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Thirst for Savings posted:Beating the dead horse. The way he said it was leaning more towards "No" The laughing and the "We haven't announced anything (pause) I can't really talk — " are what make it seem like a bad sign to me. But fingers crossed otherwise. You think he would have denied it; he's much less likely to confirm if it were true.
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Just so's you knows, this is here. it could mean anything or nothing, but Pixar's confirmed films officially well after the IMDB entry pops up. So eh.
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| # ¿ Jul 25, 2011 02:39 |
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Nuns with Guns posted:It's been mentioned here before, but I think most of the thread regulars are Amerigoons and Arrietty isn't coming out in the States until February. Yeah, I really haven't heard too much about this (US here). The last couple of Ghibli films really haven't interested me (Didn't bother seeing Tales of Earthsea, and Ponyo I just generally disliked), and the concept of the borrowers/Arrietty doesn't appeal to me that much either, but at the same time it looks like it's got a definite old Ghibli spark to it that I think I'm going to like.
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| # ¿ Jul 31, 2011 23:26 |
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Automatic Jack posted:You might be interested in the Makoto Shinkai film Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below (previous films: Voices of a Distant Star, The Place Promised Us in Our Early Days, 5 Centimeters Per Second). There's a tiny clip wedged in with his other stuff on Youtube if you look it up; the art style was clearly snatched right off of Miyazaki's clothesline, and given that Shinkai's favorite film is Laputa: Castle in the Sky there are definitely other similarities there. It was already released in Japan, but it should make its way here eventually. If you've never seen his other stuff, he's got a penchant for amazing backgrounds and so-so character design, but given that he made his start doing everything all by himself on a Mac computer, it's pretty impressive. His films deal mainly with loss, communication (especially through technology), and the gaps in human relationships. It'll be interesting to see these thematic fixations paired up with what looks to be a more fantasy/sci-fi driven film. Woops! Well I watched a trailer for this and it actually does look very Miyazaki...y. I'll have to check it out.
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| # ¿ Aug 9, 2011 01:59 |
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Fans of How to Train Your Dragon. Did you think 3D was just not enough? Do you want to be physically in the presence of dragons? Uh, how did they even make that thing? That's impressive as hell, I'm kind of amazed. It'd be great to check this out.
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| # ¿ Aug 10, 2011 02:46 |
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I'm not sure exactly what the mechanics of it are, but a friend of mine spotted that it's supported on a pole through the stomach, almost in between the legs. Seeing it walk like that is pretty amazing though.
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| # ¿ Aug 10, 2011 06:35 |
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The Cameo posted:Paramount seems to be more interested in pushing Rango, apparently. That's out on DVD/Blu ray now, isn't it? I need to see it again because I really, really disliked it.
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| # ¿ Aug 13, 2011 05:06 |
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Rattlesnake Jake was gorgeous and was far and away the best part of the movie for me, but honestly I just found it extremely boring and, dare I say, a bit too weird for my tastes. It's one of the only movies that I found truly disjointed and too all-over-the-place with tone. The opening, with the fake play and the weird surreal dream-like states kept me from getting invested in the film and I spent the entire time very aware that I was watching a movie instead of just getting into it. The animation was gorgeous, but the film itself was just too all over the place and weird for me. Town acts like normal western town, I can understand that — but then with the random dancing and chanting religious scenes... I don't know. It's hard for me to describe and I'm obviously not expecting anyone to share my opinions, but everything about the movie seemed to have such a hard time relating to everything else in the movie that I couldn't enjoy it. Also, I'm not terribly familiar with most classic westerns, and while I really appreciate the aesthetic and style of the spaghetti western, I think that actually worked against the film for me. Apparently a lot of people who ARE big western fans understood and absorbed the many, many references to different classics throughout the film. Unfortunately since most of these shot over my head, they ended up feeling incredibly shoehorned or totally off the wall and made me dislike them. I can't know this for sure, but the result made me feel like they'd pumped it full of western references to get the nod from western fans without making them actually work in the film (like Clint Eastwood out in the desert. The novelty of this didn't mean very much to me and so it just came completely out of left field and didn't do anything for me). Apparently the walking cacti (that is, the cacti actually walking) at the end was also a western reference, but I was so sick of trying to figure out to what extent the film's world was supposed to be supernatural that I actually felt exasperated when it happened. I think I would have preferred the world of Rango to be a lot more grounded in 'realism', inasmuch as a film that has walking talking animal characters can be realistic, without the weird mishmash of supernatural elements and inconsistencies. Like why the hawk/bats were the only animals that didn't have any anthropomorphic characteristics at all. I guess I just didn't get it  But this doesn't discount the fact that it may be a really good movie, which is why I'd like to see it again to see if my initial impression was way off base.
