I personally don’t mind Futurama either.
I’ve actually only seen bits and pieces of Futurama, but it seems fine too.
That could also be because it’s more plot-focused (or so it seems) than a lot of these kinds of shows.
I will never forget the time Dad tried to get me to watch Family Guy…
I couldn’t agree more! It ticks me off so much.
^1000% agreed!!
I agree! I hate it when a conflict between two characters appears to be solved at the end and people are finally coming to an understanding, but one of them or someone else makes a joke. I don’t mind it if it’s a nice joke, but I hate it when it’s a negative snotty like joke because it makes it feel like the conflict hasn’t really been solved after all, and I don’t like getting done watching a movie and feeling like there is still tension.
I hate how lately all of the kid’s movies are rated PG and have a lot of adult things in them. It seems like there are no G rated movies anymore. Kid’s movies used to be good and rated G, with less of that humor, and people of all ages could enjoy them, but now, the only ones that are G are the really babyish movies.
Well, I just looked up Princess and the Frog, which is a newer one that older people like, and that’s rated G. I wish things were like that more often.
That’s easy. Whenever someone claims that animation is only a medium for small children.
Leirin mentioned not caring for crude cartoons. I agree on that one! To me, some of the best cartoons are the ones that don’t constantly hammer you over the head with the fact that it’s made to appeal to adults.
I also agree with whoever mentioned villians not having backstories. Or villians who are evil just because. One of the things I found refreshing about the villians in Batman Beyond was that a lot of times there was more to the villians than I wanna be evil just because. They would go through things that gave them a reason to do what they did.
I would like to see villians that shows a side to themselves that makes me feel for them, and I end up having conflicted feelings at the end when they are defeated. Like there’s a part of me who wanted them to get away with it, and I feel a bit of resentment towards the hero.
About the villain’s back stories, I think it simply depends on the character.
Some villains work because of their lack of back story (think of The Dark Knight’s Joker), because trying to humanise them results in their demystification. I think both Vader and Boba Fett lost a little of their appeal once we know the story of their lives.
Other characters become interesting because of their back stories, so I’d say it changes according to the kind of thing you’re writting.
This makes me so incredibly angry!
^^Agreed!
I hate it when edits are made to shows because they need to be made ‘kid-friendly’. 4Kids is/was a big bugbear for me.
Whoever says that needs to spend a year in Japan! The sheer breadth of topics and content in their anime should silence any critics.
One thing I can’t stand (this is more for western animation) is a reliance on toilet humour. Dreamworks really started it with the Shrek series, Shark’s Tale and the first Madagascar (I remember Melman’s “losenge” scene in the New York Subway toilet). A little bit (like WIR’s “Hero’s Doody”) is fine but I think there can be other forms of humour (like wordplay, slapstick, pop-culture satire) that can be just as funny without resorting to scatological gags.
Oh lord, I hate toilet humor. I was turned of by WIR at first bc the scenes they showed on TV were all name calling and toilet humor. And the movie was SO MUCH more mature than that.
Toilet humor in any movies makes me cringe, period.
Toilet humor is one of the weakest resorts to filler in animation, right up there with pop songs and cliched talk. Somehow, the jokes in the Wreck-It Ralph humor didn’t throw me off because I was more focused on the fact that the video game world could be as cool as Toy Story. I figured the jokes would probably be just a few quick gags that would be funnier in the film than in the ads.
Interestingly, Rich Moore says that in early production of Wreck-It Ralph, the video game characters would originally game jump through some weird magical vortex in a toilet that Felix found. When he saw that, he said that they all agreed it was so stupid and they came up with the much better idea of trains that ran between the games and Game Central Station.
Yeah, I wasn’t too bothered by WIR. Just the trailers over did it, and it wasn’t as bad as in the actual film.
Looking back, I kinda regret making this topic. Because over the years, I’ve mellowed about the things I dislike. Now I believe hating is a waste of time, y’know? Ergo, I do not wish to hate on things for no reason which I was keen on doing before. And that’s that. Am I the only one who feels like this currently?
…
Okay, I still cannot stand burp jokes or anything related to that. Why? For some reason, they make me feel awkward. I think it’s mostly that the same standard belch sound effects are always used.
Yeah, I always ranted about certain things like current Disney (Miley Cyrus, High School Musical e.g), Fred on YouTube and other stuff. Nowadays I don’t give it too much thought.
I think it’s been mentioned, but those dance parties at the end of movies. And also crude humor, with few exceptions.
Yeah, it’s extremely overdone I think.
I forgot about the dance parties. That’s true.
There are also a few other things that I don’t mind that much but I notice in quite a few animated movies. The “little kid” introduction scenes, which are obviously necessary for films like Up especially, but I’ve just noticed it a lot in the past few years. It’s also kind of hard to think of other ways to open movies, but I’m sure there must be some ways. Also, I’m not sure who started the whole 2D animation in the end credits of 3D films (Ratatouille?), but that seems to be happening quite regularly now too. Again, these are not bad things at all, but I kind of hope to see other ways to get the same point across in the future.