SQUIRREL.
While it seemed that everyone spent yesterday praising new companion Karen Gillan’s awesome red hair, I went to go see Up!
Up shattered my heart.
I didn’t outright bawl, but there was certainly something IN MY EYE more than a couple of times in that movie. I loved the opening montage of Carl and Ellie’s life together. I’m a sucker for any sort of animation sequence without dialogue because it’s then relied heavily on the acting to sell the scene. From the second you saw that those two were meant for each other, you were just WAITING for Ellie to die, just to set up the premise of the movie you saw from the ads. Not that I wanted her to die because OMG they were the cutest kids EVER.
I full on expected that Carl would just stay at the house on the bluff to die. If that happened, it would have broke me.
There were a couple of darker moments, or could be interpreted as darker, than what would be expected in a Pixar film. It could be that Ellie and Carl just couldn’t have kids, but I initially thought she had a miscarriage. And Carl imagining dropping Russell? And I was shocked - SHOCKED! - when there was BLOOD on that guy’s forehead.
One bit I’m not clear about. Was Russell’s father dead or just gone from the kid’s life? Were both his parents dead? There’s that line where Carl and Russell are chatting about his awards ceremony and Russell says Phyllis, and Carl says something, to which Russell replies “Phyllis isn’t my mother.” I felt a little dense, thinking “Am I just not getting this? Obviously, something is missing in this kid’s life…” However, not gonna lie, when he said “Phyllis isn’t my mother”, I immediately thought that Phyllis was his father and that he gone through a sex change and I was like ‘PIXAR/DISNEY, YOU ARE SO RAD.’
I read an article about all the programming they did for the balloon animation. Seriously, my mind is totally blown by it, just how every single balloon has to not only interact with the other 10,000 balloons around it, but to the environment. When the balloons are first unveiled at the beginning and are just about to hoist the house up into the air, you can see a bunch knocking loose and flying free. THAT WASN’T INTENDED. Apparently, when they ran the balloon simulation, the computer calculated that some balloons would set free, and the Pixar dudes thought that it was so awesome, they left it in the movie. BRAIN EXPLODE.
Now that we’re done with Deep Thoughts, let’s turn to SQUEE:
+ Carl totally looks like my grandfather.
<3 <3 <3
I think the cuddle is the best thing ever.
+ I WANT A KEVIN. AND I WANT BABY KEVINS.
+ I WANT A DOUG.
+ The dog’s inner-voice collar is pretty much EXACTLY what I imagine what a dog says if a dog could talk.
+ The chipmunk voice on the Doberman killed me.
+ You know, Carl was a pretty old guy. I’m guessing… 70s? And he was a wee tiny thing when his hero found Paradise Falls or whatever. Shouldn’t that guy be… DEAD? Carl was also pretty spry for an old guy.
+ WTF TOY STORY 3? I swore they canceled production on that! Maybe I should pay attention to my industry, y/y?
+ The short at the beginning was… erm… odd. Funny, but odd. The cloud people made me uncomfortable.
In short, not my favorite, but still quite good. Then we all went out for drinks and I had epically awesome pulled pork sliders that I'm STILL full from.
Up shattered my heart.
I didn’t outright bawl, but there was certainly something IN MY EYE more than a couple of times in that movie. I loved the opening montage of Carl and Ellie’s life together. I’m a sucker for any sort of animation sequence without dialogue because it’s then relied heavily on the acting to sell the scene. From the second you saw that those two were meant for each other, you were just WAITING for Ellie to die, just to set up the premise of the movie you saw from the ads. Not that I wanted her to die because OMG they were the cutest kids EVER.
I full on expected that Carl would just stay at the house on the bluff to die. If that happened, it would have broke me.
There were a couple of darker moments, or could be interpreted as darker, than what would be expected in a Pixar film. It could be that Ellie and Carl just couldn’t have kids, but I initially thought she had a miscarriage. And Carl imagining dropping Russell? And I was shocked - SHOCKED! - when there was BLOOD on that guy’s forehead.
One bit I’m not clear about. Was Russell’s father dead or just gone from the kid’s life? Were both his parents dead? There’s that line where Carl and Russell are chatting about his awards ceremony and Russell says Phyllis, and Carl says something, to which Russell replies “Phyllis isn’t my mother.” I felt a little dense, thinking “Am I just not getting this? Obviously, something is missing in this kid’s life…” However, not gonna lie, when he said “Phyllis isn’t my mother”, I immediately thought that Phyllis was his father and that he gone through a sex change and I was like ‘PIXAR/DISNEY, YOU ARE SO RAD.’
I read an article about all the programming they did for the balloon animation. Seriously, my mind is totally blown by it, just how every single balloon has to not only interact with the other 10,000 balloons around it, but to the environment. When the balloons are first unveiled at the beginning and are just about to hoist the house up into the air, you can see a bunch knocking loose and flying free. THAT WASN’T INTENDED. Apparently, when they ran the balloon simulation, the computer calculated that some balloons would set free, and the Pixar dudes thought that it was so awesome, they left it in the movie. BRAIN EXPLODE.
Now that we’re done with Deep Thoughts, let’s turn to SQUEE:
+ Carl totally looks like my grandfather.
<3 <3 <3
Click to viewI think the cuddle is the best thing ever.
+ I WANT A KEVIN. AND I WANT BABY KEVINS.
+ I WANT A DOUG.
+ The dog’s inner-voice collar is pretty much EXACTLY what I imagine what a dog says if a dog could talk.
+ The chipmunk voice on the Doberman killed me.
+ You know, Carl was a pretty old guy. I’m guessing… 70s? And he was a wee tiny thing when his hero found Paradise Falls or whatever. Shouldn’t that guy be… DEAD? Carl was also pretty spry for an old guy.
+ WTF TOY STORY 3? I swore they canceled production on that! Maybe I should pay attention to my industry, y/y?
+ The short at the beginning was… erm… odd. Funny, but odd. The cloud people made me uncomfortable.
In short, not my favorite, but still quite good. Then we all went out for drinks and I had epically awesome pulled pork sliders that I'm STILL full from.