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Agent Escalus posted:You may want to track down a segment of Craig Ferguson from last year when the new Winnie movie came out. Craig was in the movie as well (as the Owl) and decided to have Mr. Cummings on the show as a guest, which I believe was a first for such a prominent name in the VA scene. (see previous post about VA's not getting much respect in Hollywood) Ask and ye shall receive!
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I've never actually watched an interview with Cummings before. Mighty weird to hear Darkwing Duck being interviewed by Craig Ferguson.  Cummings is awesome though, voice actors don't get nearly enough respect for what they do.
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Cartoon Man posted:Here's an extended preview from Brave in which Pixar recreates the archery tournament from Men in Tights. I still don't have a clue what the actual plot of the movie is... Hope Pixar starts on that soon.
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| # ? Feb 23, 2012 16:58 |
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spixxor posted:Cummings is awesome though, voice actors don't get nearly enough respect for what they do. I think the companies that hire them are just as guilty as anybody else since they don't want to have to spend more money on salaries or worry about things like royalties. It's much cheaper and easier to pay lip service to how talented voice actors are and what a shame it is that they don't get more recognition but keep that money.
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FoneBone posted:I still don't have a clue what the actual plot of the movie is... Hope Pixar starts on that soon. If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably something akin to Jasmine from Aladdin pulling a Mulan and going off into the woods by herself to prove herself, but then she finds out the mythical beat in there isn't so bad (ala Beauty and the Beast) so now she had to protect it from her father's wrath.
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Do we know what the two mandatory animal sidekicks will be yet? 
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Martytoof posted:Do we know what the two mandatory animal sidekicks will be yet? I was under the impression that this was Pixar's attempt at creating something a little more realistic? Having said that, I'm sure there will be something small and cute like the lizard from Tangled that hangs out inside her crazy red hair.
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Cartoon Man posted:I was under the impression that this was Pixar's attempt at creating something a little more realistic? Having said that, I'm sure there will be something small and cute like the lizard from Tangled that hangs out inside her crazy red hair.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4EZULqhP2E e; beaten by Cartoon Man I just noticed. O well, I'll just leave it here. the wobble fucked around with this message at Feb 23, 2012 around 20:36 |
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FoneBone posted:I still don't have a clue what the actual plot of the movie is... Hope Pixar starts on that soon. That's one thing I like about Pixar, the trailers are usually so vague or non-spoilery that you go into the movie with little to no idea where it will take you. You get to know who the main character is and that they're going to have some sort of adventure, but other than that its a surprise. So far I've yet to be disappointed (although I skipped out on Cars 2...).
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Small detail I just noticed in the HD trailer. On her final shot, the feather from the arrow scratches her face slightly. That's some quality attention to detail.
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Wait, so you guys didn't see what I saw in the first full trailer? You know, the part with the three bear cubs, who just so happen to perfectly resemble Merida's three brothers? I'm actually worried we're gonna get a Brother Bear-like story here, insomuch as animal transformation and the whole "you have to find yourself" plot.
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With all the Miyazaki talk in this thread I was pretty intrigued when I found this article. Basically links the movie with the real life murder of a young girl in Japan. http://my.opera.com/sukekomashi-gai...onari-no-totoro Warning: May ruin Totoro experience. GlassEye-Boy fucked around with this message at Feb 24, 2012 around 05:36 |
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GlassEye-Boy posted:With all the Miyazaki talk in this thread I was pretty intrigued when I found this article. Basically links the movie with the real life murder of a young girl in Japan. Holy poo poo, read the spirited away article that it links.  I will never see Spirited Away in the same way again, especially since a statement by Miyazaki confirms it as true. IShallRiseAgain fucked around with this message at Feb 24, 2012 around 05:44 |
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I've never seen a Pixar trailer and went "man this movie is gonna rock cocks." They're always so vague and 'meh'. Despite that, I've learned that I'll see any of their movies and always be surprised at how good they are. When I first saw the trailer for Brave I was like "I have no idea wtf but I'll see it for sure."
