Talk:The Little Mermaid/@comment-26396081-20150623091407/@comment-1672596-20150930115149

You know, being nominated for an academy award doesn't necessarily mean that it's actually good. The Master was nominated for awards, may have even won one yet that was actually a horrible movie (watch this if you don't believe me). Many times they are awarded despite not actually being released to the public beforehand (like Brokeback Mountain, for example. That got Golden Globes, and was even briefly covered in that Boondocks newspaper comic, yet the film itself wasn't even released in Georgia at the time, my parents never even HEARD of the film at the time) And there are plenty of good films that were passed over. The King's Speech actually came pretty close to being passed over, and Star Wars was not even given a second's notice by the Academy Awards.

Besides, most movie awards things are generally given regarding whether they promote a particular political ideology, not for whether they actually HAVE merit.

And for the record, while you ARE correct that those movies didn't flop (though only Beauty and the Beast through Lion King could be considered substantial hits), they also didn't exactly stand the test of time either, while The Little Mermaid and Lion King actually did (The Little Mermaid has a huge following and even its own fan convention, while The Lion King's actually got a new show coming called The Lion Guard. What has Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin got? Or Tarzan, Hercules, Hunchback, or anything like that that is actually their own works). Box office receipts are only valid if they are what actually saves a movie production studio from potential bankruptcy or if they actually CAUSE a well-to-do film studio to go bankrupt. Otherwise, they're lukewarm at best. They don't actually reflect whether they stand the test of time.