Do you find yourselves occasionally watching the classics, Yea Forums?

Do you find yourselves occasionally watching the classics, Yea Forums?

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Oh hell yeah

Yeah and I'll tell you watch exactly I do as soon as I stop this thread from 404ing.

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.

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.

I find their old racist sensibility really funny in a fucked up way.

>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.

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.

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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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.

>Is anyone going to tell me the square screen is gonna keep them from watching this
Yes actually, these people exist and I almost fucked one

Yeh I watched that one last week. Some Daffy Duck cartoons sound pretty cozy today actually. The ones before they made him an incompetent loser.

I worked in a FYE when DVD was new. The amount of times I had to sell a Full Frame movie because "I don't like the black bars" was enough to drive a person crazy.

Do they even sell full frame versions anymore? Now that DVDs are dying out, I imagine the only people who want them are collectors who'd rather get the widesceen versions with the original proper aspect ratio. Feel like it's been a decade since I've seen a full screen dvd.
>The ones before they made him an incompetent loser.
so you're a man of culture as well?

sure, they're surprisingly well animated for their time

Widescreen TVs becoming more popular killed the fullscreen format and now you keep finding the reverse problem everywhere, usually in extras where fullscreen materials get stretched out to widescreen.

>they're surprisingly well animated for their time
What does this even mean? The early decades of animation are the best in history. They were made with theatrical budgets thus putting out higher quality animation. TV animation nowadays doesn't come close to the quality of Looney Tunes cartoons from the 30's 40's and 50's. It's not even just them. Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, Droopy, and a lot of cartoons of those particular eras have better animation than anything we've seen in the past 50 or so years not counting the massive budget Disney films. It's weird to call the animation quality "surprising" when anyone with half a brain knows that your classic theatrical short is going to be higher quality than your standard 22 minute Rick & Morty or Steven Universe episode. Even a child can tell the difference.

yes

I watch more Looney Tunes than any other cartoon
what the fuck

Same here

For anyone who hasn't heard, when Tex went to MGM he was told to avoid " the Warner Brothers rowdiness". And look what happened

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And nowadays these assholes don't even bother playing cartoons from the 90s and 2000s we don't get any variety at all.