Do you find yourselves occasionally watching the classics, Yea Forums?
Do you find yourselves occasionally watching the classics, Yea Forums?
David Allen
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Jaxson Reyes
Oh hell yeah
Dylan Walker
Yeah and I'll tell you watch exactly I do as soon as I stop this thread from 404ing.
Joseph Hughes
So yeah I recently bought the Platinum collection DVDs which have a ton of the best Looney Tunes shorts. There are only 3 volumes and since I cannot seem to find the Golden Collection sets which have more cartoons, i'm perfectly fine with what I already have. I find myself enjoying the cartoons from the 40's more than the rest due to it's more energetic nature and overall better animation quality than anything that came after. Also the characters are at their peak. Been meaning to pick up a few Popeye collections too since I watched a couple of them recently and they're fucking great. I don't know if this thread is exclusively about Looney Tunes since you were not specific but yeah I watch the classics. There is literally no reason to watch any other Looney Tunes unless you want to settle for mediocrity.
Nathaniel Howard
Eh, not really. They played the Loony Tunes to death when I was growing up- every channel seemed to air them in reruns. It and Scooby Doo were just inescapable for me, and wore out their welcome. They're classics, but I never have an urge to rewatch.
That said, I'd day one buy a bluray of remastered Tex Avery shorts.
Isaiah Evans
I find their old racist sensibility really funny in a fucked up way.
Gabriel Campbell
>They played the Loony Tunes to death when I was growing up- every channel seemed to air them in reruns. It and Scooby Doo were just inescapable for me, and wore out their welcome. They're classics, but I never have an urge to rewatch.
I felt this same exact way until very recently. Once I got into animation I learned to appreciate how fucking incredible the Looney Tunes cartoons are in terms of the extremely high production value and how funny the gags are. There is so much shit you don't pick up as a kid. To me they just felt really old and I didn't understand some of the corny words they used but there's so much to really enjoy. Plus I didn't realize this as a kid but there was so much LT content they barely showed. We all remember Duck Amuck and Rabbit Seasoning but there's hundreds of shorts they rarely showed on TV. So much Clampett and Avery was something I never saw much of and they put out some of the best cartoons. It worth giving a try. The only difference I share with my child self now is that Looney Tunes is incredible whereas Scooby-Doo is still a dull pile of trash. I also have to mention Tom & Jerry which I would say they showed more of on TV than both LT and Scooby-Doo combined. I'm still not ready to watch those again even though I'm sure they're great.
Cooper Ramirez
Which is kind of funny considering how not racist the people who worked on them were. I have a feeling Friz was a racist and i'm sure Chuck Jones probably said nigger in the comfort of his own home, but everyone else was very progressive. Bill Melendez who was one of the better animators for Warner Bros in the 1940's was an absolute spic but was still perfectly fine with all the racially insensitive Mexican shit.
Easton Morris
Honestly, the Loony Tunes and other cartoons from the 40s (barring the obvious propoganda stuff) actually don't really fall back onto racist stuff as often as you'd think, showing for all the goofy slapstick and "simple" gags, they weren't as low brow as you'd expect.
...which makes something like 1960s Dick Tracy even MORE hilariously wrong, since the entire thing was just "lol! Stereotype! That's the joke!"
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Benjamin Gray
Why the fuck is this in 16:9 aspect ratio? Why the fuck do people keep doing this? Just keep it in the original fucking aspect ratio. Who are these imaginary fuckers who would complain about the black bars? Is anyone going to tell me the square screen is gonna keep them from watching this and not the fact it obviously looks and sounds like it came out over 50 years ago? For fucksake.