i saw monsters inc on tv & its great but theres def pop cult refs... buscemi makes fargo woodchipper jokes!!
― and what, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
lol argh @ tweety
― sleep, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:18 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
Finding Nemo only came out a year before Shark Tale, and these computer animation movies take years and years to produce.
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 (fifteen years ago) link
tweety is one of the OGs of this shit imo xposts
― sleep, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
there were leaks. so i hear.
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.buzzbunny.co.uk/images/050217_loonatics.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
O_o
― bnw, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:19 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
er was a raisin obviously
― deeznuts, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:22 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
to appeal to the stoner frat bro demographic - xxxpost
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:22 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
In other words, they're not "Family Guy".
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:31 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
family guy is so disconnected from modern society!!!!
― s1ocki, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:32 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
“You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird?"
No thanks
― Tom D., Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:37 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.manbehindthedoll.com/images/earringmagic.jpg
― deej, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah matt i know toy story (which i think is the only pixar ive seen) didnt have nearly as much of that stuff; still i felt like a huge amount of its appeal was its cgi novelty, which is obviously done with
― deeznuts, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
somebody needs to go back in time and kill the teenage mutant ninja turtles.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Tracer Hand, Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:42 AM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
F.U. man wtf
― deej, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
btw while we're on the subject, what do you guys make of this WALL-E flick? I feel like the trailers have been too vague for me to really have any idea whether it's more likely to be great or garbage.
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Tracer Hand,
FU MAN WTF
― deeznuts, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Wall-E looks fantastic.
― chap, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, Gay Ken is astonishing.
― chap, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
somebody needs to go back in time and kill teenage mutant ninja turtles bugs bunny
also, destroy Sgt. Peppers' so prog doesn't happen
― David R., Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
this Gayken?
http://www.usmagazine.com/files/clay_blog.jpg
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Bolt is a computer animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and will be Disney's 47th animated feature. The story is about Bolt, a white German Shepherd who has lived all his life on the set of a TV show in which he portrays a superhero dog, and as a result thinks that his superpowers are real. Later, he gets accidentally separated from the studio. He then meets a female cat named Mittens and a hamster who never leaves his exercise ball, and eventually he discovers that all of his powers are fake.
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
do we need rintintin meets toy story?
oh and It stars the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Greg Germann and Susie Essman.
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha i had no idea anyone was invested in memories of the teenage mutant ninja turtles, sorry d00dz!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
or should i say "donatello and raphael"
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
has someone already killed off two of them?
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
no, those are my new nicknames for deej and deeznuts
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Michaelangelo was way more smirky than Donatello
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 17:54 (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Link
Why would you give two seperate nicknames to the same poster?
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i hate almost all new animated features not made by pixar and even those can occasionally have a little bullshit here and there. but for the most part they're pretty awesome. but i think every single other animated feature just has a formula of loud colorful junk for the kids, innuendo for the adults, and shit jokes for everyone. i mean maybe pixar traffics in that as well to some degree but it happens like once per movie and the rest tends to keep pretty close to the disney formula. but i was watching alice in wonderland once and i was thinking how much was lost when randy newman took over the music factory with his cookie cutter "do you want to be my friend" academy songbait.
― omar little, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://beehivestudios.koojisites.com/auctionpages/stickers/chibidonatello_finishedstickersample.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
-- The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:55 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
ban
― deej, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
uh oh is and what gonna have to fite to defend Randy Newman's honor again?
― some dude, Thursday, 19 June 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
goddamit
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 6 August 2023 01:56 (eight months 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 (eight months 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 (eight months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzk4ODdiOTEtMTk3YS00MzZmLTgyOWMtYzc1NjgxYWE2MmMyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_.jpg
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:34 (two 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 (two months ago) link