ChinchyWhat're some non-Disney (at least mainline Disney), non-Dreamworks and non-Ghibli animated movies you'd recommend?
Beck@Chinchy Robot Dreams, Magnetic Rose, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Iron Giant!
@cryptidshadows Oooh, I dun think I've ever heard of those first two! I'll look into em!^^ I remember seeing Cloudy years back. I'll have to give it another watch. And I'm right there with ya on Iron Giant, that's one of my favorite animated movies^^
@Chinchy Robot Dreams is pretty new and a relatively indie film I'd say? Magnetic Rose is old but a little bit unknown (I love anything Satoshi Kon has left his mark on)!
I also highly recommend anything by Cartoon Saloon! Especially Wolfwalkers!
IsDaGale@Chinchy Any given (pre-Rock-a-Doodle) Don Bluth movie. Secret of NIMH, An American Tail (NOT Fievel Goes West, although that one’s not bad), Land Before Time, All Dogs Go To Heaven.
Even when the older ones didn’t quite hit the mark for me (such as All Dogs Go to Heaven), they always had so much passion and charm behind them.
Heck, even Titan A.E. has more charm to it than most movies these days. And I LOVE its soundtrack, despite that the CG didn’t mesh well with the 2D animation.
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ArchyD@Chinchy Coraline, Paranorman, Kubo, Nimona, Mun: Guardian of the Moon, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Lego Batman, Legend of the Guardians, Wolf Walkers
dzil123@Chinchy Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Fumei@Chinchy Off the top of my head:
*Perfect Blue: a psychological thriller about the price of fame and personhood vs persona, as an actress starts to lose her grip on reality.
*Paprika: a prototype machine lets people enter others' dreams, but when one is stolen, the lines between dream and reality start to blur.
*April and the Extraordinary World: in an alternate history where technology has stalled because the world's greatest scientists have been mysteriously disappearing for decades, the orphaned daughter of a disappeared pair tries to carry on her family's work.
*Hoodwinked: Red Riding Hood by way of Rashomon, as police try to uncover the truth by interviewing Red, the big bad wolf, etc. Ugly as sin (made on a shoestring budget by first-time animators) but entertaining, and by far the most Dreamworks-y film here.