Recommend This: ANIMATED films

[Bob the zombie]

I will suggest my favorite animated movies:
Batman beyond: return of the joker
Hellboy: blood and iron

 

[Sporky111]

Most of the things I was going to say have been said already, so I'm going to go out on another limb:

The Nightmare Before Christmas. The definition of animated movies is faily loose, I don't see why stop motion can't be included.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Planet Hulk. Hulk is sent to an alien planet, becomes a gladiator, and then becomes king. Metal.

 

[Sneaklemming]

renaissance

 

[OtherSideofSky]

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Kiki's Delivery Service
Whispers of the Heart
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Grave of the Fireflies
Howl's Moving Castle
Akira
The secret of NIMH
All Dogs go to heaven
Waltz with Bashir

all are either good, fantastic or fucking brilliant.
Grave of the Fireflies in particular is just the saddest thing ever, made me cry a little.

I would agree, except for the bit about the film adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle being brilliant. On its own it's an okay movie with great animation and an ending which comes out of nowhere and doesn't really resolve things very well. It's one major achievement is that it took the amazing story and characters from the book and almost completely destroys them in order to make way for Miyazaki's beloved themes and character archetypes which he must put in every single movie he makes with varying degrees of success (they work much better in his earlier films and are utterly unsuited to adapting a Diana wynne Jones story).

Since I haven't seen them mentioned yet, how about:

A Scanner Darkly (excellent film adapted from a Philip K. Dick story and a rare instance of good rotoscoping)

Jin Roh (written by Oshii but benefits from having a different director)

The Triplet of Belleville (a wonderfully bizarre French film with very little dialog)

Prince Achmed (the first feature-length animated film, looks like nothing else and holds up well to this day)

and on a more recent note:
The Secret of Kells (got robbed at the last Oscars, best animated film of 2009 by far, visually both unique and amazing)

 

[Code Monkey]

Spoiler: Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door.

Oh yeah. It's happenin'.

 

[A random person]

Anything by Miyazaki or Ghibli, though that's essentially been said.
End of Evangelion, if you want a mindfuck (I got a friend into Eva by showing him the Asuka fight scene).
And Iron Giant, from what I remember (I was about 6 when I saw clips of it).

 

[cabalistics]

The Fantastic Planet

The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a word play on the French-language word hommes, meaning men), have been brought by the giant Draags to the Draags' home planet, where they are kept as pets (with collars). The Draags are an alien race which is humanoid in shape but a hundred times larger than humans, with blue skin, fan-like earlobes and huge, protruding red eyes. The Draags also live much longer than human beings ? one Draag week equals a human year. Some Oms are domesticated as pets, but others run wild, and are periodically exterminated. The Draags' treatment of the Oms is ironically contrasted with their high level of technological and spiritual development.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Clone_Wars_(2003_TV_series)
I rest my case.

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

Resident evil: degeneration.
Coming from a guy who doesn't like the games.
Titan A.E.
I remember it from my childhood... Happy days, happy days.
Quest for Camalot.
Also from my childhood, I think it's by the same people... Happy days, happy days.
Iron giant.
Same as above.

 

[Arcanist]

I pick Spirited Away, although I haven't watch many animated movies to be honest.

If Pixar is off limits, I'm gonna have to go with this. It's such a touching story...

 

[Harkonnen64]

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

I'd Recomend the Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya...

Even if you've never seen any seasons of Melancholy, this is still a damn fine movie...

 

[silentsentinel]

I recommend Tokyo Godfathers to everyone here. It's about three homeless people (a transvestite, a hard-drinking bum, and a teenage girl) trekking across Japan, trying to find the parents of a baby they found in a dumpster. It's both heartwarming and hilarious.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tokyo_godfathers/

 

[Stealthygamer]

Appleseed, Appleseed:Ex Machina, and Hulk Vs.

 

[twasdfzxcv]

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars.

 

[Jtar]

The Cat Returns and Remi, Alone in the World (not entirely sure if that's the correct english title.)

 

[The_Decoy]

As the obvious candidates have been mentioned - spirited away etc - then how about Persepolis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_(film)]?

Delightful, engaging, tells a good story well and quite different from what I've seen before.

 

[Broken Orange]

Iron Giant.
Best. Animated. Movie. Ever.

No competition!

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The classic disney movies are good. As are all of Pixar's movies if you count computer generated movies as animation (which I do). Well, maybe except for Cars. Never seen the whole movie, but the parts that I've seen didn't

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

Final Fantasy: Spirits Within.

If you ignore the name (it was panned mostly because it has nothing to do with final fantasy) it's really good.

A true Sci fi Epic

seriously, I like it better than the games.