Even as a kid some things bugged me about some of the Saturday morning cartoons. The big, obvious departures from reality weren't a problem. Hey, these were cartoons and like Bugs Bunny says, "You can get away with nearly anything-- in an animated cartoon." It was the cartoons that tried to emulate reality that ran into trouble. One example was ( Read more... )

ladyniniane will appreciate this ( Read more... )

Most Sundays jmaynard and I go out for breakfast and one fellow who works at the restaurant takes his family to Disney World every year This morning I just happened to ask him, "What's up, Doc?" and he pointed out that was a Warner Bros. thing and he was more a Disney type. Thinking the incident over a bit, a question came to me: Is there any popular ( Read more... )

Packer fans cheesed off.

One thing going around LJ is to list the various famous people one has met. I read a few of these listings and recognized some folks on them, and completely failed to recognize some others. How is fame defined for this? Someone I might consider notable may be notable not to everyone but only to a certain group. This is plain as many of the ( Read more... )

CGI animation is [...] the animation of a marionette. Traditional hand-drawn animation isn't; you can't do a Betty Boop puppet that moves in any way correctly.

This is why computer generated image animation looks wrong to me. It's puppets without strings, rather than a proper cartoon. CGI has a place, but it does not belong in every place.

I recall watching the Flintstones on weekday afternoons when I was a kid. I can't stand the show now, it seems far too annoying. But something did bug me then. I could deal with the time and setting. I could deal with the silly names that added 'rock' or 'stone' into well known names. I could deal with the animals as appliances, like the bird ( Read more... )

PharWarner's bomb scare entry brought up memories of the Pink Panther. Not just the movies, but the animated cartoon as well. I don't recall the network I saw it on or who the sponsors were or much else not directly related to the cartoon. I saw these cartoons on TV before there was an... unspokespanther(?) for fiberglass insulation.

I do remember that the ( Read more... )

Must be for Halloween and such. Mr. Cranky is doing the happy happy joy joy reviews this week. This saccharine reviewing on Mr. Cranky's site is so very wrong. It is probably the scariest thing I've encountered this Halloween.

A few more things...

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