[Kandarian Demon]

I don't think Fantasia is overrated either, in my personal opinion it's amazing in every way.

I'm not prejudiced against animated movies, or "family movies" for that matter, which I think I've already mentioned that I have a tendency to prefer when I'm not watching horror.

Movies have the power to touch us in so many ways, to make us feel and think... and I think it's a shame that for a movie to be taken seriously, it has to be dark, pessimistic, dramatic, or have lots of violence and explotions.

And when I say "sad", it's because it's kind of like saying that if a movie can make you feel happy, laugh, remember your inner child/childhood, remind you of your appreciation of your family - that's somehow not valid, and something that should be ridiculed no matter how well the movie was done, or how artful the animation is.

When a dark movie with a negative messages tells a story that is set in an imaginary world, it's a masterpiece - if a happy movie does the same thing, it's just a stupid, unrealistic fairy tale for babies.

The more miserable a movie makes you feel, the greater art it is - or so it seems. Yes, we all know the world is a horrible place... and there are plenty of movies to remind us of that. There is a time and a place for that... but I will never understand why it's so bad, why it can't be art, when a movie has the power to take us away from all of that, just for a little while.

It's the same with music - happy songs are always looked down upon. A song and it's lyrics are just not art unless it tells us about human suffering and makes us want to kill ourselves. How dare anyone be positive and call themselves artists!

I also don't get why artwork is suddenly not art anymore because it "moves".

This post is not directed at anyone, I'm just thinking out loud about something that I'll just never understand.