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Pigbuster posted:The cherry on top is its progressive trailer that completely sets you up to be blindsided by the movie itself. Yes, I don't think people would've been nearly as angry if it weren't for the trailer.
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DC Murderverse posted:Angry Birds is definitely pretty awful too but i saw trailers for the new one and birds and pigs are living peacefully together? so maybe they learned their lesson the 2nd movie has a completely different director (Thurop Van Orman, the Flapjack guy) and completely different writers, so hopefully
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sexpig by night posted:I literally forgot Kubo, what's the end that made people upset? It's not super upsetting, it's just kind of tonally weird? Like, the whole movie sets up how horrible it is to lose your memory and sense of self and how awful it is that the bad guy is trying to forcibly change Kubo against his will...and then the movie ends with Kubo causing the bad guy to lose his memory and sense of self and forcibly changing him against his will and this is treated as an unambiguously good thing. It's a little like having a movie that has a strong anti-gun message throughout the majority of the plot and then right at the climax of the movie the protagonist murders the villain with a machine gun and then no one ever acknowledges how hypocritical that was. Like I said, not as bad as Boxtrolls, but just weird and off putting enough for me that it kind of made me like the rest of the movie less. Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Apr 13, 2019 |
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:It's a little like having a movie that has a strong anti-gun message throughout the majority of the plot and then right at the climax of the movie the protagonist murders the villain with a machine gun and then no one ever acknowledges how hypocritical that was. 
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Wizards is absolutely insane, flawed, inconsistent in tone, and has some of the worst sound mixing I've ever heard but I love every drat second of it. I guess that describes every Bakshi movie, tho. Pick posted:Upwards class mobility is seen as unequivocally evil.
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 So this is the original strip style, and I think they look really similar to the 3D models.
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ImpAtom posted:The Genie can't kill people. You'd be surprised at what you can live through.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You'd be surprised at what you can live through. I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft slippery matter. I leave a moist trail when I move. Blotches of diseased, evil gray come and go on my surface, as though light is being beamed from within. Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known as human, a thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that humanity becomes more obscene for the vague resemblance. Inwardly: alone. Here. Living under the land, under the sea, in the belly of Agrabah, where we could not have known a begger finding a lamp would ruin the world. At least the four of them are safe at last. The Genie will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... The Genie has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ... I have no mouth. And I must scream.
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I went to see Missing Link and enjoyed it. It's got good animation and the story services it. Another pass would have tightened it up, but it's good fun. It did, however, feel like it was somewhat stripped-down and simplified for LAIKA, probably because Wildwood fell through and they decided to do something a little quicker. There's nothing complicated about the plot at all, and it doesn't have as many super busy scenes like Kubo. I thought it actually made for a stronger film in some ways. Apparently, it was announced as having begun only April 25 of last year, so it's possible that this really was a rush job to get something at all out the door.
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Pick posted:I went to see Missing Link and enjoyed it. It's got good animation and the story services it. Another pass would have tightened it up, but it's good fun. It did, however, feel like it was somewhat stripped-down and simplified for LAIKA, probably because Wildwood fell through and they decided to do something a little quicker. There's nothing complicated about the plot at all, and it doesn't have as many super busy scenes like Kubo. I thought it actually made for a stronger film in some ways. when they announced it in April they still had a date reserved for 2018 so i guarantee it's a rush-job. honestly i remember a few years back when layoffs were happening (i think post-Kubo) and everyone was worried that they were finished, which seems crazy but Knight is moving on to bigger things and Missing Link is both not one of their better movies quality-wise and a complete and total bomb financially (we're talking bottom 15 opening weekends for movies opening on 3000+ screens).
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Missing Link is a hard sell. The yeti is not cute, so it seems you’re going to get a Paddington type story without the benefit of a cute bear, and instead be looking at a kind of unsettling small eyed big nose portly thing. Combine that with the lack of conflict in the trailer and I didn’t really have any desire to see it. The period setting is kinda cool but I’ve been burned by that before (Boxtrolls, Steamboy, etc)
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It's super explicitly about how that era was poo poo and the old white guys in it were poo poo.
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Pick posted:It's super explicitly about how that era was poo poo and the old white guys in it were poo poo. This was the only trailer I saw for it, which was pretty much “look at this big galoot! He’ll sure have trouble fitting in!” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C9ZN9mRUOuw
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I can’t wait to see it. Maybe this weekend! Was going to go with my fiancé but he’ll be away on the weekend and I don’t fancy the film’s chances to stay in cinemas for a third week :/
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So has anyone seen Dumbo? Thoughts on it? My sister said that she was expecting better, and she liked the trailers.
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Obviously there’s been a surplus of people posting art from Disney’s Hunchback. I’m glad so much of Notre Dame has survived, including all 3 of the rose windows. https://twitter.com/wardomatic/status/1117991858783887361 https://twitter.com/emma_chapple/status/1117864533152993281
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paradoxGentleman posted:So has anyone seen Dumbo? Thoughts on it? My sister said that she was expecting better, and she liked the trailers. Dumbo was easily the worst movie I've seen this year. The main girl actor sucks, but a lot of the adult actors literally flub their lines too. It feels like they weren't allowed to do more than a few takes for any scene. The evil circus has a neat classic Disneyland/World's Fair aesthetic, but there's no real teeth to it. It's neither oppressive nor subversive. On the plus side, Eva Green's and Alan Arkin's characters were good, it has a great score, and I liked this movie's Casey Jr.