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So I came home for Spring Break today, and my mom says to me "I know it sucks that I'm an idiot and threw out all your Disney VHSs, but here, I found these the other day" and hands me three Disney Store bags with Lithographs from some of their movies that she saved, in their sleeves. Some are labeled with the year, others not. Lion King, Toy Story, Sleeping Beauty, Aristocats, Peter Pan, Hunchback, Belle's Enchanted Christmas (  ), Hunt for Christopher Robin 4 set, Oliver and Company, Pochahontas, Bambi, and Aladdin and the King of Thieves.I don't think these are worth any money, but they're so drat cool, and I'm so happy she kept them. When I'm off my phone I'll get some links to them. These things made my night, though.
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That's cool that she saved those at least! Can we talk about Ralph Bakshi for a sec? I recently rewatched American Pop, which I found on VHS at walmart for 5 bucks a few years ago. As far as I'm concerned, its just about his only ACTUALLY good film. I mean War was pretty decent but I find his films to ridiculous they're hard to watch sometimes. In terms of rotoscoping, I think Bluth is better though. I wish he didn't go crazy. If I had lots and lots of money I would collaborate with him on a film.
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I have a LOT of gripes with Bakshi, but mostly because I started watching his stuff when I was 13, before I learned about animu and I was REALLY amazed at the notion that animation could be a medium aimed at an older audiance, but was always upset at how Bakshi was never able to make a -good- movie. I fully agree that American Pop is Bakshi's best work, (and it's actually one of my favorite movies.) I think it works because American Pop is more about telling the story of music's role in 20th Century American History, so it doesn't require a complex plot or characters to hold it up. Also, Bakshi's crazy habit of just throwing in 10 minutes of random rotoscoping, works a lot better in this respect. Sadly yes, most of his movies are bland (Fire and Ice), Incomprehensible (Wizards. If anyone is trying to defend Wizards, I promise you they are wearing a fedora and a t-shirt with howling wolves on it.) or just flat out a waste of space. (Cool World.) I actually have a funny Ralph Bakshi story. A few years back, my hometown, Albuquerque attempted to have their first Anime Con, but settled on having a "Generic Animation Con" with Bakshi being one of their guests of honor. A few months after the con, a rather eccentric friend of mine from ABQ was visiting me. I asked him how the convention had gone.  "It was amazing! Half way through the autograph signings, Ralph Bakshi just got up and left. And I was like 'Hooray! Ralph Bakshi really IS an rear end in a top hat!".The way he told that story, I had never seen anyone so happy to be vindicated on someone's rear end in a top hat status in all of my life.
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AHhahahasha that's amazing. I also noticed I called 'Wizards' 'War'. I think that was the original title but since Star Wars came out around the same time they changed it. I completely agree with you. What's sad is apparently with his animated LotR he wanted to do it exactly by the book, he even had a lot of support from Tolkein's family, but funding fell through and we got that royal piece of garbage instead. If I did have to say it, American Pop truly is his only actually good film. Ugh, Fire and Ice could have been so amazing, too bad Frazetta couldn't have collaborated with someone less dull. His movies are really the ones where you sit with your friends and make fun of how laughably bad they can be. I gotta say, sometimes when I do dishes I do say "IIIII'M A DISHWASHA, MY HANDS IS POIMENENTLY PUCKAHHHHHED" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKIJ...feature=related) Speaking of assholes of animation, didn't John K actually work with Bakshi on Mighty Mouse? IIRC he did, and it explains a lot of things. Edit: Link for anyone interested http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=xEm6...n&feature=mv_sr Toriori fucked around with this message at Feb 24, 2012 around 23:50 |
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I did remember hearing there was a ton of meddling with Cool World, and I wondered if Bakshi actually got his way if it'd be any better. I suspect that it'd only be slightly less incoherent.
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Robindaybird posted:I did remember hearing there was a ton of meddling with Cool World, and I wondered if Bakshi actually got his way if it'd be any better. I suspect that it'd only be slightly less incoherent. If I recall correctly, Cool World was supposed to be a horror movie about the spawn of a toon and a human going around killing people because she was born as an abomination. Or something like that. It still involved the concept of people having sex with cartoons.
