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Red Bones posted:I don't remember Valiant being so bad, but I'm probably wrong. I can't even remember which war it's in, but I'm leaning toward WWI because I think it had trenches and I don't remember any villainous nazi carrier pidgeons, which is something I think I'd remember. Does it have Elijah Wood in it? I have no idea. I sat there and watched the whole thing by myself, at home, no distractions and I couldn't follow a drat thing because I just couldn't summon the energy to care. I abide by the rule that the greatest cinematic sin is to be dull and holy loving balls, that was one of the dullest things I've ever seen. Like trying to remember what you had for breakfast a month ago: Why would you commit brain power to remember something like that?
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Das Boo posted:And I'd love for someone to review Delgo. I was very interested in the reasons behind its box office failure, but the most I've been able to find on it is, "Eh. Pretty dull and wordy." The movie's box office failure really didn't have anything to do with the quality of the film per se. It's mostly that the people behind the movie used a distributor-for-hire to dump it in over 2,000 theaters with no advertising in the middle of a crowded winter, and the public responded with a resounding  .
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This thing just popped up on Netflix  "No whip, no gun.... All fun!"
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hemale in pain posted:This thing just popped up on Netflix That's the least consistent-looking thing I've seen in a long time. Like a bunch of different, mediocre artists were given a rough description and then split up and designed each character in secret. Even the helicopter looks completely out of place.
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I feel like Rover Dangerfield is the original Bee Movie? A bizarrely crappy meandering animated kids' film that was obviously, obviously pitched as "haha, i'm [CELEBRITY] and what if i were an [ANIMAL], wouldn't that be funny? wait, no seriously, it could be an animated kids' film or something!".
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LaughMyselfTo posted:I feel like Rover Dangerfield is the original Bee Movie? A bizarrely crappy meandering animated kids' film that was obviously, obviously pitched as "haha, i'm [CELEBRITY] and what if i were an [ANIMAL], wouldn't that be funny? wait, no seriously, it could be an animated kids' film or something!". enjoy rodney dangerfield's song about pissing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RLbz9ccBUI
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Oh poo poo, I get that weird "I remember that!" feeling from Rover Dangerfield. I must of watched it a few times when I was a kid.
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I guess I'm going to be the one who says Robots isn't that bad. I'd give it a C or C- (my biggest sticking point is putting the god drat Britney Spears song in it). But I liked the look of that world and the robots themselves. I thought the plot and main character we alright. I had a good moral too for kids, to be creative. I forgot about the Aunt Fanny character until she was brought up here though.
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You can't mention Robots without mentioning the takedown of what an incredible quote whore Earl Dittman was when it came to promoting Robots.quote:"Hysterical, ingenious and whimsical 'Robots' is an even more spectacular, computer-animated film than 'The Incredibles' ... In fact, the term 'brilliant' fails to accurately describe how wondrously witty and innovative 'Robot' [sic] really is ... a hilariously clever and breathlessly innovative work of computer-animated entertainment, 'Robots' is a visually stunning and wildly hilarious comedy for intelligent, humor-starved movie-goers ready to laugh themselves silly."-- Earl Dittman, Wireless Magazines
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...of SCIENCE! posted:You can't mention Robots without mentioning the takedown of what an incredible quote whore Earl Dittman was when it came to promoting Robots. You forgot the best part, that the quote that actually ended up in the trailers isn't from any of these - the marketers made it up and Dittman approved it.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Yes. With a few exceptions they completely redubbed with the movie with American actors, including having Kevin Smith voice a character that was mute in the original dub of the film. I wish someone had just decided to blow some money to make a Silent Bob joke.
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kjetting posted:Because that's how much faith some Hollywood producers have in the American public. Surely you wouldn't understand speech with British accents and can't recognize humor without movie references and farts. The US distributors considered redubbing A Hard Day's Night because they didn't think Americans would understand the accents. 
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The only British movie I was absolutely unable to understand the accent in was Tyrannosaur. I actually had to turn on subtitles. And I was raised around Brits. 
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Egbert Souse posted:The US distributors considered redubbing A Hard Day's Night because they didn't think Americans would understand the accents. There is a dub of a cartoon from the 70s/80s called something like Technopolice with an Australian (?) accent in it that I almost didn't understand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIeVMgbXZWA First instance of his mumbly Aussie voice at about 1m15s. I can't even get through all of this, but it's like Space Thunder Kids level of audio/video quality. JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Aug 11, 2014 |
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Quick, what was the traditionally animated film that was The Aristocats, but with dogs? It had had quite possibly the ugliest looking villains and was all around pretty grim (I recall a scene set a dogfighting ring). I saw it once or twice when Cartoon Network aired a bunch of other low tier animated films (Rover Dangerfield, We're Back, etc.)?
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Dr. Killjoy posted:Quick, what was the traditionally animated film that was The Aristocats, but with dogs? It had had quite possibly the ugliest looking villains and was all around pretty grim (I recall a scene set a dogfighting ring). I saw it once or twice when Cartoon Network aired a bunch of other low tier animated films (Rover Dangerfield, We're Back, etc.)? 101 Dalmatians? All Dogs Go To Heaven?
