^^^ dreamworks wall of shame
― and what, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
and yeah cars is pretty 'tudey http://www.channel4.com/4car/media/features/2006/cars-film-review/03-large/cars-lightning-mcqueen.jpg
theyre seriously not fucking done w/ shrek yet??? or even close, apparently? ugh
― deeznuts, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the first Shrek.
― chap, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck angelina jolie doing a voice in it. and balls to being fair as well. (:p)
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, for comparison's sake, via Rotten Tomatoes:
66% The Incredible Hulk $55.4M 88% Kung Fu Panda $33.6M 20% The Happening $30.5M 34% You Don't Mess with th… $16.4M 77% Indiana Jones and the … $14.7M
When a movie is rating higher than Indy IV and the latest Marvel joint, yeah, it might be actually not too bad.
― Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
all of these cartoons get ridiculously good critical reviews
― deeznuts, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
what about shark's tale?
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Cameron Diaz has reportedly asked for the film to have an eco-friendly storyline about a threatened swamp.
Ugh.
― chap, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
shrek 4 is set to be directed by the director of deuce bigalow: male gigalo
― and what, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Upt0eleven, Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:01 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
aka "crossed arms: the motion picture"
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mo/sharktalebig.jpg http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/10/07/shark_tale_narrowweb__200x372.jpg
― and what, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
lol crossed fins
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Shark 'Tude
Shrek the Third 42% Bee Movie 53% Madagascar 56% Over the Hedge 73%
What metric are we using for "ridiculously good" here?
Shark Tale 34% BEST REVIEWED MOVIE LOL
― Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
well i guess yeah cars maybe was a little bit of bad dudes with baddass 'tudes
but still it's nowhere NEAR as snarky as say shrek.
the big thing with Pixar is that they don't do pop culture reference gags...each movie is true to its own fantasy world, they don't break to wink at the audience...
cars is the least of the pixar movies though.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
"Shrilly pandering to edgy, jive-talking, hip-hopping bents of the moment, [Shark Tale] churns up a sea of offensive ethnic stereotypes, unfunny situations, unsympathetic characters and lousy plotting." Houston Chronicle
A MUST-SEE!!
― Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
eh i was griping about these kids today when i was 14, im not too worried about coming off like a curmodgeon-- deeznuts, Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:38 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
-- deeznuts, Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:38 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Suspicions about nuts's age confirmed.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Kung Fu Panda is the only one of these I actually want to see, for the whole "actual animal master of corresponding animal style" thing.
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
the Shark Tale producers presumably concluded that the secret to Nemo's success was the fact that it had fish in it. OMG FISH ARE SO IN THIS YEAR!!!!
cocks
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:00 (7 minutes ago) Link
Smirking computer animation edges out the corpse of a movie franchise and yet another comic book film (the second take on this one), what an accomplishment.
― mh, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
-- kingfish, Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:10 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
that's a really strange criteria for wanting to see a movie.
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Finding Nemo only came out a year before Shark Tale, and these computer animation movies take years and years to produce.
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
-- some dude, Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:13 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
coyote kingfish
― and what, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw monsters inc on tv & its great but theres def pop cult refs... buscemi makes fargo woodchipper jokes!!
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:aeu3c2Y6M5CKMM:http://www.wallpapergate.com/data/media/1819/Tweety.jpg
― and what, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
lol argh @ tweety
― sleep, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I like kung fu movies, what do you want? Trad kung fu movies make a point of demonstrating contrasting styles, the more the better. Hell, even the pilot for the David Carradine series had each of the 5(ish) animal styles portrayed. The conceit of taking your otherwise bog standard dreamworks talking animals cheapo CGI but using it to instead match up said animal with the animal style interests me.
Let's see if this movie has James Hong in it.
[imdb check]
HA! It does!
― kingfish, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Dreamworks and Pixar so know what the other is working on, even if they're not meant to, and even if it's just "hey they're doing a fish film". Goes as far back as Bug's Life/Antz.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
tweety is one of the OGs of this shit imo xposts
― sleep, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
there were leaks. so i hear.
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.mywildcrazyspace.com/wp-content/themes/2007/11/alvin_chipmunks_christmas_2.jpg http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Alvin-Chipmunks-movie-02.jpg
― and what, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.buzzbunny.co.uk/images/050217_loonatics.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
O_o
― bnw, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i dunno...i feel like competing studios have more to lose than to gain by jumping on similiar themes/premises. i always imagine that it's more of a situation of both teams getting really far along on pre-production before finding out what the other is doing and going "fuck it, we've already put a lot of time into this, let's just do ours and hope it's better than theirs."