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| # ¿ Aug 13, 2011 20:51 |
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Brick Shipment posted:Don't hold your breath. It's probably getting Disney's stupid vault treatment (locked away, never to be seen until Disney decides it's gathered enough artificial demand). I don't think so. The Emperor's New Groove is still freely available as a pretty cheap DVD, whereas other movies Disney keeps in the vault both get several different iterations of DVD release, as well as vanish completely for years after they're put back in the vault. Which is, of course, why I don't have The Lion King and why I never forgave my mother for not buying it for me when it was last out of the vault (grade school for me... I'm in college now). Luckily I have the 8 disc Blu-Ray Trilogy preordered because I want my lovely sequels too 
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| # ¿ Aug 25, 2011 19:20 |
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It's a pretty big shame because that movie is drat hilarious. I don't know why it gets so little recognition.
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| # ¿ Aug 25, 2011 19:56 |
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I looooooved Tangled. Maybe it was because I had such utterly low expectations for it due to the horrible ads (didn't see it til really recently though, just rented it on iTunes on a whim), but I was pretty blown away by it. Obviously the movie's just gorgeous, but even beyond that, I thought it did an amazing job of putting a lot of heart and humor into a movie that I thought was going to be incredibly unfunny and dull. I can see a bit of disjointedness in places, but overall I really can't think of much negative to say about it. The music itself is also admittedly forgettable in the long run, but I also think the lyrics were surprisingly clever a lot of the time. And Mother Gothel was a fantastic villain.
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| # ¿ Sep 9, 2011 05:04 |
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Scroll down a bit on Cartoon Brew and he has a pretty negative review for the 3D techniques applied to the Beauty and the Beast 3D release (that received zero publicity. Probably testing it out) and the Lion King 3D release. Not end-of-the-world don't-see-it negative, just pretty "eh" overall. Still looking forward to seeing TLK on the big screen again since I was like four.
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| # ¿ Sep 9, 2011 15:29 |
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Really? Because at least on the DVDs, can't you watch it with or without it? I never got a chance to get the DVD but I borrowed it from someone at some point and thought there was a choice. I don't know why they'd shoehorn it in. Hmm. e: just watched it on Youtube. Jesus that's awful. redjenova fucked around with this message at Sep 9, 2011 around 19:03 |
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SamLikesCake posted:I've already pre-ordered the huge crazy ultimate set of The Lion King and it's sequels on Amazon. The box is really nice and the discs themselves seem to come in like a drum or something? I don't know. I just want it for the pretty box and all the bonus features mostly. I hope that it's as amazing as BatB is on blu-ray. I'm sooo excited to get my copy of this. I keep hoping the release date has somehow magically been pushed forward. It has been YEARS since I've been able to watch The Lion King. I still have my VHS copy but the house has long been bereft of functioning VCRs. All the boring 3D in the world couldn't tempt me away from seeing it in theaters. Also totally watched that Enchanted Christmas Beauty and the Beast film on a daily basis for a brief period in my childhood. Weirdly I don't really remember any of it at all. Not that it was very good.
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| # ¿ Sep 11, 2011 04:51 |
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Buml0r posted:I surprised myself by disliking the Black Cauldron so much that I've only ever been able to sit through it once. This post just put the finger on my dislike for Bluth movies. I could never quite figure out what it was with them (besides that I generally dislike his style and the way characters are drawn and animated). They're ugly, and they just have this... sense of being off, somehow. Some of them I still have fond memories of, like All Dogs Go to Heaven or The Land Before Time, but I tried watching Rock-a-Doodle on Netflix a few weeks ago and absolutely hated it all the way through. Similar experiences with Pebble and the Penguin, and others. It's like watching a Disney movie that's been stripped of all its charm and appeal. Very odd.