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LaughMyselfTo posted:101 Dalmatians?
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Dr. Killjoy posted:Well I said it was like Aristocats, in that an old lady leaves her fortune to her pets and then her servants scheme it away. Lady And The Tramp? Balto?
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138613/?ref_=ttmd_md_nm Okay found it. Huh German, I guess that explains the dreariness of it.
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Other than the fanbase and being grimdark but cats, is there really anything that wrong with Felidae?
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kjetting posted:Because that's how much faith some Hollywood producers have in the American public. Surely you wouldn't understand speech with British accents and can't recognize humor without movie references and farts. Genuinely curious as to how Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-rabbit did stateside.
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khwarezm posted:Genuinely curious as to how Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-rabbit did stateside. $56m or so according to Wikipedia, over $200m worldwide. And despite a budget of only $30m Dreamworks decided it wasn't profitable enough
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Wallace and Gromit rules.
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Pierson posted:Wallace and Gromit rules. Also if someone wants to do Felidae maybe this could be a general "interesting" animated movies thread, in that how some movies are poo poo but have fascinating behind the scenes fuckery going on, just fascinatingly bad, or actually good and enjoyable. It's always fun to read about poo poo movies, though.
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Dr. Killjoy posted:Quick, what was the traditionally animated film that was The Aristocats, but with dogs? It had had quite possibly the ugliest looking villains and was all around pretty grim (I recall a scene set a dogfighting ring). I saw it once or twice when Cartoon Network aired a bunch of other low tier animated films (Rover Dangerfield, We're Back, etc.)? I read that as "The Aristocrats" and envisioned an entirely different type of cartoon.
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$200M on a $30M budget and that wasn't enough for Dreamworks? That's why we didn't get more Wallace and Gromit movies, just that short awhile back? Man, gently caress Dreamworks forever.
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Pope Guilty posted:$200M on a $30M budget and that wasn't enough for Dreamworks? That's why we didn't get more Wallace and Gromit movies, just that short awhile back? Man, gently caress Dreamworks forever. That, and Peter Sallis is 93 now and has a visual impairment, so it's difficult for him to play Wallace now, and really there's no point doing it without him. That's why Wallace has a different voice actor in the Telltale Games series, since a script of that size is a lot to ask of a man pushing 90.
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Dr Snofeld posted:That, and Peter Sallis is 93 now and has a visual impairment, so it's difficult for him to play Wallace now, and really there's no point doing it without him. That's why Wallace has a different voice actor in the Telltale Games series, since a script of that size is a lot to ask of a man pushing 90. I didn't play the Telltale games- was the actor in that good enough to replace Sallis?
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Pope Guilty posted:$200M on a $30M budget and that wasn't enough for Dreamworks? That's why we didn't get more Wallace and Gromit movies, just that short awhile back? Man, gently caress Dreamworks forever. gently caress them for not funding endless sequels?
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Pope Guilty posted:I didn't play the Telltale games- was the actor in that good enough to replace Sallis? Yes actually, obviously you can kinda tell it's someone else, but for a video game he was quite good. Really fun adventure game too, kinda keeps in the spirit of the shorts, I think. Also another reason they probably won't be making another movie is that stop motion takes a hell of a lot of time, even when everything's going fine. They did release another short after the movie that was really good though (A Matter of Loaf and Death)! So they might still make shorts when time and budget allows, but probably not another full movie.
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I never got around to checking out the Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention TV series (which was Sallis' last official voicework on Wallace), was it any good at all?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I never got around to checking out the Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention TV series (which was Sallis' last official voicework on Wallace), was it any good at all? There was very little Wallace and Gromit in it, but it was pretty interesting, if aimed at a pretty younng audience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA
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Deadly Chlorine posted:Yes actually, obviously you can kinda tell it's someone else, but for a video game he was quite good. Really fun adventure game too, kinda keeps in the spirit of the shorts, I think. Why not just use CGI and make it look like stop-motion? Lego Movie was CGI and pulled it off pretty well.
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Pope Guilty posted:$200M on a $30M budget and that wasn't enough for Dreamworks? That's why we didn't get more Wallace and Gromit movies, just that short awhile back? Man, gently caress Dreamworks forever. Or maybe some talented animators just don't want to spend their entire life making the same cartoons over and over. Curse of the Were-Rabbit was fun but it was basically a rehash of the W&G shorts.
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Why not just use CGI and make it look like stop-motion? Lego Movie was CGI and pulled it off pretty well. They did that for Flushed Away, which was pretty decent but bombed commercially as I understand it, and suffered from having those slugs shoved into every point that could be considered a lull in the action. You could definitely tell it was CGI though. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! went with a stop-motion-CGI hybrid approach that worked well.
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Dr Snofeld posted:They did that for Flushed Away, I'm just reminded, but was Osmosis Jones a good film?
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