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
ughghhggh i dont know if anyone saw the chipmunks trailer in theaters but it revolved around some kind of joke that involved one of them having to eat one of their own turds to prove to dave it wasnt a raisin
not kidding
― deeznuts, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/PreStitch.jpg
woulda been cool if stitch looked like that
― bnw, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
er was a raisin obviously
― deeznuts, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
haha I was about to post the whole chipmunk turd trailer -- the ENTIRE TEASER was a poop joke
― mh, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
to appeal to the stoner frat bro demographic - xxxpost
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
o_O at Disney's next picture being based on a Philip K. Dick fantasy story. Did somebody just option everything the guy wrote and they're trying to clear out the cheap properties?
― mh, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
They do have em, but they're always completely peripheral to the characters and plots.
― chap, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
In other words, they're not "Family Guy".
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, are you saying that the pop cultural references in Family Guy are integral to the plot? Because that's the complete opposite argument most people make about FG.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
family guy is so disconnected from modern society!!!!
― s1ocki, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/business/media/11cartoons.html
Warner Brothers hopes to “reinvigorate and reimagine” Bugs Bunny and Scooby-Doo through a new virtual world on the Internet, where people will be able to dress up the characters pretty much any way they want. American Greetings is dusting off another of its lines, the Care Bears, which will return with a fresh look this fall (less belly fat, longer eyelashes).
And 4Kids Entertainment, which licenses the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, will revive them next year in new video games, where they will have more muscles and less attitude.
Even Mickey Mouse is getting an update, although the Walt Disney Company is still mulling what tweaks to make.
“I love classic Mickey, but he needs to evolve to be relevant to new generations of kids,” Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, said in an interview.
Reinventing these beloved characters without inflicting indelible damage is one of the entertainment industry’s trickiest maneuvers. Go too far, as Mattel did in 1993 when it gave Ken a purple mesh T-shirt, a pierced ear and the name “Earring Magic Ken,” and it can set off a brand crisis on a global scale.
Done correctly, it can be incredibly lucrative. Mickey Mouse produces an estimated $5 billion in merchandise sales every year. Strawberry Shortcake, even in her diminished state, has generated $2.5 billion in revenue since 2003, according to American Greetings.
If the classic characters look less stodgy, the companies hope, they will appeal not only to parents who remember them fondly, but also to children who might automatically be suspicious of toys their parents played with. For parents, nostalgia is considered a bigger sales hook than ever because of the increasingly violent and hyper-sexualized media landscape.
“It’s a terrible world, and modern parents are trying to cocoon their kids as much as possible,” said Alfred R. Kahn, chairman of 4Kids Entertainment, which also manages franchises like Pokémon and the Cabbage Patch Kids. “What better way to protect them than wrapping them in nostalgic brands?”
Mr. Iger talks about the need to balance “heritage and innovation.” For Mickey and other Disney characters, one method is to keep the core attributes of the characters the same, but to update the world in which they live. For instance, Disney is updating Toontown, the section of Disneyland that Mickey calls home. One plan features an old-fashioned trolley, but Mr. Iger is not sure that is a smart idea. Will modern children know what an old-fashioned trolley is?
Warner Brothers, by contrast, is leaving the styling decisions up to the customers, some of whom were weaned on virtual worlds like Disney’s Club Penguin (where they can, say, dress a virtual penguin in a pirate costume and make it dance). At KidsWB.com, which is rolling out a revised site over the summer, the studio will let people customize Looney Tunes characters as they see fit.
“You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird? Have at it,” said Lisa Gregorian, executive vice president for worldwide marketing at Warner Brothers Television.
― and what, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
“You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird?"
No thanks
― Tom D., Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
“What better way to protect them than wrapping them in nostalgic brands?”
WHAT BETTER WAY, INDEED
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i forgot about some of the monsters stuff..i haven't seen that in a minute
but i think everyone knows the point i was trying to make wrt pixar's style vs. the shrek style which is a constant barrage of winky referential b.s.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
One plan features an old-fashioned trolley, but Mr. Iger is not sure that is a smart idea. Will modern children know what an old-fashioned trolley is?
unbelievable.
― deeznuts, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Go too far, as Mattel did in 1993 when it gave Ken a purple mesh T-shirt, a pierced ear and the name “Earring Magic Ken,” and it can set off a brand crisis on a global scale.
ahahaha
― deej, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
xpsounds like someone needs an eyebrow raise and a little light smirkening around the mouth
― rob, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
The article rob posted above was interesting. People are not just trying to look “hotter” — younger, slimmer, smoother — they are turning themselves into human cartoons with cartoon facial expressions and sound effects. The ideal is not even realistic for anyone — not even the most conventional looking person around — it isn’t meant to be on our plane of reality. This is about virtual representations of the self supplanting the real self, probably causing weird kinds of dysmorphia.
