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Mar17swgirl
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Date Posted:
7/4 1:24am
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JC's Top 100 animated films: VOTING NOW ENDED!!!
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O hai guyz,
after consulting this with Rogue1-and-a-half (and despite his recommendation "Don't do it  "), I'm starting another Top 100 compilation thingy, this time focusing on animated films.
I'm sure you all know the drill for this sort of thing - put together a list of your 10 (ten, not two) favourite animated films and PM them to me. You're free to post and discuss your nominations in this thread, but ONLY THE NOMINATIONS SENT VIA PM WILL BE COUNTED!!!.
There are just a couple of rules:
1. No ********!
2. Only full-length animated films can be nominated (i.e. no Pixar shorts or Looney Tunes and similar)
3. No ********!
4. Both 2-D and 3-D films can be nominated
5. No ********!
6. There is NO rule six
7. Motion capture films that extensively use live action (e.g. Beowulf) cannot be nominated
8. No ********!
Right.
The deadline for sending in the nominations is 21st July 2008 at 13:00 (that's 1:00 PM for you silly 12-hour clock people)
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask. 
Strilo edit: Can't use that word. 
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Mar17swgirl
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Also, important notice: ONLY SEND IN NUMBERED LISTS!!!
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harpuah
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She means numbered in decending order with number one being your favorite...
... some people don't get that.
... and good luck! 
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rogue_wookiee
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You aren't very clear on the rules. Mostly I'm asking this because you are going to get flooded with Clone Wars cartoon votes and questions as to it's eligibility as it is a television show edited together to form a film. How about the "Animatrix"? Or even special episodes of television which don't really fit under your "no shorts" rule; things such as the Venture Bros. episode "Showdown at Cremation Creek". What exactly constitutes a full length film under these rules?
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Poofters?
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Hammurabi
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Definitions of feature-length vary from forty minutes to ninety minutes. Generally, for animated films, sixty minutes is considered about the minimum for a feature film.
So I guess if it's under an hour, it doesn't count?
Another question though: do thinks like Wallace and Gromit and Nightmare Before Christmas count?
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rogue_wookiee
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I don't see how those could even be called into question. Both were as widely released in theatres as any Pixar film.
DAR posted:
Poofters?
We don't take kindly to gay people around here.
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Mar17swgirl posted:
4. Both 2-D and 3-D films can be nominated
It's eternally sad that we have to specify that.
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My list has been sent.
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I sent my list, but since I don't know what a "poofter" is, I can't be sure my list didn't include one.
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Mar17swgirl
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DAR posted:
Poofters?
G'day, Bruce!
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Jango10
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I'm going to wait until I see Wall-E before I submit my list.
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I've got to find a way to go see Wall*E for the eighth time! They need to make a Wall*E anonymous.
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What I sent:
1. Toy Story 2
2. Aladdin
3. The Lion King
4. The Incredibles
5. Batman Beyond - Return of the Joker
6. Futurama: Bender's Big Score
7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
8. Pocahontas
9. South Park - bigger, longer, uncut
10. Beauty and the Beast
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Lane_Winree
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My list:
10: Ghost in the Shell
9: Beauty and the Beast
8: Toy Story
7: Aladdin
6: The Nightmare Before Christmas
5: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
4: Princess Mononoke
3: Fantasia
2: An American Tale
1: Spirited Away
And here's an LJ link with my explanations.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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7/10 4:26pm
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My List, with rationalizations:
10. The Emperor's New Groove
A Disney film, in old school 2-D animation? With only one musical number? And it's a spoof of musical numbers? And an anti-hero? And no love story? Holy God, we're on to something here, aren't we? David Spade's blissfully sardonic read of the main character is a constant joy and the jokes come so thick and fast you'll feel like you're back in Aladdin. The birthday scene in the diner is a classic for the ages.
9. Toy Story
"You are a sad little man and I pity you." Features what is surely Tim Allen's finest performance in his entire career. Changed the way we look at animation and it's surprising to see how lo-fi it looks at this late date. But the charm and the wit is there in spades and Hanks and Allen are one of the great cinematic odd couples.
8. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Surely one of the finest animated cartoons on television makes the big screen leap and, if the show was dark and grim and tragic and way ahead of its genre, the movie jumps a light year ahead of that. Blood flies! Our love interest is pure evil! Batman loses! The Joker dies? The cartoon, they said of the television show, was drawn on black paper, not white; yeah, we caught that. The movie wasn't drawn on paper at all; it's shadow falling on shadow.
7. Lilo & Stitch
A latter day Disney film with an ethnic heroine but the movie doesn't make a big deal out of the ethnicity. The title duo actually work together like a charm, the two outcasts who find a friendship. Some of the finest voice work in Disney history and some riotiously funny animation make this one a real walk in the park. If the dog pound sequence doesn't have you rolling on the floor, you must be dead. Stitch is the purest form of the expressed id to yet appear in a Disney film; what energy!
6. Monster's Inc.
Billy Crystal's manic voice work finds him back on top of his game ("Put that thing back where it came from or so help me . . .") and Goodman is his equal, though his finest moment goes to the animators as Sully goes through a hilariously cribbed bit of horrified reactions when he thinks Boo's gone through the compactor. Hilariously funny with a great concept and that final action sequence is pure brilliance as only animation can do it.
5. A Boy Named Charlie Brown
There are moments of pure artistry; Schroeder plays Beethoven's Pathetique and the screen becomes the kind of pure emotion that Fantasia only ever dreamed of being and if you haven't seen Snoopy's skating in Central Park, you've missed something I can never quite describe to you. And the national anthem has never been this great as it is when the gang plays it before the first pitch of the season. Schultz' melancholy is so strong you think it'll have to lose something in the translation, but it doesn't. Guaraldi's score, the stilted voice acting, the simple but evocative line drawings. Animation as it should always be.
4. Aladdin
Thank the gods for Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfriend who make a real comic powerhouse out of what could have been just another Disney film. Is it an anachronism to have Genie imitating Jack Nicholson? Yes, but shut up, he's doing Ed Sullivan now. The definitive 'fun for the kids, fun for the adults' movie.
3. Toy Story II
A sequel that takes things even farther, exploring the idea of collecting toys, not to play with, but to store. Add in Kelsey Grammer and Joan Cusack (two often overlooked comedy geniuses) to a cast that's already packed with brilliance and you have something quite special. Through in Sarah McLachlan crooning about the loss of the past and you might find yourself tearing up because of a doll thrown in the attic and outgrown. A meditation on life, couched as an adventure comedy.
2. Finding Nemo
The ocean comes to life like you wouldn't believe. Albert Brooks and Ellen Degeneres are both sidesplittingly funny, but the heart of the film is the search for love, the fear of loss, two very adult things to plan a cartoon around. Cartoon; the word doesn't seem quite big enough for this epic.
1. The Incredibles
Not just the best animated film of its time, but about the best action film of the year. An allegory about family and responsibility, with pitch perfect voice casting, the film isn't just about superheroes, but about real life. (Mom stretches; dad wrestles with anger; daughter struggles with awkwardness; boy you just can't frigging keep up with). And The Hundred Yard Dash is maybe the best action sequence of the decade. Throw a bone to the rousing, retro James Bond score and Jason Lee as a smirking villain and you have a masterpiece.
Films I hated to leave off: Snoopy, Come Home; The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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