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DC Murderverse posted:I nearly had a panic attack watching that movie sober, I can't imagine watching it while imbibing anything. What's the matter, fella, Blue Meanies?
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Das Boo posted:I was a little kid who loved being scared and I watched Brave Little Toaster and Watership Down enough that the tapes were worn out by the time I was six. And then I'd turn around and watch that 80's My Little Pony movie almost every day. As such, The Last Unicorn was extremely my thing. Last Unicorn is not a "great" film but it's very unusual for a kid's film, and I really really like it.
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Last Unicorn is a muddled mess but its better than most kids movies by a country mile if only for being unhappy, confusing, pointless, and yet somehow decently happy.
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I take it it's one of those "if you saw it as a kid" things. I've never met someone who first saw it as an adult and liked it.
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Das Boo posted:I take it it's one of those "if you saw it as a kid" things. I've never met someone who first saw it as an adult and liked it. Didn't see it till about two or three years ago and I dug it.
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Barudak posted:Last Unicorn is a muddled mess but its better than most kids movies by a country mile if only for being unhappy, confusing, pointless, and yet somehow decently happy. It somewhat reminds me of where the wild things are, in that I think it is very reflective of childhood, which is often a very frightening and confusing time. I respect the last unicorn for illustrating a lot of troubling emotions that other children's media, especially at the time, did not touch on.
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I couldn't ever stand the movie when I was younger. Thought it was terrible and I dislike the art style - too loosy goosy. Loved the book as a kid, though. As an adult I thought Where the WIld THings movie was really good.
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I don't think The Last Unicorn is muddled. It's got an unusual structure with all the little side stories that are introduced and quickly wrapped up but everything comes back to this interplay between reality and the ideal. Every mortal in the story is someone living a "lie" but the lie is ultimately more significant and meaningful than the reality. Mommy Fortuna knows what's going to happen to her for running the zoo but does it anyways because it's worth it to be the woman who caged an idea. Schmendrick's hesitation and unwillingness to commit the way she does limits his magic, and he overcomes this not just by learning self-confidence (which would be a reasonable but, I think, incomplete read on it) but by endorsing the sacred idea of love that the Unicorn represents (or more precisely, has come to represent, since unicorns at large know nothing about love.) Haggard's relationship with the Red Bull is similar, it's this manifestation of the tyranny and selfishness that has given him power but at the same time has driven everyone away from him. So ultimately you get what would be a very conventional, sorta hippy-dippy moral: love defeats tyranny and sets the imagination and happiness of mankind free. But it's elevated by the way it recognizes that wicked, cruel ideas operate on the same level as good ones -- that they still give people purpose and meaning -- and also that love is sacrifice.
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Das Boo posted:I take it it's one of those "if you saw it as a kid" things. I've never met someone who first saw it as an adult and liked it. I saw it as a child and loved it as a child and used to have vivid dreams (verging on nightmares) about the Red Bull so I can't dispute your literal claim about people who first saw it as an adult, but there are lots of movies I loved as a child that don't hold up half as well. I have a comparable amount of nostalgia for The Princess and the Goblin, for example, but it's not a good movie.
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I watched it as an adult, went as King Haggard for Halloween that year.
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It's good to think my childhood nostalgia isn't completely making me bias! I agree with Pick that it's not great, but it's very much not a waste of time either! There's some gorgeous bits of art in there, particularly with the unicorn's forest. Gotta love that medieval (International Gothic?) stylization. Also an America song!  I did a bit of fanart for it last year because the opportunity presented itself.  It can't all be Bee Movie art, you guys. But most of it can.
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The Unholy Ghost posted:uhhhhhhh oops wrong thread lol The Unholy Ghost posted:nice rear end great post/title combo
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Samuel Clemens posted:You grew a beard and learned to speak like Christopher Lee? I wore a beard and did my best christopher lee impression which is less "Christopher Lee" and more "Embarassingly Bad". Thank god for wild and untamed alcohol at parties.
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Oh God, the Angry Birds movie is on Netflix. I'm almost tempted.
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Waffleman_ posted:Oh God, the Angry Birds movie is on Netflix. I'm almost tempted.
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we all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine
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Waffleman_ posted:Oh God, the Angry Birds movie is on Netflix. I'm almost tempted. it's loving god awful
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If you were a miserable kid, the last unicorn was one of the only films that seemed to knowledge your feelings.
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Cute game with adorable hand drawn animation out now on multiple consoles including Switch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXzXBbFKOY Just thought y'all should know 
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Hedrigall posted:Cute game with adorable hand drawn animation out now on multiple consoles including Switch: Steam port in two months? Boo.
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So Angry Birds isn't bad so much as, uh, it felt like they didn't know how to convey the property in a film and took the laziest approach to it and there is no love in it, at all. Its the cinematic equivalent of someone telling you the legally mandated disclosures of your home loan.
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Pick posted:If you were a miserable kid, the last unicorn was one of the only films that seemed to knowledge your feelings. I didn't see it until a couple of years ago, but it made me feel like a kid again. And not in the way someone usually means when they say that. 
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That "I can feel this body dying all around me." line gains new relevance as you get older. 
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How dare you come to me now, when I am this
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Looking at Boss Baby concept art (yes)... https://twitter.com/turnislefthome/status/852158418974584832 Is it technically impossible to get 3D cg animation to look more like this, or is the belief in the industry that this is not commercially viable?
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Fangz posted:Looking at Boss Baby concept art (yes)... Feast and Paperman kinda have a similar aesthetic. They're short films though. I hope one day to see a feature length CG animated film take on the Feast/Paperman visual style.
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Fangz posted:Looking at Boss Baby concept art (yes)... you can get CG to look exactly like that, but modern Pixar/Dreamworks/Disney style simplified rendering is cheap and commonly accepted and you don't have to worry about it being jarring when your computer filter fails to quite look like real paint A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Apr 22, 2017 |
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I'm watching my new bluray of Robin Hood  Gosh the pencil lines are so crisp in this restoration!
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This is a neat unholy abomination of science and art. Stop motion with CGI actor eyes pasted in. http://i.imgur.com/N6eHZuF.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGyLP6R4HTE I enjoy the art style, but the puppetry runs from good to poor at times. It's very detailed, though. Good fun. It's actually a pretty neat little story. 17 mins. A thriller on a train. I give it a C+, for not having Steven Seagal in it as a chef.
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What's everybody's dream cel? What's the cel that's out there you dream of owning? Anybody? (Assuming you can't resell it for cash money)
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Pick posted:What's everybody's dream cel? What's the cel that's out there you dream of owning? Anybody? (Assuming you can't resell it for cash money) Adult Simba during Hakuna Matata (maybe when swinging by rope into the lake) e: or when Matthew Broderick sings "It means no worries for the rest of your days" Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Apr 22, 2017 |
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Hedrigall posted:Adult Simba during Hakuna Matata (maybe when swinging by rope into the lake)  not a cel. Post-digital coloring.
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Either one of the cells of the Unicorn fleeing the Red Bull in The Last Unicorn, or something from the dew/spring fairies from Fantasia
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Hedrigall posted:Oh ok :\ It's a hypothetical question but existing cels. Robin Hood would count for instance.
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I'd actually want one of the Great Prince from Bambi. Which is weird because Bambi isn't in my top 10 favorite films? I don't know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o_pDT4tQiI&t=141s Pick fucked around with this message at 05:53 on Apr 22, 2017 |
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