Watching Disney films in chronological order...

[AmbushedByTheCake]

... if anyone else cares to join me. Disney, sometimes with alcohol, not really with children around, and snacks, whilst I get on with other stuff too.

I am going to make the most of our Disney+ subscription! There are also ones I have never seen (like Dumbo or Fantasia) for some reason.

Just finished Snow White. My thoughts:

• The Mirror is an utter bastard for revealing her location
• The Prince seems a bit of a wet blanket - just turns up at the end and sashays in and rescues her. Now have a backstory where he is a fraud and actually taking her off to live life on the run as a hustler.
• The Queen - fantastic chracter, icon, also shows dangers of internalised mysogyny! The scene where the vultures just float towards her corpse... Classic Disney.

Talking of which, I did some reading around the issue of the modern remake and still using the identity of the dwarfs and the problems of representation that creates. Some Disneys have definitely aged better than others.

Finally, as someone with ADHD, really wish I had a cavalacade of forest animals to tidy my clutter.

The 'real boy' is next...

That’s quite a project.

How many are there?

I’ve often thought wistfully about Snow White & Sleeping Beauty’s little domestic helpers, TBF.

PS: forgot to add this is definitely one I hadn't watched properly, or since I was very young. Disney's first full animated film of its kind in 1937, and there are beautiful animated sequences when you think this is just before WW2.

Get the tissues in before you watch Dumbo and Bambi. My brother and I were sent to the cinema when we were very young to see Bambi and he was mortified when I started crying. I doubt I was alone, though.

My vague impression with Disney is that the early ones are pretty good, but they went off in the late 1960s and 1970s. Beauty and the Beast was a return to form in the early 1990s. I haven't really seen any since then.

Good idea I may do this too! I definitely don’t utilise Disney+ as much as I should. Someone on the dibb watched all of them and put reviews up if you’re interested in her thoughts too
www.thedibb.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1092085

Ugh Dumbo destroys me.

Bambi was a bit meh to me. It would be worse if Mother dies half way through.

Lion King GUTS me every time but you've got a while to go yet!

Cinderella is very old.... 1930 something I think? Also the Wizard of Oz (unless you're only doing animated) that was definitely 30's and 40's.

Both of which I could rant on about for a good 40 minutes!

Cinderella is 1950s

A few years ago BFI had a season and showed all of them. If I had time I'd join you!

Oh we did this. Kids less enthralled by Snow White. Scared by the jungle book a bit.

The black cauldron….freaky!

Current fave in our house though - Robin Hood and encanto

Wow, quite the project!
Live action films too, or just the fully animated? (Where does Bednobs and Broomsticks fall, I wonder? Overthinging it, Spidey!)

I'll be honest, Dumbo would be the single biggest stumbling block for this project. I hate it.

It's 75 minutes of vile cruelty followed by 3 minutes of happiness because they can make money from him now. It makes me feel physically uncomfortable.

You'll have some awkward racist stuff as well, to a modern eye, but some absolute beauties too.

@Bootothegoose, The Wizard of Oz isn't a Disney film, and Cinderella was number 12 - 1950 or 51, I think.

It's Pinocchio (definitely an odd one) next, then Fantasia (patchy but we all know the good bits) then bloody Dumbo.

We did exactly this, in lockdown 1. One a day . My DDs have a good Disney understanding now, though we didn't do so well at homeschooling!

My DD watched Snow White recently and was traumatised. She’s now too scared to watch a lot of Disney ones. I think I watch Disney plus more than she does.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

Get the tissues in before you watch Dumbo and Bambi. My brother and I were sent to the cinema when we were very young to see Bambi and he was mortified when I started crying. I doubt I was alone, though.

My vague impression with Disney is that the early ones are pretty good, but they went off in the late 1960s and 1970s. Beauty and the Beast was a return to form in the early 1990s. I haven't really seen any since then.

This is interesting, thank you. I must admit from the comments here I might save Dumbo, or just power through when I am sort of doing something else.

Also, with what you say about Beauty and the Beast etc my Disney childhood era was Little Mermaid/BATB/Aladdin of the late 80s/early 90s buying it on VHS era - so I do feel that is another reason I want to try this. To see how the 'tone' or feel of them changes throughout the eras, and actually watch all the way through things I have only seen clips of!

Aristocrats is brilliant I remember not liking it as a child but loved it when I watched it a couple of years ago very adult concept really. I’d like to this might try

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Wow, quite the project! Live action films too, or just the fully animated? (Where does Bednobs and Broomsticks fall, I wonder? Overthinging it, Spidey!)

I'll be honest, Dumbo would be the single biggest stumbling block for this project. I hate it.

It's 75 minutes of vile cruelty followed by 3 minutes of happiness because they can make money from him now. It makes me feel physically uncomfortable.

You'll have some awkward racist stuff as well, to a modern eye, but some absolute beauties too.

Yes, it is! Might be my current ADHD hyperfocus - but I am also interested in these cartoons which I haven't seen and are sometime referred to.

At the moment, I am following this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Pictures_films

I will do any in the order I can find on Disney plus that are the 'classics' or interesting. I didn't know that Disney went on a propaganda/war support trip to South America in Saludos Amigos for example! Haven't checked D+ for that one yet.

That's a great idea OP. I loved Disney animations as a child and then up to my early teens. There are some around the last 90s/early 2000s which I've never seen as was too busy going out and getting drunk. We have Disney plus so I really need to use it to catch up on the ones I missed.

So I finished Pinnochio today - what a mind warp that was! Proof that I definitely had not seen it - just the iconic clips. I feel it will need a rewatch at some point to process what I have seen.

Wooden dioramas, a funfair scene from hell, the blue fairy, somehow it all ends up in a whale. And the donkeys... and the boy donkeys... and the puppet donkey boy.

Also, did not know it was a novel, and I can see why Pinocchio is considered one of the greatest animated movies of all time for those effects, some of which are used for the first time.

I think it is a lot darker and scarier than Snow White. I find the question at the centre of creating life and wanting companionship and creating it from toys around you one of the more interesting parts. As for the - learn to be good vs. gambling, vandalism etc that was definitely the 'of its time' part as a 'Red Indian' figure handed out cigars to children!

Favourite character this time was of course Jiminiy Cricket - good to see the whole role play out, and again, like the woodland animals of SW it would be great to have him along sometimes.

Key line of the film:

Weird but hilarious line out of context:
Coachman - Give a bad boy enough rope and he’ll soon make a
jackass of himself wicked laugh

A conscience is that still small
voice people won’t listen to. That’s just the trouble with the world
today.

Next is Fantasia I think... then Dumbo .. :( So a break is order.

I love that you are doing this! The one movie that absolutely broke me was The Fox and The Hound. Beautiful animation but it is utterly heartbreaking and I cried like a baby. That movie stayed with me for days after and I can never bring myself to watch it again. And I am someone who didn’t cry at Bambi or Dumbo!

Oh yes the Fox and the Hound is devastating, I don’t think I’ll ever let my kids watch it

I have started Dumbo. What the hell is this? Ten minutes in.... storks and a sad elephant...

And the Disney sorry there was racism etc warning at the beginning....

Long, long time since I watched it, but I can imagine the crows are considered a bit dodgy now.