Next batch of Pixar films after the Monsters Inc. prequel

Movie was great (my son I think liked it a touch less than his parent's did).

LAVA song totally infectious schmaltz.

So excited to see this with my girls when the older one comes back from camp.

Get ready for the tears

there's no ilx presence at all for big hero 6, how odd

big hero 6 was okay, just a bit over calculated

AiSF otm about the lava song

BIG HERO 6 was a big hit with my kid and while it's imminently watchable for adults, I do agree that it's extremely lightweight. Pixar is so far ahead of what anyone else is doing (while okay except for the Fantastic Mr Fox) it's almost unfair to compare.

i will likely now see this movie due solely to this thread so score one for you
preview is just so so bad

there's no ilx presence at all for big hero 6, how odd

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 21 June 2015 13:50 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought it was pretty underwhelming, though it looked great.

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yeah. also didn't follow through on any of the flagged endings afaicr

Lava short reminded me of a Pixar parody concept a friend had -- its exact inverse -- about a lonely man living in his Igloo, until one day he chips enough ice away to see that there's a more competent girl in an Igloo next door. And he wants to join their Igloos.

this was so good

Amazing movie. Pop Culture Happy Hour folks pointed out that it's a movie with no villain, which is unique, especially for a movie for kids. I cried through much of it - probably the most draining movie I've ever seen (but i only recently became a total softie).

OTOH, Lava was lame. Usually they showcase some new animation trick with their shorts, but I didn't see anything like that. And the song and "story" were completely flimsy.

And the kids loved it too! I think the name/marketing campaign really blew it for this movie.

yeah the marketing on this has been terrible but imo it's the strongest complete Pixar offering since ratatouille. The gender stereotype stuff falls with a wet splat and there's some meandering in the second act but tremendous performances and the emotional beats are all direct hits. Not a dry eye in the house by the end and it's well earned.

Pop Culture Happy Hour folks pointed out that it's a movie with no villain, which is unique, especially for a movie for kids.

Totoro

Kiki's Delivery Service too - even Ghibli films with an antagonist don't tend to have a villain.

Yeah, I'm really glad that Inside Out had no villain, since it's something you don't usually see in a lot of childrens films. Alot of Pixar movies tend to do the thing where a character befriends the leads, and then turns out to have sinister motives and betray them, and I respect Pixar for not returning to that well.

i saw lava last year and yeah, way insipid. nothing wrong with kt kahele (tho "ukulele sucks because indie rock" is one of my favorite ilm looks) but i never wanna see another love-powered resurrection. it's like being dramatically punkd.

maria and cyrus went to inside out the other night and i totally didn't go because of the trailer! bad trailer! oh well. i could still go i guess. rufus hasn't seen it...

you would get a kick out of it i think, scott, it's super satisfying as just a really long, funny index of thought patterns

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-curse-of-the-pixar-universe

god, brody is insufferable

old school trolling

In lieu of the mysteries and wonders of life, instead of big dreams and big fears, in place of the cosmic sense of childhood infinity that Terrence Malick thrillingly got at in “The Tree of Life” (the best movie about a child’s inner life that I’ve ever seen),

I had no idea TTOL was a Pixar cartoon!

Brody is good sometimes, but this is definitely example of one of his worst tendencies: walking in with rigid, somewhat bizarre pre-conceived notions (in this case about the emotional lives of children) and then tearing a movie to pieces because it offers a different perspective.

I kind of would love to see him direct a response film based on the ideas in his column

seeing this tomorrow. one person I know said it was the only pixar movie in years he didn't cry at; seems completely at odds with what everyone else's experience has been. but he is kind of a drunk and young.

I don't cry at movies, still liked it.

I liked it ok, "didja have to tell kids their imaginary friends will die someday?" is pretty mild as far as my kid movie grumbles go. I'm not sure kids enjoy whimsical self-analysis and metaphors about the need to accept pain as much adults do - already heard about a three year old who thinks the movie is about a robot "because she had people in her brain!" But I was entertained.

Hated lava, though - what an expensive video for such a shitty song

I didn't really cry at this one, but it's probably because all of my islands of personality have crumbled into the canyon.

Uh, I guess a three-year-old may not grasp it, but it's not hard to imagine the premise and execution being compelling for, say, a 9-year-old.

I didn't really cry at this one, but it's probably because all of my islands of personality have crumbled into the canyon.

