deird1: Rapunzel, with brown hair, kissing Eugene (Rapunzel kiss)
Criteria for this list:
- It features a romance between some main characters.
- I have seen it, and remember the plot.

Snow White
She’s in a coma, he kisses her, she wakes up, they get married. The end.
Are we shown why they like each other? Nope.
Is it believable? Not in the least.
Will they live happily ever after? Doubtful.

and the rest… )

(I’m somewhat obsessed with Disney at the moment. Is it noticeable?)
deird1: Maximus the horse, holding a sword in his mouth threateningly (Maximus sword)
So, choosing the best Disney movie is pretty much an impossible task. We need to break it down into smaller categories. Much smaller categories.

Heroes )

Princesses )

Villains )

Sidekicks )

Songs )

Stories )

Visuals )

So, which is the actual, overall, best Disney movie? Beats me. (But Mulan is my favourite.)

Questions? Comments?
deird1: Maximus the horse, holding a sword in his mouth threateningly (Maximus sword)
I've been reading a lot of discussions about Frozen and Tangled, and which one is better (Tangled. Tangled is better.), and I found one thing interesting.

Everyone keeps saying "Tangled has a far better plot, and much better animation. The only reason people keep preferring Frozen is because Frozen's music is so much better."

Am I seriously the only one who thinks Tangled's music is far better than Frozen's?

Because, really – Tangled has "Mother Knows Best" and "I Have A Dream" - not to mention the gorgeous instrumental numbers. Whereas Frozen's music was okay individually, but the songs are very mismatched and don't fit well together at all.

Plus, the having-a-conversation-while-kinda-singing thing they do (for instance, when Anna and Elsa are talking in the ice palace) really doesn't work. It's not leading into a song, and it's not in a similar style to the songs, or anything. It's just... there.

Seriously, is it just me? I could have sworn the Tangled music was way better.




"Let It Go" is admittedly quite good. My problem with that one is purely personal: I dislike the way Idina Menzel's voice sounds on high notes, so whenever the song starts getting exciting I start wincing. ...but that's just me.
deird1: Mai and Zuko cuddling, with text "you're so beautiful when you hate the world" (Mai Zuko hate the world)
Watched Disney's Tarzan (the one from the 90s). It was excellent.

Then googled the original book.

...I am never, ever touching the original book. It is horrifyingly racist.



I told my husband that the book was racist. He said "Yeah, probably", thinking I meant racist-because-it's-from-the-Victoria-era-so-of-course-it-is. I said "No, REALLY..." and explained that:
1) The book was about the nature/nurture debate.
2) The author deliberately took Tarzan away from his parents as a baby, so that "nurture" wouldn't apply.
3) The author deliberately made Tarzan an English noble because he "selected an infant child of a race strongly marked by hereditary characteristics of the finer and nobler sort". So that his "nature" would be as good as possible.
4) The point was to show how Tarzan would be superior to everyone because his nature was so wonderful, even though his nurture was horrible.

SO HORRIBLY, HORRIBLY RACIST, GUYS. Like, worse-than-Lovecraft racist. *boggles*

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