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I saw Penguin Highway last night. It's kind of a mixed bag, generally good but not something you should rush out to see. Pros: * The character design is really good. There were kids in the class who seemed like familiar characters despite them always being in the background, simply because everyone's visual design is distinctive and conveys meaning efficiently. * There's a strong sense of the director at work visually here. Some may find it a bit too heavy-handed, but it's kind of nice to see the director putting effort into a scene. It's especially good when dealing with the viewpoint of the main character. I really do love that it lets this child draw childish conclusions and doesn't judge him for it but doesn't come down entirely on his side either. * The soundtrack is quite good, if not especially novel. It's heavily influenced by Ghibli movies but that's not necessarily a bad thing, and this one works. * Even with an unbalanced tone, several of the more emotional moments work really well, if only in isolation. The characterization is good enough (again working from a strong visual design) that the climax hit me well enough. Cons: * The film never quite commits to its fantasy; it often seems to be wanting to impress the audience more than the characters. As a result, those parts feel a bit flat, like no one is really reacting to what's going on, they're reacting to where the plot is heading. * Unfortunately some of the time when it's trying to impress the audience, it fails hard at it. There's a part where things are supposed to look weird and wrong, and it ends up just looking like poorly-done animation. Most of the time it looks fine, it's just glaring that these bad moments are the ones where it seems to be showing off. (I'd be remiss for not pointing out that there are parts where it tries something new that does work.) * The tone isn't balanced very well. The first section is a bit too light and humorous, and while it doesn't go too dark, the latter half has more of the drama. There are portions that feel they must have been pieced together from different parts of the book(s), especially when you have a boy who spends an unhealthy amount of time with a woman in her twenties and then also has a loving mother, father, and younger sister he could be with instead. As to that last point, yes, there's a relationship that has to come off as questionable even in a culture that's generally more permissive with where their kids go. This ten-year-old boy spends way too much time alone with this woman who's probably 15 years his senior, is rather open with how much he likes her 'boobs' and she takes it all in stride (even the way she keeps calling him 'boy' is a bit off-putting). Although there are 'plot' reasons for it, it's nonetheless creepy. Again, the film condones it only tacitly -- there are some really faint hints of something that could indicate a more unreliable narrator but there isn't enough that's really said about how his parents should feel about it.
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The_Doctor posted:Obviously there’s been a surplus of people posting art from Disney’s Hunchback. I’m glad so much of Notre Dame has survived, including all 3 of the rose windows. Wait, I thought all three rose windows DIDN'T survive? What windows got destroyed then?
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Captain Invictus posted:Wait, I thought all three rose windows DIDN'T survive? What windows got destroyed then? It was one of the minor windows, the rose ones actually did survive.
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paradoxGentleman posted:So has anyone seen Dumbo? Thoughts on it? My sister said that she was expecting better, and she liked the trailers. I youtubed the only scene I was interested in (Pink Elephants) and it was atrocious
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Honestly, it'd just be different Tim Burton set pieces and motifs being awkwardly pushed around in the vague shape of an elephant.
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Honestly the better choice was Missing Link.
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ThermoPhysical posted:People would've still complained that they look EXACTLY like the originals and they should've just done something different. Well, of course no one will ever be happy with a remake of a much-beloved movie that barely even pretends to have any reason for existing beyond blindly cashing in on name recognition.
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Kangra posted:especially when you have a boy who spends an unhealthy amount of time with a woman in her twenties and then also has a loving mother, father, and younger sister he could be with instead. I thought the whole time that they were going to reveal she was a child psychologist covertly hired by his parents, that he confuses for a dental receptionist because she is working out of the same medical centre. His father is clearly using some researched parenting techniques, having encouraged him to journal daily and giving him little operant conditioning sweets, but he still struggles to relate to people his own age and needs someone to challenge him. They don't fully establish that though (or maybe they did, I was too high to process the last twenty minutes or so and there is no plot summary online). In any case, I found his crush innocent enough (and realistic), and liked her way of interacting with him so that he thinks he is being respected as an adult while she is clearly life coaching him. Still, it definitely could have used maybe a snippet of overheard conversation between her and the dad. I can't recall his mother situation being depicted at any point.
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Moon Atari posted:Still, it definitely could have used maybe a snippet of overheard conversation between her and the dad. I can't recall his mother situation being depicted at any point. I honestly had to force myself to remember that his mother was still around about halfway through. She has all of a few seconds of screen time, but since it's repeatedly showing him heading off to school, you get the sense that they have a fairly normal family. There's also the scene with his sister where she realizes their mother will die which is a fantastic scene, and I wish there had been more of that sort of thing, even if it was only with her. I can get behind the idea that the dad is knowingly allowing her to 'observe' his son, even if it's not quite the situation you described. You might have missed it but she's implied to be an alien life form although that might be kind of metaphorical -- it feels inspired by The Little Prince in that regard.
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How's Okko's Inn? Is it worth driving out to catch a show?
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Missing Link is good clean fun and doesn't suck so it's going to be better than a lot of what's on the table the next three years, go see it while you can.
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Pick posted:Missing Link is good clean fun and doesn't suck so it's going to be better than a lot of what's on the table the next three years, go see it while you can. They should change the trailers so that the movie looks in any way appealing
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that's why im here doin some wom
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Macaluso posted:They should change the trailers so that the movie looks in any way appealing People who make the trailers for animated movies never seem to be very good at it.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:People who make the trailers for animated movies never seem to be very good at it. Spider-Verse had some great trailers, but it was also a pretty unique movie.
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