokyo Godfathers
14) Tekkonkinkreet
13) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
12) Akira
11) Princess Mononoke
10) Spirited Away
9) Howl's Moving Castle
8) Summer Wars
7) 5 Centimeters Per Second
6) Kara no Kyoukai: Garden of Sinners Chapter 5 and 7: Paradox Spiral and Murder Speculation (Part 2)
5) Paprika
4) Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance
3) The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
2) Millenium Actress
1) Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion
14) Tekkonkinkreet
13) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
12) Akira
11) Princess Mononoke
10) Spirited Away
9) Howl's Moving Castle
8) Summer Wars
7) 5 Centimeters Per Second
6) Kara no Kyoukai: Garden of Sinners Chapter 5 and 7: Paradox Spiral and Murder Speculation (Part 2)
5) Paprika
4) Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance
3) The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
2) Millenium Actress
1) Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion
The Lion King is definetly my favourite animated film of all time.
Toy Story 3, Wall-E and UP are up there too though just behind it.
Does The Nightmare Before Christmas count? It's not animated, but quite similar with it's style and music.
Toy Story 3, Wall-E and UP are up there too though just behind it.
Does The Nightmare Before Christmas count? It's not animated, but quite similar with it's style and music.
God, so many mentioned here deserve to be amongst my favourites...
So I'll name a few that I love which haven't been mentioned...
Millenium Actress, Ferngully, Tokyo Godfathers, Only Yesterday, Porcco Rosso, Whispers of the heart, An American Tale: Feival goes west, Treasure Planet, Spriggan, Origin: Spirits of the Past, Sleaping Beauty, Arther and the Invisibles, Shrek, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Plus I'd like to remention a few others; Spirited Away, Beauty and the Beast, Paprika, Aladdin, Titan AE, Atlantis, Nausicaa of the valley of wind, Up, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbour Totoro, Ponyo, The Place Promised In Our Early Days, Toy Story, How To Train Your Dragon,The Lion King...
I could go on and on but I'd probably end up listing everything I've ever seen lol.
So I'll name a few that I love which haven't been mentioned...
Millenium Actress, Ferngully, Tokyo Godfathers, Only Yesterday, Porcco Rosso, Whispers of the heart, An American Tale: Feival goes west, Treasure Planet, Spriggan, Origin: Spirits of the Past, Sleaping Beauty, Arther and the Invisibles, Shrek, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Plus I'd like to remention a few others; Spirited Away, Beauty and the Beast, Paprika, Aladdin, Titan AE, Atlantis, Nausicaa of the valley of wind, Up, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbour Totoro, Ponyo, The Place Promised In Our Early Days, Toy Story, How To Train Your Dragon,The Lion King...
I could go on and on but I'd probably end up listing everything I've ever seen lol.
Saw Rango a couple of days ago, it was a good film.
Hand drawn: The Iron Giant.
Computer animation: The Incredibles.
Hand drawn: The Iron Giant.
Computer animation: The Incredibles.
