Ralph Bakshi

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Brandon · Minion of Scortch 1 Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 63

I own the Ralph Bakshi films Fritz The Cat, Heavy Traffic, Streetfight and Cool World. All are on VHS. I plan to buy Wizards and American Pop on DVD soon.

Spazzadder · Stomper Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 308

I've got Street Fight and Heavy Traffic, and I just bought Hey Good Lookin' and I'm *trying* to download Fritz the Cat and its sequel (an uphill battle). I also got the Mighty Mouse DVDs which are most radical. It's amazing what they got away with showing on a children's network...
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HandBehind · Stomper Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 103 Location: Wisconsin

The Fleischer's actually made a really decent second feature too. It was called Mr. Bug Goes to Town and was looooooooooosssssssely based on a great philosophical, entomological book by Maurice Maeterlinck. My grandpa used to have a few of Maeterlinck's translations which I adored, so Mr. Bug has a special place for me. The whole concept of the social organism is amazing and is instructive to us today as today's society seems to prefer thinking of itself quite arrogantly as the very center of the universe instead of being merely a component organelle within that universe. It is humbling to be sure, but I think instructive.

As for my favorite non-Bakshi animated film... I would have to choose Lawrence of Arabia. Sometimes Grapes of Wrath steals that elusive top spot, or East of Eden, the Warriors, Maltese Falcon or Renaldo & Clara even, but usually it is Lawrence. O'Toole (and Lean) are simply phenomenal.

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Favorite Animated and Favorite Anime films:
The Incredibles
The Land Before Time (The Original alwasys the best)
Shrek and Shrek 2
Transformers: The Movie
G.I. Joe: The Movie
Titan A.E. (Possibly, I haven't seen it yet but it looks like a good film so I'm interested seeing it)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Same thing with Titan A.E.)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Good but not as good as Cool World)
DBZ movies

Shows:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Sealab 2021
Cowboy Bebop
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Code Lyoko
Transformers (THe Original)
G.I. Joe (Original)

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Larry (the Mutant Slave) · Stomper Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 514

Heavy metal is how i learned about american pop 2 and i started looking for baskshi's names one the box

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i like dragon ball z even though i know every one hates it here
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Larry (the Mutant Slave) · Stomper Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 514

Transformers and ninja turtles
of the past i stlill watch the new ninja turtles its pretty good its just like the old one at one point i thought they were reruins

id like to watch transformers but its on so dam early
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John Pannozzi · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject:

I have to I love lots of animated stuff. Here are some of my most favorite non-Bakshi animated films and TV shows:

Ren & Stimpy: Been a fan since August 1991. I even like the Games episodes.

Rocko's Modern Life: 'Nuff said.

SpongeBob SquarePants: Not as good as Rocko (almost the entire main creative team behind R'sML became the main creative behind SBSP), but some episodes are just great IMHO (esp. the ones with Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy). Plus, Squidward is just a great character.

Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, and Pinky & The Brain (and other Warner Bros. TV cartoons from the 1990s): Despite what John K. and Steve Worth think of these shows (that most of their pals like Jim Smith and Eddie Fitzgerald actually worked on), I love these shows to pieces. They aren't as masterful as the best of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, but they still hold a very special place in heart, and I'm very pissed off at the fact that that the huge company Time-Warner (which prob'ly owns more characters than it knows what to do with) has seemingly forgotten that Buster, Babs, Plucky, Hamton, Plucky, Yakko, Wakko, Dot, Pinky, Brain, and the rest ever existed. Also, Spielberg apparently co-owns Tiny Toons and Animaniacs, which puts the future of these characters in great risk (see Roger Rabbit). Hopefully, my proposed Tiny Toons movie (check it out in the "show your work" sub-forum) will one day see the light of day and right what I feel is one of the greatest wrongs in the modern-day animation industry by bringing these great characters back into the current mainstream public's eye.

Cow & Chicken: A somewhat successful (lasted 4 seasons plus a short-lived spin-off called "I Am Weasel") Cartoon Network original series from David Feiss, who started working at Hanna-Barbera while still in his teens, and worked at H-B for a good long time (although he briefly worked as an animator on the Ren & Stimpy pilot "Big House Blues", and then became an animation director on the first 2 seasons of the Ren & Stimpy Show).

Who Framed Roger Rabbit: A great movie. It took the ideas of cartoon characters (or "Toons") co-existing with live-action people very seriously and believably (and this is due not only to the special effects, but also to the story and acting), yet at the same time still had quite a bit of wacky, nonsensacal cartoony fun. I also enjoy the 3 Roger Rabbit theatrical shorts comic books, and I'm going check out Gary K. Wolf's original novel "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" (which I briefly borrowed from a library about 8 or 7 years ago), his sequel book "Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?", and the Marvel Comics 1989 graphic novel "The Resurrection of Doom" someday. It's a shame that political wars between Eisner and Spielberg & Katzenburg have all but killed the future of Roger Rabbit, the unlikely hero who helped save the animation industry (though he didn't do it along, as any Bakshi fan knows :wink: ).

Dexter's lab, PowerPuff Girls, Samurai Jack, and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Thank Messmer for the fine works of Genndey Tarkoftsky, Craig McCracken and Paul Rudish.

The Original Rugrats (1991-1995): Very good stuff, actually. Don't let the later, more kiddy Rugrats episodes keep you from the classics which appeal to both kids AND adults.

The Simpsons (The Matt Groening episodes: 1989-1992): The first 3 seasons (plus "Kamp Krusty" and "A Streetcar named Marge" from season 4), with Matt Groening, Sam Simon & James L. Brooks show-running and Klasky-Csupo animating, were classics in my book. They were very down-to-earth, more simpler (with less annoying licensed background songs), and character-driven. The post-Groening episodes are still very good (and very funny and occasionaly very heart-tugging), but they just lack a certain spark that the early episodes had.

JKS · Stomper Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 689 Location: Alaska

TV Shows:
The Ren & Stimpy Show (Seasons 1 & 2)
Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon
Rocko's Modern Life
Beavis and Butthead
South Park
Cow and Chicken (weird-ass show)
The Simpsons (nostalgia)
Futurama (Better than The Simpsons)
King of the Hill (Just as good as Beavis and Butthead)
Invader Zim
Early TV cartoons (like Hanna-Barbera and Jay Ward)

Shorts:
Warner Bros. cartoons ('30s, '40s, '50s)
Tom & Jerry (Hanna and Barbera)
Tex Avery's MGM cartoons
Max Fleischer cartoons

Features Films:
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Bill Plympton's Mutant Aliens (Fucking cool indie film)
South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Disney's Pinnochio
Dinsey's Fantasia (Animated segments are excellent and so is the music)
Pixar's The Incredibles
Pixar's Toy Story 1 & 2 (nostalgia)
Pixar's A Bug's Life (nostalgia)
Heavy Metal