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I just watched into the spiderverse for the first time. It's a very enjoyable and well written movie, but holy crap at those visuals.  Maybe it's the flu talking, but that was a trip.That style they chose somehow allows everything to pop. 
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Invalid Validation posted:My kid went through a spiderverse stage and I must have seen it 20 times and I never got sick of it. When Peter dies in the beginning it’s a real kick in the nuts. Yes this. You expect him to get up or show up later, but nope he dead. Is he the first spider man death on screen? Other stuff I loved as I slowly process this movie: - Giant black hole kingpin. It helps them play around with how big and/or menacing or normal he really is. - tubby/failure/ realistic Peter's arc - Gwanda, a perfect setup for Gwen. - Doc Ocks tentacles. The way they moved and bulged making them seem air powered or something. It made them feel more real somehow. - Somewhat connected, another Spider-Man sort of dies and it's handled in a perfect manner considering the circumstances. I'd say the worst part is the Prowler reveal, why exactly did he need to take off his mask? Sure it was his home but, he was searching his home minutes before. The banter was perfect. And like I said, the style somehow allowed so many other styles to coexist and allowed all of them to somehow pop and fit in. Really a grown up animated movie. Darth TNT fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Jan 14, 2020 20:44
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That pipe is either high as a kite, really smug or giving me a bedroom look.
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Jan 16, 2020 10:40
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PenguinKnight posted:Can’t wait for the scene where Bambi’s mom gets shot and it cuts to an emotionless Bambi I laughed way to hard at this. So what useless new scenes are they going to add this time?
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Jan 25, 2020 23:22
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This year we're traveling to America and we're going to Disney world. However, as we were discussing it and how hype me and my wife were for going to the capitalist overabundance of Disney world we found that my 7yo son doesn't give a poo poo. As we were talking about it, what's happening is that my son doesn't have much of a connection to Disney at all. This is actually something Disney is doing to itself. The biggest more recent "Disney" movies were geared more towards girls than boys, with movies like Frozen, Vaiana etc. While Toy Story is more both genders he currently doesn't like Toy Story. Most Marvel stuff wasn't really aimed for his age originally. Now that he is the age for it, none of it is on the biggest streaming service of the country (currently the only one I have) and kids these days don't watch TV.  Starwars still technically isn't for his age yet (At least the advised age for the movies is a few years older still). Maybe Resistance, but the same thing applies. It's not on the streaming platforms and kids don't watch TV. Yes we can buy toys but the surrounding media actually has a different age categories. But either way, the toys without the media don't build a connection. So my wife and I have been pushing him to watch some Disney movies with us. We must brainwash him. Fortunately, my son recently came home with talks about having watched some Goof Troop at school.  (Remember that?)So last night we watched A Very Goofy Movie, which my wife bought on DVD ages ago. Man, that's some 90s poo poo right there. And I mean that in a good way, it was an entertaining movie. Very standard plotting, but enjoyable enough with some humor. Amusingly, we caught my son red handed to lying to us so this movie making a big point out of the lies Max told was hilariously topical. The most important thing at least was that my son thoroughly enjoyed it, especially the scenes with Giga Foot. While watching it though the thing that stood out the most to me was the artstyle. Man, I missed those chaotically drawn lines. Amusingly, after the movie my son noted that the art style was so weird compared to other stuff he watches. But he liked this as well, no preference on his side. 
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Shadow Hog posted:General consensus I've seen is that the Voodoo3 is generally considered the best one to go for, although the Voodoo5 is the strongest one on offer and the only one to offer 32-bit color and anti-aliasing, and also that some DOS programs only look for the original Voodoo, though you can trick them into using the Voodoo2 with a batch file setting some parameters. The Voodoo4 is just a weaker Voodoo5 and thus not really remarkable. Boxman posted:I'll save the serious Disneychat for the Disney World thread in travel, but I wouldn't stress about it. Remember that until recently, the Disney Vault (tm) policy meant that you couldn't freely get to a lot of these movies. Plenty of kids have ridden Dumbo without knowing what Timothy's name is. I'd wager more people have been through the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse in the last year than have seen the movie in that time span. There'll be some things that miss outright (as you noted,) but don't write off meeting characters. They really do have personalities, and you can get fun interactions with them. Double so for face characters. My wife is a big Disney fan and she managed to collect all the movies regardless of the vault policy. Although I don't think she has the Goofy movie sequel. I'm not sure if it was even released in Europe.I'm not stressing, it's just an observation. And I'm obviously not going to force him to watch stuff he doesn't want. It's wild that when we grew up there was a lot of Disney on TV and there really isn't that much of that on anymore. I mean there's some stuff, but that's not really the stuff you see in the parks. Also thank for the heads up on the WDW thread. Going to check it out for more tips.
