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What amazes me about The Nut Job is the lip sync is so bad I actually thought my theater's audio was off and I was tempted to go complain before it got to the feature (it was the first trailer). Glad I waited because it was literally because they don't line up.
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Jan 1, 2014 20:40
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Oh, also you should have the Princess Kaguya trailer in there somewhere. That's the animated film I'm most excited about in 2014, after Boxtrolls.
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Jan 1, 2014 20:43
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I just noticed the title references the "Dreamworks face". And here we were complaining about memes.
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Jan 1, 2014 20:47
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Ghibli has two quality offerings on the way  .
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Jan 1, 2014 23:56
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DicktheCat posted:
Arrietty was his screenplay but Yonebayashi directed.
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Jan 2, 2014 05:34
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axleblaze posted:If it's a movie, I don't think it matters what style it's made in. If Vargo disagrees, that's fine but I just don't see a good reason not to talk about a movie just because it's Anime. I mean if we can talk about Ghibli, I don't see why not. I know Ghibli is way better than average but quality isn't what this thread is about as the OP clearly shows. My only concern here would be that it's a followup film to a pre-existing anime series. But this issue hasn't been a huge problem yet so it seems premature for rules about it.
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Jan 2, 2014 21:04
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Pixeltendo posted:Has there actually ever been CGI films for adults only? Aside from literal pornographic films?
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Jan 2, 2014 22:28
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All joking aside, at some point you need to draw a line of intent, otherwise Gravity falls solidly in the category. "Ah, but it had real faces!" And Happy Feet had real people.
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Jan 2, 2014 22:43
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Speaking of perception and ratings, does anyone else think it's weird that Hunchback of Notre Dame has a "G" rating but Frozen got a "PG"?
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Jan 2, 2014 22:55
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axleblaze posted:I think that has less to do with Disney getting out of traditional animation and more to do with the rise of indie films and it becoming easier to make an animated movie on a lower budget. Yeah, this would be my suspicion. Computers changed traditional animation a lot, too. By the way, Jennifer Hager was on Frozen, and I remember her from her Youtube demo reel ages ago. She's on her way to the top it seems  .
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Jan 2, 2014 23:46
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Kung Fu Panda is, in my mind, far and away the best thing Dreamworks has done. I like the second one as well, albeit less so. It's good, it just doesn't feel like it brings anything new to the table. That said... the hardcore do understand  .
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Jan 3, 2014 03:01
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The only joke that I really liked was the Abe Lincoln one, if there's lots of that then I'm gold.
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Jan 4, 2014 03:10
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Das Boo posted:Confession one, I kinda like Jack Black. Confession two, I thought Shrek 2 was the best Shrek. I find Shrek 2 really fun, honestly. It paved the way, like the original Shrek, for a lot of things that were later overdone, but that's not Shrek 2's fault. I feel like many films benefit from being seen in the context of their time, not just stuff like Snow White where you're like "Oh my god does anything HAPPEN in this loving movie?"
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Jan 4, 2014 06:55
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The third is truly, deeply dire.
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Jan 4, 2014 07:21
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Koramei posted:That's sorta a running theme ever since Whisper of the Heart. Aside from like, Mononoke, and maybe the Yamadas (it's not really that kind of film), I think every single Ghibli film has been pretty let down by its ending. Howl's might well be the worst of the lot of them though. I really like the ending to Spirited Away.
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Jan 4, 2014 19:57
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They also add dialogue where there was none previously. "Whaaat, Haku's a dragon!?"
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Jan 4, 2014 22:21
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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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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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Cloche posted:I haven't seen Despicable Me 2, but that's actually sorta sad. The first one was really nice and cute in that respect. Are there many animated kids' movies that specifically deal with similar themes and an unconventional family structure, and end the movie unambiguously saying "you know what, this is just as okay as anything else"? The only thing that immediately comes to mind is Lilo & Stitch, I guess. Mars Needs Moms 
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I thought this was an interesting article about Kung Fu Panda (the franchise) in China. Chinese representatives invited Katzenberg to Chengdu and were quite surprised by how it went. quote:It is safe to assume that the government expected to pay for having parts of Chengdu’s culture portrayed in the film, because Hebei Province happily invested in the movie Aftershock, about the Tangshan earthquake of 1976. So when Katzenberg said that he would put scenery from Chengdu into Kung Fu Panda 2 “as a gift to the children of the disaster zone” and when Zibach gushed that “I was so delighted and moved by Mt. Qingcheng that I insisted it be a major feature of the sequel,” the city of Chengdu was taken aback:
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Jan 14, 2014 21:00
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The minions were my least favorite part of the series so now of course they're getting their own film. People rag on Dreamworks but I think Illumination is a better example of that kind of annoying marketing.
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Jan 15, 2014 17:23
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Other than switching out MU and DM2, I think it's the proper list.
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Jan 16, 2014 17:08
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Jay Dub posted:I just caught up on The Croods the other night, and I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised by it. Right, I think it deserves a nomination, definitely not a win. But I really like the style of it all and admired its tough message.
