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Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#251: Jul 16th 2011 at 4:55:55 PM

[up]My crowd wasn't big at all, but I was very pleased to see it was mostly made up of teenagers and adults!

I was a bit put off by "The Ballad of Nessie". The moral is "it's all right to cry", which is good. But the way they presented it was completely overblown! Kids may believe that not only is it okay to cry- you should cry an entire lake and make all your problems be solved?!?! That just makes you a wimp. Nessie was a wimp. She didn't do anything to actively try and save her home! Especially when characters consistently told her that crying is for wimps! And being a wimp is what solves her problem?!?! What??!?!?!?!?

Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#252: Jul 16th 2011 at 5:07:20 PM

I think the theme was "don't let others control you". Nessie was controlled by the developer and the other animals but then her crying created Loch Ness and she got back at the developer during the credits.

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Theoriginalblader Sloving cases one by one from Downtown Since: Feb, 2011
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#253: Jul 17th 2011 at 6:58:19 PM

I saw Winnie the pooh two times. The first time I saw it there was a bit of a crowd(i'd say about 15 people). Some being teenagers to moms with their kids. The second time I saw it was at a different theater the place was packed. Hey shota, the moral of Nessie is not to let others control you. I'd just thought I'd let you know of that lad(or lassie).

As for Pooh. I really enjoyed it. It made me very happy, this has Doing It for the Art written all over it. Disney delivered what I was hoping this film to be, a great animated feature that is hand-drawn animated. Its such a shame that their marketing had to put in the wrong spot.

FigmentJedi Since: Jan, 2001
#254: Jul 17th 2011 at 7:10:19 PM

From the Cartoon Brew talkback. Talk about dodging a bullet...

True Story: Early in Jeffrey K’s tenure at Disney, he wanted to make a Winnie the Pooh feature where all the characters were left in the back of Christopher Robin’s Mom’s station wagon. It got stolen, and Pooh and company ended up in an inner city ghetto, where they befriended two black kids named- -wait for it–”Flip” and “Rinky-Dink”. When the sheer awfulness of this idea was pointed out by one brave animator during a meeting, JK looked at him like he had lobsters crawling out of his ears. Fortunately, for us (and for you) this nightmare scenario never materialized.

BagofMagicFood Since: Jan, 2001
#255: Jul 17th 2011 at 7:23:16 PM

Oh Jeffrey Katzenberg, not everything has to be Darker and Edgier.

Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Theoriginalblader Sloving cases one by one from Downtown Since: Feb, 2011
Sloving cases one by one
#257: Jul 17th 2011 at 7:52:45 PM

[up][up][up]He must have lost his marbles. Thank god that didnt get approved.

FigmentJedi Since: Jan, 2001
#258: Jul 17th 2011 at 7:54:33 PM

[up] Hardly lost his marbles then, seeing as it's his usual state of mind. I mean, look at most of Dreamworks' CG films

edited 17th Jul '11 7:58:37 PM by FigmentJedi

Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#259: Jul 17th 2011 at 7:55:30 PM

Times like these that make me happy he seems at home at Dream Works. What he wanted to do with Disney's films seem exactly like the animated films they're making1

RobbieRotten Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#260: Jul 17th 2011 at 9:02:02 PM

I respect the guy, but that idea sounds so stupid

Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#261: Jul 17th 2011 at 10:40:58 PM

Katzenberg wanted to create the animated Skids and Mudflap? What else is new?

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Ronnie Respect the Red Right Hand from Surrounded by Idiots Since: Jan, 2001
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#262: Jul 18th 2011 at 7:07:20 AM

The only positive thing I can say about that proposed movie... is that it would have made for a helluva episode of The Nostalgia Critic.

RobbieRotten Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#263: Jul 18th 2011 at 7:28:24 AM

So i check the box office, and pooh opened at...number 6. Yea

xSOULFIRE from New Jersey Since: Jun, 2010
#265: Jul 18th 2011 at 4:51:21 PM

[up][up]Really? I heard it was #4... But it was probably inaccurate if you were right.

Also, the ghetto plot sounded horrible.

RobbieRotten Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#266: Jul 18th 2011 at 4:58:43 PM

Well my box office info comes from the Spill main page (said info comes from box office mojo) but based on their podcast's discussion of why pooh should of come out later this year says it's all true.

Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#267: Jul 18th 2011 at 5:01:36 PM

That's odd. Wonder when the next ranking is announced.

Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#268: Jul 18th 2011 at 5:11:33 PM

It would have done better in the fall. There are no family films in October and combined with the positive reviews, it would have been a surprise hit.

This makes two July releases that would have done better later in the year (Larry Crowne is the other).

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FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
Responsible adult
#269: Jul 19th 2011 at 11:32:14 AM

Still, 6/4 is hardly "doomed."

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kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#271: Jul 19th 2011 at 11:54:23 AM

[up][up]But a ranking also reflects how profitable a studio can become if it doesn't earn enough to support itself in the future!

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#272: Jul 19th 2011 at 12:25:03 PM

It's just over an hour long. That alone is a good indication that the company was looking more at the home video market than the theater market.

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#273: Jul 19th 2011 at 12:39:33 PM

[up]That would hold water if not for...

  • the movie being considered part of the Disney Animated Canon, unlike the previous adaptations, which were not, and produced by veteran Disney feature film artists instead of being outsourced to their Toon Studio.
  • the original featurettes being extremely short as well, as a way to show they're going back to their routes.
  • it being promoted exactly like their other more full-length features, complete with a red carpet premiere.

edited 19th Jul '11 12:40:49 PM by kyun

Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#274: Jul 19th 2011 at 12:41:55 PM

The movie only cost $30 million. It won't kill hand-drawn animation.

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BaronofBarons Perpetual Noob Since: Oct, 2009
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#275: Jul 19th 2011 at 2:50:56 PM

[up][up][up] I will admit it sorta felt like a DTV feature.

I put on my robe and tinfoil hat...

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