What? You're not talking about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs? I SOOOOO wanna see that! 8DDD It looks so awesome, haha.
ANYWAY, YES, UP.
"They are like... doing what every other animation company seems to forget."
YES! I saw in this one video one guy saying that at Pixar, they always focus on the story. It's about a STORY. Then they use their technology to help tell it. That's what Dreamworks (with a couple exceptions) and similar don't seem to get and that's why classic Disney movies are still soooo gooood. Walt Disney was a fantastic storyteller! I learned that even if this scene was super awesomely animated, he could decide to take it out if he thought it wasn't helping the story.
Yeah. X) It's definitely about the story! I also love how they never try to make it "trendy". Because lately when I watch anything by Dreamworks it looks like the director was a teenager afraid he would look uncool and his classmates would laugh at him. :P
Eh, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs... I dunno, at first I was excited when I heard "inventing", but then... Maybe it's just the trailer, but it bugged me when first he was making a walking tv (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING), then all those computers (PROGRAMMING), and then giant food (...WAIT WHAT). I mean, I know it's the cartoon science, but it seemed too wacky. Mostly it was that I didn't even catch how it went from glowing screens to giant food
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs isn't a Ratatouille ripoff, lol. It's based on a children's book where the town of Chewandswallow is suddenly assaulted by food-related weather. At first they love it, but then the logic of having giant food rain down ALL THE TIME catches up with them, and they have to flee.
I'm intrigued that for the movie adaptation they have it center around an inventor that somehow made it happen - turning a 30 page book into a full length movie will require some changes, and depending on who you asked, the inventor angle is a dumb or genius idea.
The studio is the same one behind Surf's Up, which all my animation buddies loved, so... I'm a little hopeful. I do love the fact that the animation is so very cartoony, but the eyes are a little big for me and kinda freak me out.
As for Up... yes, it was GENIUS. That story went EVERYWHERE and yet it was so very tight. Everything tied back in, and that first 10 minutes was masterful. It told a whole story of its own and told it so efficiently that my mind was blown. I
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Saaame, I'm so seeing it again! It's just too much time to wait for the dvd.
Woah, thanks for telling about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs I definitely didn't know that. :P
I agree that it's hard to adapt stories from book for really small kids (so far I really liked Horton, and Ant Bully was good too). Normally I'd love anything that has an inventor in it, but, uh, maybe it wasn't the best solution for this particular plot.
It makes it "lol randum cartoon science" and it makes me irritated. Obviously, most cartoon science is exaggeration, but there are ways to do it so it is believable. Take Up, we know that it's impossible to make a collar that would make dogs talk (and if there was one, it would probably have to be inserted directly in the brain, yuck yuck). But they make those dogs speaking that broken computerized speech and that makes it witty and believable!
I guess we just have to handwave it as the guy being a multidisciplinary genius, if a little lacking in the common sense department. Seriously, FOOD. Coming from the SKY. X)
Found the trailer on you-tube and rewatched since we're talking so much about it. XD At the rate we're talking about it I'll have to go watch it in the end just to have a finished opinion!
"Conversion of water into food". I don't think Bill Nye would approve of it...
I just recently bought my first Pixar DVD. Ratatouille was available for a relatively cheap price so I thought "eh, why not" and bought it. I had been thinking of buying it for a while. Ive also kinda thought of buying Wall-E once I find it cheap enough.
I wasnt planning to go watch Up, I havent had much interest for it. Apart from the dog. The dog is just too cute.
I didnt know there was a new Toy Story movie coming, too. Whoa
Also, sorry if I\m not typing properly and theres some typos here. Something is going on with the keyboard settings, and when I try to type some characters, wrong characters turn up. For example, I wouldve wanted to use some smilies here but I cant type the colon I need for eyes. So you\ll just have this robotic monotone that has no emotions.
Ratatouille was sort of a turning point for me too. I liked their previous movies, and really loved both Toy Stories, but The Incredibles were kind of "meh" for me. I mean, it was good, but nothing above an average good movie. But the last three years really made Pixar my heroes. 8
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Got a working keyboard now and I can have emotions! Whoo! :)
Well, I think I shall watch Up then... when it comes here, in October... there's some waiting to be done until I'll get to see the movie :p Anyway, I'm really susceptible to movie recommendations and I tend to watch films when anyone recommends them. Extra interested in films that are enjoyed by people who have similar entertainment tastes as I do.
I never saw the second Toy Story. The first one was the movie that made me think "hmm, this Pixar company seems overrated". I've heard a lot of praise of the second Toy Story but I haven't bothered to pay money in order to see it, and it hasn't been on TV or anything. I want to watch films in chronological order, and I won't be seeing Toy Story 3, unless if I see and enjoy TS2 first (which doesn't seem likely).
