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Nilatir		2012-02-21 10:35:36 AM

Nilatir: Earpj: Babbs: I'm kind of surprised the first 15 minutes of "Up" didn't make the list. Even as an adult, that probably was the most depressing but poignant peice of film I have ever seen. I can't imagine what the kids must have thought.

Isn't "Up" just Pixar, no Disney?

But, yeah. I cried.

Disney owns Pixar.

Which, given the amount of Disney stock that Lasseter and Jobs got out of the deal, it can also be written as "Pixar pnws Disney".

Earpj		2012-02-21 10:36:51 AM

Nilatir:

Disney owns Pixar.

Why do I vaguely remember those 2 kinda splitting?

PizzaJedi81		2012-02-21 10:39:44 AM

Earpj: Nilatir:

Disney owns Pixar.

Why do I vaguely remember those 2 kinda splitting?

They did, then got back together.

Optimal_Illusion		2012-02-21 10:39:58 AM

I think the list was just for the animated films. I bet the live-action list would be pretty weighty on its' own. I was surprised when Tony Perkins got shredded, albeit bloodlessly.

Earpj		2012-02-21 10:41:24 AM

PizzaJedi81:

They did, then got back together.

Ok.

Slaves2Darkness		2012-02-21 10:41:55 AM

You know your kids really don't want a sanitized version of life, right? They know and understand that their are bad things in the world. Denying they exist, wrapping your brats in bubble wrap, and making sure they never experience anything bad is one sure way to make sure they are incredibly weak adults.

Don't keep you kids in ignorance of the bad shiat, but do teach them how to deal with pain, suffering, and even grief. It will keep the healthy as an adult and ultimately happier.

PizzaJedi81		2012-02-21 10:44:09 AM

Slaves2Darkness: You know your kids really don't want a sanitized version of life, right? They know and understand that their are bad things in the world. Denying they exist, wrapping your brats in bubble wrap, and making sure they never experience anything bad is one sure way to make sure they are incredibly weak adults.

Don't keep you kids in ignorance of the bad shiat, but do teach them how to deal with pain, suffering, and even grief. It will keep the healthy as an adult and ultimately happier.

That's why I fully intend to read my kids the Grimm fairy tales in a year or two.

labman		2012-02-21 10:45:25 AM

DrMcNinja: I can't be the only one

No kidding...

yves0010		2012-02-21 10:48:50 AM

Earpj: PizzaJedi81:

They did, then got back together.

Ok.

The current Disney CEO or President, I believe its the CEO, is actually the head of Pixar. That was the deal they made to come back into the company.

PizzaJedi81		2012-02-21 10:51:50 AM

yves0010: Earpj: PizzaJedi81:

They did, then got back together.

Ok.

The current Disney CEO or President, I believe its the CEO, is actually the head of Pixar. That was the deal they made to come back into the company.

Thanks. All I remembered was that they were going through some sort of negotiated split at the time, then things reversed themselves.

Iggie		2012-02-21 10:55:01 AM

PunchDrunkPanda: Happily surprised with the Robin Hood inclusion, I need to rewatch that one - great flick.

Dee dah dee dah doo dee doh doh, dee dah doo dee doh...

Glockenspiel Hero		2012-02-21 11:00:43 AM

Porktropolis: Babbs: I'm kind of surprised the first 15 minutes of "Up" didn't make the list. Even as an adult, that probably was the most depressing but poignant peice of film I have ever seen. I can't imagine what the kids must have thought.

I'm glad you mentioned this because this is possibly the greatest piece of storytelling I have seen in a movie in some time. Not a word is spoken during the montage but you feel like you know Carl and Elle after only five minutes and it hurts you when you see the end.

It was interesting- I saw it in a theater with the kids (6 and 9) and they just didn't get it. They were bored through the whole Carl and Ellie montage scene.

The adults? We're all sitting openmouthed, half in tears. It's possibly the single most stunning piece of film I've ever seen.

Between that and Wall-E, Pixar has done better love stories with animated characters than any live action movie has managed in decades.

PizzaJedi81		2012-02-21 11:01:54 AM

Glockenspiel Hero: Between that and Wall-E, Pixar has done better love stories with animated characters than any live action movie has managed in decades.

God, Wall-E does more with no dialogue than 2/3s of the Best Picture Nominees I've ever seen.

Spatula Porn		2012-02-21 11:02:35 AM

Still scares the piss out of me. Especially coupled with the creepy music.

dr.zaeus		2012-02-21 11:03:10 AM

bob_ross: I would have said Song of the South but that does not officially exist right? RIGHT?

/I know it wasn't even that bad...

