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LORD OF BOOTY posted:like I wasn't huge on Captain Underpants but that is a loving odd critique I try not to make easy jokes in this vein but I feel like it's the most CineD thing ever. vvv So is getting a poop joke. 
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mycot posted:I try not to make easy jokes in this vein but I feel like it's the most CineD thing ever. "Listening to the dialog" is a pretty low hurdle.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:jesus christ this is the strangest hill I've seen anyone choose to die on in a while It sounds like if the character had been American, you could've had the haha poop joke without the xenophobic subtext
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If we were talking, I'd be speechless.
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I do remember seeing some captain underpants purists not entirely happy that Poopypants didn't have that slight twang of sympathy to his initial portrayal that the books had
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:again: you do realize "Poopypants" is not a traditional name in any actual language or culture, right? it has literally no other meaning beyond being a poop joke. you are way, way, way, way overthinking a really dumb scatological joke. Yeah, I just thought the writers felt obligated to squeeze in something resembling a plausible explanation of why Poopypants wouldn't just change his name and avoid all the humiliation.
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https://twitter.com/GoNintendoTweet/status/958879370076188673
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Schwarzwald posted:If the movie goes out of it's way to establish the fact that it's a common name in a foreign country, then it literally does have another meaning in the context of the film. It also means "pants full of poop" in foreignese, they just don't have any taboos about excrement in their culture and consequently there's nothing funny about that. Weird that you'd assume the problem is the guy doesn't understand basic English just cause he's not from America, who's the racist now 
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Feb 1, 2018 02:57
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This is the goddamn first worldiest concern I have ever witnessed.
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What the hell happened to this thread?
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LeJackal posted:What the hell happened to this thread? Argument about whether its okay to make fun of a foreign name, and whether that argument is even justified.
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What's this thread been up to since I le-- oh. In real talk, has anyone heard from Certified Good Poster Unmature? His YouTube channel went pretty silent after his move to CA.
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Argument about whether its okay to make fun of a foreign name, and whether that argument is even justified. We were doing so well talking about Bojack Horseman and Buddy Thunderstruck though! This is on the level of stealing a meal that had appeal from the Navy Seal Neal McBeal!
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As much as Pick and I ruffle each other's feathers from time-to-time, that's still the only interesting take on Captain Underpants I've ever read. It's a film of such oppressive mediocrity that it's difficult to intuit the subtle extent to which they've taken books that were stupid but funny and somehow made a movie that is both even more stupid but also not funny at all. In other news, I'mma crosspost this stack of hot Norman McLaren animations from Franch's brilliant Short Films thread Egbert Souse posted:If I had to pick my favorite avant-garde/experimental filmmaker, it would be the Scottish-born Canadian-emigre... Egbert Souse posted:More Norman McLaren... K. Waste fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Feb 1, 2018 |
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Feb 1, 2018 03:46
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Tweet deleted but I’m assuming it’s about the Minions people are making a Super Mario movie.
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Every time I see people mention Buddy Thunderstruck it makes me think of The Ballad of Truck Thunders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkAUFeOyf6s K. Waste posted:As much as Pick and I ruffle each other's feathers from time-to-time, that's still the only interesting take on Captain Underpants I've ever read. It's a film of such oppressive mediocrity that it's difficult to intuit the subtle extent to which they've taken books that were stupid but funny and somehow made a movie that is both even more stupid but also not funny at all. If we're gonna mention weird hybrids of stop motion and live action I feel like The Wizard of Speed and Time deserves a shout out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLhLn9hVkE His movie is definitely flawed, especially Mike Jittlov playing himself as the protagonist (a proto-redditor who literally lives with his mom and shames a woman for wanting to shake hands with him and his weird grudge against unions enabling lazy people) but it's still a surprisingly sweet film about making movies in the pre-internet era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSB6ZRC-dyQ
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Ballz posted:Tweet deleted but I’m assuming it’s about the Minions people are making a Super Mario movie.
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Hedrigall posted:In real talk, has anyone heard from Certified Good Poster Unmature? His YouTube channel went pretty silent after his move to CA.
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That said my very biggest issue with Captain Underpants is that it isn't funny at all and narratively is a mess and generally it isn't good.
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Pick posted:it isn't funny at all Guess we'll have to agree to disagree  The actual animation was pretty great too
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Pixeltendo posted:The villain should be a bad version of Kidd Radd. Kidd Radd was the absolute best thing. 
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The Ayshkerbundy posted:Guess we'll have to agree to disagree Agreed. It didn’t change my life or anything but I thought it was decently produced and pretty funny with a lot of neat creative touches thrown in (like the sock puppets and whatnot). Considering that I was expecting an unwatchable dumpster fire I’d call that a win.
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readingatwork posted:Considering that I was expecting an unwatchable dumpster fire I’d call that a win. A dumpster fire would have been a win. Like, literally have the climax of the film be on a dumpster fire.
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When captain underpants came out it must have been a dry spot for animated releases, because before any animated film they would play the trailer in full twice (with the emoji movie trailer in between), plus little snippets of it would be repeated in advertising the candy bar and cinema loyalty program. There was a month long ghibli festival with very cheap tickets on at the time, so I have seen that trailer so many goddamn times. I'm never going to watch that movie but I hate it with my life.