Woah, it never as on TV? I remember Toy Story and Toy Story 2 playing on tv here every summer vacation, I used to watch it every time.
What made me love it even more was that my parents would always watch it too. They like some movies by Pixar, but mostly shorts. I remember us watching their shorts dvd compilation, and there was their first cartoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2doT5t51HGs They were really impressed by it, it was done in 1984, and since they both were already working in the field around the time, I suppose they could see what a huge leap it was at the time more then I did.
I guess (and I will never get tired of telling it) what makes Pixar better for me that it was a company programmers and scientists made, not perky managers thinking only of profit. I hope they will be able to go the way they are going with time, really.
Tl;dr version: I have a soft spot for Pixar movies. X)
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ANYWAY, YES, UP.
"They are like... doing what every other animation company seems to forget."
YES! I saw in this one video one guy saying that at Pixar, they always focus on the story. It's about a STORY. Then they use their technology to help tell it. That's what Dreamworks (with a couple exceptions) and similar don't seem to get and that's why classic Disney movies are still soooo gooood. Walt Disney was a fantastic storyteller! I learned that even if this scene was super awesomely animated, he could decide to take it out if he thought it wasn't helping the story.
ANYWAY I'M RAMBLING, haha.
Pixar knows how to tell a story with heart. <3
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Eh, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs... I dunno, at first I was excited when I heard "inventing", but then... Maybe it's just the trailer, but it bugged me when first he was making a walking tv (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING), then all those computers (PROGRAMMING), and then giant food (...WAIT WHAT). I mean, I know it's the cartoon science, but it seemed too wacky. Mostly it was that I didn't even catch how it went from glowing screens to giant food ( ... )
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I'm intrigued that for the movie adaptation they have it center around an inventor that somehow made it happen - turning a 30 page book into a full length movie will require some changes, and depending on who you asked, the inventor angle is a dumb or genius idea.
The studio is the same one behind Surf's Up, which all my animation buddies loved, so... I'm a little hopeful. I do love the fact that the animation is so very cartoony, but the eyes are a little big for me and kinda freak me out.
As for Up... yes, it was GENIUS. That story went EVERYWHERE and yet it was so very tight. Everything tied back in, and that first 10 minutes was masterful. It told a whole story of its own and told it so efficiently that my mind was blown. I ( ... )
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Woah, thanks for telling about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs I definitely didn't know that. :P
I agree that it's hard to adapt stories from book for really small kids (so far I really liked Horton, and Ant Bully was good too). Normally I'd love anything that has an inventor in it, but, uh, maybe it wasn't the best solution for this particular plot.
It makes it "lol randum cartoon science" and it makes me irritated. Obviously, most cartoon science is exaggeration, but there are ways to do it so it is believable. Take Up, we know that it's impossible to make a collar that would make dogs talk (and if there was one, it would probably have to be inserted directly in the brain, yuck yuck). But they make those dogs speaking that broken computerized speech and that makes it witty and believable!
See, I'm kind of boring. :P
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"Conversion of water into food".
I don't think Bill Nye would approve of it...
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I wasnt planning to go watch Up, I havent had much interest for it. Apart from the dog. The dog is just too cute.
I didnt know there was a new Toy Story movie coming, too. Whoa
Also, sorry if I\m not typing properly and theres some typos here. Something is going on with the keyboard settings, and when I try to type some characters, wrong characters turn up. For example, I wouldve wanted to use some smilies here but I cant type the colon I need for eyes. So you\ll just have this robotic monotone that has no emotions.
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Well, I think I shall watch Up then... when it comes here, in October... there's some waiting to be done until I'll get to see the movie :p
Anyway, I'm really susceptible to movie recommendations and I tend to watch films when anyone recommends them. Extra interested in films that are enjoyed by people who have similar entertainment tastes as I do.
I never saw the second Toy Story. The first one was the movie that made me think "hmm, this Pixar company seems overrated". I've heard a lot of praise of the second Toy Story but I haven't bothered to pay money in order to see it, and it hasn't been on TV or anything.
I want to watch films in chronological order, and I won't be seeing Toy Story 3, unless if I see and enjoy TS2 first (which doesn't seem likely).
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What made me love it even more was that my parents would always watch it too. They like some movies by Pixar, but mostly shorts. I remember us watching their shorts dvd compilation, and there was their first cartoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2doT5t51HGs They were really impressed by it, it was done in 1984, and since they both were already working in the field around the time, I suppose they could see what a huge leap it was at the time more then I did.
I guess (and I will never get tired of telling it) what makes Pixar better for me that it was a company programmers and scientists made, not perky managers thinking only of profit. I hope they will be able to go the way they are going with time, really.
Tl;dr version: I have a soft spot for Pixar movies. X)
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