I've got the Japanese Laserdisc.

mhd		2012-02-21 11:07:46 AM

Regarding childhood horror:
Watership Down > Everything by Disney

/For girls, Artax drowning in mud might compete, though.

dr.zaeus		2012-02-21 11:07:57 AM

How did Something Wicked This Way Comes (new window) not make it on the list. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.

Summer Glau's Love Slave		2012-02-21 11:10:37 AM

dr.zaeus: How did Something Wicked This Way Comes (new window) not make it on the list. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.

Loved that movie.

Farkengruven		2012-02-21 11:14:23 AM

+1 for Old Yeller

That coward David Lopan		2012-02-21 11:15:52 AM

It may not have been traumatizing, but Dumbo's "Pink Elephant's" scene always made me curious about the wonder of trippin' balls as a kid.

Earpj		2012-02-21 11:18:50 AM

dr.zaeus: How did Something Wicked This Way Comes (new window) not make it on the list. I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.

Amazing movie.

yves0010		2012-02-21 11:22:48 AM

PizzaJedi81: yves0010: Earpj: PizzaJedi81:

They did, then got back together.

Ok.

The current Disney CEO or President, I believe its the CEO, is actually the head of Pixar. That was the deal they made to come back into the company.

Thanks. All I remembered was that they were going through some sort of negotiated split at the time, then things reversed themselves.

And the best part about it is that the head of Pixar reinstituted the Animated Movies side of Disney. Not the CGI side. Before John Lasseter took over, Disney's Animated Studio was all bt\ut shut down. Thanks to him, we got what Disney is really good at back.

WTFdoesitmatter		2012-02-21 11:27:20 AM

wippit: Glad someone mentioned Old Yeller. How they hell could the writer ignore that?

I'm going to use the context clue from the very first sentence of the article and say it wasn't included because it is not animated.

brigid_fitch		2012-02-21 11:29:06 AM

The furnace scene in TS3 got to a LOT of the people in the theatre when husband & I went to see it. My husband was sniffling and, even though I don't really cry at movies, I was starting to tear up. I probably would have started bawling except for this HUGE, tattooed bear of a guy behind me who'd brought his kid. Just as the toys are reaching for each others' hands, he let out this gut-wrenching, racking sob and I just started giggling like an idiot. Had to pretend I was crying.

Brother Bear is missing from the list, though. Husband took his nieces (6 & 8) to see it & had to shepherd the younger one out of the theatre because she was so upset at the mother bear being killed. Bambi's mother being shot is at least off-screen. In Brother Bear, the main character actively hunts down the bear and finally runs a spear through it.

Calypsocookie		2012-02-21 11:29:52 AM

Just reading the account of Mufasa's death was enough to make me choke up. Fark you Disney.

Jerseysteve22		2012-02-21 11:37:17 AM

I remember seeing The Fox and the Hound when I was in second grade in the mid 80s in the theater with my father and best friend at the time. I don't remember much, but I do remember trying to hold back my tears at the end.

Not Disney, but where the Red Fern Grows got to me when I saw it in the early 90s.

StrangeQ		2012-02-21 11:44:58 AM

PunchDrunkPanda: Happily surprised with the Robin Hood inclusion, I need to rewatch that one - great flick.

Yep, great flick, but unfortunately sullied by being the de-facto beginning of the furry subculture.

RoyFokker'sGhost		2012-02-21 11:51:54 AM

DrMcNinja: [namtab.com image 410x178]

I can't be the only one

No sir, you are not.

PizzaJedi81:

How does it hold up? It's been...god, I don't even know how long since I've seen it.

It's done pretty well. It came out after Star Wars, in 79. So they used all the tricks that ILM had developed. If there's anything that could be considered a flaw, it was that the movie wasn't as upbeat as Star Wars was, so it didn't connect with the kids; too much hard science, not enough blasters.

And V.I.N.C.E.N.T. was all kinds of awesome. Like if you actually equipped R2-D2 with guns.

bob_ross: I would have said Song of the South but that does not officially exist right? RIGHT?

/I know it wasn't even that bad...

No, it's really not that bad. It's like a lot of things from the past; valiant attempt and groundbreaking when it came out, but society has quickly moved beyond it. The funny thing is that Disney uses all the Bre'er Rabbiatcharacters on their Splash mountain ride, complete with the accents. The only real 'objectionable' thing is that it shows slavery/The Reconstruction in a rather upbeat way. Poor black sharecroppers deferring to the rich white land owners and singing upbeat songs like 'Zippity-Do-Dah'. Again, at the time it was made, it was groundbreaking, got a special Oscar, and was intended as a kind of healing process. Society's just moved so far that is seems ridiculously chipper for such a serious subject.

Also: The Black Cauldron, aside from butchering the incredibly awesome source material, remains a beautifully animated film and one of my favorites.