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Jan 29, 2020 11:30
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Captain Invictus posted:remember that disney cartoon episode where one of the characters finds one of the other main character's(a cop) handgun and accidentally loving shoots her and nearly kills her because he was playing around with it like a toy I had forgotten that episode. Gargoyles did not mess around. It was occasionally fantastic.
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Jan 29, 2020 12:30
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This weekend we watched Wall-E with my son. He actually saw a piece of Wall-E earlier so he was eager to see the rest. I remember seeing it in the cinema myself and loving it. Rewatching it, man, Wall-E is still a fantastic movie. So much is conveyed with virtually no words, but just body language from barely human shaped robots. While this did make the movie very hard for my son to follow, he did love the story, the setting and the humor. Even if he didn't understand the setting, but then it's a fun movie to talk about with him as he slowly pieces together why things are as they are and how they map back onto the current world. I remember back when I first saw it, my suspension of disbelief broke when the live actors showed up. I didn't have this problem this time. Probably because I knew it was coming. All in all, Wall-E to me is definitely a movie that's close to perfection. We also watched the Burn-E short after, I'd never seen that, but I just love silly side stuff like that. Having someone have his own adventure that only occasionally intersects with the leads just amuses me to no end.
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Feb 3, 2020 09:32
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IUG posted:The best part about Burn-E is when you know which scenes match up with the movie, and then notice he pops up in the movie as well for those few frames. I was wondering about that. That's neat.
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Feb 4, 2020 12:25
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Shadow Hog posted:Apparently the Sonic film is not-terrible. I mean, we're talking "64% and thus "Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes" here, not "genuinely great", but it's honestly better than I was expecting it to fare with critics. Doesn't unseat Detective Pikachu at 69%, though.
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Feb 14, 2020 09:41
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Regalingualius posted:Here’s hoping it pops up on YouTube soon, but for now... Looks fun enough.
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Feb 14, 2020 22:43
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Barudak posted:The next film better be Shadow the Edgehog Rated R for gun use.
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Feb 18, 2020 12:56
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The_Doctor posted:There’s a CGI Pokemon movie coming to Netflix in a week? And the first I heard about it is today? I think that's the remake of the very first Pokemon movie you're referring to. That's probably also the reason.
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Feb 21, 2020 08:41
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Simpsons still relevant confirmed
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Feb 28, 2020 19:26
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Hawkperson posted:An extremely dumb move not to make it ~the average price of a movie ticket (which according to google is roughly $10 nowadays). $20 is just highway robbery, gently caress that. Do you tend to go to the movies alone? Or is that 10 bucks for everyone that comes along? Because I don't know about you guys, but when I go to the movies I'm usually down € 27. $ 20 is a loving steal. If anything, this just highlights how overpriced movie tickets are.
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Mar 17, 2020 11:53
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I recently rewatched Ice Age 2 with my son by his request. (his first time) I liked Ice Age 2 when I first saw it, but watching it now...I don't think it's a very good movie. It feels like it's just a series of short set pieces interrupted by Scrat.....Or maybe Scrat's journey interrupted by a series of set pieces of other animals. Somehow it's not really coherent I guess. My son obviously loved it.
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Mar 18, 2020 10:30
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Macaluso posted:Ice Age 2 was weird cause the romance with Manny and uh... queen latifa felt so forced. The argument on the teetering rocks was quite good though. The characters are always fun. In the second movie the Possum Brothers steal the show. My son will probably want to see the third movie at some point as well. Watching this movie I'm not surprised the Ice Age franchise dried up.
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Mar 18, 2020 13:42
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Now for something different: So with the whole Covid stay at home thing kids here have been getting homeschooled. We have tried to make the environment and structure as close to what my son gets at school and that apparently includes watching a cartoon during lunch. I wish I had a teacher like that when I was young.  Anyway cartoons he has apparently seen/been watching with his teacher: The Smurfs Captain underpants Archibald's Next Big Thing I've grown pretty fond of Archibald's Next Big Thing actually. It's all very happy and upbeat and tries to teach kids something while never really lingering on it or making an entire episode hinge on it. It's very enjoyable and it's on Netflix. So if your kid is looking for something to watch, I recommend it. It's just a fun little Saturday morning cartoon.
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J-Spot posted:HBO Max has released a trailer for their Looney Tunes revival. It's looking pretty nice. It doesn't have the sketchlike look, but other than that it's very close in spirit. Much closer than most other recent outings. Looks interesting.
