The Michael Bay rebootās not much better, either.
For me, The Lion King was the pinnacle of traditional Disney animated movies (the CGI stuff from Pixar I consider on another level)
The animation, the voice acting, the score all were top-notch and meshed into a powerful story.
(of the Pixar movies, I gotta go with Ratatouille, those kitchen scenes were so great)
I was sadder when Simba killed Scar (or pushed him off the cliff, whatever). Jeremy Irons was the best thing about that film by a million miles.
It was as rubbish an ending as when Tom Cruiseās character got killed in Collateral.
Am I siding with the wrong characters?
My God, people canāt do any damn thing without recording and uploading, can they?
That kid is great. Sheās obviously upset, but playing it a little cool. Not flat-out bawling, but trying hard not to.
Also, great dad.
Donāt ever show her Old Yeller.
Or Bambi . . .
I got one just like her. She hasnāt seen it yet, and I keep talking around what happens to Mufasa because I know it wonāt go well.
IĀ“ll raise you one Grave of the Fireflies. Just kidding, never show that one to a small child, unless you want to end that childhood prematurely.
Maybe I was just a little too old when I first saw the movie; but isnāt violent death at the hands of jealous non-heirs just part of The Circle of Lifeā¢ when you are a hereditary monarch?
I felt bad for the hyenas. Every other animal gets to participate in the Circle of Life but them. What kind of message is that?
Donāt cry little girl. Or if you must then weep for the discrimination against the hyenas.
How can you sympathize with the hyenas? Their presence causes terrain type āsunlit savannaā to change to terrain type āvolcanic barrens/corruptā. Only neutral evil or chaotic evil creatures do that.
(Whatever do you mean 'just having racial alignments be absolute and baked into the metaphysics of the universe is unbelievably lazy and ethically problematic?! If it was good enough for Tolkienā¦)
Oh shit, I just realized The Lion King is goddamned Hamlet without a drowning.
We had this conversation in my household recently, after watching Big Hero Six. Spoilers (for every Disney animated movie, and some other studios as well)ā¦
I hope my six year old son never becomes a Disney animated protagonist, because that will mean his parents (thatās me and my wife!) will be dead, dead, dead.
Maybe the unofficial and wonderfully awful 3D version will cheer her up. It always gets my daughters giggling:
Have you looked at them? Those guys are ugly, of course they donĀ“t get to participate in the Circle of Lifeā¢.
Oh, yeah, hyenas are ugly but are beautiful. Okay, baby warthogs are pretty cute. The first time I watched Animals Are Beautiful People I was a little sad when the little baby warthog lost his mother. But itās not like I cried or anything.
Excuse me. I have something in my eye.
This just in: The Dark Knight Rises is just a A Tale of Two Cities with Batman and a bomb.
