19Anon here. I've been rewatching old Disney movies from the 90s and 2000s (among some new watches) and the "old good, new bad" thing you guys keep talking about is 100% true. Just finished Beauty and the Beast and Emperor's New Groove and they were both OOZING with soul, charm and ambition not seen with entertainment for years. You don't know how lucky you are to have experienced this era in person. I wish I could've been a part of it so much...

Beauty and the Beast is cynical garbage. Audiences and critics loved it, but it's a deeply soulless film, and it misunderstands real Disney. Watch Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi, and you will see, and feel, the difference.

>talking with an anon born in 2006
fuck me

But I'll level with you. You get to appreciate a world of animation from all decades. Every generation laments not being part of an older better one. Yes, animation is in a new dark age, probably the worst it's ever been, but there is a solution to your dilemma. You may not like the answer. It's transitioning out of mainstream stuff and fully embracing indie/alternative/foreign animation. There's an endless supply of exciting projects out there waiting to be explored. It's a slippery slope that only leads to being more cultured and happier. This goes for continuing to seek out old media as well, but let's focus on the new. I watch cool stuff every year, stuff that makes me thankful for being alive in THIS time. Flow was a remarkable demonstration of what you can pull off with limitations. Common Side Effects was a cool little adult drama. Stugo is one of the funniest cartoons I've seen in years. I've seen shorts at film festivals this year that completely blew my mind with the level of technical detail. What you're lamenting is a very specific era of 2D Disney animation. Yeah, we may never see something like that again, but I guarantee there's a movie out there you'll love even more you haven't discovered yet. Check out French stuff, they keep 2D alive and well. Be careful about not expanding your boundaries, it makes your expectations unrealistic and sets you up for disappointment.

>>149105240 (OP)
OP, you dumb ugly fool.
Go find people your age to watch this shit with. Get a TV, get a couch, put your phones in the other goddamn room and actually watch the movie together. Make them take their ADHD meds if you have to beforehand. There. Now you get the "experience" you wanted.
Seriously, new stuff being garbage in no way diminishes your ability to enjoy old stuff. You didn't need to "be there" to enjoy it, you just have to pull your head out of your ass, swallow your horrific anxiety, and find other people to enjoy it with in person.

Also, can you image being a kid in the 90s and the school field day plays Kazaam? You are in a theater, an actual movie theater with dozens of other kids to watch Kazaam and before the movie starts there is an ad for The Hunchback of Notre Dame. What do the other kids do? One boos the ad and tosses some popcorn triggering a chain reaction of peer pressure. Do you give in and also do this stupid shit or do you keep your popcorn?

Point is, we had bad media before you were born too. For every good movie there's like a dozen terrible movies you will never know about.

>>149106222
>What do the other kids do? One boos the ad and tosses some popcorn triggering a chain reaction of peer pressure. Do you give in and also do this stupid shit or do you keep your popcorn?
I think one of the most obvious examples of this was PowerPuff Girls. Everybody watched it. Everybody liked it. But if you were a boy in grade school you better not fucking admit it.

>>149106480
The most obvious example of this was pokemon.
Fucking hypest thing that ever existed when it came out. Yes, the principle did do a school wide broadcast saying not to bring anymore more "poke-e man" stuff to school because kids were fighting over it. Every adult getting everything about it wrong just made it that much more appealing.
Three years of it being the only thing anyone in my generation gave a shit about. Even the DBZ kids who had bootleg VHS tapes and were hundreds of episodes ahead of everyone else were forced onto the same page. Then come 2000 and all of a sudden pokemon is "gay" and there's like a huge generational rift between kids trying to act like they're too cool for it and other kids still into it. Eventually pokemon won out and by college no one felt ashamed of enjoying it anymore.

Fucking wild though. You finally get caught up on the thing that every kid you know won't shut up about and then suddenly it's not cool anymore. I ended up ditching a lot of friends who tried acting more "grown up" in middle school and got better friends that I still have today.

And the Power Puff Girls was like background noise at the time. Cartoon Cartoon Fridays had their place, but the Saturday morning line up was more what got talked about since that's where he horrible butchered anime was airing as well as the DCAU for a while. I feel like when the DCAU ended, that's when a lot of people I knew fell completely into anime since what DC did next was not as appealing.

>>149106690
Ah, fucking terrible 4kids dubs. Home.

In those other kids' defense, by the time Pokemon ran its course of popularity with "cool kids" as you say, it had definitely become more babyfied. Still, I remember the shift when a neighbor of mine pawned off his pokemon card collection to get into yugioh. I'm talking hundreds of Gen1. I bet he regrets giving them to his kid neighbor so much now, heheh.

>>149105240 (OP)
It's 90s good and 2020's bad
No body likes the 50's

>>149106690
That would be around the advent of Bittorrent, which is how a lot of people got into anime.

>>149107025
>most of Chuck Jones' all time best Looney Tunes
>the entirety of UPA's golden age
>Disney's silver era
>late era Tex Avery
>the mouseketeer Tom and Jerry shorts
>Norman McLaren's masterpieces Neighbors and A Chairy Tale
>Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion
>Bretislav Pojar's stop-motion
>Jiri Trnka's stop-motion
>A Short Vision
>Three Little Bops
>Terrytoons revival with Flebus and Juggler of Our Lady
>John Hubley's independent masterworks, Adventures of Asterisk, Moonbird, and fucking Tender Game
>Lev Atamanov's soviet films, namely The Snow Queen
>Paul Grimault's King and the Mockingbird
>Walerian Borowczyk's The Astronauts
>Richard Williams' The Little Island
>Yugoslavia's Zagreb Film gems
speak for yourself faggot

>>149107688
Yeah? Where all the threads for these stuff?

>>149105240 (OP)
If you're gonna watch old stuff you might as well expand your tastes by watching some non disney movies. Here's some recommendations I can think of in no particular order:
>The Secret of NIMH or any other Bluth film
>Cat's Can't Dance
>Felidae
>Gay Puree
Also check out international film if you can, Marona’s Fantastic Tale isn't old but I think it's great. Koati's pretty underrated too even though it's a fully 2d animated movie from just a couple years ago

I'm only 21, so just a little older, but I was doing the same thing you did awhile back

>>149107791
Almost forgot, also watch Jungledyet Hugo for Rita.

>>149107724
Not going to join you on you forever shifting goalposts. 50s were one of the best decades for cartoons. Eat a dick.

>>149107791
you sure like cats anon

>>149107891
I mayy be a little cat biased as someone who's grown up with them my whole life but there certainly are some great cat animated films out there

>>149105240 (OP)
pls be my Discord kitten