The Disney Classics Rate (The End.)
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Well folks, we made it. We’ve reached the end of the Disney Classics Rate. If you thought at several points that we were never gonna make it here, I can assure you you weren’t alone. I've really given @beyoncésweave a run for ha money in the itsbeen84years.gif rate stakes, but hey, quality over quantity am I right ladies? Much like bey, I wanted to do this right. I can’t even begin to guess how long it took me to get the gif artworks and custom movie borders for the songs the way I wanted them, how many hours I’ve spent trawling dodgy websites for fonts that are almost definitely copyright-protected and painstakingly editing individual frames in gifs for a kii and few extra likes, or just how many damn words I’ve written about Disney movies, of all things. From pre-thread promo to these dying breaths, I’ve been serving you content, mawma. Now, if y’all knew me in real life, you’d know that I am hot garbage when it comes to selling myself and that the last few sentences are incredibly out of character for me, but you know what? I am damn proud of this rate, so
However, if I may quote Alexandra Burke – we have to address the elephant in the room. I haven’t really made it a secret that I’ve had kind of a rough time over the past year. Leaving university and not having anywhere to go hit me like a ton of bricks; I've felt stranded and essentially useless for the past several months, and it really took a toll on my self-confidence and motivation. I genuinely can’t apologise enough for all the delays and gaps in communication over this time, and I can’t thank you all enough for being so kind and patient with me (and for not calling mutiny and phoning in @ohnostalgia dddd). Even when I was AWOL from the forum, I was thinking about this rate all the time, which really just lead to the guilt and anxiety building up and making it worse, yada yada, you know the drill. But on the other hand, knowing that you guys were here, enjoying what I was doing enough to allow me the time I needed to do it, was a massive help. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, it gave me a reason to get up in the morning some days. So – thank you, to everyone who voted, and to everyone who followed along, whether you were with us from the start or joined in later. Thank you especially to @kalonite, who has been a damn saint putting up with me being a giant stress-ridden pain in the ass this whole time with breakdowns over write-ups and fits of rage over photoshop. You’re kinda the best. Again, sorry about Hellfire.
xox
I’m gonna miss this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m looking forward to having a life again and not having an empty word document laughing in my face every evening, but I’m gonna miss it. A lot of you know yourselves how much goes into running a rate, but damn if it ain’t fun. Watching the leaderboard move around is way more exciting than it has any right to be, and making artwork, having people read your in-depth analyses on things that just aren’t that deep; it’s all worth the amount of effort. Oh, and the likes. The likes don’t hurt. Alas, I am done. I’m exhausted, emotionally drained and I low-key never want to hear a fucking Disney song ever again (who am I kidding, I'll be back bopping within a week), but…
I’m free.
Thank you for your honesty. That's brave. And your post makes this whole rate even more amazing. I hope 2018 has much better things in store for you. With this rate you showed you can literally do anything. If only you could inlcude it in future CVs.
Welp, I'm afraid yours was the only 11 for that soundtrack! That award goes to The Little Mermaid again with 7, closely followed by Hunchback with 6 (poor guy can't catch a break).
Beauty & the Beast will always have the most terrying Funko figures, I guess? Not everyone has that.
I meant to reply to this earlier sorry; if people were up for a quick wee Pixar rate later in the year I'd totally be up for running it if no one else fancied taking it on! It'd have to be the Eurovision style voting like the films here though, I love both myself and you guys way too much to force anyone to watch a Cars movie.
