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Didn't they fire the guy who was ordering all the crappy DTV poo poo?
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Byzantine posted:Didn't they fire the guy who was ordering all the crappy DTV poo poo? Haha that's just one guy? How does that even work?
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Mar 17, 2014 02:25
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Kraps posted:Haha that's just one guy? How does that even work? It was Eisner.
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Mar 17, 2014 02:29
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Das Boo posted:It was Eisner. Heh, wiki says he stepped down, partly because 43% of Disney's shareholders said he was poo poo.
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Mar 17, 2014 02:32
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Macaluso posted:To be totally fair to Disney, there hasn't been a straight to DVD sequel to Bolt, Princess & the Frog, Tangled or Wreck-it Ralph. The most you can say is that Tangled had a (pretty funny) short about Flynn and Rapunzel's wedding. So perhaps Frozen is safe as well, even despite how ridiculously good it's doing Unlike most disney movies however, I think there's room left at the end for a real sequel that could actually be released in theater, rather than some direct to dvd shlock.
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Mar 17, 2014 03:52
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Kraps posted:Heh, wiki says he stepped down, partly because 43% of Disney's shareholders said he was poo poo. He made a ton of money for the company though. They have their fingers in more pies than you can imagine.
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Mar 17, 2014 04:22
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effectual posted:He made a ton of money for the company though. They have their fingers in more pies than you can imagine. He started out great, making them lots of money and lots of good moves. He even decided to step into Walt's shoes and be on TV like Walt used to. Then he started going a little bonkers after the death of his co-CEO Frank Wells. The last straw was him telling Pixar to get hosed when they asked for more money. That's what turned the board against him, which is why the guy who replaced him went and bought Pixar outright as his first order of business.
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Mar 17, 2014 04:34
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Why are DAS and Pixar still separate entities though? Wouldn't it make sense to pool them together?
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Mar 17, 2014 04:41
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No, they have different organizations and even a different corporate culture. Plus, the different names have different associations. I wrote a bit about that for my end-of-year animation review but it was cut for length (rightfully).
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Mar 17, 2014 04:45
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Pick posted:I wrote a bit about that for my end-of-year animation review but it was cut for length (rightfully). Would it be possible for us to have a look at that piece?
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Mar 17, 2014 07:38
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quote:Since I can’t give you an actual answer, I’m going to end with something else to chew on: the relationship between Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. I wrote this a while ago and don't want to re-ignite the "queer reading" crap, I'm just talking about how the media initially addressed both.
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Mar 17, 2014 07:51
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quote:Now, I have my issues with Cars 2—mostly that it pretentiously presumes that children want the same thing in their movies as adults, but just aren’t cool enough for it yet—but that’s absurd. Cars 2 is simple, but streamlined and enjoyable.
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Mar 17, 2014 15:14
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Charlz Guybon posted:5: Maleficent busts out of hell, leading a legion of the damned and Elsa has to lead an army of snow golems and napoleonic style soldiers to stop her. 5, yes, let's go 5, if only because I love the Napoleonic era warfare
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Mar 17, 2014 19:15
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SocketWrench posted:5, yes, let's go 5, if only because I love the Napoleonic era warfare I want to see a line of snow golems slowly march towards a line of demons, pausing to throw trees every so often.
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Mar 18, 2014 02:02
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I like that to the audience, it was obvious that Elsa's golem wasn't out to hurt Anna and Kristoff. All he was doing was wanting to shout DON'T COME BACK at you real loud, no need to cut the rope, Anna. 
