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I would love marketers to retire: -Record Scratch -"That's Gotta hurt!" -Making it look like someone's going to say a naughty word/do something obscene and then cutting to someone obviously reacting to something else completely
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:* Shen is probably a better example than Tai Lung -- he's motivated in part by fear of the prophecy, but he was fascinated with weapons and destruction even before that. Shen is one of those examples where they really tried hard to play up the difference we're talking about, with that whole "wounds heal, scars fade, choose what you want to be" speech. IMO instead of "I choose ... this!" and then dying, Shen would've been a great addition, stylistically, to the regular cast.
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broken clock opsec posted:Shen is one of those examples where they really tried hard to play up the difference we're talking about, with that whole "wounds heal, scars fade, choose what you want to be" speech. Shen is cool, but that would have gone against the themes of the movie. The point of his character was that he was unable to let go of his failures and find inner peace (which they spelled out for the entire film). He would rather die than get over himself. I really like the final conversation between Shen and Po. It's a combination of funny and poignant. mycot fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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"Nobody kills Humperdinck. He lives." "You mean he wins? Jesus, Grandpa, why are you reading me this for?"
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Oscar nominations are out:"Variety posted:Best animated feature film of the year: Inside Out and World of Tomorrow are probably the most likely candidates. Maybe Anomalisa, depending on how the Academy feels on that particular day.
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Boy and the World is the big upset and you should all go see it. It's the most gorgeous animation this year. Well, released this year, it was made back in 2013. Massive academy snub for Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', though.
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Thank god they had two Pixar shorts to choose from this year so they didn't end up nominating Lava.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Inside Out and World of Tomorrow are probably the most likely candidates. Maybe Anomalisa, depending on how the Academy feels on that particular day. posts those academy member interview snippets about how "I don't watch stuff my kid doesn't want to watch"
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axleblaze posted:Thank god they had two Pixar shorts to choose from this year so they didn't end up nominating Lava. I HAD A DREAM
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Apparently World of Tomorrow is up on Netflix so if you haven't seen it yet, get on that.
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Looks like Norm of the North is *record scratch* http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/norm_of_the_north/ Going South. Didn't see that coming 
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Pixeltendo posted:Looks like Norm of the North is *record scratch* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcOTiTVuizU
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Pixeltendo posted:Looks like Norm of the North is *record scratch* The AV Club posted:They also dance with our hero, who does his signature number, the “Arctic Shake,” to various insufferable contemporary pop hits at various points throughout the movie. The sequence was clearly animated once and dropped into different locations as needed, which, along with the out-of-the-box character and location design, implies that even the animators on this film put forth a minimum of effort. gently caress I think I need to see this movie
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Just saw 'Only Yesterday' with my friend. She had the same complaint about the ending that some people did in the last thread (that Taeko shouldn't have ended up staying with Toshio because it went against the themes and Taeko's overall character) but I thought it fit in really well with the themes of growing up and saying goodbye to the past. It was simultaneously more melancholy and more hilarious than I was expecting. A lot of the story was told through small details, which I appreciated. The focus on the 'space between the clap' was very pronounced, and that combined with the attention to detail made the protagonist and her story feel very real. Only complaints are that some of the 'yesterday' portions could have been better tied in with the 'today' portions. For example, the whole Abe bit comes out of nowhere toward the end, despite being a pretty significant memory and turning point for Taeko. Also, some of the dialogue was a little stilted. I don't know if it's a translation thing or if it felt like Taeko and Toshio were occasionally having two separate and simultaneous conversations in the original Japanese version, too. CRINDY posted:gently caress I think I need to see this movie please do and live tweet it, tia
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CRINDY posted:gently caress I think I need to see this movie I find AV Club hit or miss but that article is amazing. What I mainly got out of it though is that the plot is bizarrely, inexplicably convoluted. Why would you do a "cartoon animals meet housing development" plot in a movie about Polar Bears. That's like if Happy Feet was about Deforestation!
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nerdman42 posted:Every time I see a trailer for one of Dreamworks' movies, I can't help but hope they get someone else running their marketing department. They're movies always seem kind full of generic dumb humor, but I've enjoyed most of the movies by themselves. I'm 90% sure KFP3 will be good but the trailer keeps giving me doubts. Never judge an animated movie by it's trailer, at least if it's from Disney or Dreamworks. I posted about this in the last thread, but they always do the same thing: Take every single comedy scene in the movie and put them in the trailer out of context, edit them so that even non-comedy scenes LOOK Like comedy, excise all drama or emotion, and put it all to a lovely pop-song that isn't in the movie at all to make the whole thing look like a wacky comedy. This always makes poo poo trailers because they ruin the timing of the jokes. Any gag or joke will be poo poo when you remove it from context because you just don't get the buildup and timing.
