Famous people's favorite cartoons

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I remember (but I can't confirm it) reading that Sergei Eisenstein called Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs the "best movie ever made"

In the same vein, I remember watching an old Biography about Yasir Arafat, and he seemed to be interested in Tom And Jerry

edited 28th Jun '12 8:38:29 AM by Anthony_H

These are some of Guillermo Del Toro's favorite animated movies (spelling corrected by me): http://www.deltorofilms.com/wp/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=218&sid=c6530c4a06e00bc61f73f3cd1105f84a

Planete Sauvage

My neighbor Totoro

Laputa

Nausicaa

Spirited Away

Howl's moving castle

Mononoke Hime

Porco Rosso

Pon Poko

Grave of the Fireflies

Girl who leapt through time

Akira

Metropolis

Steamboy

Ghost in the Shell

My Beautiful Dreamer

Doraemon (the feature animations)

Tokyo Godfathers

Perfect Blue

Paprika

A Soldier's Tale

Kirikou and the Sorceress

South Park

Sleeping Beauty

Pinocchio

Snow White

Lady and the Tramp

Fantasia

Bambi

Dumbo

Tarzan

Aladdin

Little Mermaid

Beauty and the Beast

Iron Giant

How to train your Dragon

Kung Fu Panda (1 and 2)

Shrek (the first film)

Ratatouille

Monsters inc

Toy Story (1,2,3)

The Incredibles

Up

The Illusionist

The B Rave Little Toaster

Nightmare before Christmas

Fantastic Mr Fox

Thief and the Cobbler (even in its truncated form)

All the Quay brothers shorts

Svankmayer's shorts

Closed Sundays

Alexeieff's pin screen work

Watership Down

Peter Chung of Aeon Flux fame likes the animation in Pinocchio but doesn't think it's a good movie as a whole. As actual movies he likes/series, he likes Hen, His Wife, Son Of The White Mare, Aim for the Ace 2 (Osamu Dezaki was his favorite animation director) and Utena.

edited 30th Jun '12 6:23:23 AM by harkko

Its odd to me that Sergei loved Snow White that much if he did, because so much of Disney's film borrow much influence from both German Expressionism, as well as all of those film techniques Eisenstein and Pudovkin pioneered in films like The Battleship Potemkin.

I know John Barrymore (Drew's grandpa) loved Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs (he was at the premiere, and was described by the person sitting next to him as "bouncing up and down in his seat" 'cuz he was so excited).

Funny...I'd read that, while Mussolini loved Mickey Mouse, Hitler hated him...also that one of the English princes during the early thirties asked the Queen Mum for Mickey Mouse bedsheets.

Miyazaki is a big fan of Fleischer's Superman shorts. Spielberg said that Miyazaki's The Castle of Cagliostro had the best car chase he'd ever seen. Peter Jackson is, in fact, a fan of Ralph Bakshi's animated Lord of the Rings.

edited 22nd Jul '12 1:42:25 PM by Robbery

I'm not sure how big a fan Miyazaki is of the Superman shorts. In his Fleischer essay -which mostly concentrates on Mr. Bug Goes to Town- he refers them made during Fleischers' masturbatory period.

John K's favorite feature lenght animated movie is Disney's Snow White. Somewhere in his blog he's stated that Disney was very good at drama and creating athmosphere but he isn't a fan of the comic relief characters.

I actually don't have any problem believing M Night was a huge Avatar fan. Some of the big issues with the movie (aside from the very obvious ones) seem like the exact problems you'd find in something created by a fan with no objective view about what would, and would not work in a movie.

Heck a lot of the reviews I saw mentioned the incomprehensible (to people not familiar with the show) spiritual babble and all the exposition about Bending as major flaws, as well as the fact that he tried to cram an entire season's worth of episodes into a single two hour movie.

I know Darren Criss is a huge Avatar/Korra fanboy. At comic con, he admitted that he had been planning an Amon cosplay, but because he couldn't be there for the full weekend, he decided to scrap it. He's also said he had auditioned to play Zuko in the M. Night movie, and after actually seeing the film, he was glad he didn't get it.

He's also a big Disney fanboy to the point of doing AT LEAST one Alan Menkin song every time he does a solo gig.

The main thing keeping me from believing that Shyamalan was a fan of ATLA is the fact that half of the names in the movie are pronounced incorrectly. Unless he did that on purpose, he obviously wasn't enough of a fan to remember what the character's names even sounded when spoken out loud.

Miyazaki was a big enough fan of them to rip of their robot design (from "The Mechanical Monsters") for an episode of Lupin III he directed.

edited 30th Jul '12 2:24:49 PM by Robbery

He did that on purpose. That is how they are supposed to sound in the cultures the Kingdoms are based on. According to Shamwow at least.

edited 30th Jul '12 2:55:32 PM by Deadpoolrocks

Miyazaki is a fan of Toy Story. That's why he allowed Totoro to cameo in Toy Story 3. (The Pixar folks are also fans of his works.)

true. I remember John Lasseter was a particularly big fan.

I heard Ben Stiller's a Phineas And Ferb fan.

Deadpoolrocks: It's more the concept thant the actual design, that's similar.

I remember about 8 years ago, Sponge Bob Square Pants was the answer to a "Fictional Character" puzzle on Wheel Of Fortune. After it was solved, host Pat Sajak said something like, "What do you mean, 'fictional character'?!" and then quoted the entire theme song.

Since that clip, I wonder if he actually is a fan of the show, or just became familiar with the theme since he has kids.

Hopsin likes Dragon Ball and Adventure Time.

Yes, we need to mention Lasster's Miyazaki interest at least once :)

I'm somewhat surprised that John K's favorite feature length animated film is Snow White, considering how much he criticizes Disney. Then again, he HAS stated that they have their strengths in terms of staging.

^Actually, John K says his favorite Disney feature is Bambi, mainly because of how nice it is. He's also quite fond of Fantasia for its music and presentation (he particularly loves the Nutcracker Suite segment) even though he finds the concepts behind the animation pretty kitschy.

John likes the darker scenes of older Disney features—"the ones that aren't watered down with comic relief"—scenes like the Witch from Snow White, Maleficent staring at Briar Rose from the fireplace, Night On Bald Mountain, among others I'm sure. He thinks that establishing moods was what Disney did better than any other animation studio, old or new, even saying that the dramatic scenes of their best features could hold a candle against even most live action movies in terms of screen precense. He likes the scenes in the abstract, but he can't suspend his disbelief for them.

He still quipped that there is no disney feature that dosen't want to make him reach for the fast forward button.

edited 5th Aug '12 8:45:21 PM by Prinzenick

Heh, guess Disney is still an easy target. Though I will admit that it'd be cool to have a disney movie which focused more on darker aspects, rather than just relegating it to the villains.

I haven't read Miyazaki's essay on Fleischer (much as i'd wish to), but I heard he actually prefers the two Fleischer features (Gulliver's Travels and Mr Bug Goes To Town) over even Disney's Classic features. I heard from somewhere that he even considers Mr Bug Goes To Town to be the greatest animated film ever made—Studio Ghibli even did their own restored release of Mr Bug on DVD in japan.

edited 6th Aug '12 11:23:51 AM by Prinzenick

it makes sense that he would like Gulliver's Travels, seeing as Laputa: Castle in the Sky was based off a chapter from it.