Recent content by Edward Joseph

WB, without a doubt, with MGM in second place.

For as much flack one could give him for his colorization efforts, it seemed he really did love old films. IIRC he put a clause in his contract in the sale of Turner to WB that stated that TCM would never be shut down, thus giving a permanent home to old cinema on TV.

Most people that I've talked to seem to think that Screen Gems started out good and goofy before going downhill in the latter half of the 1930s. After that, they started to produce some of the worst cartoons of the Golden Age of Animation. UPA is more split in opinion nowadays. Some people...

Looney Tunes: Back in Action is worse than Space Jam. I've just seen that movie and GOD was it WAY worse than I remembered. I'm even contemplating if it's on par with Space Jam 2 in some places. Also (contrary to what I wrote a LONG time ago in this thread), this version of Daffy in the movie...

Doesn't really look like Devilman. Granted my knowledge of anime is very poor but the fact that it's in spanish may narrow it down a bit. It's actually a Walter Lantz toon (Crazy Mixed-Up Pup).

Some more unpopular opinions: - Mickey Mouse is pretty overrated. I was watching most of his 1929 - 1932 shorts recently and I gotta say...they were boring and forgettable as sin. Most of his shorts from 1932 - 1941 aren't really bad, but it's generally other characters and other parts of the...

The problem was never really with Scrappy himself. It was HOW the show used him. The show basically abandoned Fred, Velma and Daphne and instead went all in on basically having Scrappy, Shaggy and Scooby star in dumb 7 minute toons where they fought monsters and stuff like that. Now COLUMBIA...

Dude you're making it sound like Zaslav makes all of the decisions when he's the head of animation. He isn't. It's a LOT more complicated than that. (and TBH all of this hatred on a man like Zaslav, to the point of wishing ill on him, is kind of distributing)

Mckimson's probably the most jaded director in WB history. In most of his toons, whenever there's a punch in them, there's no other joke. The punch IS the joke! Not that I'm complaining. I DIG Fresh Airedale. Probably the most cynical cartoon in WB cartoon history.

Hot takes? I've got em' in SPADES! - I genuinely am really interested and enjoy a lot of the pre-1935 WB cartoons (yes, even including Buddy) and find the 1933 - 1935 era of WB a LOT more interesting than most other's would. They're not really like WB cartoons...but they're pretty fascinating...

Yeah. TBH I think the reason as to why Daffy Duck's meaner 50s version is so prominent in the 1950s and 1960s as opposed to the 1930s and 1940s is because Daffy really only appeared with Bugs, Elmer, Porky and Speedy during that time and rarely on his own or against a one-time foe. Pre-1950s...

Oh yeah. Thought his version was good TBH. Not much to say.

I can't pick a favorite. They all (mostly) did something well. I'll just go through them: Bob Clampett: Really enjoy this version. People keep saying that he's a bit TOO aggressive for their liking and a LITTLE too mean and I do agree with them on some level (it doesn't really lead to the most...

I remember stumbling onto this one a couple of years ago and basically going "What the heck are the Groovie Ghoolies and why does this exist?". I eventually saw this one 2 years ago (my review here: https://letterboxd.com/mjkallamthanam/film/daffy-duck-and-porky-pig-meet-the-groovie-goolies/)...

Dale Case (one of DFE's earliest animators) saying that Mckimson was only at the DFE studio to collect paychecks gave me a much bigger laugh than most of these shorts TBH.