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They also add dialogue where there was none previously. "Whaaat, Haku's a dragon!?"
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Qindarka posted:I like Summer Wars quite a bit but everything to do with the virtual world just comes across as being really, really dumb. Summer Wars was such an incredibly dumb movie. It's basically someone going "how can I have this movie appeal to every Japanese in existence" and just throwing it all in. I kinda liked the contrast with the rural landscape and the garish, confusing, facebook-y cyberspace, and some of the crazier scenes were great... if anything, I'm sad they didn't let even more craziness spill over into the real world. I also laughed out loud at grandma saving Japan with motivation speeches. There's even a magical girl transformation sequence in there, for ABSOLUTELY no reason (and to absolutely no effect)! And I can just IMAGINE some viewer feeling confirmed in his view that his videogame skills are highly relevant and might save the world. It's such a feel-good, dumb, occasionally obnoxious movie. I definitely do not regret watching it.
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Jan 4, 2014 22:50
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Pick posted:They also add dialogue where there was none previously. "Whaaat, Haku's a dragon!?" Yeah, I saw the Disney sub of Totoro which just uses the dub script, and there are a bunch of lines over silence.
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Jan 4, 2014 22:53
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I could have sworn Miyazaki had a strict "don't mess with my movies beyond lip syncing" rule with Disney localizing his films, guess I was misinformed.
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Das Boo posted:Confession one, I kinda like Jack Black. Confession: When watching The Holiday, I decided that I'd ultimately choose Jack Black over Jude Law. So, there you go. Miscellaneous 14, thanks for the recommendations. I hadn't heard of either of those movies! I've seen Howl's Moving Castle probably three times, and there are parts of the ending I still don't understand. I chalk some of it up to "symbolism n' poo poo."
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Jan 4, 2014 23:55
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miscellaneous14 posted:I don't think any of them are on VOD services like that, but for future reference, there is a site that tells you what VOD services something is available on. I don't think it makes a difference for any of the Studio Ghibli films, but http://www.moreflicks.com checks across all countries. No alert service but it's useful if you can use a proxy service such as Hola Unblocker.
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I noticed Tarzan 3D wasn't in the OP  In the related videos, I spotted Khumba. Did anyone else happen to catch this or watch it? I'll admit I laughed a bit at the Zebra Crossing gag.
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Pyrotoad posted:I noticed Tarzan 3D wasn't in the OP I love how halfway through you have this sudden shift from "Tarzan with creepy Robert Zemeckis uncanny valley CG" to "THE ALIEN METEOR CRASHED INTO THE FOREST AND WE GOTTA FIGHT THE MILITARY". For a second I thought they had just started showing a different trailer.
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Tartarus Sauce posted:I've seen Howl's Moving Castle probably three times, and there are parts of the ending I still don't understand. I chalk some of it up to "symbolism n' poo poo." Try reading the book. It won't make the plot of the movie any easier to decipher, but it might help you tease out which bits are lifted straight from the book but not fully contextualized in the film, thus making them confusing. Also it is good.
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Pyrotoad posted:I noticed Tarzan 3D wasn't in the OP You son of a bitch I finally forgot about Tarzan 3D and you just bring that piece of poo poo back into my life!
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miscellaneous14 posted:I could have sworn Miyazaki had a strict "don't mess with my movies beyond lip syncing" rule with Disney localizing his films, guess I was misinformed. As I understand, some of those are actually necessary, such as Chihiro in Spirited Away identifying the bath-house as a bath-house, since an international audience probably wouldn't recognise one.
