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Rise of the Guardians was one of the prettiest films DreamWorks has done with some of the most stylish concept art. Pity 'bout that story.
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Das Boo posted:Rise of the Guardians was one of the prettiest films DreamWorks has done with some of the most stylish concept art. Pity 'bout that story. The script needing some tightening up and a bit more work, but I feel it was more meh than outright bad.
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Sep 18, 2018 02:52
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The director on RotG got so much poo poo after that movie came out, whereas it was mostly Dreamworks management screwing with the production. He's directing the new Spiderverse movie at Sony now.
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Sep 18, 2018 03:45
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So a Mary Poppins Returns trailer dropped today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3jsfXDZLIY Can't say as I'm particularly interested in a Mary Poppins sequel, but it's bringing forth another segment like the original where the live-action actors wind up in a 2D-animated world and I'm feeling so starved for 2D animated film that I'm sort of intrigued already. Also I haven't watched Mary Poppins in so long that I sort of forget how that film goes. Only remember a few iconic scenes (usually the ones associated with songs like "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", "Step In Time", "A Spoonful of Sugar" and "I Love to Laugh"). I should probably amend this sometime. (I also remember that I was afraid to watch it as a kid because I thought a scene from some sci-fi film was part of the film somehow, based on a post-film advertising montage on some Disney VHS I saw as a youngster, but I'm pretty sure I brought that up in this thread already and we concluded it was actually Black Hole or something.)
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Sep 18, 2018 04:18
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That looks charming as hell  Also I'll take any hand drawn Disney animation anywhere where I can possibly get it
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Sep 18, 2018 04:30
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I know someone who worked on the animation for that! Most of what I know is that the studio smelled like tacos (not all animation is done on the campus proper) and one time a waterpipe burst beneath the elevator shaft and it was creepy. 
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Sep 18, 2018 05:46
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teagone posted:I've never watched any Last Airbender stuff, but I enjoyed The Dragon Prince a lot. The fantasy setting with elves and dragons is totally my poo poo. Same, the humour felt a bit too try hard in the first ep but 'bad rear end elves doing bad rear end elf poo poo' made up for that. The young prince and his pet glow toad reminded me of Greg and his pet frog in Over The Garden Wall  Regalingualius posted:Is Dragon Prince pretty standard kids’ fare, or does it have heavier themes despite the Y7 rating, a’la Avatar? It's got a few heavier themes at times, mostly the evil court wizard doing really nasty poo poo like ordering his son to kill his friend for political reasons, sucking an elf's soul out of his body and trapping it for eternity, etc etc.
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Sep 18, 2018 09:09
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Mamoru Hosoda's (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children etc) latest Mirai of the Future is pretty good. It's a cute slice of life magical realism story about a little boy learning to be less selfish now that he has a baby sister. Nothing especially ambitious or amazing about it but very pleasant.
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Sep 18, 2018 13:07
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Avatar (the cartoon) is coming back as a brand new Netflix-exclusive live action series penned by the original writers: https://io9.gizmodo.com/avatar-the-last-airbender-is-being-reborn-as-a-netflix-1829139229
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Sep 18, 2018 18:10
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I wonder how long they wanted to do this after the awful M.Night movie.
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Sep 18, 2018 19:05
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Pixeltendo posted:I wonder how long they wanted to do this after the awful M.Night movie. To June 30, 2010, the release date of the awful movie that never happened. 
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Sep 18, 2018 19:12
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I never thought Avatar would see the light of day again outside of those graphic novels, so this kind of rules.
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Sep 18, 2018 19:12
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Not entirely sure why it's live action but if the original creators are involved then maybe it won't be that bad. Speaking of the graphic novels, was the recent Korra one any good?