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A better polar bear movie than Norn of the North: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9cYcRotufU
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I don't give a poo poo about Popeye but.. have you guys seen this clip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4tNuM9XttM The animation is... inspired 
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Yea that was made when Genndy was still directing it (he's not anymore)
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Two things about Norm of the North that I think of when I see the trailer: -It makes me instantly think of Foodfight to the point I had to look up and see if it was made by the same people -I started instantly thinking to the cursed "Atuk" movie that probably killed 4 comedians.
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Hedrigall posted:The animation is... inspired It's a great blend of modern CGI techniques with the 1930s Fleischer Studio aesthetic, it's amazing. Edit: turns out that Genndy Tartakovsky actually learned English partially from Popeye cartoons and then took animation lessons from a 90 year old Fleischer Studio animator after the emigrated to the US according to this 2014 video where the CGI footage was premiered Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Tartakovsky is a wonderful animator, and it's a real shame that he was so often saddled with mediocre scripts.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Yea that was made when Genndy was still directing it (he's not anymore) you raise my hopes only to dash them against the hard, pointy rocks of reality
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Hedrigall posted:I don't give a poo poo about Popeye but.. have you guys seen this clip? That's super old and was just a concept test for something that's not happening anymore, as far as I know. I wish it was still happening, though  Popeye cartoons may not be the most memorable cartoons, but they were among the best animated.
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JediTalentAgent posted:-It makes me instantly think of Foodfight to the point I had to look up and see if it was made by the same people Nope, it's from the Alpha and Omega people. Apparently there are something like five direct-to-DVD sequels of that thing, which is a shame, because seeing the first one in theaters (I got paid for it, don't worry) was an awful, trying experience. edit: three more Alpha and Omega sequels are coming, which, woof.
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Is it because they already made the assets or what? Who's buying these?
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It's kinda cocky to name your dumb wolf movie after Jesus Christ. I know it's like alpha male stuff, but it came up when I was googling it to get a plot description and I found it funny.
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It also perpetuates that pua thing. It turns out that wolf packs having those is a crock of poo poo, and even if it wasn't it would not be relevant anyway because last I checked people are not wolves and lifting animal behavior to humans makes no sense.
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Waffleman_ posted:It's kinda cocky to name your dumb wolf movie after Jesus Christ. The producer/director on all the Alpha & Omega films is a guy called Richard Rich who has also produced & directed dozens and dozens of animated adaptations of Bible stories and Book of Mormon stories so it can't be a coincidence. He started out in the mailroom at Disney in the early 70s and worked his way up the chain until he got to direct The Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron in the 80s. He then started his own animation company which started pumping out short religious animations but took over 4 years to produce their first feature film, The Swan Princess, which they followed up with four sequels. This dude fuckin' loves sequels.
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I don't know what it is about the non-Pixar animation studio, but every time I see or hear about their movies I'm put off. Thought Ralph would be a dumb, but really loved it, thought Frozen would be even worse, loved it more, etc. I wonder if they'll get 4 in a row with Zootopia.
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The year Ralph came out was pretty odd, Pixar was doing the princess fairytale and DAS was doing the more modern Pixar-like movie.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:their first feature film, The Swan Princess I loved that movie when I was a kid. It probably isn't as good as I remember, but still, kind of sad that guy went on to make the Alpha and Omega movies.
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PhysicsFrenzy posted:
There is that one song that is catchier than the plague...
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PhysicsFrenzy posted:
yeah seeing as this guy also directed Fox and the Hound, I'm kind afraid to see Alpha and Omega because I might enjoy it despite every reason that I should hate it. gently caress I think I have a "type" for directors
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Aces High posted:yeah seeing as this guy also directed Fox and the Hound, I'm kind afraid to see Alpha and Omega because I might enjoy it despite every reason that I should hate it. gently caress I think I have a "type" for directors You will almost certainly not like it, because it is a bad movie. I enjoyed The Fox and the Hound, because it was a cute movie about growing up and friendships that overcome the barriers of society that didn't pretend that we can magically make those barriers disappear. Alpha and Omega, on the other hand, is a bad CG garbage movie about I don't think one film (or two, if you also enjoyed The Swan Princess in spite of itself) is enough to determine that you have a "type."
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PhysicsFrenzy posted:It probably isn't as good as I remember Villain's song is good, though.
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Speaking of "not as good as I remember," recently re-watched An Americal Tail and Fievel Goes West. Woof.
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ALFbrot posted:Speaking of "not as good as I remember," recently re-watched An Americal Tail and Fievel Goes West. At least Fievel Goes West has a moment where you can see a penis drawn on one of the mice because animators are funny like that.
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