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I really don't like either of the two :s
philby4000
15 Dec 2009, 21:56
I can see how someone wouldn't like the IT crowd if they've only seen the first series.
Second and third serieses are funnier than Father Ted imo.
Edit: also recently watched WALL-E Best Pixar film since Finding Nemo.
GrimOswald
16 Dec 2009, 01:39
Edit: also recently watched WALL-E Best Pixar film since Finding Nemo.
The Incredibles > Finding Nemo. I've not seen WALL-E yet though.
Akuryou13
16 Dec 2009, 01:42
The Incredibles > Finding Nemo. I've not seen WALL-E yet though.eeeeeh. I disagree. I think Nemo > Incredibles. I really like both, but I've gotta put nemo up on incredibles.
I think we can all agree that Tin Toy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNvvid4Da-E) is the best piece of animation Pixar has blessed us with.
I saw Up in 3D and it was pretty awesome.
My order is such:
Tin Toy
Toy Story
Up
Toy Story 2
Wall-E
The Incredibes
Finding Nemo
I haven't seen Monsters Inc..
philby4000
19 Dec 2009, 01:14
Just got back from seeing Avatar in 3D. The film was pretty alright (if a little predictable and derivative) and the 3D was actually pretty awesome!
I think we can all agree that Tin Toy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNvvid4Da-E) is the best piece of animation Pixar has blessed us with.
OY that sure hasn't aged well. That baby is terifying!
Also go watch Monsters inc. it's pretty good!
MtlAngelus
24 Dec 2009, 05:04
Went to see Avatar(yes, in 3d), absolutely stunning.
Akuryou13
24 Dec 2009, 05:52
Went to see Avatar(yes, in 3d), absolutely stunning.heard the same from a friend, except she also tagged it with a "predictable plot"
SupSuper
25 Dec 2009, 18:45
Yeah the plot is same old, you should only go watch it for the awesome 3D.
I've heard Avatar been described as Pochahontas in space.
MtlAngelus
28 Dec 2009, 02:40
I found the plot pretty enjoyable actually, despite being predictable and having been done before.
I should really get to watch it again while it's on the cinema, it's definitely not gonna be the same on a tv, unless I get some monstrous 3d enabled hdtv. :p
MtlAngelus
2 Jan 2010, 08:38
Sherlock Holmes. It was fun and entertaining.
Also the Clash of the Titans trailer was awesome. It's got Qui Gon Jinn Fallout 3's "Dad" Liam Neeson on it so it's guaranteed to be enjoyable at the very least. :p
philby4000
3 Jan 2010, 02:56
Sherlock Holmes. It was fun and entertaining.
Also the Clash of the Titans trailer was awesome. It's got Qui Gon Jinn Fallout 3's "Dad" Liam Neeson on it so it's guaranteed to be enjoyable at the very least. :p
That trailer's got the stupidest tagline ever.
TIANS
WILL
CLASH
MtlAngelus
3 Jan 2010, 05:07
That trailer's got the stupidest tagline ever.
TITANS
WILL
CLASH
But... they will. :p
Squirminator2k
3 Jan 2010, 05:15
So? That's like having a movie called "Film Title", with the tagline "TITLE. OF. FILM." It's bloody daft.
MtlAngelus
3 Jan 2010, 05:38
So? That's like having a movie called "Film Title", with the tagline "TITLE. OF. FILM." It's bloody daft.
Eh, it's just a crazy cg intensive action flick. They can be as daft as they want, the eye candy is all I expect from this movie.
Squirminator2k
3 Jan 2010, 05:43
Eye Candy flicks are annoying. I want a story, and such films don't offer that. Wanted and Avatar are both examples of terrible movies with great visuals.
MtlAngelus
3 Jan 2010, 07:47
Eye Candy flicks are annoying. I want a story, and such films don't offer that. Wanted and Avatar are both examples of terrible movies with great visuals.
Would love to hear you expand on why Avatar is such a terrible movie. I've seen some truly horrible movies, several of them during the past few months on tv, and (maybe I'm becoming insensitive to this horribleness?) I really can't see how it's possible for someone to group Avatar together with something like Wanted.
(Plus, Wanted didn't have great visuals)
Squirminator2k
3 Jan 2010, 08:23
No, but it had some great setpieces.
Avatar is visually arresting. It looks stunning, and there's no doubt it'll have a huge impact on the way films are made. Unfortunately the story is predictable shash, the dialog is awful, and utimately it just didn't work for me. That film was like late-90s Jessica Simpson - nice to look at, but absolutely nothing going on upstairs.
