Dumbo (1941)
Dumbo was never one of my favourite Disney films as a kid, so I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it this time around. I guess the eponymous pachyderm and his mouse friend experiencing a shared hallucination of creepy pink elephants after drinking booze-tainted water had more than a little impact towards shaping my new found affection for it.
8.5/10
Song of the South (1946)
To hell with the politically correct candyasses who brand this movie racist -- they don't know jackshit. If anything, this movie's about blacks and whites opening up to one another by sharing their fokelore, tearing down the bridges that keep them apart in the process.
Should I someday evolve beyond my current antinatalism and somehow find a loving woman to make babies with, I'd definately buy this movie for our children.
8/10
Scrooge (1951)
This is still the definitive film adaptation of A Christmas Carol for me and more than certainly always will be.
8/10
Help! (1965)
It's got style and humour -- and Eleanor Bron is one captivatingly sexy Jewess pretending to be an Indian -- but the pacing is awful. At least a half hour of material could've been shaved off without sacrificing any of the story.
7/10
I Gopher You (1954) -- 7/10
Trick or Tweet (1959)
I think this is one of the very few Sylvester & Tweety shorts I actually like. That the story focuses on the conflict between Sylvester and his dopey-sounding feline rival instead of that stupid hydrocephalic yellow twerp is definately the key as to why.
7/10
Terrier-Stricken (1952) -- 7/10
A Scent of the Matterhorn (1961)
I feel the same why about Pepe Le Pew cartoons as I do about the Wile E. Coyote & Road Runner cartoons -- the characters are good, but the stories are all completely interchangeable; if you've seen one, you've seen them all, and they've all become tedious and boring.
6/10
Sheep Ahoy (1954)
Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog cartoons are also all invariably interchangeably boring, only moreso since Ralph Wolf is just a lame Wile E. Coyote clone, just with a red nose instead of a black one.
6/10
His New Profession (1914)
Here's something I've noticed about Charlie Chaplin's early films with Keystone Studios: they rather suck. It's hard to see how the Tramp ever became a popular character watching these plotless meanderings.
6/10
Garfield on the Town (1983) -- 7/10
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) -- 7/10
Suspiria (1977)
I rated this very same film in this thread a year or so back, and I believe I gave it a 5/10. While my opinion of the movie itself hasn't changed all that much, my rating system has; whereas I used to rate a movie soley on how much it entertained me, now I also take its overall quality into consideration. Therefore, I have to give this film a new score of
8/10
Inferno (1980)
The film spent too much time figuring out who its lead character was, and I couldn't quite figure out why the remaining two mothers were killing off the characters they'd deemed worthy of death in the first place, so I don't think its as good as Suspiria.
Still, it's an incredibly well-crafted, beautifully-filmed movie, and it's definately a worthy follow-up to Suspiria (unlike, say, the dull, dismal, boring piece of crap that was Mother of Tears).
7.5/10