'Twas a Dark and Stormy Day...

And I sat, in front of my monitor, with the rain drumming on the roof accompanied by the occasional pitter-patter of Ninja walking through the house. My little cousin is over, as I have an emergency babysitting job due to the recent closure of all public education institutions in the district. But, my mother has recently (temporarily) relieved me of the responsibility, occupying the young one with the age old entertainment of cookie baking. And so, I take the chance to remark on a curious phenomenon I have noticed of late: My reinterest with children's movies.
Now, I'm not talking Barney or anything like that. I'm talking Disney movies.
Agreed, not all Disney movies are of the same caliber, but a remarkable number of them, that I knew were good when I saw them as a child, I'm finding I'm only now truly appreciating.
Take, for example, the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I knew it was a good movie, which it is, but as a child I was never able to fully appreciate the epic music that fills the film. The Lion King, also, I don't think is fully appreciable by children. It seems to me that most of those good old movies were so good, because they went deeper than mere childhood entertainment. Sure, some of the old stories that they made into movies were made easier for children to watch, and they are obviously outwardly oriented to a younger generation, but they're so much deeper than that. Kids often miss the subtle humour of these movies (here, Aladdin comes to mind), and also don't appreciate the truly awe inspiring sequences they have (Parts of quite a few: the Lion King, Aladdin). Of course, then there are also those other, non Disney movies which rank just as high, but have less fame, and that which they have is often misplaced. Anastasia, for example, is one of my favorite of these old movies; everyone thinks it's Disney, when it isn't. And, thanks to the internet, I've rediscovered several old favorites that I plan on watching as soon as opportunity allows: Quest for Camelot (Which I just bought today!), Thumbelina...
In entertaining my young charge today, I took the opportunity to watch a movie for today's youth: The Clone Wars (he brought it). In that it would entertain him until my mother could return to take some of the load of watching him off me, and that I had been fairly curious to see it, I decided to pop it in...
I didn't get nearly the same feelings of satisfaction watching it than I did from watching those old favorites. It seemed to me that it didn't take time for good story telling, and was relying on it's Franchise fame and special effects, as well as some painfully inaccurate situations for humor, to draw in an audience. It seems to me like a lot of things are like that nowadays... Alas, I weep for our culture, which folds in on itself in an unquenchable search for more and more senseless and empty entertainment, for less and less payment...
Well, on this note, I go to take what pleasure I can while my young charge is still occupied. Not to give you the wrong idea, I love the kid, but he does require quite a bit of attention, which distracts from my own actions a large amount. Well, the proceeds go to my laptop fund! I don't think I'll be able to find a better job for now.