I think The Great Mouse Detective would've won 1986 but these are silly debates to get into. More interesting to me is what has changed and what has stayed the same.
Back in 1986 there was My Little Pony, Transformers and Care Bears. As much as I like MLP:FiM you'd think in more than a quarter of a century someone would make a decent new series. Is creativity that dead that we have to keep resurrecting relics of the past to make shows? I mean a new Batman film has just been released when the character was introduced in 1939! That's the same year WWII broke out and we're still using recycling the same character.
My other issue is with music. It seems when we look back at the Disney classics they were winning awards for their music and songs. Why are we now just chucking pop songs in? For that matter why have musicals seemed to have died down? Is it just I don't see that many shows from that age group or is there really a lack of quality song writing now? Or, another possibility, did those old shows have a broader appeal than just children and that led them to considered for awards? Maybe growing up after they were all classics meant I only saw the top-quality ones.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
I think The Great Mouse Detective would've won 1986 but these are silly debates to get into. More interesting to me is what has changed and what has stayed the same.
Back in 1986 there was My Little Pony, Transformers and Care Bears. As much as I like MLP:FiM you'd think in more than a quarter of a century someone would make a decent new series. Is creativity that dead that we have to keep resurrecting relics of the past to make shows? I mean a new Batman film has just been released when the character was introduced in 1939! That's the same year WWII broke out and we're still using recycling the same character.
My other issue is with music. It seems when we look back at the Disney classics they were winning awards for their music and songs. Why are we now just chucking pop songs in? For that matter why have musicals seemed to have died down? Is it just I don't see that many shows from that age group or is there really a lack of quality song writing now? Or, another possibility, did those old shows have a broader appeal than just children and that led them to considered for awards? Maybe growing up after they were all classics meant I only saw the top-quality ones.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~