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Apr 21, 2020 19:24
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Didn't one of the first 3d scooby movies use scrappy as a villain before? Why do they still do this I think it's the result of the joke being taken too far. Scrappy is apparently disliked a lot, so the people who used to watch him growing up now always make him the bad guy. (I liked Scrappy) It's like how after Hasbro bought Gobots most writers has the Transformers beat up the Gobots somewhere in the corner or throw away shots. BioEnchanted posted:I thought there were some dramatic moments that were kind of interesting like when Po's adoptive dad is comforting his bio-dad after Po finds out he lied to him and he's just like "Your sons mad at you, huh? I've been there." "But, I lied to him!" "I lied to Po for 20 years, you'll be fine." Having not seen KFP3, I really love all scenes with the dad in the previous 2 movies. They're depicted as just a healthy family despite being different. The adopted joke from KFP1 coming back up in later movies as not actually being a joke also never stops being funny to me.
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May 18, 2020 10:17
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:They ARE awful. The bad guys all have the most obnoxious voices and those kids should be in bed, gosh darnit. Go to bed! How do you function the next morning being awake all night?? Easy, they're not old like we are.
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May 19, 2020 12:48
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I watched the Lego movie for the first time this weekend. Together with my son and wife and by God this is a good solid movie. There's a fairly standard hero journey plot, but they go hogwild with shout outs and lego based weirdness in such a way that it feels fresh. The sheer amount of cameos and poking fun at itself and it's source material is amazing. The soundtrack is technically good I guess, but it did feel a bit like everything is awesome (you're welcome) in different arrangements was the whole of the soundtrack. I love the faux stop motion thing they go with for animation. And that end twist works so well. I'd heard what it was beforehand, but it just works so well. My son didn't quite get everything that happened or the implications of it happening, but these past few days he keeps coming back to the movie fielding questions like. "Was the dad a bad guy?" It really set his mind thinking and usually shortly after a deep talk about symbolism he veers back into retelling the solid jokes. Lord and Miller are really amazing at making solid entertaining movies. After watching this it also immediately becomes clear that a second movie wasn't going to be nearly as good as the first. I haven't seen that yet, but lack of chatter and impact just makes me fill that it didn't. Their only hope was to basically abandon the characters they had, but I know they didn't. I hope my Netflix adds it again soon so I can watch it. They need to get Lord and Miller to make a new Naked Gun movie.
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Aug 11, 2020 21:00
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BioEnchanted posted:I like that Everything is Awesome isn't a celebration like it sounds - it's a desperate attempt to convince the people of Brickburg that *everything* is awesome, including the bad stuff, like this lyric: "Lost my job, a new opportunity, more free time for my awesome community!" Yeah but that's the whole point of Emmetts life before he becomes the "chosen" one. He needs to do everything by the book and to the letter. He has no real identity, to the point of his Co workers even forgetting him. It's a dystopia hidden behind a veneer of awesome. It's something the kids won't pick up on, but the parents will. And someday the kids will realize it as well. It's what elevates the movie to be better than it is. Benny's spaceship is also a brilliant payoff for the many times he dejectedly dismantled his previous attempts at building it.  There is definitely a sense of fullness (in a positive sense) in this movie in the same way as Spiderverse.
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BioEnchanted posted:I know that that's the point, what I was saying was the the song adds that extra layer, because the audience likely won't be paying attention to the lyrics, more how the song is used. I didn't know the actual words until I looked up a lyric sheet, so I hadn't picked up on that aspect of the song. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you didn't. I'm just praising that part of the movie as well.
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Aug 12, 2020 23:00
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Are we getting a Megaman movie? Finally a way to fill in the time skip from classic to X. All in on the grittyness!
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Aug 16, 2020 20:07
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Funny thing is that the plagiarism episode and Itchy and Scratchyland introduce two completely separate extended casts for Itchy and Scratchy... and it's the more recent one that had Ku Klux Klam. And Poochie was also made independently. Sonic Boom was really good though. My son recently finished the first season on Netflix so I caught a lot of episodes. Funny stuff, even if I'm not a fan of dumb Knuckles because I'm old. (despite the best lines being his)
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Aug 21, 2020 08:37
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teagone posted:Zero excuse for Noelle though. Completely tone-deaf of her to And honestly, the joke is ridiculous. There's a guy who's name is bow and he wields a bow. Making a joke about how he has a brother named sow who works on the field is just a good joke. Had he been white everyone would've laughed their asses off. But because black you can't say that? Maybe we can't name Bow bow either, because who knows how many black slaves used to work in Bowyery for their rich owners. It's not a joke made in bad faith, in the current climate it's possibly in bad taste but even then, this doesn't come across as racist at all. We should be careful not to label every joke immediately as racist as before you know, you can't say anything. Endorph posted:Yeah it's a bunch of mildly questionable things being taken out of context to stir up drama. Like guy probably should have made sure the crew were cool with him saying it before dropping the podcast's name but its not like he can't say it if he wants to promote it. 'desperate house-dwords' is a weird line of logic for someone to have to suss out just to google a podcast. I very much agree with this.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I know this has been said before, but it was a mistake to cut the songs. I rewatched the animated Multan recently and those are some great songs, if anything they should have added more songs. I'll make a man out of you!