I like my movies to be more like Chris Pine. They need to be intelligent as well as nice to look at. If the plot doesn't work, or I know how the film ends before the ending actually comes (as happened with both Wanted and Avatar) then I may as well have spent my time watching a fireworks show.
MtlAngelus
4 Jan 2010, 04:25
I suppose I just approach cg-intensive movies with a much simpler mind. As long as it's not Dragon Ball Evolution bad and the cg is good I'm just peachy. It just doesn't feel right to me to discard the amazing work of all those artists because of the plot. :p
Akuryou13
4 Jan 2010, 06:36
speaking of nice special effects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VZllR44gdA&feature=fvst
nicolas cage playing the lead role with no personality whatsoever is going to ruin the story aspect of the movie, but good GOD those effects are nice.
I see, his voice can hit a pitch that hypnotically controlls anyone who hears it. Makes sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA_jAZ6_DJQ
Speaking of delightful visuals, I'll be watching this again now: http://www.vimeo.com/7809605
And for the love of all that is holy, make it fullscreen when you do.
Akuryou13
20 Jan 2010, 17:03
Speaking of delightful visuals, I'll be watching this again now: http://www.vimeo.com/7809605
And for the love of all that is holy, make it fullscreen when you do.thank you! that was absolutely wonderful. THAT is art!
FutureWorm
21 Jan 2010, 07:24
Speaking of delightful visuals, I'll be watching this again now: http://www.vimeo.com/7809605
And for the love of all that is holy, make it fullscreen when you do.
holy ****ing **** i didn't even realize that it was a cg render until i got to the bit with the big orbs of water, and even then i was thinking that those were just specially rendered special effects. that was mindblowing
MrBunsy
21 Jan 2010, 09:41
That was impressive. Raytracing ftw.
Pity though that some architects live in a world as surreal as that and forget about basic things like rain and cold. Or physics.
Paul.Power
3 Apr 2010, 21:06
Have a guess.
No clues, just guess.
:D
MtlAngelus
3 Apr 2010, 22:25
Dr. Who ?
Akuryou13
4 Apr 2010, 04:10
cricket ?
Paul.Power
4 Apr 2010, 10:00
And the winner is...
Dr. Who ?
It was pretty damn awesome.
It was! And it looks like the rest of the series will be pretty good too!
Another insanely good looking video!
Pixels (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcv6dv_pixels-by-patrick-jean_creation)
Akuryou13
10 Apr 2010, 16:08
wow. that animation was really spectacular!
Another insanely good looking video!
Pixels (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcv6dv_pixels-by-patrick-jean_creation)
I love the Ocean logo spoof! :D
MtlAngelus
2 May 2010, 02:57
Eye Candy flicks are annoying. I want a story, and such films don't offer that. Wanted and Avatar are both examples of terrible movies with great visuals.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I ended up seeing Clash of the Titans a couple of weeks ago(NOT in 3d tho, I'm not a fan of fake 3D), and it was incredibly ****. I didn't expect much, just a coherent story and cool effects. All I got semi-cool effects and brain damage out of it. The plot was so badly strung together and the characters were so bland... it was almost as bad as Dragon Ball: Evolution.
So yeah you won this time.
On the plus side, I say Ironman 2 yesterday. Feel much better now.
Akuryou13
2 May 2010, 04:44
I had the unbridled joy of feasting my eyes upon How To Train Your Dragon this passed tuesday. among the best animation I've seen in a long time and I just generally loved that movie! SO beyond glad I went to see it.
BetongÅsna
4 May 2010, 23:36
It was excellent, wasn't it? Lacked the depth of a Pixar feature, but was by far the best non-Pixar 3D spectaculare I've ever seen.
More recently, I saw Iron Man 2. I think they should subtitle it 'Iron Man 2: Prepare for Disappointment'.
Akuryou13
5 May 2010, 04:41
It was excellent, wasn't it? Lacked the depth of a Pixar feature, but was by far the best non-Pixar 3D spectaculare I've ever seen.I enjoy all of Dreamworks easily as much as Pixar. Prince of Egypt is one of the most spectacularly-animated movies I've ever seen, regardless of who made it. Shrek, to me, had as much charm as any Pixar movie, as does Monsters vs Aliens. I've enjoyed pretty much every one of their other movies as well, those are just my personal highlights.
