Animated Movie poll: Voting and discussion thread
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:31 am
I think it is time for an all time animated movies poll.
Before voting we can debate on some things.
Are short films eligible?
Many people who usually don’t watch short films have seen a lot of short animated films: old Disney and Looney Tunes movies, Pixar shorts, short films by Aardman Animations, acclaimed Soviet or Czechoslovakian shorts etc. However, I would say short films are ineligible. Some people will not vote them because they think it is impossible to compare a five minute short to two hours long feature animation or just because they don’t remember the names for every Daffy Duck film they have seen. I’m saying the short films would suffer and that’s why there should be an own poll for them.
What about movies with animation and real people or movies with animated segments?
The animation must be the main genre of the movie. So movies like Kill Bill vol. 1 or Mary Poppins won’t be eligible because there are only few minutes long animated parts in those movies. However movies like Waltz with Bashir or LEGO movie are eligible for sure.
I would like to hear your opinion about movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Alice (1988) by Jan Švankmajer. Back in the 1980s Roger Rabbit was definitely something else but nowadays in every other superhero or space opera movie has a crucial animated character, and those movies are definitely not animated movies. In Alice the main character is not animated but otherwise it is mostly stop motion animation and the movie is often considered as an animated movie. I don’t have a clear opinion about those two. If you have any other examples, please comment.
What about stop-motion, motion capture, clay, cutout animation etc.
They are all eligible if the movie is feature length.
The minimum length for the list is 20 movies. Please vote only movies you think are great or at least good. If you have seen less than 20 great feature length animated movies there are more than two months to watch more. TheI maximum length for the list is top 100. Of course you can send longer lists but I will count only the top 100.
I will decide the formula for the points later when I see how long lists people submits. I’m planning to use a stark formula in which #1 gets 100 points and #100 only few points (definitely not the one in which two #100 votes is more valuable than one #1 vote).
If you are voting for movies in which the original title is not in English please add the English title as well. So if you are voting for a movie released in 2001 directed by Hayao Miyazaki you can use the RYM way: 千と千尋の神隠し [Spirited Away] (2001), IMDb way: Spirited Away [Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi] or just write Spirited Away. If possible please add the release year and director after the title of the movie (to avoid obscurities).
The deadline is 31st of October.
If you have any questions. Please ask.
Before voting we can debate on some things.
Are short films eligible?
Many people who usually don’t watch short films have seen a lot of short animated films: old Disney and Looney Tunes movies, Pixar shorts, short films by Aardman Animations, acclaimed Soviet or Czechoslovakian shorts etc. However, I would say short films are ineligible. Some people will not vote them because they think it is impossible to compare a five minute short to two hours long feature animation or just because they don’t remember the names for every Daffy Duck film they have seen. I’m saying the short films would suffer and that’s why there should be an own poll for them.
What about movies with animation and real people or movies with animated segments?
The animation must be the main genre of the movie. So movies like Kill Bill vol. 1 or Mary Poppins won’t be eligible because there are only few minutes long animated parts in those movies. However movies like Waltz with Bashir or LEGO movie are eligible for sure.
I would like to hear your opinion about movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Alice (1988) by Jan Švankmajer. Back in the 1980s Roger Rabbit was definitely something else but nowadays in every other superhero or space opera movie has a crucial animated character, and those movies are definitely not animated movies. In Alice the main character is not animated but otherwise it is mostly stop motion animation and the movie is often considered as an animated movie. I don’t have a clear opinion about those two. If you have any other examples, please comment.
What about stop-motion, motion capture, clay, cutout animation etc.
They are all eligible if the movie is feature length.
The minimum length for the list is 20 movies. Please vote only movies you think are great or at least good. If you have seen less than 20 great feature length animated movies there are more than two months to watch more. TheI maximum length for the list is top 100. Of course you can send longer lists but I will count only the top 100.
I will decide the formula for the points later when I see how long lists people submits. I’m planning to use a stark formula in which #1 gets 100 points and #100 only few points (definitely not the one in which two #100 votes is more valuable than one #1 vote).
If you are voting for movies in which the original title is not in English please add the English title as well. So if you are voting for a movie released in 2001 directed by Hayao Miyazaki you can use the RYM way: 千と千尋の神隠し [Spirited Away] (2001), IMDb way: Spirited Away [Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi] or just write Spirited Away. If possible please add the release year and director after the title of the movie (to avoid obscurities).
The deadline is 31st of October.
If you have any questions. Please ask.