/Prydain: just as epic as Narnia with 0 Christian theology and symbolism

Alphax		2012-02-21 11:57:35 AM

RoyFokker'sGhost: And V.I.N.C.E.N.T. was all kinds of awesome. Like if you actually equipped R2-D2 with guns.

Not to mention that he could talk, could speak to a telepathic human at a distance, and had a database of wise saying for lots of situations.

katerbug72		2012-02-21 12:00:19 PM

Vash's Apprentice: [www.onepagewonder.com image 550x307]

That movie scared the crap out of me as a child. Especially when Mr. Dark bit it on the carousel.

They_no_kill_BakBak		2012-02-21 12:02:39 PM

Watch the movie 'Waking Sleeping Beauty'. You will cry every time you hear a Beauty and the Beast song. Howard Ashman's story was so sad. The man who gave a mermaid her voice, and a beast his soul.

Hagbard23		2012-02-21 12:07:09 PM

quatchi: wippit: Glad someone mentioned Old Yeller. How they hell could the writer ignore that?

Probably cause he was only doing animated movies.

Funniest/Worst kids movie (non animated) I ever saw in the theaters was "Baby, Secret of the Lost Legend". People came with their kids thinking to see a cute flick about a baby dinosaur and I distinctly remember people leaving the theater in shocked disgust when Patrick McGoohan's evil henchpeople machine gunned down all the adult dinosaurs leaving the aforementioned Baby as the last one. To this day I have never yet heard an outcry like that at a theater. Kids were crying and being bundled out left and right.

/I was just there to see Sean Young who'd I'd been crushing on madly since Bladerunner.

I wasn't sure how many people remembered this movie, all I really remember is the helicopter pilot saying
"If she were my wife...I'd whip the biatch"

Mr_Fabulous		2012-02-21 12:14:46 PM

I have only cried in a movie theater twice in my life (as an adult, that is).

The first was during the scene in the rail yard in Sophie's Choice. The scene where Meryl Streep is forced to make her choice, and condemn one of her own small children to a brutal death in a Nazi prison camp.

The other was Toy Story 2, during the "When She Loved Me" sequence. Love and joy, then loss, betrayal, the death of hope, cruel mortality... jesus fark! I'm just taking my kid to the matinee, here. Stop it!!!

The Whore Of Mensa		2012-02-21 12:26:51 PM

not a children's movie, not animated, but here's who scared me the most as a child.

Medusa (new window)

Slaves2Darkness		2012-02-21 12:37:07 PM

mhd: Regarding childhood horror:
Watership Down > Everything by Disney

/For girls, Artax drowning in mud might compete, though.

But first they must catch you digger, runner, listener Prince with the swift warning.

Vash's Apprentice		2012-02-21 12:38:34 PM

The Whore Of Mensa: not a children's movie, not animated, but here's who scared me the most as a child.

Medusa (new window)

Funny thing is that the new version can't touch it for effectiveness. Also, I believe stop-motion is considered a type of animation.

yves0010		2012-02-21 12:39:31 PM

The Whore Of Mensa: not a children's movie, not animated, but here's who scared me the most as a child.

Medusa (new window)

not a children's movie, not animated, but these still scare me today:

t0.gstatic.com

I know these arent from any movie either, but they scare me too

images.wikia.com

yves0010		2012-02-21 12:41:08 PM

Vash's Apprentice: The Whore Of Mensa: not a children's movie, not animated, but here's who scared me the most as a child.

Medusa (new window)

Funny thing is that the new version can't touch it for effectiveness. Also, I believe stop-motion is considered a type of animation.

I hated the new movie and love the old one. Bought the old one on DVD just to watch it before going to see the new one. I think it was DQed due to the movie being mainly live action.

PizzaJedi81		2012-02-21 12:45:57 PM

yves0010: I know these arent from any movie either, but they scare me too

Well, you'd be crazy NOT to be afraid of them.

macadamnut		2012-02-21 12:46:03 PM

Slaves2Darkness: But first they must catch you digger, runner, listener Prince with the swift warning.

www.wearysloth.com

Can you run? I think not.

th0th		2012-02-21 12:56:54 PM

Jerseysteve22: I remember seeing The Fox and the Hound when I was in second grade in the mid 80s in the theater with my father and best friend at the time. I don't remember much, but I do remember trying to hold back my tears at the end.

Not Disney, but where the Red Fern Grows got to me when I saw it in the early 90s.

Catholic school, 5th grade. Teacher had a reading of Red Fern during some study hall piece back then. She had an hour and got through a chapter and then some. Must have been a dog lover or something, because she cried at several points in the book, which got all the sensitive ones crying, too. Not being a dog lover, it didn't affect me - I just wanted her to quit burbling and finish the farking story already. Ditto Old Yeller. But put a few animated toys in an incinerator holding hands and I'm a blubbering glob of Jell-O. Ditto the beginning and ending of Up.

