Name your top 3 Animated titles

[TheBadger]

Saw this question in another forum. Could be fun. And maybe a way to learn of films I have never heard of before.


Name the 3 best animated movies you ever saw, in any order. And if you feel like it, tell us why you liked em so much.

[TheBadger]

Mine

Not in an order and not necessarily the best. But the ones Ill never forget are:

princess mononoke
ninja scroll
Iron giant

Also GI Joe from the 80's. And The Secret of NIMH, when I was little.

[jo]

I've always really liked animation. I have dozens of animated movies on DVD, and a whole lot on VHS too. I'm hoping the VHS ones are still ok when I'm able to take them out of storage!

I like stop motion as well as cel/CG type animation. I have a lot of anime but also a fair amount from other countries. It would be very difficult to say what I thought the 3 best animated movies were, depends on the phase of the moon and such :-). Off the top of my head, for movies I would probably say:

Akira (better story with subtitles, although the English dub is good)
Ghost in the Shell
The Incredibles

but if I wasn't limited to 3 I would insert a bunch of Studio Ghibli movies which I really like (just watched Princess Mononoke the other night :-), Wallace and Gromit, Ray Harryhausen movies, Patlabor, the Disney Robin Hood, some other Pixar movies etc. etc. etc.

I won't really explain my choices there too much. Akira and Ghost in the Shell are classics. I really like The Incredibles not just because it's got great animation and story but also because it reminds me of the sense of fun that James Bond movies have lost since Pierce Brosnan started. It's my modern James Bond substitute :-).

I'm also going to add my 3 favourite animated series, which is kind of different to movies. Those would be

Futurama (I have 4 or 5 seasons on DVD plus the movies)
Cowboy Bebop
The Adventures of Tintin (the Ellipse/Nelvana ones from the early 90s are excellent. I thought the recent Tintin movie was pretty awful)

Closely followed by some others like FLCL, Trigun, Creature Comforts, Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex, Aeon Flux, Duck Tales (haven't seen that for a long time mind you), and quite a few others. Lots of animated series I don't like. Plenty of Japanese ones are just animated soap operas. There aren't many western ones which go beyond comedy, and I find many of the ones which aren't just aimed at kids pretty ugly (Family Guy and spin-offs for example).

[TheBadger]

^^ Ah yes, Akira! I forgot that one. It was the first japanese cartoon movie I ever saw. It blew me away! I had never seen anything like it. And even though I was a teenager when I saw it, and had already seen plenty of violence in live action movies, Akira was something else indeed.

[Bjur]

Jo was naming lots of titles which are my favorites too.

Here are some also nice animated movies which weren't that popular and flown under some radars - especially the radar of younger anime fans nowadays.

Wings of Honneamise (Japan 1987)
Venus Wars (Japan 1989)
Wonderful Days (Southcorea 2003)

[rcallicotte]

Up
Monsters Inc.
Rango or Monsters vs. Aliens or Tintin (can't decide)

[Zairyn Arsyn]

hard decisions...
badger beat me to some of my other favorites, so here's these:

Macross Plus (the 4 episodes not the movie version)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (series and rebuild movies)
Berserk

[jo]

Wings of Honneamise (Japan 1987)

That is a good movie. I have it on VHS but not DVD. I had stills from it on my desktop for quite some time :-)

[TheBadger]

"Wings of Honneamise"
I googled this.

I recognized the poster for the film right away. I heard about this movie for the first time in the mid to late 90s. I wanted to see it but could not find a copy at the time, and then I just forgot about it.

Going to look for it this week! Thanks guys.

By the way, Jo. I think you should be more nevious about finding a VHS player than if the tapes will work I see 8tracks everywhere, never see a player though. 

[Zairyn Arsyn]

theres also Angel's Egg (Tenshi no Tamago)
its a little over a hour long and has very little dialog, not much of a plot, but its quite visually appealing and emotional, imo

[jo]

Hi Michael,

By the way, Jo. I think you should be more nevious about finding a VHS player than if the tapes will work I see 8tracks everywhere, never see a player though. 

I have a VHS player. It's been packed away for a few years while we've moved around but hopefully I'll be able to get it out sometime this year, if we've finished building the lounge by then :-). It was in perfect working order when it went in, fingers crossed for getting it out :-). I have a few hundred movies recorded off TV on VHS. I was still doing that up to when I got my first DVR, in about 2006 I think. DVRs were really slow to be introduced in NZ and were also really expensive IIRC.  Anyway I have maybe a hundred prerecorded (i.e. purchased movies) VHS tapes. I'll probably get rid of the ones recorded off TV, especially as I have many of those movies on DVD and the tapes will no doubt look awful now!

Regards,

Jo

[Bjur]

Most of my old animes were bought as VHS tapes too.

But i still have an old TV-VHS player combo.. ^^



Only old TV's can deliver this special feel, look and sharpness. On new 16:9 flatscreens, indeed, old VHS tapes/movies just looking terrible in comparison. 

[j meyer]

No top 3 from me,but some stuff worth to mention and to look into,from my point of view.
Yellow Submarine
Bruce Bickfords animations for Frank Zappa
The early stop motion stuff