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Butt Detective posted:I ALSO want to know how Ralph's videos actually appeared to the people watching them, did he look like a CGI character to them? Did he just look like someone made a near-realistic Ralph model and animated him near-realistically?? I didn't watch the sequel, but I remember the first one you see a scene from both the player's point of view and the character's point of view. When the game first starts without Ralph you see Felix freaking out, and all the citizens, and then it cuts to the human's POV and you just see the sprites flipping out all over the screen in 2D.
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Butt Detective posted:I want to know what the Slaughter Race devs would think about a new character suddenly appearing and becoming part of their game that they themselves did not add, you can't present to me a world where people recognise Ralph as an old arcade game character but won't recognise Vanellope and also have her inclusion go viral across the internet < Not to mention that it was stated, at the end of the first movie and the beginning of the second, that Vanellope's glitch power made her one of the most popular racers, if not the most. Contrary to what she claimed, there's no way her absence would not go unnoticed for long.
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WIR raises so many questions. The Ralph in the franchise is from a single arcade machine. But that machine was mass-produced. Do all Ralphs from all arcades go through the same emotional turmoil? That calls into question pre-destination. Or maybe all Ralphs behave completely different, but that seems strange because they’re all essentially identical characters raised in identical situations.
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dirksteadfast posted:WIR raises so many questions. The Ralph in the franchise is from a single arcade machine. But that machine was mass-produced. Do all Ralphs from all arcades go through the same emotional turmoil? That calls into question pre-destination. Or maybe all Ralphs behave completely different, but that seems strange because they’re all essentially identical characters raised in identical situations. What about the characters that Ralph meets up with? Did Dr Robotnick show up in an arcade game?
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dirksteadfast posted:WIR raises so many questions. The Ralph in the franchise is from a single arcade machine. But that machine was mass-produced. Do all Ralphs from all arcades go through the same emotional turmoil? That calls into question pre-destination. Or maybe all Ralphs behave completely different, but that seems strange because they’re all essentially identical characters raised in identical situations. It seems like such an obvious extension of the internet, too, that it's a window into the "real" world. Ralph spends all his life thinking that his situation is just a uniquely personal and otherwise irrelevant ones - but then eventually he gets old enough to go on the internet and finds out that, "Oh, no, it's all of us who are treated like poo poo, and it's so someone else can have power." But it's critical to remember that this is a central conceit of this emerging subgenre of web 2.0 children's movies, whether it's Emoji Movie or Inside Out or Breaks the Internet, the idea of the internet leading to an end of reality just as the decline of Soviet communism signals the "end of history" and ideological struggle. Structures and systems are taken for granted as being purely the externalization of abstract, remote, emotional forces which are always endemically sutured into the symbolic order of these very structures and systems that are thus teleologically declared "unreal" and thus not relevant to scrutiny. A little girl has a theme park inside her brain.
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Senior Scarybagels posted:What about the characters that Ralph meets up with? Did Dr Robotnick show up in an arcade game? I mean there were Sonic arcade cabinets that had Sonic 1 on them weren't there? Eggman definitely shows up there (although Sega made them use their modern designs because Sega) No modern arcade in America is gonna have a Sonic the Hedgehog arcade cabinet, but I am glad he's in the movies so we get just even the tiniest glimpse of what Disney Animation could do if they could make a Sonic movie
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Ya know, say what you will, All Dogs Go to Heaven is low key a good noir with just some traces of magical realism.
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K. Waste posted:For real though is it just me or is All Dogs Go to Heaven a seriously well-made throwback noir/non sequitor musical complete with, like, hits of Frank Borzage? It has some flaws, but yes, its an amazing film overall stuffed to the brim with incredible, soulful animation that manages to convey a depth of emotion and intimacy you rarely see.
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I have just caught up with the thread and have Cartoon Opinions to share. Spoilers for all the things mentioned. Minions: I really liked it, Sandra Bullock's character and her husband are really fun and her rocket dress is badass. Also the smaller gags are really great, like the whole Evil Convention is just wall to wall hilarity. Also it adds an undercurrent to the rest of the series - they work for the most evil person in the room. They have no real loyalties. The only difference between Gru and the other villains they've worked for is that Gru treats them like people and give them the benefit of the doubt, and relative free reign. It makes their subplot in DM3 more interesting, because it makes total sense - they are born to be bad. They aren't for childrearing, and when Gru ceases to be bad with no turning back, the Minions are concerned because if they don't have anything to do, as this spinoff attests, they become severely depressed and listless. Without leaving with Dru, the minions likely would have just rotted under Gru's lack of leadership, growing increasingly frustrated and listless. They weren't made by Gru. They have existed since time began, and will just find a new villain when Dru inevitably gets himself killed. They won't return to Gru. Ever. Personal favourite clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1CLeWUw14M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TGWdRK-Ykk In the latter clip they could easily have just had the castle burst apart as Giant Kevin was revealed, but they didn't - they give it a full treatment as the windows shatter and the foundations creak until the castle cracks like an egg. It's a really good Spectacle and I loved it. Other: I read an interesting AU book commissioned by Disney called Reflection, a riff on Mulan where the idea is after the Avalanche Li Shang dies and Mulan travels to the Chinese Afterlife to save him, protected by Li's Guardian Spirit (Mushu is asleep when she makes her decision and for reasons she decides to leave him behind). It had a really neat setting and imaginative challenges, like the mountain literally made of knives and swords, and took the Ping/Mulan stuff in a new direction, where the focus was on Mulan's Ancestor's finding out and their reactions (some of them find it hilarious). Li of course finds out as well in the course of the narrative and gets incredibly pissy about it, but a neat thing is that the gods and afterlife characters tend not to give a poo poo - even his Guardian comes to respect Mulan before Li does. It's simply because it doesn't really matter. They're dead, the sexism is a human construct of the living world and all the other characters have more important things to worry about. It also has a neat payoff with the title where Mulan's final challenge is the Hall of Mirrors, each of them containing a reflection of an aspect of herself with her challenge being to find which one truly represents her as a whole. There are numerous variations on her motivations there all playing off of her insecurities about herself like "I'm a selfish girl who stole her father's armour and ran off seeking glory", and it's an interesting sequence. I keep meaning to look into the other books they commissioned as this one was neat. Did anyone else read that book? Any thoughts?