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Mar 18, 2014 02:18
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Hey this is pretty cool. http://www.cambio.com/2014/03/17/le...26pLid%3D454657 browne1928 fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Mar 18, 2014 |
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Mar 18, 2014 02:48
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Not to be calling you out specifically or anything, but I've noticed this happening alot ever since I installed a NoScript add-on, that links are getting weird. Like, you're not really linking to that for the "less than a third graders book report" article, you're posting for the video. But that site is filled with all this extra poo poo it wants me to load, when I can literally just go to my search bar, type in "let it go" and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjbPszSt5Pc Fourth search result for something probably searched for every fifteen seconds. I only even bring this up, cause I've been finding that I generally don't like the remakes/mixes/parodies of this. I'll take the actual song, I'll take Idina singing it, I'll even take Adele singing it. But the covers just bug the poo poo out of me. Like take this poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28L2VaILzH8 You guys gave her a bunch of poo poo for technical fuckery during the oscars, but nothing for this piece of garbage? I was going to link to the ultimate annoyance that is the Demi Lovato version, but I refuse to give it one extra view.
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Mar 18, 2014 08:17
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Also, the link posted for Disney/Pixar character's sing let it go is not available in Canada. It's on youtube though, when you look for it.
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Mar 18, 2014 15:29
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As a reminder, this is officially out today on Bluray and DVD, at least in America. So go buy it, dummies.
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Mar 18, 2014 18:16
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Rewatching this again on blu-ray and I can't help but wonder how much better this movie would be if the design work wasn't so painfully bland. Elsa looks like she stepped out of a Barbie DTV movie, all the characters have generic Disney faces and there's way too much blue.
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Mar 19, 2014 02:50
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Crappy Jack posted:As a reminder, this is officially out today on Bluray and DVD, at least in America. So go buy it, dummies.
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Mar 19, 2014 13:02
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I loved this movie and also loved the two Arrested Development references The chicken dance and "sandwiches"
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Mar 19, 2014 14:01
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The bonus feature about the making of Frozen was spectacular.
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Mar 20, 2014 14:34
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Strangely the thing that bugged me most about this movie was Kristoff just casually biting a chunk off of a carrot that had been in Sven's mouth and was covered in reindeer drool. Holy poo poo. The rest of the movie was great.
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Mar 21, 2014 03:46
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The thing that bugged me about the movie was Hans being evil. It just came off as "we need a villain."
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Mar 21, 2014 04:41
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muscles like this? posted:The thing that bugged me about the movie was Hans being evil. It just came off as "we need a villain." It isn't. It's an intentional takedown of the "love at first sight prince charming" concept which is often pushed as an idealized good thing. Anna's entire opening song fits in a Disney movie because "meet my prince charming and fall in love instantly" is normally portrayed as a good thing and Hans being evil is a pretty straightforward takedown of how Prince Charming isn't an inherently good thing.
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Mar 21, 2014 04:43
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They could have still done that without him being evil. It would have still worked if it was just a repetition of Kristoff's line about how knowing someone for one day isn't true love.
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Mar 21, 2014 05:03
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muscles like this? posted:They could have still done that without him being evil. It would have still worked if it was just a repetition of Kristoff's line about how knowing someone for one day isn't true love. I dunno, a stark warning that sometimes People who you think, who you want to think love you are just manipulative shits isn't out of line.
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Mar 21, 2014 05:26
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Yeah, the opposite is kind of limp-dicked. By the way, someone was mentioning how women in these movies never get two good-guy options. Ferngully--bam! She even ends up with her original boyfriend.
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Mar 21, 2014 05:26
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muscles like this? posted:They could have still done that without him being evil. It would have still worked if it was just a repetition of Kristoff's line about how knowing someone for one day isn't true love. That seems really weak and cowardly to me. Instead of the more meaningful "hey, sometimes a guy can seem like Prince Charming but is just a manipulative shithead and not what they appear" it becomes "Hey, sometimes a guy seems like Prince Charming and actually is Prince Charming, but it doesn't really work out."
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Mar 21, 2014 05:32
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Also it leaves us with the Duke as the real villain? That's a little ridiculous. And there needs to be a character like that or Elsa has no reason to abscond.