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| # ¿ Sep 13, 2011 17:16 |
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Dopefish Lives! posted:You're fully justified in disliking Rock-A-Doodle. That film is legitimately AWFUL. Bluth's 80s films are generally alright though, and Secret of NIMH is his masterpiece (deus ex machina ending notwithstanding). And even though Anastasia is a historian's nightmare, I have this inexplicable addiction to listening to "In The Dark Of The Night". I do still love Secret of NIMH. Maybe the animation was better quality or something but it didn't seem to have quite as much of that glaring "WE EMPHASIZE EVERYTHING WITH EVERY MOTION AND WORD" weirdness that's so characteristic of Bluth films. Anastasia is a weird mess of rotoscoping (they used rotoscoping, right? Uhhhh). Whatever it was, I find it very distracting watching the individual features on each character's face struggling not to wander off into the ether. Titan AE also had this problem and I've tried to rewatch it on Netflix several times, only be to be incapable of making it past the first twenty minutes. It's like a poor man's Treasure Planet, which I legitimately loved and is incredibly underrated.
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| # ¿ Sep 14, 2011 16:52 |
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Martytoof posted:Attention animation thread: If you care about Disney feature animation at all and haven't yet watched "Waking Sleeping Beauty" I seriously recommend rectifying this immediately. Run, don't walk. Where can I find this?
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 16:26 |
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It's hard to say. I googled it and came up with this: Differences Between Theatrical Cut and DVD Release which has screenshot comparisons of the old and new crocodiles. I don't remember seeing those new versions ever, but the youtube video had the ones I remembered, and apparently they're the original ones. Changing the waterfall too? How odd. I'm really disappointed when they do things like this. It did really bother me that with the inclusion of "Human Again" in Beauty and the Beast, they cleaned up parts of the castle in later scenes that had once been old and ramshackle in the original cut. Stop messing with films 
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| # ¿ Sep 17, 2011 22:13 |
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anticake posted:The Lion King I'm pretty sure was the same on both consoles, but for some reason the SNES version had adult Simba's claw attack on X and Y and the Genesis had his claw attack on pushing A, B, and motherfucking C simultaneously. Or if you had a 6 button Genesis controller it was on X, or Y, or Z. Hitting all those buttons at once was a pain in the dick too. You ended up jumping up and down more often than not as memory serves. Just jumping up and down while you get mauled by hyenas It was the same on Gameboy too. It took me years to beat the gameboy version and a lot longer before I realized that it was actually a port of a console game.
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| # ¿ Sep 20, 2011 17:53 |
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I saw it in 3D today and I'm almost ashamed to admit I teared up literally as the first opening credit appeared on the screen and they came and went throughout the entire film. Not only because of the emotionally moving parts, but because it really has been that long since I've been able to actually see this movie--something like eight years ago. I was completely overwhelmed with nostalgia and felt like I was a little kid again, watching the VHS tape with my sister. It was a bit like watching a really old dream; I have the film practically memorized but it still struck me at how old and nostalgic it felt to hear some of those lines again. What an amazing movie. The 3D was definitely nice, and was only distracting a few minimal times.
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| # ¿ Sep 21, 2011 05:53 |
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Brick Shipment posted:
I enjoyed the first Happy Feet, but if that isn't the worst trailer/worst looking film... I cringe every time I hear that horrendous 'we're bringing fluffy back' garbage. It's utterly grating.
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| # ¿ Sep 22, 2011 14:54 |
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TigerMoJo posted:Yeah, it was like a movie split into two. The first half was about singing penguins and the outcast dancing one/love story and the second half was environmental message shoved down your throat. This was by far the biggest problem with it. I was enjoying it for the most part but by the time he gets washed up on the beach and put in the zoo I was a little disturbed, and the ending kind of came out of nowhere. It was a very meandering film. Even so, I enjoyed it in some way. It's been a long time since I've seen it and I don't feel any particular need to do so again any time soon, but it was definitely a premise that could have been better executed.