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Saw Into the Spiderverse at a press screening today. Absolutely amazing visuals and a really well done origin story mixed with a dozen possible ideas for spin-offs. Mild spoilers: There is brief shot of Times Square with a billboard featuring Abe and JFK from Clone High! The post credits sequence is NUTS
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riversarl posted:Mild spoilers: that is a deep cut, was there somebody on staff who was involved in that show?
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dirksteadfast posted:WIR raises so many questions. The Ralph in the franchise is from a single arcade machine. But that machine was mass-produced. Do all Ralphs from all arcades go through the same emotional turmoil? That calls into question pre-destination. Or maybe all Ralphs behave completely different, but that seems strange because they’re all essentially identical characters raised in identical situations. this is assuming that any other arcade cabinets survived as long as his has. given the time his game was released and the near complete collapse of arcades since, it's actually fairly likely that his is the last functioning arcade board in the world. kinda like how Woody is probably the last Woody doll in the world, cause his show is decades old and most toys from that period would have been tossed or lost.
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Or there are hundreds of homeless Ralphs and Felixes living in power strips all over the world.
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SatansBestBuddy posted:that is a deep cut, was there somebody on staff who was involved in that show? (Not an explicit spoiler, and haven't even seen the movie yet, but tied into the same mild spoiler as before.) More than just somebody and more than just involvement. Both of the (EDIT: My mistake, thought Phil Lord and Chris Miller were directing, but they are heavily involved in story and production.) Trash Boat fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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Macaluso posted:What happens to the Ralphs living in emulators I'd like to meet a Ralph from a fangame where he's the hero saving Felix from something. Or a terrible fangame where Felix turns evil and starts using his fixing powers to close up the Grand Canyon and poo poo.
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It's like you people never read Kid Radd or something. https://www.bgreco.net/kidradd.htm
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What was that one European noir mystery animated movie called? It had talking cats. I can't remember its name but it was good.
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Wheat Loaf posted:What was that one European noir mystery animated movie called? It had talking cats. I can't remember its name but it was good. Fritz the Cat?
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Wheat Loaf posted:What was that one European noir mystery animated movie called? It had talking cats. I can't remember its name but it was good. Felidae? Fair warning for anyone going looking for it, it contains very graphic cat murder
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Felidae. It's really good.
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All this noir cat talk made me remember "The Cat Piano": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4RBmU-PIo
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:All this noir cat talk made me remember "The Cat Piano": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4RBmU-PIo Don't forget Garfield short, Diana's Piano! click
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So I take it no one else has read Reflection then? It's a really interesting take on the culture and characters.
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Pick posted:Don't forget Garfield short, Diana's Piano! click Oh gently caress you for posting this, now I'm crying in the middle of the day over a Garfield cartoon. I have poo poo to do today Pick! I don't have time for all these bittersweet cat emotions I'm now feeling! 
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BioEnchanted posted:So I take it no one else has read Reflection then? It's a really interesting take on the culture and characters. I was in HMV the other day and noticed all these paperbacks with shiny black covers near the checkout which all had Disney villains on the covers; is it one of those?
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was in HMV the other day and noticed all these paperbacks with shiny black covers near the checkout which all had Disney villains on the covers; is it one of those? Maybe, one of them is Ursula centric, but mine has a really cool mirrored smoke pattern to go with the mirror imagery that has Ping in the negative space, with Mulan's sword splitting down the centre. I scanned it:  It's a bit faded in the scan, the gold really pops and the cover itself is black in person.
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That looks like one of them. Probably the same series.
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Wheat Loaf posted:That looks like one of them. Probably the same series. I at least can recommend that one. It's an interesting take.
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Best animated features starring cats: Cats Don't Dance Felidae Fritz the Cat The Rabbi's Cat Uh, Kiki's Delivery Service? This is harder than I thought.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Best animated features starring cats: The Cat Returns?
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Samuel Clemens posted:Best animated features starring cats: Nocturna had the Cat Shepherd and his herd, that might be stretching it a bit though  Coraline had a semi-prominent cat as well
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The Aristocats was my favourite Disney animated movie when I was little.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Best animated features starring cats: Oliver and Company.
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