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bowser posted:The Little Prince is getting its US release in March. This looks like a really cute movie that's gonna be bogged down by a kind of annoying "overbearing parent" story. I already really don't like any of the bits with the mom. I'd rather just what looks like a cute story with the kid and the old man
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Sleeveless posted:I wonder if when 2018 rolls around we're going to be having the same argument about whether or not Gigantic was the work of people with giant(ess) fetishes. That question already came up when Monsters vs Aliens was released. Also that movie needs a sequel, the premise did not deliver since there was only, like, one alien.
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Wasn't it more like Monsters vs Prejudice?
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Waffleman_ posted:Wasn't it more like Monsters vs Prejudice? You're thinking of webcomics.
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Macaluso posted:This looks like a really cute movie that's gonna be bogged down by a kind of annoying "overbearing parent" story. I already really don't like any of the bits with the mom. I'd rather just what looks like a cute story with the kid and the old man The movie is about the joy of being a child. Without the mom, it couldn't contrast childhood and adulthood very effectively. The story of the old man and the kid is good, but it would be substantially worse without the story of the kid and the mom.
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Wittgen posted:The movie is about the joy of being a child. Without the mom, it couldn't contrast childhood and adulthood very effectively. The story of the old man and the kid is good, but it would be substantially worse without the story of the kid and the mom. I guess I just don't relate at all to a situation where the mom is so desperate for their kid to be an adult. I've honestly never met a mom like that. I feel like there's a better way to go about that story edit: The stuff where the kid has like, a rigid schedule to follow isn't that weird, but I guess the part that really stuck out to me was the "you're gonna make a great adult" line which I couldn't really suspend my disbelief for Macaluso fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Jan 4, 2016 |
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Jan 4, 2016 06:06
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Sleeveless posted:I wonder if when 2018 rolls around we're going to be having the same argument about whether or not Gigantic was the work of people with giant(ess) fetishes. well it is
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Jan 4, 2016 06:10
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I can't wait for the adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic, the Big Fetish Giant.
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Jan 4, 2016 06:12
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Waffleman_ posted:I can't wait for the adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic, the Big Fetish Giant. It's Disney, so they'll probably tie it into Star Wars. The Big Fett-ish Giant. "Was that a humongous Boba Fett?" "Eh...kinda?"
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Jan 4, 2016 06:15
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It's more subtle than Disney, who put seven dwarves in his very first full length feature, the creep
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Macaluso posted:I guess I just don't relate at all to a situation where the mom is so desperate for their kid to be an adult. I've honestly never met a mom like that. I feel like there's a better way to go about that story I suppose it's a bit of an odd line, but you've never run into parents who are doing whatever it takes to make sure their kids get into the right kindergarten so they'll get into the right grade school so they'll get into the right middle school so they'll get into the right etc.? That's what's happening in the movie. The scheduling is all the mom's way of making sure her daughter can get into and then succeed at a certain school.
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Jan 4, 2016 06:51
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Wittgen posted:I suppose it's a bit of an odd line, but you've never run into parents who are doing whatever it takes to make sure their kids get into the right kindergarten so they'll get into the right grade school so they'll get into the right middle school so they'll get into the right etc.? That's what's happening in the movie. The scheduling is all the mom's way of making sure her daughter can get into and then succeed at a certain school. As a kid, I knew a girl that lived across the street from me who was scheduled to hell and back with a lot of extracurricular activities including Girl Scouts, Gymnastics and Piano because it'd all look good on an application to Ivy League schools, with only Wednesday being her free day to play.