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I was thinking about Grave of the Fireflies the other day and remember watching the extras on 2002 American Collector's Edition DVD. The director gave an interview and I think he spoke about a drastic difference in interpretation of the film between Western and Japanese audiences. I lost my disc 2 though and I can't find the interview online. Does anyone know where I might find it?
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Guy Mann posted:Every time I see people mention Buddy Thunderstruck it makes me think of The Ballad of Truck Thunders The short he did for the 50th birthday of Mickey Mouse is still some of the best stop motion animation I’ve ever seen: https://youtu.be/9jDhksBLK3c
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Sinding Johansson posted:I was thinking about Grave of the Fireflies the other day and remember watching the extras on 2002 American Collector's Edition DVD. The director gave an interview and I think he spoke about a drastic difference in interpretation of the film between Western and Japanese audiences. I lost my disc 2 though and I can't find the interview online. Does anyone know where I might find it? i haven't seen this, but i think i know where the dude's coming from and can fill in some blanks Americans tend to take it as an anti-war movie, when that's not really the point, the point is basically "your elders went through some horrible poo poo so you should really treat them with respect"
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*explodes beautifully into the thread* NOW THAT I'M A WOMAAAAAAAAN
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:i haven't seen this, but i think i know where the dude's coming from and can fill in some blanks I vaguely remember this. It answered some questions for me in the sense that so many of Seita's actions were driven by pride and refusal that it ultimately got them both killed. I think the first time I watched it I was 16 and I could not understand for the life of me why he refused to go back to the aunt and waited so long to pull that money from the bank. Of course as a 16 year-old I had no sense of pride.
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Das Boo posted:I vaguely remember this. It answered some questions for me in the sense that so many of Seita's actions were driven by pride and refusal that it ultimately got them both killed. I think the first time I watched it I was 16 and I could not understand for the life of me why he refused to go back to the aunt and waited so long to pull that money from the bank. I also vaguely recall that the director has intense survivors guilt which is why he has his self-insert protagonist die at the end. true leftist posted:*explodes beautifully into the thread* NOW THAT I'M A WOMAAAAAAAAN We waited for you for months and now here you are, when we are old. drat YOU.
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quote:Some critics in the West have viewed Grave of the Fireflies as an anti-war film due to the graphic and emotional depiction of the pernicious repercussions of war on a society, and the individuals therein. The film focuses its attention almost entirely on the personal tragedies that war gives rise to, rather than seeking to glamorize it as a heroic struggle between competing nations. It emphasizes that war is society's failure to perform its most important duty: to protect its own people. The big difference in interpretation is that western audiences view the sibling's death to be a result of society's failure to protect them. Japanese audiences view their death as a result of the siblings isolation from society, a failure they themselves contribute to rather than being purely a fault of the society. Japanese audiences think they should have stayed with the lovely aunt no matter what, because she was family and their elder, and their fate is in part a punishment for not being grateful and respectful. Western audiences say screw the aunt.
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true leftist posted:*explodes beautifully into the thread* NOW THAT I'M A WOMAAAAAAAAN So there's MY immortality!
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I always viewed Fireflies as a tragic tale of a hosed up situation. The older kid's pride essentially kills them both, but it's not like I blame the character. They shouldn't be in that situation to begin with. So, yeah, essentially I view it as an anti - war movie. There's some dialogue in the beginning that implies that dead kids on the streets is a disturbingly common sight.
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Barudak posted:I also vaguely recall that the director has intense survivors guilt which is why he has his self-insert protagonist die at the end. It's not really the director's story; Takahata adapted the story from the novel by Akiyuki Nosaka, who died only a few years ago. It is supposed to be a really good adaptation though; the survivor's guilt aspect absolutely comes through, it just isn't Takahata's. Terrific movie, really, one of his greatest. I view it less as a specific condemnation of the war or of Seita or society (although Takahata/Nosaka are clearly not fans of the feelings of nationalsim that prevailed during the war years), but a tragedy of circumstance created by the failure of every party concerned. It is rather a departure from Miyazaki's normal work- Lord knows, he doesn't have the rosiest outlook on humanity either, but he prefers stories in which tremendous feeling, virtue and effort are rewarded in the end. Takahata, well... he seems to get that you can feel and do as much as you like, but sometimes it still doesn't work out due to factors entirely beyond your control. Not as spiritually fulfilling but but certainly more realistic.
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Protip filmmakers, don't call your main character something that sounds a lot like 'dad' and have your trailer be about him trying to kiss the love interest while she is calling his name. Yikes the trailer for Tad The Explorer was awkward. Unrelatedly Coco made me cry bitch tears.
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Fangz posted:Protip filmmakers, don't call your main character something that sounds a lot like 'dad' and have your trailer be about him trying to kiss the love interest while she is calling his name. Yikes the trailer for Tad The Explorer was awkward. I guess they really wanted to be making a Trump biopic. Seriously though that movie does look awful, though, what on Earth, it's like a Video Brinquedo-style ripoff but with an actual animation budget.
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