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You took the words right out of my...kryboard
Just awesome like that
I want a kryboard. It sounds cool.
And futuristic. Speaking of which, Disneycember: Meet the Robinsons
is up.
edited 28th Dec '12 10:02:43 AM by Dream_Huntress
I can't have you close, so I become a ghost and I watch you, I watch you.
Nice segue.
Ahr river
Just because there is character development doesn't mean a character is automatically justified.
Read my stories!
I think i am alone in like MTR more than Bolt.
I fucking love Bolt! I'd put it up, like, with the Pixar films in my own ranking. That shit is fantastic!
A note for Doug: the Ugly Duckling DOES have a name. Abby Mallard. Only one of the class bullies calls her that, and after that, the nickname is never heard again.
Doug's Ranking of his Favorites:
- Up
- Toy Story 2
- Toy Story
- Toy Story 3
- Ratatouille
- Finding Nemo
- The Incredibles
- BOLT
- WALL-E
- Brave
- Monsters Inc.
- Meet the Robinsons
- A Bug's Life
- Chicken Little
- Cars
- Cars 2
Putting Meet The Robinsons on his ranking is difficult. He says the one redeeming factor is the message which would put it at probably his lower ranks, but he gives it an A for effort, and even keeps on saying it's clumsily put-together and the animation never takes a break.
edited 28th Dec '12 12:31:04 PM by Shota
Some Guy
Meet the Robinsons was easily the most underwhelming Disney movie I've seen in the last 25 years. (Note that I haven't seen Chicken Little or Home on the Range.) I pretty much entirely agree with Doug's assessment—it's nice, but has no idea what it's doing.
Groovy.
I've never seen it and it seems pretty bleh, but I quite like the female designs.
I cut up one dozen new men and you will die somewhat, again and again.
Thing about Meet The Robinsons is that it had a Troubled Production. It was the first film directly effected by the Disney/Pixar merger, and got a lot of the same overhaul that Bolt did. It shows too because the first 2/3's of the film is wacky gag heavy like Chicken Little while the last third has Pixaresque message building and character development.
I personally have a softspot for the film because of the message. That and I strongly believe it was the point where Disney started to Grow the Beard again.
I liek it more than Bolt because the story was more involved and didn't just go from A to b. it also had a lot of charm and a really great/sweet ending. the entire thing is fun and while Bolt is still good (can't stress that enough) this is more my cup of tes, despite some confusing time travel stuff. (is there a time travel movie that does make 100 percent sense? )
I kinda harbor resentment towards Bolt because American Dog seemed like it would've been an awesome movie.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
The Fastest Man Alive
Wasn't it, by all accounts, a total mess?
Apparently John Lasseter thought American Dog was too quirky for its own good, and by the early summary from it, it seemed that there was a lot of meandering on the plot. Still it would have been interesting to see the whole thing done.
I can't have you close, so I become a ghost and I watch you, I watch you.
Gamer-turning-maker
So... any idea what uncomfortable thoughts Doug might have had in regards to the family tree?
edited 28th Dec '12 8:54:47 PM by nomuru2d
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I don´t know about Doug but I personally said "ugh!" when the boy saids the mother of the Robinsons that he wants her to his mother and at the end of the movie we learn who she really is. Also once we know who the boy of the future is their friendship gets a little weird too...
I think the whole "Franny nearly adopting the past version of her husband" thing was what he was referring to combined with Lewis's whole arc of wanting to find a mother, his biological one or finally getting adopted.
I didn't really read into it/noticed anything creepy. it likely wasn't the writers intention anyway
If Home on the Range, Chicken Little, and even the first half Meet the Robinsons mean anything, it was for the best that Lasseter started cleaning house. Yeah, its unfortunate that it came at the expense of Sanders leaving Disney, but Disney was going to a bad place of throwing gag after gag instead of actually having gppd stories.
The Fastest Man Alive
Keep in mind that Lasseter is responsible for the second half of Meet the Robinsons being what it is.
I wonder what he can say about Wreck It Ralph that he hasn't already said. It's really rather clear that he as a great affection for the movie (hell most of the gags in in the spoof parts of its Demo Reel episode where about their production troubles rather than poking at plot holes or the like).
New Sibling Rivalry episode: Les Miserables.
The issues people have with Robinsons are in the second act adapting the book more then anything else.
I'm curious about this talk of a new set. The format they have now gets the brotherly feeling along nicely and everyone seems to really enjoy just listening them talk, why change?