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kefkafloyd posted:Ask and ye shall receive! Oh you are awesome man. God I love Jim Cummings. He is/and still one of the best VAs of all time. And it is indeed weird to hear the Darkwing Duck voice.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:With all the Miyazaki talk in this thread I was pretty intrigued when I found this article. Basically links the movie with the real life murder of a young girl in Japan. That's pretty great, but also pretty obviously a coincidence. I believe Miyazaki grew up in that same area, so it's more a reflection of his own childhood (his mother was hospitalized for TB as well). Time frame is also off by about 10 years. Edit: I'd really love to see Mei and the Kittenbus and the other Ghibli museum shorts. I own a Japanese DVD that compiles a bunch of the studio's short films, but it left those off. They could make a killing selling a second volume that included those.
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Oh and I just came back from seeing Arrietty. Fantastic, fantastic movie. The voice acting was decent, especially Carol Burnett and the Disney teeny bopper they got as the lead (still am curious about the British dub and hope all language options are available when it comes out on Blu Ray). A random observation: did anyone else get Totoro vibes when they showed the old photo of of Shawn's mom and aunt as kids... they had a Mei and Satsuki vibe to them, and their parents looked like the parents from that movie. And for anyone who saw the Japanese dub: did it have that final voice over at the end with Shawn (or whatever his name was in Japanese) saying he never saw Arrietty again, but heard of small things going missing at a house down the street? It felt kind of tacked-on. The English dub of Spirited Away also added a nice "wrapup" line at the end and I thought it actually worked for that movie -- but here I felt it took out any of the uncertainty that had been presented of both the Borrowers' and the boy's futures. We know Shawn survives his operation and we know Arrietty's family settle down safely. It just felt a bit too abrupt and forced. But overall... drat I love Ghibli. My wife and I were the only ones in the theater without kids (although one small child asked my wife if she herself was a kid afterwards, probably because she laughed pretty loudly at some parts). I liked the fact that I heard some of the other adults sniffling at the movie's end.
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Ballz posted:And for anyone who saw the Japanese dub: did it have that final voice over at the end with Shawn (or whatever his name was in Japanese) saying he never saw Arrietty again, but heard of small things going missing at a house down the street? It felt kind of tacked-on. The English dub of Spirited Away also added a nice "wrapup" line at the end and I thought it actually worked for that movie -- but here I felt it took out any of the uncertainty that had been presented of both the Borrowers' and the boy's futures. We know Shawn survives his operation and we know Arrietty's family settle down safely. It just felt a bit too abrupt and forced. Yea, that wasn't there in the original. I thought I was hallucinating when it came up and had to check my copy of the original when I got home to make sure I wasn't making things up.
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So whats the general consensus on the movie "9" ? A buddy of mine reminded me of the movies existence, so I felt compelled to track down a copy and give it a watch. I'm a bit of a sucker for the post-apocalypse stuff, and I really enjoyed this one. I'm kind of surprised that I hadn't heard more about it to be honest. I don't follow the animated movies all that closely, but still, its got a well known cast, an interesting visual style, and a story that managed to hold my attention at the very least. I'd dare to call it underrated or a bit of a hidden gem, but, as I said, I don't follow the animated stuff closely enough to know if its just something I personally missed out on or if it was glossed over in general. I will say one thing about it, if they were aiming for a younger audience with it, the movie is surprisingly dark. I could see people getting confused and expecting something all light hearted and getting something completely unexpected. Still it seemed pretty excellent to me. Couple images to remind people if they don't know what I'm talking about. "9" - (2009)  
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The story needed more fleshing out in my opinion. The movie was too short I thought. That being said, the animation is loving gorgeous and the action scenes are fantastic.
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9 had a lot going for it, but ultimately I just found it to be a confusing mess with dull characters. It actually kind of made sense that the characters were uninteresting when you learned more about their true nature, but... sometimes you gotta embellish a little for the sake of telling a good story. I remember not even really liking the action scenes because I simply didn't know or care about anything that was happening.
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Ballz posted:Oh and I just came back from seeing Arrietty. Fantastic, fantastic movie. The voice acting was decent, especially Carol Burnett and the Disney teeny bopper they got as the lead (still am curious about the British dub and hope all language options are available when it comes out on Blu Ray). I also got that vibe!!! Glad I wasn't the only one.