Same, kind of underwhelmed.

Joy was such a condescending jerk (in the beginning, but that was sort of the point).

Also: San Fran-stinktown.

Disgust's animation and faces are great though.

i didnt like this bcuz they kept putting the protagonists in one desperate situation after another and they got stupider and more desperate and then the way they finally got out of the final one was such a dumb deus ex machina and it was really frustrating and stupid like the toy story 3 furnace scene 10x in a fucking row and lava was fucking stupid too.

yeah but the abstraction chambere

disgust is so stupid why does that get to be an emotion and not like... ANY OTHER EMOTION PEOPLE FEEL. it was just a way to shoehorn in mindy k so dumb.

Pixar could've added Gay and cast Adam Lambert.

well it is interesting to note that when they went into the parents heads the emotions were all the same gender as the mom and dad but riley's were BOTH GENDERS omg pixar blowin my mind rn

I like the part where Bing Bong killed himself.

fuck richard kind

have to admit I wept like a baby at the end of this, my wife is still teasing me about it, but the wish to leave my son with more happy than sad memories is a very strong and fraught feeling for me.

i also realize this movie is for babies so its ok that i didnt like it but im so sick of this ITS FOR ADULTS TOO hype bullshit when it is clearly NOT

I probably wouldn't choose to watch this independent of children, but there is definitely a poignancy that I can relate to as a parent of a child the same age as Riley.

Are you quoting a 16 year old or is that your actual opinion

Lol xpost

16 year old me wasn't into richard kind either

i was... underwhelmed by this. even some of the best pixar movies have climaxes that feel, if not perfunctory exactly, then kind of rote. "inside/out" felt a lot like that for much of its length. the inventiveness of the premise did not extend to the mechanics of the action. it also had that problem where it kept making up new rules for the world of the film, to the point where it began to feel quite arbitrary.

that said, there were lots of little clever bits, such that i rarely didn't have a smile on my face. i liked some of the character designs a lot, even if they weren't that original. ("disgust" was the weak link in all respects.)

also: poor, poor bing bong :(

Didn't Inside Out 2 make a bazillion dollars just last year?

It did! But, you know, franchise, already established, etc.

Whereas before it could be 'the latest Pixar film' and it would likely be immediately huge. The franchise issue was long ago established but whether it's the pandemic or things not clicking or whatever, we're in a different spot here.

That's a difference for sure. But of course "Lightyear" flopped, and that was a franchise film. And of course we've talked about Disney proper vs Pixar, or if it really matters. Like, "Strange World" above, that was original and Disney proper: flop. "Wish" was original and Disney proper: flop. But "Encanto" was just a few years ago, and it was original and huge. Then "Moana 2," sequel and huge. Maybe like MCU they just need to start spreading them out more a bit? Maybe they need to lure back Lin-Manuel from his other duties and distractions? "Toy Story 5" will likely be huge, "Zootopia 2" likewise, they should put some wind back in the sails/sales.

Saw Elio yesterday, it was good! In parts it approached great!

Sort of what I suspected. A lot of these movies aren't flopping because they're bad, they're flopping because the studio is incompetent, or at least hampered by incoherent marketing strategies

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/elio-pixar-america-ferrera-director-queer-2-1236301860/

The url led me to believe that America Ferrara was in a movie called “Queer 2”

Saw a preview of HOPPERS yesterday. It's been advertised as a Zootopia-adjacent funny animal comedy, and that's certainly why my six-year-old has been begging to see it for weeks, but... get this, it's actually a pretty dark fantasy about death and loss -- AND WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED??? I dunno - maybe ME, based on how that sums up EVERY SINGLE PIXAR MOVIE EVER, but hey ho.

Anyway, it's very good, we managed to time my kid's toilet breaks at the most traumatic bits, but GOOD LORD there's a sequence during the climax that probably rivals the end of Superman III for WHY IS THIS IN A KIDS FILM-level uncanny horror.

On the Pixar scale, I liked it better than SOUL (which was very good) but it's no COCO. It has one character that might be my favourite Pixar character ever. The central dilemma - can everybody get along, or are some people just inherently bad? - seems, er, resonant. But it rather rushes to get through the setup, and then rushes to get to the plotty climax, and forgets to spend enough time just hanging and doing nothing in the middle, so we can get to know the characters.

Still - it's one of the good ones.