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achillesforever6 posted:Jack Black is kind of underrated sometimes, especially in his voice roles, I mean sure I know its Jack Black, but he's voiced some great characters in the last few years like Po and Eddie Riggs. A lot of times when a famous person plays an animated character, it doesn't always jive with the setting. It pulls me out of the movie. MY IMMERSION, if you will. You'll notice that the protagonist voices of most of the Disney films of the Renaissance are almost exclusively Broadway or TV stars. Jodi Benson, Paige O'Hara, the boyfriend from Full House, Ming Na, Tony Goldwyn etc. And where are the big names in How to Train Your Dragon? Gerard Butler's the biggest and that's it. And the exceptions are when the famous people are capable of disappearing entirely into the character - Tom Hanks as Woody is iconic, and I never think of Splash or Big or Saving Private Ryan when I watch Toy Story. Will Ferrell as Megamind was the same way - I stopped thinking of him as Will Ferrell. And of course Steve Carrell as Gru. The times where it doesn't work are when the voice actor essentially plays an animated version of himself. It's especially bad in movies where the settings are historical and exotic and the protagonist is voiced by someone Recognizably Modern and American. Brad Pitt in Sinbad, Owen Wilson in pretty much any animated movie he's in, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, etc. And when I saw the trailer for Kung Fu Panda - it showed Jack Black playing a panda version of a role he's recognized for - the loveable fat screwup. But maybe the marketing was unfair. I might give it a shot now because i Have heard a lot of surprisingly positive feedback for it.
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Kung Fu Panda is the best thing Dreamworks has ever done so yeah I'd probably give it a shot if I were you.
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While there are a lot of recognizable names in Kung Fu Panda and not all of them can vanish into their characters it was never a distraction to me. Honestly the most obvious "Oh, it's that person!" voice for me was James Hong and that's because I smile every time I see or hear him in something.
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Gotta Wear Shades posted:Honestly the most obvious "Oh, it's that person!" voice for me was James Hong and that's because I smile every time I see or hear him in something. James Hong has a drat firm monopoly on Hollywood's generic old Asian guys. I was just playing Sleeping Dogs, and OF COURSE the old Triad boss is loving James Hong. He's great in it, of course he is, because he's James Hong, but I wouldn't mind seeing/hearing somebody else for a change. Someone else needs to grow old so he gets some competition. Also holy poo poo he has 385 credits on IMDb, which is over a hundred more than Christopher Lee.
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Veib posted:James Hong has a drat firm monopoly on Hollywood's generic old Asian guys. I was just playing Sleeping Dogs, and OF COURSE the old Triad boss is loving James Hong. He's great in it, of course he is, because he's James Hong, but I wouldn't mind seeing/hearing somebody else for a change. Someone else needs to grow old so he gets some competition. He was the dub voice actor for both Ogata and Serizawa in the original Godzilla, The King Of Monsters U.S. release. That should tell you how long he's been at this.
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Waffleman_ posted:It seems like The Nut Job commercials are now Psy-free. I think it was just for New Years/Psy's birthday which is on NYE. They've still got that horrifying twerking pug though!
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miscellaneous14 posted:That's kind of the funny thing about Summer Wars, it's relatively the same plot as the Digimon Movie with even a few of the same beats (e.g. everyone on the net around the world helping them in the finale), though with a stronger focus on the real world conflict. Okay I've seen the Digimon movie, always loved the "Our War Game" part, and less than 5 minutes into Summer Wars HOLY poo poo SOME OF THE ANIMATION BITS ARE loving PLAGIARIZED. I love this.
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My friends had me watch the Digimon movie and I'd never seen the show before. Let's just say Jules Winnfield would've blown my head off.
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I just bought the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs artbook, which I'd been eyeing for a while. It got delivered today but I can't read it since it was on the porch and now it's so cold it hurts my fingers  .
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just finished watching KFP2, really enjoyed the fight scenes, especially the Jackie Chan-like antics with the one-eyed wolf, and the way Shen's animated, but I feel some of the jokes fell flat compare to the first (though I enjoyed the jail cell switcheroo).
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Robindaybird posted:just finished watching KFP2, really enjoyed the fight scenes, especially the Jackie Chan-like antics with the one-eyed wolf, and the way Shen's animated, but I feel some of the jokes fell flat compare to the first (though I enjoyed the jail cell switcheroo). The thing I enjoyed most about it was Jean Claude Van Damme as the fat crocodile guy.
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My one disappointment with the KFP films so far is that I want to see the Furious Five fight on their own (like you get a little taste of in that special about their backstories). I hope in the next one the villain has a bunch of lieutenants and each of the Five takes one one while Po fights the main guy or something.
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DNS posted:The thing I enjoyed most about it was Jean Claude Van Damme as the fat crocodile guy. The thing I enjoyed the most was how stoked Po looked each time he fought along side the Furious Five, calling out all his martial arts moves. The jubilation in his face, where he excitedly looks to his left and right, realizing he's about to wreck poo poo with the Furious Five, when all of them are flying towards the village that the wolves are attacking early on in the film is such a small little detail that makes me chuckle every time.