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Sep 7, 2020 10:05
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I really would like to know whose idea was to make qi in the new Mulan a thing "only for warriors (boys) and girls cannot wield it" As you know, girls are icky unwanted abominations, so it only makes sense that they don’t have the natural energy that pervades all other living things. Unless they’re as strong as a man that is.
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paradoxGentleman posted:If anything, giving Mulan superpowers weakens her whole character. Part of her arc is that, in order to save her father from certain death in the frontlines, she's taking his place despite the risk of being discovered AND the fact that she has no idea how to be a soldier, or even convincingly pretend to be male. It was cool! I mean, she didn't fit in the mold that her society had for her, but that doesn't automatically mean that she's going to know her way around the male role. I have not seen this movie, but this does honestly read like feminism gone bad. Where they confuse powering up a woman and saying, "woman strong, men follow" with actually providing a proper story of growth and then making her awesome. A bit like Rey actually. WeedlordGoku69 posted:I tried to be polite about this a while ago since you're... REALLY not allowed to directly crap on any DisneyMarvelwars directors who are in any kind of marginalized group, but
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The Saddest Rhino posted:no, it's not "feminism gone bad". It's taking a historical tale with an emphasis on how (1) women can work, and in fact excel, in male-dominated spaces and (2) if you train hard enough, using your intelligence and experience can assist and make you good at what you do. The 2020 Mulan eschews all that and gives her The Force. Everything else is a more eloquent and accurate way of saying what I said. It's a shame, because I was really hoping Mulan was going to be good. I loved the original Mulan.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:My cynical hot take: The one reason I think this might not happen is because there's financial incentive to be culturally authentic based on the performance of past films. Critics hate it seems a bit of an overstatement. It's currently at 75% fresh at rotten tomatoes and 67 at Metacritic, so it seems a fair amount of (non Asian) critics did in fact like it. Audience reaction however has been more negative.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I am really surprised most critics like it, but serves me right for mouthing off before checking the more mainstream sites. Yeah and ultimately the critics opinion has 0 bearing as all Michael Bay movies show time and time again. None of the animated movies really had outstanding reviews but (I think) they still made bank. I’m hoping this one breaks the trend. It’s all just so lazily done. But as far as I know Mulan Isn’t that popular a brand, so this one might fail.
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ThermoPhysical posted:I audibly sighed when I read this. We never had any chance against Disney's massive qi.
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ThermoPhysical posted:It'll probably be out a few months after launch for free just like Mulan will in December for all who already have D+. Well, I'm not Asian so I'm no expert, but maybe boys don't have qi and they get it during puberty? So only men can have it. Also, I'm sorry you need new friends. ungulateman posted:if you change two letters in 'mulan' you get 'wuhan'!!! coincidence??? i think not!!! 
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ThermoPhysical posted:Looks like Yahoo! got the math wrong for this! This makes me oddly happy. Let’s just hope that if it fails Disney: A: doesn’t blame Mulan the story B: blame Asians
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But will James Earl Jones still be voicing Mufasa. 
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I liked it well enough I guess. Comedy Style is pretty good. Art style....it’s the way things currently are. I just find it flat and a little lifeless. I think I miss smudges in a lot of their movements. There’s also a lack of shading, which combined with the bright colors makes it a little jarring. But Pinky and the Brain is also coming back. So that’s great. There’s no way it will live up to the memories.
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Pick posted:I never really liked it as a kid for whatever reason. Probably because it’s not very funny? I mostly remember Animaniacs for a few of their spoofs (like the StarWars one) and a handful of fragments (like chess with death and the countries of the world). But mostly I remember it because of Pinky and the Brain. I’d say 90% of the series isn’t funny to me, but the parts that are funny, were really funny to kid me. I had no idea they had 99 episodes.
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Gotta say, there's a lot of Meet the Robinsons hate in this thread, and I won't stand for it. It's cute! It's a fun movie! It's very briefly got Tom Selleck! I enjoyed Meet the Robinsons as well. The worst I can say about it, is that’s it’s a very okay movie. It’s not great, it’s bad, you’ll watch it, enjoy it and never think about it again.
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