/Two years later, I'm crying while reading the death of Sturm Brightblade in Dragonlance Chronicles
//I remember crying at the end of Snow White when it was in theatrical re-release as a kid, too old to get touched by Lion King
///But you turn on Next Generation's "The Offspring" and I'm a burbling mess at the end. ("I cannot correct the system failure...We must say goodbye now." WAAUUHHGGHH!!!)

ConConHead		2012-02-21 12:58:21 PM

Wow, so much to comment on in this thread.

Watcher in the Woods is AWESOME as a supernatural-horror flick, but TERRIBLE as a sci-fi flick (If you've seen the other ending)

Harryhausen's Medusa forever remains terrifying and amazing, even if the techniques he used are considered 'dated' nowadays. I prefer stop-motion to CG.

The 'Aloha' scene in Lilo and Stitch tears me up every time. When she's singing and they let the flowers float on the wind... makes me miss those I've loved and lost. Never cared much for Lion King though. And the Brave Little Toaster gave me nightmares but I don't see it here... are we discussing tears or terrors?

But yeah, fark Pixar hard for putting so much amazing emotion into everything they do. If you watch some of their older shorts, you can see they had a way of capturing emotion without words or even faces at earlier levels of tech.

MorePeasPlease		2012-02-21 01:10:24 PM

Mr_Fabulous: I have only laughed till I cried in a movie theater twice in my life (as an adult, that is).

The first was during the scene in the rail yard in Sophie's Choice. The scene where Meryl Streep is forced to make her choice, and condemn one of her own small children to a brutal death in a Nazi prison camp.

The other was Toy Story 2, during the "When She Loved Me" sequence. Love and joy, then loss, betrayal, the death of hope, cruel mortality... jesus fark! I'm just taking my kid to the matinee, here. Ha ha ha ... Stop it!!!

Something's fishy here ... this doesn't sound like you.

Vash's Apprentice		2012-02-21 01:17:32 PM

ConConHead: Watcher in the Woods is AWESOME as a supernatural-horror flick, but TERRIBLE as a sci-fi flick (If you've seen the other ending)

The actress they casted for Karen looks NOTHING like Lynn-Holly Johnson, making the lookalike plot moot.

Fano		2012-02-21 01:20:29 PM

Slaves2Darkness: mhd: Regarding childhood horror:
Watership Down > Everything by Disney

/For girls, Artax drowning in mud might compete, though.

But first they must catch you digger, runner, listener Prince with the swift warning.

Dogs aren't dangerous!

Ed Grubermann		2012-02-21 01:23:38 PM

Confabulat: At least the trash compacter scene in Toy Story 3 let us know who cowgirl Jessie really fancied. Bet that was hard to explain to Woody later

Um, this is Toy Story, not Star Wars. There was never any doubt who Jessie fancied. Now whom Woody fancied. And no, it was never each-other.

Ed Grubermann		2012-02-21 01:26:17 PM

NashMcNash: I'm 26 years old and just watched Toy Story 3 with my wife not long ago. I was honestly forcing back tears during the trash compactor scene. Good lord that was rough.

Buzz's eyes makes that scene.

Ed Grubermann		2012-02-21 01:30:52 PM

PizzaJedi81: Alphax: DrMcNinja: [namtab.com image 410x178]

I can't be the only one

Yeah, I read the article and thought 'Wait, wasn't The Black Hole' the first PG movie for Disney?

(saw it in theaters when I was 8, finally got to buy a copy to watch again a few months back)

How does it hold up? It's been...god, I don't even know how long since I've seen it.

Well, I first saw it when I was 17 or so and thought it was complete garbage. A 1950's style sci-fi movie after Alien? WTF were they thinking?

Mike Chewbacca		2012-02-21 01:51:48 PM

My maternal grandmother died when my mother was 6. You can imagine that we didn't watch Bambi very much when I was growing up.

gagnona		2012-02-21 01:53:45 PM

bob_ross: I would have said Song of the South but that does not officially exist right? RIGHT?

/I know it wasn't even that bad...

I was coming in here to post about exactly that. I still remember how weirded out I was as a kid by the tar-baby scene. But no, it didn't happen and Walt Disney was not a racist. Nope, nothing to see here.

The Toy Story 3 scene turns the movie from a really good kid's movie to just a good movie overall. Obviously they couldn't drop all the toys into the fire and end it there but it's a great way to teach kids (and a lot of adults who are out of touch with the concept) that death is inevitable and all you can do at a certain point is accept it with dignity.

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