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Sedgr posted:So whats the general consensus on the movie "9" ? A buddy of mine reminded me of the movies existence, so I felt compelled to track down a copy and give it a watch. I'm a bit of a sucker for the post-apocalypse stuff, and I really enjoyed this one. I'm kind of surprised that I hadn't heard more about it to be honest. I don't follow the animated movies all that closely, but still, its got a well known cast, an interesting visual style, and a story that managed to hold my attention at the very least. I think that, independent of its quality, it hit the uncomfortable spot of being too dark and weird for mainstream success while at the same time offending the sensibilities of actual animation geeks by being a feature-length celebrity-voiced remake of a silent short film. If 9 had been Japanese or Russian I can almost guarantee that overnight it would have become a cult movie.
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taser rates posted:Yea, that wasn't there in the original. I thought I was hallucinating when it came up and had to check my copy of the original when I got home to make sure I wasn't making things up. As I suspected, thanks. Now I realllly wanna see the British dub to see if they handled it the same way. I looked up Arrietty on Wikipedia last night, and was pretty impressed that apparently the chick who sings the movie's opening song performed it in five different languages to go along with whatever particular dub you watch. Overall, I enjoyed the soundtrack quite a bit.
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Farbtoner posted:I think that, independent of its quality, it hit the uncomfortable spot of being too dark and weird for mainstream success while at the same time offending the sensibilities of actual animation geeks by being a feature-length celebrity-voiced remake of a silent short film. If 9 had been Japanese or Russian I can almost guarantee that overnight it would have become a cult movie. That sums up my feeling pretty well. The ending was almost completely inscrutable and the better title for it would be, "Nice Job Breaking It Hero: The Movie". All that said, the animation was fantastic, and it was at least nice to see a studio take a chance on something really strange.
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So when I'm at work, we're allowed to put kids movies in the TVs that play around the store, so I'd often put in Fantastic Mr. Fox, because the dulcet tones of George Clooney's voice help the days go by much faster, but I'd never actually sat down and watched the movie before last night. Holy poo poo what a beautiful movie.
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Mucktron posted:Sadly yes, most of his movies are bland (Fire and Ice), Incomprehensible (Wizards. If anyone is trying to defend Wizards, I promise you they are wearing a fedora and a t-shirt with howling wolves on it.) or just flat out a waste of space. Let me adjust my nonexistent Fedora here and hike up my nonexistent Howling Wolves T shirt...I may be a waste of space, however. How is Wizards "incomprehensible"? The whole movie has a running commentary that goes out of its way to explain everything to you. Admittedly, I liked it a whole lot more when I was a kid and saw it, but it's not like the story is just impossible to follow. Fire and Ice was Bakshi's homage to Frazetta, while Wizards was an homage to Vaughn Bode's style. It may have a bit of a mash-up of things going on, but then that's all actually explained in the movie. The core story isn't bad at all, the animation and voice acting are weak at times I agree, but the overall story is pretty basic good vs. evil stuff.
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Yoshifan823 posted:So when I'm at work, we're allowed to put kids movies in the TVs that play around the store, so I'd often put in Fantastic Mr. Fox, because the dulcet tones of George Clooney's voice help the days go by much faster, but I'd never actually sat down and watched the movie before last night. I loved it. I watch it every now and then just because it's so... watchable. Then again I didn't know if that was actually the case or if this was just because I am a sucker for Wes' movies.
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Martytoof posted:I loved it. I watch it every now and then just because it's so... watchable. Then again I didn't know if that was actually the case or if this was just because I am a sucker for Wes' movies. No, it's so incredibly watchable. I loving love Fantastic Mr. Fox with all of my heart. It's just so charming, so happy. I absolutely love the movie, and the blu-ray is one of the best purchases of my life.
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9 was great but they should have either left it as the short it was derived from, or made it longer. It felt way too short and rushed. I loved the visuals though.
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I loved watching the making of stuff for Fantastic Mr. Fox. Imagine having to re-position and re-light every one of those bottles in the cider cellar every time the camera moved.
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My friend just got us tickets for the Ghibli museum at the end of March and the short playing at that time is Koro's Big Day Out anyone know anything about that one?
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I saw Arrietty today, and it does not disappoint. I sort of miss Ghibli movies closer to Arrietty, where it's a little less disjointed fantastical tale, and a little more slice of life + adventure. It reminded me a lot of Kiki, actually.
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