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Mar 21, 2014 05:42
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ImpAtom posted:That seems really weak and cowardly to me. Instead of the more meaningful "hey, sometimes a guy can seem like Prince Charming but is just a manipulative shithead and not what they appear" it becomes "Hey, sometimes a guy seems like Prince Charming and actually is Prince Charming, but it doesn't really work out." Well I think the latter situation is probably more likely for most girls irl and would also be a good message (not every guy is pure good/evil!). And not every movie needs a villain, I've seen some great ones without one.
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Mar 21, 2014 08:59
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effectual posted:Well I think the latter situation is probably more likely for most girls irl and would also be a good message (not every guy is pure good/evil!). And not every movie needs a villain, I've seen some great ones without one. The former is a horrifying and depressingly common situation. not a Literal Prince of course but the basic idea is pretty common in real life and infinitely more likely to end badly compared to an awkward but amicable breakup, Also society (and Disney Movies) are a lot more likely to push the "one true love prince charming" angle which makes it more useful to be counterpointed in a Disney movie. You can do amicable breakups. The Lego Movie did it. It wouldn't have really be appropriate for this film or the idea they were going for. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Mar 21, 2014 |
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Mar 21, 2014 09:06
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Crappy Jack posted:As a reminder, this is officially out today on Bluray and DVD, at least in America. So go buy it, dummies. Bought it this evening, but I must be an idiot because I can't find these deleted scenes or the apparently super-cool "making of" feature anywhere. Are they only on the Blu-ray disc, not the DVD? If so, that sucks pretty hard, since I don't have a Blu-ray player. I guess it's probably also on the digital HD copy that I'm downloading now, but I didn't intend to be watching this on my little laptop screen... Edit: vvv Dammit. surf rock fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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Mar 22, 2014 04:19
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Just about every single customer that comes into my store and co-worker is talking and raving about this movie. It is seriously crazy. WDAS must be making GBS threads themselves over how good this movie is doingsurf rock posted:Bought it this evening, but I must be an idiot because I can't find these deleted scenes or the apparently super-cool "making of" feature anywhere. Are they only on the Blu-ray disc, not the DVD? If so, that sucks pretty hard, since I don't have a Blu-ray player. I guess it's probably also on the digital HD copy that I'm downloading now, but I didn't intend to be watching this on my little laptop screen... Yep. This is basically how it is in general now. If you want actual special features most of the time you gotta get the blu-ray. Which means investing in a blu-ray player.
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Mar 22, 2014 04:40
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Man I loving hated this movie. It was so god drat boring. The antagonist wasn't introduced into the story until well over an hour had passed. What the hell were they thinking? No stakes, no consequences, no drama. Just character A, chasing character B for over an hour. What happens if she fails to find her? Nothing really. What happens if she does find her? Nothing. Once an antagonist actually showed up the movie turned out ok. Too bad there was only about 20 minutes left at that point. The "true love" twist at the end was pretty cool though.
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Mar 22, 2014 16:36
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GuyDudeBroMan posted:What happens if she fails to find her? Nothing really. I haven't even seen this movie and I know that if they don't find her it's winter forever, no?
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Mar 22, 2014 16:38
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Phylodox posted:I haven't even seen this movie and I know that if they don't find her it's winter forever, no? Yes, literally everybody in the kingdom is freezing to death and running out of food because crops don't grow, and they're cut off from the rest of the world because they can't get boats in or out due to the ice. But yeah, totally no stakes.
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Mar 22, 2014 16:40
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Phylodox posted:I haven't even seen this movie and I know that if they don't find her it's winter forever, no? Yeah, and the people are freezing to death which is normally a problem.
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Mar 22, 2014 16:40
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Pick posted:Yeah, and the people are freezing to death which is normally a problem. Crappy Jack posted:Yes, literally everybody in the kingdom is freezing to death and running out of food because crops don't grow, and they're cut off from the rest of the world because they can't get boats in or out due to the ice. But yeah, totally no stakes. Do these people not even have central heating or something? And so what if there's no crops? You guys are acting like they don't even have Pizza Hut in Arendelle, sheesh.
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