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Adventure Time was enjoyed for the story it told, the characters, the comedy, and the tone. It was not noted for its animation, though the world design itself was pretty cool. Though I don't particularly agree with Cardenio about it being "crude and ugly" (IMO crude and ugly are words that could describe...John K's work and most 90s Nicktoons).

Anyway, did anyone else notice how KFP2 is basically the Biblical story of Moses? Now what did DreamWorks mean by this?
 
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Clockwork_PurBle said:
Adventure Time was enjoyed for the story it told, the characters, the comedy, and the tone. It was not noted for its animation, though the world design itself was pretty cool. Though I don't particularly agree with Cardenio about it being "crude and ugly" (IMO crude and ugly are words that could describe...John K's work and most 90s Nicktoons).

Anyway, did anyone else notice how KFP2 is basically the Biblical story of Moses? Now what did DreamWorks mean by this?
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While not really ugly per say, I can see it crude in the sense that it’s very simplistic, like a child’s drawing or a Flash animation. This was actually a big part of the appeal for the show; to quote Antfish, “What, that something indie can be so mainstream”.

As for KFP2, it could be the Moses story is the basis for a lot of hero origins (Superman was already using that back in the late 30s). Or maybe the staff was feeling nostalgic for Prince of Egypt; it’s probably the former but it’d be funnier if it were the latter.
 
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Quijibo69 said:
Just watched Soul, I have to say it's one of the best Pixar movies I've seen in years. The only thing I didn't like was the ending. Too bad Onward came to theaters and not this.
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The trailers didn’t do it justice. I had no interest in watching but I kind of got dragged into it and the movie really surprised me. It felt more mature than a lot of other Pixar stuff. Granted, I haven’t seen Onward so I can’t compare the two, but Soul was fantastic.

The message seems pretty timely with the rise of social media making people feel like their lives are inadequate, but also a lot of us grew up with the “everyone is special and you’re going to do something amazing” crap ingrained into us, making us depressed when we realize it isn’t true. This movie was a breath of fresh air compared to that.

I think I see what you mean about the ending though. I thought Joe was going to realize that his teaching job had value and wasn’t necessarily worse than being a famous musician, but the movie never seemed to truly point that out, just hinted at it. I get why they would want to leave things more open-ended but it just made the movie feel a bit inconclusive. It doesn’t ruin it for me though.
 
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I think I see what you mean about the ending though. I thought Joe was going to realize that his teaching job had value and wasn’t necessarily worse than being a famous musician, but the movie never seemed to truly point that out, just hinted at it. I get why they would want to leave things more open-ended but it just made the movie feel a bit inconclusive. It doesn’t ruin it for me though.
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It needed to be up in the air because if it didn't, it would have come across that he should have given up on the music and his dream.
 
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Soul's visuals were beautiful, I enjoyed the combination of styles very much. But I agree with the general sentiment that the themes were (purposefully?) underdeveloped and left vague for optimal audience pacification, which is a shame because I think its ideas could have been more impactful with decisiveness.
 
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The new Pixar spark short Burrow is super cute! I loved the picture book like style. Reminds me of Brambly Hedge, a stop motion series from the 90s.
 
I know a lot of people have soured on Archer, what with the three seasons of “coma dreams” stuff and whatnot, but I always really enjoy these moments where the character that typically gets shit on a lot for whatever reason turn around and point out just how essential they are to the other assholes.
 
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It needed to be up in the air because if it didn't, it would have come across that he should have given up on the music and his dream.
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I think if Soul was a movie that could angle a successful landing, they could have balanced both Joe's talent for teaching without killing his music dreams. They wanted to write a movie about reality and sometimes that's just how reality is: you can't make a living doing your passion, but that doesn't mean you should give up or your passion is worthless, either.
 
Remember when Pixar used to make movies like Up and Ratatouille?
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The story behind that infamous Christmas special. It fills in a lot of blanks.
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I saw on tumblr a while back where someone found an archive of a newspaper or a TV registry that listed the supposed Rapsittie Easter special as going to air on a certain date.

We ain't done digging apparently.
 
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I saw on tumblr a while back where someone found an archive of a newspaper or a TV registry that listed the supposed Rapsittie Easter special as going to air on a certain date.

We ain't done digging apparently.
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I don't think it ever actually aired. Surely there would be someone who had seen it.
 
Quijibo69 said:
Just watched Soul, I have to say it's one of the best Pixar movies I've seen in years. The only thing I didn't like was the ending. Too bad Onward came to theaters and not this.
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Yeah I was surprised how much I liked it too. The trailer really did not do it justice. Ending was whatever to me, it was just there.
 
I think Johnny Quest should get a proper remake and hopefully isn't pozzed.
But, I'm probably getting too optimistic.
 
Dunno if it counts as animation, but heres a puppet show done by Bob Clampett, and the revolting wolf puppet isn't the scariest part of it.

TLDW: Bob hires a woman to run around underdressed while a puppeteer crawls around chasing her, in most of the shots the actress looks genuinely disturbed, I'm sure the puppeteer worked on the cheap that day though.
 
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Autism Crowley said:
Late here, but holy fuck they really did a Animaniacs reboot episode simping for Hillary Clinton.

Remember when political humor made fun of everyone? Like the Simpsons shitting Dems and the GOP?
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You really have no idea how fucking lib the animators at titmouse are. on the scene where the president wax dummies are falling over each other like dominos all of the presidents were animated on different layers and had appropriate titling, except trump's rough animation layer was just called "bone spurs". what an useless fucking thing to give a shit about
 
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You really have no idea how fucking lib the animators at titmouse are. on the scene where the president wax dummies are falling over each other like dominos all of the presidents were animated on different layers and had appropriate titling, except trump's rough animation layer was just called "bone spurs". what an useless fucking thing to give a shit about
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Source? Cuz if true, wew lad. You'd have to be an especially limp-dicked faggot in order to be that fucking petty. But, then again, they are SJWs.
 
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