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Jan 16, 2014 17:29
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DNS posted:What was its tough message? It's sort of your place in life to set up the future generations and help them become and do things you won't be able to understand. Jay Dub posted:In a purely technical sense, I think The Croods definitely stands toe to to with the rest of them. Some of the animation is gorgeous, particularly the scenes of the family on the move, where it seems like everyone is running 50 miles per hour. The film has an incredible sense of motion to it, which feeds into its theme of forward momentum vs stagnation. Oh, from a solely technical point of view it might be my favorite of the year--similar to how, from a purely technical point of view, Hotel Transylvania is one of my favorite computer-animated films of all time. But that's not enough for a win this year. 2006, sure.
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Jan 16, 2014 18:51
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At some point you need to weigh intent against realized message because agree with it or not, a huge number of people independently developed the libertarian read of Incredibles. I don't wholly agree but I don't wholly disagree either; to me it's backed up by more in the film that some of the other interpretations of animated films that are more widely accepted.
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Jan 17, 2014 09:27
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My favorite Brad Bird trivia is that he worked on The Plague Dogs.
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Jan 17, 2014 16:57
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computer parts posted:The biggest problem with it is that Syndrome is the clear Randian ( a guy who apparently makes his fortune with no ones help and is a techno genius) and yet no one ever mentions that. Except that's his sympathetic trait. If he'd inherited everything from his father he'd have no redeeming qualities at all.
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Jan 17, 2014 17:05
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Everyone hates "Morning Report" and Pocahontas is actually very stiff and weird (I watched it just the other day while housecleaning). However, the rest of your assessment fits into my experience with the film. I get annoyed when people go herp-derp Stockholm Syndrome too, since it's all about the Beast changing. Belle can't fall in love until she's freed and sees that his affection was deep and genuine, that's kind of the entire loving point.
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Strange Matter posted:Oh, and another thing about BatB: according to Lumiere, they've been under the Enchantress's curse for 10 years, and since the curse stipulates that it has to be broken before the Beast's 21st birthday, it means she cursed the guy when he was 11 years old. Like, I get that he was being a dick but that Enchantress was kind of maybe overreacting a little bit! I love Beauty and the Beast but the timeline is completely hosed up and makes no sense, especially if you dare to factor in the sequel.
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Jan 23, 2014 18:13
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Yoshifan823 posted:Pretty much everyone in Lilo and Stitch is redeemable. Gantu falls into the Arrogant & Small Minded category, but Bubbles, the Universal Ruler, and even Jumba all have their good points, and the first two are only villains of circumstance. Gantu went a little too far but I don't disagree with him that much, I would say Bubbles and the Universal Ruler are solidly not villains though. If anything the compassionate villain is Stitch.
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Disney's Enchantress.
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Darth TNT posted:The only exceptions I can think of are Aladdin 2 and possibly Pocahontas 2 (just as dull as Pocahontas 1) I really like Bambi II, enjoyed the new Winnie the Pooh as much as the original (WDAS not DisneyToon though), think The Rescuers Down Under is better than the original (also WDAS), and have an odd soft spot for Cinderella 3. Also I think Return to Neverland is not bad as long as you don't let the bad moral or your awareness of hentai bother you.
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I seem to recall the film coming down in the main girl for lacking whimsy... in a warzone. Anyway.  
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blurry! posted:I just saw the Croods, and I liked all but the last few minutes of it. It feels like an executive came in and went "hold up, hold up, hold up, you can't end a movie like that! There's kids watching!" Yeah, movies aimed at kids generally don't end on any sort of down note these days, but I liked the bittersweet ending that seemed to be coming together, where Grug sacrifices it all so his family could survive. His parting moments where they all realize they he's not coming with and his invention of the "hug", along with the following scene of him doing that last painting in the dark was really quite touching. Cut to the family blowing their shells after that to say goodbye before rolling the credits (maybe with some more Eep narration to book-end things) would have wrapped things up nicely. But it feels like the movie chickened out completely at the end. I'm not a proponent of dark or gritty endings because I feel like they're more "mature" by default. I argued that Flynn Rider staying dead in Tangled would have been stupid and counter-thematic. However, a less than perfect ending in the Croods would have fit the theme of evolving, progressing, and moving on, and the old ways unfortunately having to be left behind to seek a new means of living. Oh well. In my mind, it would have been one of the right films to take that stand. However, it had the impact it wanted when it wanted. I don't think most people watch films multiple times. It's a great conflict and it helped solidify The Croods as one of my top three animated films of 2013.
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Jan 27, 2014 01:59
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Aladdin and the King of Thieves was intended as a finale to the TV show, where they'd reveal Mozenrath (aka White Aladdin) was Aladdin's brother. Instead we got Middle-Eastern Sean Connery Lite.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxwqG3Tyao Holy poo poo, that sucks. What the hell, 1970s .
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Samuel Clemens posted:We got that already. It's called The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I will end you.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is now out on DVD.
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For the record, Prince Naveen isn't supposed to be a black guy. They wanted it to be ambiguous but his country's name (Maledonia) is reference to where they drew references, the Maldives and Macedonia.
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