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Cartoons are History
Published on 30/10/06
by John Phillips
So it’s Monday morning, and this time change has me up extra early, so I figured I’d write about something that I thought about the other day. Watching tv this week and seeing commercials to movies and stuff, it was a swift slap in the face that we will never see cartoon(ish) movies on the big screen again. Not that I’m upset or anything about it, but it’s just weird to me.
Every single last one of us grew up to the old school classic Disney movies like Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Oliver & Company, and so forth. The list can go on and on. Those were the real classics. Now the kind of movies we have are Shrek (which was good), Antz, and all those high tech computer animated movies. I can’t necessarily say that it’s a bad thing, but kids growing up now have a whole new type of “cartoon” than we did.
What else is kinda funny, is that if you watch some of these newer movies, you can see hidden jokes in there that were really only meant for adults, because kids obviously wouldn’t get it. Do you think those were in old cartoons, and that we were too young to notice? Maybe, who knows.
I guess it’s just odd to see our classic cartoons gone from the big screen forever. And it was right under our noses. Doesn’t even seem like there was a transition period, unless I just missed it. Oh well, I guess if I want to watch those old school movies, my mom still has them on vhs, although vhs is way too old and not allowed in my household! 
Technology phases out the classics……and it’s time for work.
peace
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Comments on Cartoons are History
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Michael
30/10/06
How far back are we talking about? I remember watching this one scene from the Lion King in which the Hyena’s are marching in from of Scar totalitarian style.
We were probably too young to know and our parents were probably not accustom to watching cartoons. No days’s “cartoons” like Shrek and Finding Nemo aren’t viewed in such a bad light and therefore are more likely to be viewed by adults.
Ack sorry I’m in the middle of an academic paper and my writing’s sounding a little stiff. lol
J Phill
30/10/06
Well no cartoons, old school or new school are viewed in a bad light. It’s just interesting to me that we basically will never see cartoons made in the same form they were in the late 90’s and before.