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What are your favorite animated films? A lot of my favorite movies of all time are animated. Let's have a thread to discuss and post some of them.
>Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
One of Richard Williams's (May he rest in peace) best work. A fun musical with great songs and great animation. My favorite song being No Girl's Toy. Such a shame it didn't do well in the box office.
>Heavy Metal
Anthology of stories involving a glowing green orb. The animation isn't amazing but it has that cool as fuck Heavy Metal Magazine feel to it. It's pretty great and has an great soundtrack. One of my favorite songs, Veteran Of The Psychic Wars features in this film. It has hot chicks too. There's a sequel but I haven't watched it and have heard it isn't as good.
>The Transformers: The Movie
What can I say? I grew up with Transformers and despite all of the film's flaws, It's one of my favorite action films ever made. It's just pure good fun. It has also one if not the best score in any film ever. The Touch, Dare. Instruments of Destruction and The Transformers theme are my go to at the gym.
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Fantastic Planet is awesome. Though I suppose I didn't watch it in its original French (La Planète sauvage) for I am not a Frog of any kind nor a polyglot capable of understanding. You might remember it from reaction images that I never saved but now in retrospect wish I had.
It's a story about a man on a fucked-up world full of giant aliens and fucked-up alien future technologies.
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>>30
>Though I suppose I didn't watch it in its original French.
Finally my knowledge of french will be useful for fucking once, I know that I can watch the movie in english or something but I prefer to watch it as close to the original.
If the Raggedy Ann movie didn't have so many songs and had their characters develop more I would've liked it.
>>28 (OP) 
>notes on Heavy Metal
1: Veteran of the Psychic Wars was probably written for the movie; BOC's Fire of Unknown Origin dropped just 2 months before the movie and, in addition to Veteran, has the song Vengeance (The Pact) which is a straight play by play of Taarna
2: Heavy Metal 2000's plot was an odd mix. The story was straightforward but not bad, the setting was legit scifi HM, and the soundtrack was atrocious (since what was once heavy metal was by then classified as dad rock, the soundtrack was instead primarily screamo courtesy of various overhyped shit artists on MTV)
>>47
BOC was actually supposed to do the full soundtrack for Heavy Metal, but was dropped at the last minute; what they had done by then was added to Fire Of Unknown Origin. Hilariously "Veterans" wasn't part of that, it came from the band's mutual dick-sucking with Michael Morecock and the Eternal Champion series. As an aside "Fire of Unknown Origin" wasn't even written for the album, it's a remake of a song dropped from Agents of fortune. The original is on the Japanese remaster and is much better than what we got.
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>>30
Just watched it, and man the visuals and the story is fucking weird I love it, those alien with their big red eyes always made me uncomfortable but I kinda wanted the humans to kill all the ayys EDF-style.
This is one of the first times those damn frogs made something good.
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Am I the only obe who watched El guerrero sin nombre? I mean it's not bad I did kinda enjoy it. It had a weird spin on the fantasy knight stories. There was great world building, great and enjoyable characters, but the bad guy is a bit of a simple one. But I enjoyed it. Sadly it didn't get a sequel, which it deffinitly deserves.
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Does computer animation count? I watched Rango the other day and I forgot how absolutely charming the details are. It's crazy how it came out in 2011 and still looks so good. I love how each character felt molded from scratch and had had such individuality no matter how minor they were. Small things like clothing just felt so right on each character.
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Don't know if it counts but Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of my favorites. There's also Plague Dogs and Watership Down which I saw as a kid and are fucking depressing. I still need to read the books of which the two latter movies were based off. I wonder if they're any good. I know Watership Down got a show recently but It looks like shit.
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>>141
I had never gotten around to watching that one.  I will need to get it the next time I'm browsing for torrents.

>>150
>Watership Down 
The book is excellent and very easy to read.  I read it a few years ago and it instantly became one of my favourites.  It's a lot less dark/violent than the movie might lead you to believe, though, because the violence is presented very plainly - obviously rabbits will fight each other and obviously there's blood, but it is never grotesque or gratuitous.  Find a copy at your library and read it as soon as you can.
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>>47
>since what was once heavy metal was by then classified as dad rock
e.g. Devo is swell and all but if we're honest they are false metal

I finally got around to watching Finding Little Nemo after all this time and I got to level with you, it's not great. Sort of surprised to see Ray Bradbury's name in the credits, it's thematically appropriate for him but there's no mark of talent anywhere in the writing.
>>47
>since what was once heavy metal was by then classified as dad rock, the soundtrack was instead primarily screamo courtesy of various overhyped shit artists on MTV
Dio was right. MTV killed Heavy Metal.
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I recently watched Wolfwalkers (2020) and it was pretty great.
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Surprised no one posted The Iron Giant. Or Coraline, one of my favorite movies that I still find unsettling to a degree well into adulthood. Sinbad (2003) is quite underrated thanks to its bad CGI elements but it's a very well made fantasy film, I'd say quality-wise on par with The Prince Of Egypt save for the deep biblical story. Land Before Time (the first one) is a classic and still touching to this day.

>>28 (OP) 
I remember little of the HM movie except the last segment (your pic related) which I thought was very good cheesecake set to nice music.