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Pyrotoad posted:I noticed Tarzan 3D wasn't in the OP Damnit gently caress you. I thought this was another old Disney animation redone in 3D thing.
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U.T. Raptor posted:My one disappointment with the KFP films so far is that I want to see the Furious Five fight on their own (like you get a little taste of in that special about their backstories). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Panda_(franchise)#Short_films Those aren't farmed out like the TV show. All done in house by DW.
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Shaocaholica posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Panda_(franchise)#Short_films They're actually really gorgeous. The latest one about the Masters is just beautiful to look at.
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Secrets of the Furious Five is the all-2D one, right? The content is so obviously kids'-show level but I can't help watching it occasionally because the animation is so nice. I really love that style. Is the Masters one done in the same fashion?
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redcheval posted:Secrets of the Furious Five is the all-2D one, right? The content is so obviously kids'-show level but I can't help watching it occasionally because the animation is so nice. I really love that style. Is the Masters one done in the same fashion? Yeah, it's got a 3D opener with Po and the Five, then the main body of the story is 2D. It's very pretty.
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Weirdly I looked it up a few hours after I posted it and I have seen it before somehow. I know I've watched the Furious Five one on Netflix before but I don't remember seeing this one! The character designs are fantastic though. The animation is great, I would love to see a movie that looked like that.
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I just saw Persistence of Vision, the doc about the making (and subsequent disaster) of The Thief and the Cobbler. Really excellent insight into what happened to that movie, I really recommend it if it's playing nearby.
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HellOnEarth posted:I just saw Persistence of Vision, the doc about the making (and subsequent disaster) of The Thief and the Cobbler. Really excellent insight into what happened to that movie, I really recommend it if it's playing nearby. It's an odd film because you expect to go in hating the studio for ruining the film and you end up admiring Richard Williams but also thinking that everything that happened was his own damned fault. He's brilliant but it's really hard to feel sorry for him.
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Since the Academy Award Nominations will be coming out in a few days, I figure this is the last chance to take bets on which films are going to get nominated. 5 out of 19. For the lesser well known films getting a nomination would be a big deal, since it would guarantee distribution when otherwise these movies might be near impossible to find localized.CBS News posted:"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2"- Further adventures featuring giant food. fake edit: That description of The Fake is filled with lies. It's obvious that whoever wrote it hasn't seen the movie.
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I'm gonna say for certain that Wind Rises, Frozen, and Monsters are gonna make the noms, with my money going to Wind Rises to win.
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I think Monster's University, The Wind Rises and Frozen are pretty much guaranteed a nomination, simply because of the studios which made them. That leaves two open spots. Ernest and Celestine might grab one since it received quite a bit of international attention. I wouldn't be surprised to see Despicable Me 2 as well. It was a big commercial success and of the remaining American releases it's probably the most well-regarded. Not exactly a stellar year.
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The nominations will be The smurfs 2, Epic, Planes and Turbo 
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How does Smurfs 2 even qualify anyway? If we're just talking ratios of CG wouldn't that also put Gravity on the list?
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There might be an actual technical reason, but I think perception is the biggest factor. Gravity is a serious film for serious people, and therefore live-action. The Smurfs 2 is for little kids so it must be animation.
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Samuel Clemens posted:There might be an actual technical reason, but I think perception is the biggest factor. Gravity is a serious film for serious people, and therefore live-action. The Smurfs 2 is for little kids so it must be animation. I disagree that Smurfs 2 is for kids on the grounds that it has no audience.
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Samuel Clemens posted:I wouldn't be surprised to see Despicable Me 2 as well. It was a big commercial success and of the remaining American releases it's probably the most well-regarded. Not exactly a stellar year. I just don't get what made people go absolutely ape poo poo for this movie. Like I enjoyed it, it was a cute little movie, just like the first one. But drat man. No one at work seemed to give a poo poo about Monsters University (which came out around then) but everyone was talking about Despicable Me 2. And I even understand why people love the minions so much but come on people it wasn't THAT good!
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