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| # ¿ Sep 23, 2011 04:46 |
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spixxor posted:Thank god, I'm not the only one who thought that the Mumble's manchild mutated penguin form was creepy. I never thought it was that weird. It didn't look that unusual. It's obvious why they did it; so he didn't look exactly like all the other completely identical and indistinguishable penguins. Something about that parody is really annoying to me :/ it's not really a parody so much as just taking the actual commercial and making it Puss in Boots instead. The trailers have been just as unimpressive to me as the last few Shrek movies though. redjenova fucked around with this message at Sep 23, 2011 around 17:08 |
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Macaluso posted:Considering that Shrek 4 was actually pretty good, Megamind and How To Train Your Dragon were both awesome, and I thought Madagascar 2 was funny. So I'm willing to give Dreamworks a chance on Puss in Boots. Shrek 4 was only good if I consider how abysmal my expectations were. It wasn't bad like the previous films were, but it was relatively mediocre. I saw Megamind pretty recently and while I was still pleasantly surprised, I found it mostly unfunny, or at least not funny enough to be really memorable. How to Train Your Dragon is one of my favorite animated films and absolutely deserves all its praise. Megamind I went into with fair expectations after hearing all the good opinions about it in this thread, but it wasn't something I ever felt the interest in seeing again after it was over. A fair effort overall though. VVV I think some of the stuff I disliked about Megamind was the reliance on big names. Normally this doesn't bother me as long as the performance is good, but Ferrel just doesn't seem to do all that well most of the time in my opinion. I always get a sense of forced comedy there. I really can't stand Jonah Hill, though, and his appearance in almost any film that isn't Superbad seems awkward and out of place. He's really not a great choice for voice acting. But yeah, this is definitely personal nitpicking. I never felt like Hiccup's voice was out of place, but wasn't really aware of Baruchel before that movie either. redjenova fucked around with this message at Sep 25, 2011 around 04:53 |
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FilthyImp posted:I couldn't figure out if it was just me, but a lot of the character cells had a rough, jumbly feel to them. I thought maybe it was because they traced over the characters and isolated them to provide the 3D effect? It was a weird vectory-jiggle that was somewhat distracting in the beginning. But aside from that, a great deal of care and thought was put into the effects (I felt like teen-Simba's eyes were sunken in a bit, which was a nice touch). It's from the 3D. It's really noticeable in the characters' eyes at a lot of points in the movie, but I didn't really notice it elsewhere. The Cartoon Brew guy wrote a blog post I linked in here a few pages back that mentioned it being heavily noticeable in the Beauty and the Beast release, but didn't really criticize it in the Lion King. It was still noticeable though.
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| # ¿ Sep 26, 2011 18:10 |
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I don't know which is more surprising: how many people have actually seen 17 Again or how many people are actually praising it. This is the first time I've ever felt a minor stirring to see it, just out of curiosity!
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| # ¿ Oct 3, 2011 00:46 |
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Volfogg posted:I still remember the first time I saw Beauty and the Beast in theaters. It was when they brought it back for a limited engagement quite a few years back on IMAX screens and such. I was only two during it's original theatrical run. Seriouslyyy. The ONLY reason I haven't bought Emperor's New Groove is because I'm hoping against hope for a nicer release. I don't think it's going to happen though. Kind of reminds me of my Hercules DVD, which wasn't one of my favorite Disney movies anyway, but it's kind of a crappy release. How did that movie do? Not an Aladdin/Lion King/Beauty and the Beast classic, but I thought it did well enough. Hell, even Alice in Wonderland has a Blu-Ray release, doesn't it? Why not Emperor's?  WHY DISNEY
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| # ¿ Oct 5, 2011 15:10 |
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I think he meant traditional like hand-drawn. Which I would have definitely preferred. Not that I've seen Tintin but the mo-cap totally threw me off of going.
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| # ¿ Oct 24, 2011 15:48 |
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I adore Coraline, so I'm excited about that. But what is Henry Selick working on then? I hadn't heard that.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 02:23 |
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spixxor posted:Man I love me some Sylvester, and he doesn't get nearly enough love. Still not sure if it's worth 1.5 hours of creepy dancing penguins though. I liked the original Happy Feet when I saw it, but somehow I was managing to ignore pretty much everything off-putting about it. I'll probably never watch it again. I get the same "please just stay away" vibes from the sequel, but it's such a drat shame because clips of it in the trailer just look so beautiful. I'll probably end up seeing it eventually just because... well... I want to SEE it. I don't really want anything else that comes along with it though 
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| # ¿ Nov 15, 2011 02:08 |
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Is it out in the US? I remember being somewhat disappointed by it in theaters, and I've been dying to rewatch it ever since because I can't come up with a reason why.
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| # ¿ Nov 15, 2011 20:05 |
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NINbuntu 64 posted:Man, gently caress Dragon Hunters. That was the most painfully mediocre movie I've ever seen. I'm watching it right now... it's pretty generic, but I actually like it; it's not really impressive as a movie, but it plays like an feature-length student demo reel. A lot of the exaggerated actions and facial expressions, right down to the character designs look like animation student work. Well, this is probably a bad thing for the studio that made it... but still interesting to watch anyway. It looks like a studio made entirely of fresh college grads made a feature length, which is probably something along the lines of what actually happened. It probably wouldn't look quite that way if there were some experienced animators helming the project. All of this is conjecture though. e: Plus I hate Rob Paulsen's voice.
