Answer for question 4374.

[author_by_night]

[Error: unknown template qotd]I think "classic" might be relative... as I understand it, The Little Mermaid was kind of my generation's Frozen. So to me it's part of the classics, but probably not to someone who remembers the even older ones. Just a little nitpick.

I'm not a huge Disney person, though I did love The Little Mermaid (again, the Frozen of 1989) and I loved Pocahantas when I was about nine, when all nine year olds loved it. (Please don't judge me. I didn't know how inaccurate and slightly offensive it was.) I don't really have any feelings either way, though I have cooled down on my stance that The Little Mermaid is a horrible misogynist film. (I really don't think it is anymore. Ariel wanted to go to the shore long before Eric was in the picture. He was her anchor, not her compass.)

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[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I hate this new Writer's Block setup. I got thoroughly confused and now I'll have to hunt that question down because I'm very intrigued.

I'm coming to better terms with the Little Mermaid myself but while I agree about it being our generation's Frozen, I refused to see it or Home Alone in the theatre because I thought they looked stupid.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of this new WB either.

Aww, I loved Home Alone growing up! :P

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you on The Little Mermaid being our generation's Frozen - I stil like the movie, and you're right, Eric was Ariel's anchor, not her compass.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

These days are a hit-or-miss, but back during my childhood I was all about Disney movies. My favorites still include Pocahontas, Mulan, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King. And even further back with Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, etc. There's just a lot of classics out there in the Disney Vault that I loved, and I hope to get all the DVDs of soon.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot all about The Lion King! I don't think I loved it, but it was another one people always talked about.

I have to ask since you brought up Sleeping Beauty - have you seen Maleficent? I actually didn't love it, though I appreciated what they were trying to do.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I really highly enjoyed it. I'm all for re-imagined versions of classic stories and this definitely was wonderful. I mean, I understand that people wanted unapologetic evil Maleficent like in the animated movie, but I really liked what they were doing with her character in the live-action Maleficent. I mostly love that Maleficent and Aurora became friends and that it was Maleficent's love that broke the spell, not some random prince. ♥

And I like that it was a deliberate choice to go this route, since the live-action Cinderella was just a straight-up adaptation. So it makes me hope that for their new live-action franchises that they'll switch things up instead of retelling the same story.

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

IMO classic Disney movies are everything up through the Disney Renaissance that ended in the late 90s. So like my favorite classic Disney film would be "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

I did love Little Mermaid when it came out (apparently I was especially a fan of "Ta", aka what I called King Triton idek), but I think "Lion King" was the Frozen of my childhood. That movie was crazy bananas popular.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think TLK qualifies as my "Frozen" too, I was nine when it came out apparently and you're right, it WAS crazy bananas popular!

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

LOL, I was just thinking about a new retrospective focusing on the Disney movies. Tricky, LiveJournal. Very tricky.

I basically agree with you here--Aladdin is probably my favorite movie from the Disney "Renaissance" era, but Little Mermaid is definitely the one I've watched the most.

[aggiebell90]

Ha, yes. "Classic Disney," to me, is stuff like Cinderella, Snow White, Robin Hood, The Jungle Book.... The Little Mermaid, etc? That's all New Disney to me.

But, you know, I'm old, so...

(I'd probably call Robin Hood my favorite Classic Disney, fwiw, and... either Mulan or Beauty and the Beast my favorites from the 90's. And Brave my favorite "recent" Disney.)

ETA: Thinking about it, there's a difference from Disney I watched as a child (what I'm calling "Classic") and Disney I watched as a parent (the stuff from the 90s on), and most of the difference is me. I really watch (and read) things differently as a parent than I did before I had the kids. I'm paying lots more attention now to the lessons kids might learn from the books/movies that we watch, and I always think about things I need to bring up with them when we're in the car on the way home.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

(Sorry, LJ apparently doesn't email comment notifications for writer's block.)

We're basically the same generation, I think, so not that old. ;) (Sort of - I'm in the middle landing of gen y, I think.)

I don't have kids, but I can relate on some level to how you take things differently. Although sometimes that's all the sadder! Like, "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" is sad when you're five, but when you're my age and have been the Anna to sooo many people who've closed the door for no reason you can understand, it guts you in a different way. (Then again, I also think a lot of kids have related to that with older siblings - maybe that's why so many want to be Elsa, not Anna?)