FutureWorm
5 May 2010, 21:00
I enjoy all of Dreamworks easily as much as Pixar. Prince of Egypt is one of the most spectacularly-animated movies I've ever seen, regardless of who made it. Shrek, to me, had as much charm as any Pixar movie, as does Monsters vs Aliens. I've enjoyed pretty much every one of their other movies as well, those are just my personal highlights.
shrek is terrible and already horrifically dated. in 10 years it will be literally unwatchable
BetongÅsna
6 May 2010, 02:44
Shrek is embarrassingly poor at times, especially the sequels. And the fact they're making a 4th, just to milk the 3D cash-cow, is fairly awful.
Monsters vs Aliens was just an aimless slapstick mess. Felt like an half-hour cartoon made for very young kids.
Also I realise I said '3D' before, but I actually meant computer animated. There's a hell of a lot of good cartoon films out there, but computer-generated films with a good plot and a sense of style have been purely the domain of Pixar up until How To Train Your Dragon, in my opinion.
Paul.Power
6 May 2010, 10:50
I thought Robots had a good sense of style, even if it was a standard "underdog inventor vs. big business" plot. Mel Brooks stole the show wonderfully.
Ice Age 1 was pretty good too, although I didn't care for the sequel.
And any scene in a Madagascar movie with the penguins is :D, although the rest of the time they're pretty mediocre.
Aardman >> Pixar/Dreamworks
Akuryou13
6 May 2010, 13:23
Shrek is embarrassingly poor at times, especially the sequels. And the fact they're making a 4th, just to milk the 3D cash-cow, is fairly awful.oh I'm with you completely on the sequels, as they're all completely crap, but I actually rather enjoyed the original.
Monsters vs Aliens was just an aimless slapstick mess. Felt like an half-hour cartoon made for very young kids.really? I found it hilarious myself. I'm not saying it was best animated picture ever, but I enjoyed the heck out of it.
Paul.Power
6 May 2010, 13:35
Aardman >> Pixar/Dreamworks
Oh aye yeah, that too.
Not sure if we can count anything other than Flushed Away in the "computer animated" stakes, though. But Flushed Away was good anyway, so.
MtlAngelus
7 May 2010, 00:26
I found the first shrek to be meh, I loved the second one and the third sucked. I'm not planning on seeing the fourth.
Oh aye yeah, that too.
Not sure if we can count anything other than Flushed Away in the "computer animated" stakes, though. But Flushed Away was good anyway, so.
With my previous comment I tried to imply that clay animation is much better than computer animation.
Besides, Aardman's storytelling is much better, plus, it has that subtle, weird British humor I like.
Most Dreamworks and Pixar production are just the generic Hollywood-style stories IMO.
This is quite funny though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Znn8XSp98E
SupSuper
7 May 2010, 10:12
The main problem with Dreamworks' CG movies is that they're specially designed to be milkable. They all start out ok but then end up with tons of ****ty sequels until the name alone gives you a rash. Well that and they're all THIS GUY IS SO QUIRKY HYUCK-HYUCK.
I haven't watched How to Train a Dragon yet, although the trailer feels a lot like it's trying to cash in on Avatar-style cheap thrills.
BetongÅsna
9 May 2010, 02:19
Absolutely it is, but it does it well. Cheap thrills can be good fun.
Pigbuster
16 Jul 2010, 10:01
Just saw the midnight opening of Inception at an IMAX theater. Good LORD it was good. 2.5 hours long yet engaging throughout, and a plot that's complex as hell yet almost never confusing. Awesome visuals, wonderful Zimmer soundtrack, just... agh, so good. I can't think of any complaints at all. Don't know how long it's been since I've seen a movie that's so utterly satisfying.
It doesn't show in theaters here until next Friday. Maybe I should go watch it..
I haven't been to the movies since I saw Avatar, well, not since Alice in Wonderland but that barely counts! And 9.6 on imdb is very rare.
Akuryou13
17 Jul 2010, 15:51
damn it. I hadn't even heard of that movie until I went down for vacation with the family. now there's no way I can resist going watch it at some point... and I'm TRYING to horde money right now...
MrBunsy
27 Mar 2011, 23:06
A Town Called Panic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Town_Called_Panic_(film))
It was AMAZING and you must all see it. Now.
SupSuper
28 Mar 2011, 00:15
A Town Called Panic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Town_Called_Panic_(film))
It was AMAZING and you must all see it. Now.
Haha yeah, it's pretty awesome. :D
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