― treeship., Wednesday, 4 August 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
Not even dysmorphia. A more general or fundamental alienation from the body. I think this is why it seems so dystopian.
― treeship., Wednesday, 4 August 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
I guess digital foot-binding and skull shaping is preferable to IRL foot-binding
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
Yeah that is true. But people are getting real-life surgery to approximate anime body proportions.
― treeship., Wednesday, 4 August 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
https://www.statesman.com/storyimage/TX/20161012/NEWS/310112497/EP/1/3/EP-310112497.jpg
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 22:50 (three years ago) link
this is the terrifying sequel to 28 days later I really needed
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
Alex Jones is not yet 50
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 23:15 (three years ago) link
14 years on...
https://images.mymovies.net/images/film/cin/350x522/fid21007.jpg
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2022 09:31 (two years ago) link
maximum Poochie
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 18 July 2022 09:37 (two years ago) link
The original Legion of Super-Pets is v much not a smirky eyebrow-raised badass Poochie comic strip
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Pets_%28Earth-One%29
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 18 July 2022 09:53 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/R4JmXDx.jpg
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Saturday, 1 October 2022 09:10 (one year ago) link
Excellent.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2022 10:01 (one year ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWEyYzc2YjItYzY4Ni00ZTY2LWJjYTItMjJiYTE1MWNkZTU4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODUwMzI1NTI@._V1_.jpg
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 December 2022 10:34 (one year ago) link
http://www.impawards.com/2023/posters/ruby_gillman_teenage_kraken_ver6_xlg.jpg
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Friday, 23 June 2023 23:36 (one year ago) link
Dreamworks, it is time for you to learn to draw faces
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 24 June 2023 08:34 (one year ago) link
There is a large slice of society for which smirk=WINNER and a smaller slice to whom smirk=sociopath, we must choose a side
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 24 June 2023 08:51 (one year ago) link
Well going by the trailer for that movie, the filmmakers are in the latter slice since she’s the baddie lol
― Duane Barry, Saturday, 24 June 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
del Toro just a few days ago:
The 58-year-old filmmaker spent a good portion of his Annecy master class deriding what he sees as destructive tendencies in much commercial animation where characters and emotions are “codified into a sort of teenage rom-com, almost emoji-style behavior. (If) I see a character raising his fucking eyebrow, or crossing his arms, having a sassy pose — oh, I hate that shit. (Why) does everything act as if they’re in a sitcom? I think it's emotional pornography. All the families are happy and sassy and quick, everyone has a one-liner. Well, my dad was boring. I was boring. Everybody in my family was boring. We had no one-liners. We’re all fucked up. That’s what I want to see animated. I would love to see real life in animation. I actually think it’s urgent. think it’s urgent to see real life in animation.”
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 June 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link
Guillermo del Toro, welcome to the resistance
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 24 June 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
"Well, that just happened."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 24 June 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
already noted upthread but
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/6/6e/LEGO-Smiley-001.png/revision/latest?cb=20131127180524
to
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/9b/fa/ca9bfa14ff7384c85dde033ab28290ca.jpg
― omar little, Monday, 31 July 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
http://https%3A//media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230504113629-01-what-are-zillennials-olarte-wellness.jpg%3Fc%3D16x9%26q%3Dh_540%2Cw_960%2Cc_fill/f_webp
from: "Zillennials: The newest micro-generation has a name" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/health/what-are-zillennials-wellness/index.html
Apparently this is the smirking generation. No generation has suffered more. "“They attended college during the pandemic, and missed out on important social markers.” So they must smirk.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 6 August 2023 01:55 (one year ago) link
goddamit
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 6 August 2023 01:56 (one year ago) link
well just click the link to get your dose of smirk
http://https%3A//media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230504113629-01-what-are-zillennials-olarte-wellness.jpg
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 6 August 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link
i give up.
https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230504113629-01-what-are-zillennials-olarte-wellness.jpg
― koogs, Sunday, 6 August 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzk4ODdiOTEtMTk3YS00MzZmLTgyOWMtYzc1NjgxYWE2MmMyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_.jpg
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:34 (seven months ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/garfield/images/2/22/Garfield1980.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width/360?cb=20231128184048
Garfield was kind of a pioneer when it comes to smirky cartoon characters
― soref, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:44 (seven months ago) link