I still enjoyed it when I watched it with a friend. We were just pleasantly surprised since the beginning wasn't all that great and the fish-man designs bothered us. Once Luca started exploring land with his new friend, things picked up from there.
I'm not sure an American production company is capable of producing something like Whisper of the Heart or Only Yesterday for what are probably mostly cultural reasons. Something like Grave of the Fireflies would not make it past the pitch. American media can really hate 'quiet', introspective moments and small personal stories that don't ride on out of proportion conflict.
American studios have been repeating themselves in the same cycle for the last few decades now. Its no surprise that people are enjoying stuff outside of the USA since they're being more experimental than say, making a show that looks like Rick and Morty but isn't but would get mistaken for it since it has a similar art style to it.
A movie like Grave of the Fireflies could get made but you'd have to pitch it with a topic that current year Hollywood would approve of and it would be pure Oscar-bait.
Please please pretty please tell me what the name of it was. (Or links to the clips you watched). I had no idea it was based on a reboot, but now you've got me intrigued.
One of the first lessons you learn on the internet is don't fuck with the Sonic fandom. They're like rabid animals and can smell blood in the water.
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I forgot that the majority of the older Pixar movies originated from a 1994 lunch pitch.
I have no interest in any of the New Pixar films. I bothered to see Finding Dory, Toy Story 4, and Lightyear because of nostalgia, but the rest of the movies were either so badly written or just pure cringe that it would probably make me visibly enraged if I watched them in a theater. At the best they were just 'meh'. A few jokes made me laugh, but New Pixar is not really worthy of any awards. (At least in the story-telling department).
Coming from the same animation studio responsible for "classics" like Wonder Park and Planet 51, yeah I'm not expecting anything worth a damn about Luck.
I just realized that has a "G" rating on the poster. Holy shit never thought I'd see that rating ever again.
Appearently Skydance's next animated film is a purposed film from Brad Bird he tried to do with Warner Bros called 'Ray Gunn'. I don't know if that'll be any good or not. With the way skydance is heading. It'll be much better off at either Sony or a different studio to market that sort of type of film, a neo noir film.
It's funny, Bird previously wanted to do a historical epic about the 1906 San Fransisco Earthquake for Warner Bros. (despite their fallouts during production of Iron Giant) throughout the 2000s. So him coming back to Warner Bros. just to do this makes me wonder whether or not this is a working title or a confirmed project of his other own film he's making.
So Bird wanted to make a movie about the earthquake at one point? That's a little interesting. Found an article that talks about Ray Gunn, its a neo film noir that Bird was going to make with Warner Bros in the 90s. From the looks of things, it was too 'outside the box' for Warner Bros's liking, and this was before Iron Giant.
Warner Bros. in general didn't seem like they were on good terms with Brad, like it has to be a miracle The Iron Giant was even produced. They ended up not treating it very well with the marketing back then, therefore causing it to be a box office disappointment, yet the movie would go on to be a very beloved classic as it made back its earnings in home media. WB regrets it now, but hindsight's 20/20, and I doubt that even them groveling at his feet was going to convince him to work for them again after that.
I literally can't find the clips anymore due to youtube's shitty current year auto-scroll algorithm suggestion shit that loops, There used to be a bunch of clips of the damn thing on youtube over 10 years ago. The flash cartoon one from some years ago is not "based on a reboot" it's just a reboot of the thing. The name of the original show was literally the same as the flash cartoon one, literally all I remember from what I saw of the thing was like the protagonist was like a fat mexican ron jeremy looking guy and he got the powers from eating some weird and gross looking thing I can't remember exactly what it was, though, since It's been over 10 fucking years since I saw the thing. If you dig deep enough you'll probably be able to find it but I can't fucking be assed to go searching for it again after failing the first time.
Brad Bird had a lot of cancelled projects under his belt. He also pitched his movie idea for The Spirit (based on the classic Will Eisner comic book character) during the late-90s. Said movie would eventually be made under Frank Miller as director for Lionsgate in 2008, and that was a critical and commercial failure.
Yeah, Frank Miller's live-action take was disappointingly bad. Honest to god, I'm not against the idea of a live-action adaptation of The Spirit and having Frank Miller would seem like a perfect fit, but it felt missing and was trying too hard to be like his Sin City movie (co-directed with Robert Rodriguez). So honestly, good or bad, a traditionally animated version of the movie from Brad Bird is something I wanted to see because, yes, pencil test trailer looked great.
Shit, I remember watching that Tangled series with some of my younger cousins while babysitting and enjoyed it quite a bit. Glad he's getting work despite/in addition to Twitter spergs getting mad about it