Jesus, binch
Well folks, we made it. We’ve reached the end of the Disney Classics Rate. If you thought at several points that we were never gonna make it here, I can assure you you weren’t alone. I've really given @beyoncésweave a run for ha money in the itsbeen84years.gif rate stakes, but hey, quality over quantity am I right ladies? Much like bey, I wanted to do this right. I can’t even begin to guess how long it took me to get the gif artworks and custom movie borders for the songs the way I wanted them, how many hours I’ve spent trawling dodgy websites for fonts that are almost definitely copyright-protected and painstakingly editing individual frames in gifs for a kii and few extra likes, or just how many damn words I’ve written about Disney movies, of all things. From pre-thread promo to these dying breaths, I’ve been serving you content, mawma. Now, if y’all knew me in real life, you’d know that I am hot garbage when it comes to selling myself and that the last few sentences are incredibly out of character for me, but you know what? I am damn proud of this rate, so
However, if I may quote Alexandra Burke – we have to address the elephant in the room. I haven’t really made it a secret that I’ve had kind of a rough time over the past year. Leaving university and not having anywhere to go hit me like a ton of bricks; I've felt stranded and essentially useless for the past several months, and it really took a toll on my self-confidence and motivation. I genuinely can’t apologise enough for all the delays and gaps in communication over this time, and I can’t thank you all enough for being so kind and patient with me (and for not calling mutiny and phoning in @ohnostalgia dddd). Even when I was AWOL from the forum, I was thinking about this rate all the time, which really just lead to the guilt and anxiety building up and making it worse, yada yada, you know the drill. But on the other hand, knowing that you guys were here, enjoying what I was doing enough to allow me the time I needed to do it, was a massive help. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, it gave me a reason to get up in the morning some days. So – thank you, to everyone who voted, and to everyone who followed along, whether you were with us from the start or joined in later. Thank you especially to @kalonite, who has been a damn saint putting up with me being a giant stress-ridden pain in the ass this whole time with breakdowns over write-ups and fits of rage over photoshop. You’re kinda the best. Again, sorry about Hellfire.
xox
I’m gonna miss this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m looking forward to having a life again and not having an empty word document laughing in my face every evening, but I’m gonna miss it. A lot of you know yourselves how much goes into running a rate, but damn if it ain’t fun. Watching the leaderboard move around is way more exciting than it has any right to be, and making artwork, having people read your in-depth analyses on things that just aren’t that deep; it’s all worth the amount of effort. Oh, and the likes. The likes don’t hurt. Alas, I am done. I’m exhausted, emotionally drained and I low-key never want to hear a fucking Disney song ever again (who am I kidding, I'll be back bopping within a week), but…
I’m free.
If you’re up for it, I’d 100% be in!I meant to reply to this earlier sorry; if people were up for a quick wee Pixar rate later in the year I'd totally be up for running it if no one else fancied taking it on! It'd have to be the Eurovision style voting like the films here though, I love both myself and you guys way too much to force anyone to watch a Cars movie.
The only two Pixar films I haven’t seen are Cars 2 and 3, so Eurovision style would be perfect ddd. I enjoyed Cars at the time, but it’s not one I return to like most of the others.
Yeah to be fair, the first Cars isn't that bad. I cried at the end 'cause I was hungover at the time and I'm a damn mess, but 2 was a shambles. The only Pixar films I haven't seen are Cars 3, Ratatouille and Brave (sorry Scottish hunties x).
Oh, Ratatouille is great! Watch it immediately. It's still not in my Top 5 Pixar films, although when the calibre is this high, that's not an insult.
Brave didn't do as well with audiences or critics, but I loved it. Not sure if it's because I'm Scottish or because I'm basic, but either way I found it enjoyable. And, as a mummy's boy, the story resonated with me so much that I had to phone my mum in floods of tears when I got out of the cinema.
Although I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at the amount of ridiculous attempts at Scottish accents we've had to endure thanks to Brave. This is a particularly heinous example:
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Seconding this. Ratatouille is pretty good. Brave's 'okay' by pixar standards and I haven't seen Cars 3, but it can't be any worse than Planes surely?
I didn't participate in this rate, I just don't know Disney films/songs that well, but I've been following this every step of the way, and I must say @Animalia it was a truely stunning rate. What you say about each song and film was just beautiful and so interesting, and definately makes me want to review the Disney back catalogue. Honestly, you should be so proud of yourself. Great work, by you, and all the contributors.
Thank you @Animalia for this magnificent rate that has given us some of the best kiis over the past year! You're write-ups and art are legendary and it's been such a pleasure to participate! THANK YOU!
And thank you to everyone else that kept this rate going and so much fun for the past year! Happy yet sad to see it go!
And thank you to everyone else that kept this rate going and so much fun for the past year! Happy yet sad to see it go!
It is done. All the elimination post image links have been fixed. So if anyone was planning on pulling an Oleander-with-the-Björk-rate and having me wake up one day to 500 likes overnight, you can now forge ahead free of Photobucket's hideous money-grabbing talons.
Thanks again for all the love, I'll hopefully see y'all in Off Topic for PJ's Ultimate Video Games... soon.