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Shaocaholica posted:Well they should have story boarded the trailer and worked on those shots first instead of just picking from some random assortment of done shots. That's not how real life works. Movies get finished in lots of different ways but movie production does not need to be scheduled according to what they might put in the first trailer.
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| # ¿ Nov 20, 2011 05:57 |
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I wish I felt the same as all of you about Winnie the Pooh. The best bits to me were the out-and-out rehashes of the classic Pooh cartoons and overall it was a very childish-feeling film (I'm sure nostalgia plays a part here but I don't get that vibe at all from rewatching the old cartoons, either). Rabbit's personality wasn't funny to me, more offputting — he just acted completely crazy sometimes and it was really out of character. The animation was beautiful, but it was also pretty disappointing how short a movie it was. Overall I felt like it was pretty hollow. E: comparing to the old cartoons now, Rabbit in the old versions did make some whacky expressions, but compared to the clip from the new movie, he acts totally 'zany' and over the top with every sentence. It just bothers me for some reason. redjenova fucked around with this message at Dec 3, 2011 around 07:58 |
| # ¿ Dec 3, 2011 07:50 |
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I didn't think Over the Hedge actually had that bad a rap. It seemed a little forgettable to me, but I thought it was pretty funny the couple of times I saw it.
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2011 11:23 |
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Hatter106 posted:I wonder if anyone's analyzed why Tron Legacy failed. The script wasn't great, sure, but it wasn't any worse than Avatar's or the SW Prequels, and they both made money hand over fist. Was it a lack of brand recognition? No decent toys? I always wondered too. I was so hyped for it from the moment I heard about and still really enjoyed it, it's great for the visuals and the spectacle on a home theater system (and the soundtrack is amazing, naturally). Honestly it seemed tailor-made to be some kind of hit, and I'm pretty disappointed that there probably won't be another one at this point. Ah well.
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| # ¿ Jan 2, 2012 09:06 |
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dog days are over posted:You're mixing them up, the Kovu/Kiara one is 2 and the extended Timon and Pumbaa show one is 1½ in the UK, and 3 in the US. No, it's 1½ here.
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| # ¿ Jan 18, 2012 15:47 |
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Aces High posted:I didn't feel up on getting Alice or Fantasia in Blu-Ray but I got them any ways, I just like watching them with the commentaries, you learn soooo much from them. I haven't gotten Snow White or Pinocchio (yet) but if they use the storyboard sessions like they did with Bambi it will be the best purchases I will have made this year The Alice Bluray had commentary? I'm pretty sure my DVD copy doesn't. Ughghg. But my appreciation of the Disney movies I didn't really care for as a kid has gone way, way up. Of course I wasn't really a huge animation geek when I was six, but the commentaries on Snow White, Bambi, and Pinocchio were just so fascinating, I've fallen in love with all the old classics. So good.
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2012 00:22 |
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Macaluso posted:I thought 2011 was perfectly fine. Rango, Winnie the Pooh, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Puss in Boots (depending on who you ask). I was underwhelmed by all of those movies Hopefully 2012 goes better for me. EDIT: except for Tangled! I love Tangled.
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| # ¿ May 25, 2013 11:41 |
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Princess Mononoke has always been one of my favorite films. Just so drat awesome. Honestly I feel like the dubs can also kind of ruin bits and pieces of Ghibli films, but never to the point where I won't watch them. Some parts of Spirited Away just don't appeal to me, but overall, it's worth the gorgeous animation and the overall good story. Nausicaa is an amazing film also (despite the hilarious synthesizer soundtrack... so good). My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service are great movies that will plain just make you smile. I've always really appreciated the fact that Ghibli movies can just make you grin sometimes; like the part in Spirited Away when the mouse-baby and bird reenact Chihiro's squashing the cursed slug to all the soot sprites. I just watched Kiki's and Spirited Away (only DVDs I have) the other day and they're still both so good. It's really hard to go wrong with a Ghibli film; whichever ones will appeal to you most depend on what kind of movie/story you'll like better. Nausicaa, Spirited Away, and Mononoke are generally pretty serious/fantastical, whereas Totoro and Kiki's are more soft, 'cute' movies. I haven't seen it yet, but I think Arrietty falls into that vein as well. I actually kind of hated Ponyo though, so there is that v v but that's just one opinion. I feel like Miyazaki's movies started to get a little too weird starting with Howl's Moving Castle (which is visually stunning, so worth seeing once just for that, I would say).
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