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Sep 18, 2018 19:15
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live action avatar has the stigma of that lovely movie, and it would be very difficult to make the fights work in a way acceptable to people in live action on a budget. And even when it's made acceptable it will be much duller than what the animated series accomplished. In the cartoon battlefields get torn to pieces and and there's constant power use as a part of people's lives, but each time someone bends will have to have the set up of a special effect instead of being a drawing on a storyboard. Not to mention these creators already had a chance to make a new Avatar and we got Korra - I gave it two seasons to impress me and it failed very hard. Maybe someday I'll watch seasons 3 and 4, but making two entire poor seasons is not a good endorsement. If it comes out and people rave about it maybe I'll give it a chance but I'm going to just go who cares for now. I really hate the animated to live action push, by the way. Most of the things live action is better at (humans with real facial expressions and body language presenting the drama) are not really used in fantasy premises that much, and a lot of the emotion of fantasy things often gets dulled down horribly in the name of making unbelievable things "presentable" to the audience. Animation allows people much more easily to create an entire new world where the fantastic fits instead of dulling the fantastic until it fits in a "real" world. I mean, some of this is just the problem of what execs think people will find realistic or take seriously, and Netflix has been a little more hands-off, so maybe we won't get stuff that's like the live action Disney movies. I'd much, much rather they just made a new series for live action than redoing Avatar, though.
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Sep 18, 2018 19:44
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Seasons 3 and 4 are arguably the point where Korra actually gets good. Season 1 was ok (though it was originally supposed to be the only season but the show got popular and the network demanded more episodes, but the problem is the writers didn't really have a clear plan for the series at that point) and while Season 2 isn't good by any stretch, there are a few highlights here and there (Varrick, Desna and Eska, the Avatar Wan story).
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Sep 18, 2018 20:18
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Season 3 and 4 are legit and don't have the wonky-rear end stuff like the ending of season 2.
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Sep 18, 2018 22:43
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wdarkk posted:Season 3 and 4 are legit and don't have the wonky-rear end stuff like the ending of season 2. Even if the climax of Season 4 was a bit silly ( giant Pacific Rim mech out of nowhere) I still liked it a lot more than seasons 1 & 2.
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Sep 18, 2018 22:55
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Larryb posted:Not entirely sure why it's live action but if the original creators are involved then maybe it won't be that bad. Yes.
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Sep 18, 2018 23:08
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VolticSurge posted:Even if the climax of Season 4 was a bit silly ( giant Pacific Rim mech out of nowhere) I still liked it a lot more than seasons 1 & 2. Better than Season 2 which ended in a literal Godzilla-esque Kaiju battle. Speaking of Season 4, Granny Toph was also a fun addition (and actually had a bit more presence than the other ATLA alumni that made cameos on the show). Larryb fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Sep 18, 2018 |
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Sep 18, 2018 23:19
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Korra got better when the creators realised the better episodes of TLA were the ones they had barely any involvement in and hired those people to write and direct for Korra. Legend of Korra season 1 had a lot of good ideas that fizzled because of constraints from the network and their not being as well equipped to tell a shortened story. That and some of the characters got the shaft because they had to immediately fill a Team Avatar role from the moment they were introduced (Bolin) instead of allowing for the characters to grow and have arcs. It's kind of a George Lucas scenario, when you look at
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Sep 18, 2018 23:19
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I really need to rewatch Korra S3 & 4. I liked it when it aired but I haven't watched it since.
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Sep 18, 2018 23:21
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I still think it's kinda insane they got JK Simmons as one of the main characters in Korra. I liked Korra overall, but I also like that they let loose with their powers a lot more than in TLA. I also like how lavabending was somehow never lethal.
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Sep 18, 2018 23:34
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Night is short, Walk on Girl is a good movie and you should watch it if you can.
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Sep 18, 2018 23:34
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Avatar (anime) is bad.
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Sep 18, 2018 23:38
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Korra season 3 is incredible and justifies the entire series. Season 2 was awful though, just awful. Seasons 1 and 4 were middling. Not really keen on a live action avatar tv show. It would have to have a game on thrones level budget to even be serviceable given the amount of vfx.
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Sep 19, 2018 00:00
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I saw all of Seasons 1 and 2 of Korra and none of Seasons 3 and 4 of Korra. So, basically, I saw the worst and not the best. I'll take people's word that the latter two seasons were better, though, since I didn't exactly hate what I saw of the show at its worst (even though Season 2's climax was really stupid). As for ATLA, I've only really seen scattered episodes across the whole series, but it seemed very solid.
