PIXAR's The Good Dinosaur

Figured we could use a thread for this:

Says Pixar Regulars John Lasseter

So an animated feature about the Amish and Dinosaurs? I'm curious.

edited 9th Jun '13 12:08:37 PM by Mattonymy

Some of them better have feathers.

I want to be excited for this, but I'm still wary. Dinosaurs have been done to death when it comes to animated features, and after seeing Pixar's recent outputs, I'm no longer entirely confident that they could successfully do an original spin on it. Gonna give it the benefit of the doubt, though.

Amish Dinosaurs.

That is a pretty damn creative spin if I say so myself.

Eh, as long as we get a Rex cameo I'll be fine - No, I won't. This HAS to be good-

I wonder if we still will see humans in some manner or another.

I think that's the concept. Humans coexisting with Dinosaurs, defying all laws of natural evolution.

Maybe it'll take place in Pennsylvania!

Dinosaurs have been done to death in movies, but Pixar seems to be doing a fresh spin on the topic. I'm glad they don't make them too cartoony, in that they won't walk up-right, or wear clothes, or act human-like. And even if scientists are now researching a few alternative theories for their extinction other than a single meteor, this is a movie about a fictional story, so that can be passable.

edited 9th Jun '13 5:31:20 PM by Shota

65 million years is a long time. I'd expect anything that survived from that time to have changed substantially. (Exceptions like the coelacanth exist, but are incredibly rare.)

I preferred the title The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs. But I'm still really looking forward to this.

Interesting.

This sounds like Pixar's take on the plot of the Super Mario Bros movie.

Fuck. Yes.

......... what in the heck does Super Mario Bros. have anything to do with realistic dinosaurs?!?!

Not sure how I feel about the dinosaurs being farmers. It just strikes me as weird if they don't have humanoid forms.

The movie said Bowser and the Koopas evolved from dinosaurs in a parallel universe where they never went extinct...or something. Just don't worry about it. We like to pretend that movie never happened.

edited 8th Jul '13 6:26:14 PM by Kostya

Exactly. And that movie was crap.

THANK. YOU. If you turn Mario and Luigi into "father and son" team, you've failed at life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy6VQaNWZ5c

edited 8th Jul '13 9:14:25 PM by Shota

You guys are just mad cause the movie's 3awesome5u.

Just released a bunch of new concept art from D23 [1]

It still doesn't look or sound that unique, just like The Land Before Time / Dinosaur with humans thrown in.

Then they need to show that instead of concept art with a reject from Were Back A Dinosaurs Story frolicking around while smiling like an idiot.

edited 10th Aug '13 8:44:00 PM by Mort08

I don't even...no. The only similarity is that there are dinosaurs. These are civilized dinosaurs. Amish dinosaurs. I would have never even thought of Amish dinosaurs.

yes, dinosaurs have been done to death, but so far, they were either talking around in human clothes, transported into modern times, or travelling somewhere to escape the gib catastrophe. I don't think that I have ever seen something which asks the question what would have happened if they had never become extinct.

The Good Dinosaur: "Let's watch We're Back!, look at everything wrong with it, and do the complete opposite!"

Inside Out: "Let's watch Osmosis Jones, look at everything wrong with it, and do the complete opposite!"

Is this going to become the new "The Pixar Movie about X"?

I also feel like commenting on how, despite people are starting to complain that "Pixar only does sequels anymore!", right there they have 2 original movies lined (plus a 3rd if we include the Mexican movie that's been mentioned here and there) to the 1 sequel we know about, the Toy Story half hour special (and I'm not sure if that even counts) notwithstanding. Basically, right there it's a 75-25 split on original movies to sequels, which hardly sounds like a bad ratio to me.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/good-dinosaur-pixar_n_3822373.html

This cant be good...