Josh Spiegel

This one hurts. Aladdin is my favorite Disney animated film, but Beauty & the Beast is, I think, the "better" film. By a Cogsworth tick, I give it to BatB.

As a Disney Renaissance fanatic and 90s baby, this is just cruel

Yes, his tagline was "You're fired," but the whole premise of that tagline is, "I don't have a fucking clue how to hire people to do the work." (Which...has certainly been borne out over time.)

Thinking once again about how immensely odd it is that he revived his entire personality at the outset of the 21st century by being bad at hiring people.

Listen I know BATB is the better move, but Aladdin is my favorite of the 90s Renaissance

This is an easy choice.

Beauty and the Beast is the best animated movie of all time.

The Beast shreds Aladdin's rug with ease.

no matter which one you choose, howard ashman wins

Maybe it's tougher for you, though, because I am going with Beauty and the Beast, AKA the only Disney animated film to get the Best Picture Oscar nomination among a field of five.

What do you all think?

Walt Disney Animation Studios Bracket - Elite Eight Vote In today's vote, two 1990s animated films go head to head but only one can win.

Fantasia is moving onto the Final Four of the Walt Disney Animation Studios bracket! Which 90s-era classic is going to move on today? Well, it's a tough one: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

To be exceedingly clear: I know why Cars 2 exists. I promise. But 15 years later, it has aged so horrendously that I can’t help but marvel at it.

I don't even get that existential. There's a bit where Mater writes a sad note where he says he won't bother Lightning anymore, and all I can think is, "How did he write the note?"

"What do the people want? A movie where a loudmouth with an exaggerated Southern accent thinks wasabi is pistachio ice cream!"

Truly remarkable that, after two straight Best Picture nominees, Pixar went big on "wildly misreading the room" and released a Cars sequel that makes Larry the Cable Guy the lead character.

I literally got my ass whipped as a 5-year old over FANTASIA, so I'll never vote for that (plus, I can't stand that movie). This Grumpy is voting for Snow White. Vote for whatever your heart tells you!

No wrong answer, but this is the right answer.

This is where I finally leave SNOW WHITE behind. As much as it’s a cinematic landmark, I feel like FANTASIA is the culmination of Walt’s animated ambition.

Another tough vote featuring two all timers!

I went with Snow White since that's the one that started it all.

I think it’s the end of the line for either winner of this poll, but I’m voting for Fantasia one last time.

The Walt Disney Animation Studios Bracket - Challonge Explore this tournament hosted by mousterpiece

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This will be a fun vote, but not a hard one for me. Snow White was the first Disney film, but Fantasia is one of the most immense cinematic achievements the studio ever managed.

But that's just me. How do you all vote?

Walt Disney Animation Studios Bracket - Final Four Vote In today's vote, two Golden Age classics enter the thunderdome, but only one will leave.

We've moved into the Elite Eight of the Walt Disney Animation Studios bracket! And today's vote is going to be a fun one, pitting two Golden Age classics against each other. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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I have an abiding love for A Love of Films.

A list of chapters for the new episode of U Talkin’ U2 To Me?, including “A Love for Films”.

I am, of course, delighted at the return of U Talkin’ U2 To Me?, but I am almost more delighted at the absolutely terrible Apple Podcast auto-generated set of chapters for its transcript.

This is a tough one!

One of the best of the Classic Golden Age vs one of the best of the Modern Golden Age.

I went with the oldie by a whisker.

I'm too old to have any nostalgia for THE LION KING. Outside of its opening sequence and bitchy RoarPaul's Drag Race runner-up, Scar, I haven't much love for the movie. But Pinocchio scared the crap out of me nearly 50 years ago when I first saw it. So that's where my vote went. Vote your heart!

Not a fan of living through the plot of the Lion King but absolutely prefer that movie to Pinnochio.

This is a tough one, but I'm going LION KING if only because it didn't give me nightmares as a child. This is my revenge, PINOCCHIO.

On one hand, this is all true.

On the other hand, another "bad decision" was this guy voting to confirm Kristi Noem last year, well after the "I killed a dog" story had become mainstream news.