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Sep 19, 2018 00:03
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Shadow Hog posted:I saw all of Seasons 1 and 2 of Korra and none of Seasons 3 and 4 of Korra. So, basically, I saw the worst and not the best. I'll take people's word that the latter two seasons were better, though, since I didn't exactly hate what I saw of the show at its worst (even though Season 2's climax was really stupid). Oh man put whatever you're watching on the back burner and marathon ATLA immediately. The first half of the first season is a bit rough while the show finds its footing/gets more freedom from the network but once it gets going... Pick posted:Avatar (anime) is bad. Go on… asecondduck fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Sep 19, 2018 |
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Sep 19, 2018 00:10
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GrandpaPants posted:I still think it's kinda insane they got JK Simmons as one of the main characters in Korra. Why? Dude does voice acting all the time. You know he’s the voice of the peanut M&M?
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Sep 19, 2018 00:10
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I'm not watching season 3 and 4. My point was that I do not like the trend that seems to have live action as an "upgrade" for animated series that serve their premise better than live action could.
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Sep 19, 2018 00:19
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The whole ATLA show is great! Korra less so, but season 3 had some pretty drat good action. I always felt bad for Korra though. That kick-rear end introduction, then she more or less got her rear end kicked for four seasons. Also the writers her date her whole team because the writers had no idea how to write non-terrible relationships. Once the show dropped 99% of that bullshit it got much better. Edit: if you suffered though season 2 you really should watch season 3. Give it a shot.
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Sep 19, 2018 00:25
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GrandpaPants posted:I still think it's kinda insane they got JK Simmons as one of the main characters in Korra. I liked Korra overall, but I also like that they let loose with their powers a lot more than in TLA. I also like how lavabending was somehow never lethal. While at the same time we also see several on-screen murders in the series (Amon's brother blows them both up in a boat at the end of Season 1, The Earth Queen is asphyxiated via Airbending in Season 3, Asami's dad is crushed by a robot in Season 4), not to mention the part in Season 3 where Korra is literally tortured by the villains. Out of the living cast members, the only real casualty in the first series is Jet and even that was left purposefully vague aside from a single line from Toph ("He's lying"). Larryb fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Sep 19, 2018 |
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Sep 19, 2018 00:25
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Larryb posted:While at the same time we also see several on-screen murders in the series (Amon's brother blows them both up in a boat at the end of Season 1, The Earth Queen is asphyxiated via Airbending in Season 3, Asami's dad is crushed by a robot in Season 4). Out of the living cast members, the only real casualty in the first series is Jet. Wait, did Jet die?
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Larryb posted:Out of the living cast members, the only real casualty in the first series is Jet. Oh I don't know it was pretty unclear..
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I guess that's why they're redoing the series, to finally answer important questions like "ok but did Jet actually die?" he dead
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Sep 19, 2018 00:41
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Ok, sure, but just so long as it's not like that dumb Teen Titans live action series, we don't need Zuko saying "gently caress the Fire Lord"
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Sep 19, 2018 01:01
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I can chime in saying that I decided to watch through all of Korra recently, and S1 is OK, S2 is bad, S3 is really surprisingly good and S4 is a decent end to the series. Like, if someone wanted to watch the series, when they got to S2 I'd tell them to just watch the start, the avatar Wan episodes, and then the finale, because the rest is just not worth it.
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Sep 19, 2018 02:23
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The problems in S3 and S4 all stems from to acknowledge some pretty awful ideas of S2
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Aces High posted:Ok, sure, but just so long as it's not like that dumb Teen Titans live action series, we don't need Zuko saying "gently caress the Fire Lord" Zuko saying "gently caress the Fire Lord" is way more in character than Robin saying "gently caress Batman". Not that I think he should...
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Sep 19, 2018 03:31
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The clip show in Season 4 is one of the funniest episodes in the series in my opinion and I'm especially fond of this bit (in fact, Varrick's entire retelling is pretty much great). Ember Island Players from TLA was a bit more unique though but both are good.
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asecondduck posted:Zuko saying "gently caress the Fire Lord" is way more in character than Robin saying "gently caress Batman". Actually it isn't that out of place in the show since its setting is apparently that time right before Dick Grayson becomes Nightwing where he had a falling out with Batman, especially since the most recent Titans clip also showed that Jason Todd is also Robin.
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