Attention must be paid to the past.

We are not the first to undertake this project, merely the most correct.

To the left, you will notice two new links, cleverly titled problem children 1 and 2. The first is a blog my esteemed colleague and I stumbl'd upon in our quest to understand our goal in this quest. Our quest quest, if you will. This gentleman should be commended for his thoroughness, and he does engage in some salient points in his almost identical attempt to rank numerically the Disney features. He is wrong. Very very wrong. On almost all points. But he is methodical and endeavors to defend his decisions, which is admirable, and reviewing his thoughts can only bring further clarity in your attempts to congratulate us for our propriety.

The second is from the good people at Moviefone. You remember them; the business that became archaic the day after the internet came out? Yeah, those guys. Well, their staff created a list of the 25 best animated features of all time. This list burns us, as does their specious logic. Beauty and the Beast, a technically proficient film, and the only animated film EVER to be nominated for the best picture from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is 13. ONE-THREE! These people should be scorned, and, if you happen to have a sock full of change and meet one of them in the street........Don't give them any change. They should not be rewarded for their ignorance.

We continue to endeavor to not only profile these films for our amusement, but to expand the debate on the American animated feature and it's flagship, the Disney family of films. We look forward to your continued thoughts, and welcome your scorn.

We don't think, we judge. That's what heroes do.

1 comments:

It should be noted that Beauty and the Beast was nominated for Best Picture before the Best Animated Picture category was established-- One could make the argument that any films released after animated films received their own Oscar category might theoretically have been worthy of Best Picture status, had they not already been alloted a separate (read: segregated) category.

June 26, 2008 at 2:23 PM  

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