I felt like I stopped watching countless amount of cartoons when I started this blog which was August of last year. For the first few months, I decided to focus on newer experiences like watching musicals, and exploring various other artists instead of watching every cartoon to see if it appealed to me or inspired me which rarely happens nowadays.
The only reason why I loved short subject cartoons was how straightforward and comedic they were, but now I realize that it's just the same thing over and over again especially when it comes to rare animation studios going for the style of Warner Bros. like the Lantz cartoons, and Noveltoons. While I loved the look of the cartoons, I was never able to live with these characters since they mostly did the same antics and have the same dull unoriginal personalities.
Now I still appreciate that these cartoons try to have a source of entertainment and humor but all I see in myself when I watch them is a neutral expression on my face.
Now does that mean I'm starting to avoid watching cartoons for the rest of entirity? Heck no. I'm still wanting to experience a short film that I never seen before a chance, but it just isn't as fun and exciting as it used to be since most of these cartoons aim for the same plot, energy and scenarios. It's in over thousands of cartoons. You see many cartoons that were made only to be run for a 7 minute runtime, to me that is way too quick and kinda ruins others artistic ability.
There's still exceptions.
I still love a bunch of the Looney Tunes shorts like the ones directed by Robert McKimson, and Chuck Jones, I still love almost all of Tex Avery's MGM cartoons, I still enjoy Tom and Jerry, even though I'm more prone to only watch the 1940s era, some of the Disney shorts are still highly watchable, especially with the Silly Symphonies technicolor cartoons, and the early 30s Fleischer musical shorts, heck the 2 technicolor Popeye cartoons are ok, even though I dislike the actual series. But otherwise, I'm not on the minority of liking or having any interest in the other animation studios from the theatrical era.
They were once my hugest inspirations for making characters and stories, but nowadays I see myself stepping away short films and focus more on the tone-down, serious and sometimes cynical style of films. I've been more obsessed with the beauty of the old Disney stuff because I relate alot more to the characters, than the usual comedic forced Mickey and Friends stuff, I also want to experience more of the other animation studios like Don Bluth, Studio Ghibli, and what I'm focusing on now, Pixar. I just seem to move forward to a more logical understanding and truthful real side taken in an animation perspective, I guess because I'm not in school anymore, and I'm knowing more about life, and having interest in spirituality.
Luckily, this helped and I was able to express myself and understand more deeper elements of comprehension and it honestly made me a better person.
My favorite films tend to be still easily amusing and wacky at times, but at least it has intelligence, and it isn't the same typical irritating actions and premises. My favorite movie is Hellzapoppin' and that isn't particularly emotional, or deep, that's because it's a movie I can watch any time. My favorite animated stuff isn't particularly emotional either, but now I'm on the minority of exploring more depth of real characters and real situations.
I'm wanting to watch a movie that might really interest me and relates to what I said, and that's a movie called It's A Wonderful Life (1946). I watched a few minutes of it, and I was immediately invested in it like crazy, I'm loving it already, James Stewart is a great actor, and this is a movie I definitely want to add onto my list. It's probably meant to be a Christmas movie, but whenever I have the time to check it out, I'll definitely give it a chance.
Like I said earlier, I'm happy that I can accept to change how I experience things and gain better interests. This is an exploration blog after all, and I still enjoy looking back at my past self remembering the times where I wasn't fully alright with my opinions on something, or knowing someone completely new that's now been a tool for influence.
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