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Macaluso posted:This looks like a really cute movie that's gonna be bogged down by a kind of annoying "overbearing parent" story. I already really don't like any of the bits with the mom. I'd rather just what looks like a cute story with the kid and the old man You're probably gonna be disappointed, because the neat stylized portion is like 10% of the movie and the rest is the lovely generic CG style "overbearing parent" story. Kind of like a less ugly The Book of Life. It's really more like fanfiction based on The Little Prince but I have a feeling that it'll get praise solely because it's a kids' movie where characters die. raditts fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jan 4, 2016 |
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raditts posted:You're probably gonna be disappointed, because the neat stylized portion is like 10% of the movie and the rest is the lovely generic CG style "overbearing parent" story. Kind of like a less ugly The Book of Life. It's really more like fanfiction based on The Little Prince but I have a feeling that it'll get praise solely because it's a kids' movie where characters die. I liked it for being so... I don't know, weird? Fantastical is probably a better term. The frame story was decent, but not as interesting as the Prince stop motion sequences. As far as the overbearing mother thing goes, I feel like it's handled about as well as it could be. It's not the most exciting or innovative story, but I think it's worth checking out for sure. The stop motion stuff is worth it despite being relatively minimal.
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Geomancing posted:The thing that got me about Rango was the realistic kind of teeth everyone had. I couldn't stop looking at them because if they had been in a human, they'd be fine, but since everyone was designed with wide, expressive mouths and lips, they had SO MANY TEETH. I don't think there's ever been a good videogame movie (besides Mortal Kombat ofc) so each new one is just a study in the new and unique ways they screwed it up. Isn't there another animated videogame raccoon movie coming out this year as well? Ratchet?
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Street Fighter with JCVD is legit good and I will fight you over it.
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turtlecrunch posted:I don't think there's ever been a good videogame movie (besides Mortal Kombat ofc) so each new one is just a study in the new and unique ways they screwed it up. Isn't there another animated videogame raccoon movie coming out this year as well? Ratchet? Same studio. They have some sort of deal with Sony.
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e: I'm an idiot.
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redcheval posted:I liked it for being so... I don't know, weird? Fantastical is probably a better term. The frame story was decent, but not as interesting as the Prince stop motion sequences. I think what I hated most about it is that it strips so much from the original story that it's almost meaningless. You're presumably supposed to be sad at the part in the story where the prince dies, but the story is stripped down to the point where you're just like "what the gently caress is wrong with this kid, why is he killing himself?" And then again about the aviator dying, but he doesn't really do a lot either besides being a bumbling rear end in a top hat that almost kills the girl twice. I disagree about the part where they couldn't do the entire story without the framing part (or at least, with a lot less of it), because Kaguya is pretty much the Japanese thematic equivalent of the Little Prince and was great without any need to dumb poo poo down for audiences.
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Somehow I went through life mostly unfamiliar with the actual original story, so admittedly I don't have that to compare it to  I think your criticisms are valid though. I need to read the story!I absolutely LOVED Ratchet and Clank, but the movie feels a little bit, eh, ten years too late? I'm still gonna grab the remake of the game though so whatever, haha. A Sly Cooper movie makes even less sense to me at this point, I never got into those but I always felt like Ratchet and Jak and Daxter were the more popular games.
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redcheval posted:I absolutely LOVED Ratchet and Clank, but the movie feels a little bit, eh, ten years too late? I'm still gonna grab the remake of the game though so whatever, haha. A Sly Cooper movie makes even less sense to me at this point, I never got into those but I always felt like Ratchet and Jak and Daxter were the more popular games. They were more popular, but that didn't mean the Sly games were any worse. I honestly think Sly 2 is one of the best PS2 games ever made, and the first and third are just as good as any given Jak or Ratchet game. (haven't played the fourth, I should get around to that) But yeah, the timing is kinda off for both movies, and I'm honestly not sure what these movies could do that wasn't already done in the games, particularly with Ratchet and Clank. Like, if things go well with Sly Cooper, it could be a fun, cool, kid friendly Ocean's Eleven, but R&C is just gonna be another hero's journey translated beat for beat from the game. There are thousands of movies just like that already out there, so outside of it's franchise appeal that leaves it without much to offer.
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turtlecrunch posted:I don't think there's ever been a good videogame movie (besides Mortal Kombat ofc) so each new one is just a study in the new and unique ways they screwed it up. Isn't there another animated videogame raccoon movie coming out this year as well? Ratchet? I think you'll find that Ratchet is a lombax, not a raccoon 
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Hey I made a new thread so stop posting in this ratty old 2015 thing http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3758813
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