>>30
>>93
Gandahar (aka Light Years) is another good french animation movie, just as surreal as FP and with time fuckery added to the mix.

>>150
Seconding all of these. I would also add Felidae (1994) the bastard sibling of plague/watership that was entertaining not because it was deep or moving, but because it was batshit crazy to the point of complete hilarity... For a spiritual sibling I recommend Secret of NIMH.
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Now for some honorable mentions... American Pop I'd recommend for viewers seeking great music and trippy visuals along with it, but not much of a story. Batman: Mask of Phantasm is good capeshit. Anastasia is a faux-Disney movie that pulls off the cheesiness a little better. Adventures of Mark Twain is philosophical biblical horror for kids. When the Wind Blows is pretty slow and I didn't like it at first, but in hindsight it was a terrific movie about the nuclear arms race and the horrors of war in general.
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Are there any live action movies that used animation for special effects as effectively as Forbidden Planet?
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>>202
It was a great movie, it feels nice that there are still people out there that makes good cartoons.
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Found pic related saved from the olden days of fullchan, how many of these have you watched? How were they?
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>The Secret of NIMH
I watched that pretty recently.  The raw beauty of the project and the dedication of the men behind it was flooring.  You won't find anything made like that made these days, especially from Disney.
>The Iron Giant
>The Land Before Time
I probably saw these as a kid but I don't remember them.  I should rewatch them.
>Watership Down
>Animal Farm
I've read the books but never seen the films.  I think people's impression of the Watership Down film has unfortunately overwritten the lovely prose and simple story in the book, which is a shame.  The book isn't some testament to nature's cruelty or anything like that: there is violence, because the main characters are wild rabbits so of course they get into fights with each other and other animals, but the violence isn't highlighted and it isn't described in grisly detail.  I seriously recommend the book because it's such a pleasant, easy read.
>Cats Don't Dance
>The Brave Little Toaster
>How the Grinch Stole Christmas
>Felidae
>The Wrong Trousers
>How to Train Your Dragon
>Kirikou and the Sorceress
Seen them all and they're all very good; Felidae is notable for looking like a friendly kids movie but having some really dark and scary imagery and adult/sexual humour.  You can find it on YouTube, funnily enough.  I had completely forgotten about Kirikou and the Sorceress until now, but I remember that I really liked it as a kid (although I'm not sure if that was due to the beauty of the film or due to the fact there was a nude woman in it).  I highly recommend that one for its art style alone.
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>>409
The movie is a propaganda, which instead of ending like the book did, it ends up with a revolt.
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>>422
Animal farm to be exact.
>>404
I haven't watched much animated movies, I've seen more animated shows then anything. 
I would still recomend >>108
Other movie I remember enjoying is the enchanted mountain and movie about a clown in a city with an owl. Not sure how it was called tho.
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>>424
Alright I'll check them out.
>I've seen more animated shows then anything. 
Any you'd recommend?
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>>444
Well Atla, krteček, Pat & Mat, maybe Ninjago but onoy the first three seasons including the pilot episode, I enjoyed Phineas and Ferb when I was young. I can't think of much more that was actually good.
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>>511
Ed, Edd n Eddy and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
>>444
Off the top of my head, here's what I've got.  There is a stark contrast between pre-Adventure Time cartoons and post-Adventure Time cartoons.

Before:
- Avatar the Last Airbender (genuinely one of the best cartoon series ever made)
- My Life as a Teenage Robot (Jenny Wakeman is cute!)
- Kim Possible (this one may not quite hold up, but I remember loving it as a kid)
- Filmore (hall monitor buddy cops in middle school)
- Batman The Animated Series (genuinely one of the best cartoon series ever made)

After:
- Gravity Falls (the early stuff, anyway)
- The Amazing World of Gumball (season 1 and 2, at least; more if you really like it but don't feel compelled)
- Over the Garden Wall (about as good a dramatic cartoon miniseries as you'll get these days)

I'll go on forever if I keep listing things, but there are a tonne of old good cartoon series.  I can share some torrent files if you want.
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>>574
Kim Possible suffers from Kim Possible being the least interesting character in her own show. Even periphery characters like Bonnie have deeper characterization than the lead.  Kim Possible was a show carried by the strength of its villains.
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>>574
I had also wanted to mention Samurai Jack, but I hadn't watched it much as a kid.  Revisiting it as an adult has been a pleasant surprise even if the action is somewhat neutered due to it being a kids show.

>>660
Quite a valid problem.  I'll have to see how I feel about it after I go back to it once I finish Samurai Jack.
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>>47
Heavy Metal is a great film for both its art and music. Veteran sounds like it was made entirely for the movie, and it's one of my top 10 albums.
With that being said, Heavy Metal 2000 is truly garbage. Shitty recycled plot, boring characters, and an ear-splitting soundtrack because metal by that time had become nu-metal, screaming, and growling, only made worse by being used in all the wrong places at the wrong times. For fuck's sake, the name of the fucking villain is Tyler. At least Julie was pretty hot but that's all we got out of it, that and the PC game which I need to finish playing.
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>>1207
I watched the first episode and was quite impressed. I can't speak for the rest but very depressing.
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>>1222
Now.... finish it
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>>1453
Watch SF2 anime movie
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