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TerribleIdeas™ said:
The only Canadian animation that was ever of any value was The Raccoons.
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Get a load of this dork.
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Coolio55 said:
Get a load of this dork.
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I’d also throw in Reboot and Transformers: Beast Wars, if only for how game changing the CGI was for the time and in the case of Beast Wars, how it revived interest in a waning franchise.
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Thank fuck this never came to fruition.
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Since this is Halloween, this horror quote is very fitting: “Sometimes, dead is better.”
 
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Re-watched Coraline yesterday in preperation for tonight's movie binge.
Even better than I remember it. Still fucking terrifying

I think it's better to have watched it as both a child and now an adult as it starts off as a standard kids movie with a really disturbing subtext to everything that kids won't notice until the later reveal. Fucking amazing animation and design and I like how all the characters were portrayed. They got away with A LOT for a children's film and that only makes it better.
 
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Coolio55 said:
Re-watched Coraline yesterday in preperation for tonight's movie binge.
Even better than I remember it. Still fucking terrifying

I think it's better to have watched it as both a child and now an adult as it starts off as a standard kids movie with a really disturbing subtext to everything that kids won't notice until the later reveal. Fucking amazing animation and design and I like how all the characters were portrayed. They got away with A LOT for a children's film and that only makes it better.
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It's timeless in only the way Neil can write. Shame it's not on Netflix right now in my area.
 
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starborn427614 said:
Watched Over the Garden Wall for the first time. 10/10.
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Somebody I know who once worked in animation thinks it's the one thing from this decade that's gonna last, and while I wasn't overly thrilled by it the first time I saw it, I've kind of warmed up to it. It's original while it pays a fine tribute to its influences.
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
Somebody I know who once worked in animation thinks it's the one thing from this decade that's gonna last, and while I wasn't overly thrilled by it the first time I saw it, I've kind of warmed up to it. It's original while it pays a fine tribute to its influences.
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It helps that it doesn't really play its cards until almost the very end and even then it's kind of iffy as to what era it takes place in. Probably 80's, early 90's judging by the use of cassette tapes.
 
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starborn427614 said:
Watched Over the Garden Wall for the first time. 10/10.
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It really is a damn shame CN didn’t make it a yearly tradition to air it on Halloween. It’s definitely one of the more ambitious cartoons to come from the 2010s and only gets better with age. They even put out a few comics to tie in with the miniseries.
 
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So there's this new series from DreamWorks coming to Hulu:


And you're probably asking yourself, "Why should I care?"

Well, here's why. You know who one of the creators is? Lynne Naylor. An animation legend. One of the people without whom modern animation wouldn't exist.

It's a crying shame it took her this long to get a show, and that her husband can't be involved... but better late than never.
 
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Am I the only one that thinks we are headed (if not already IN one, so dont rate me late) into a new dark age of animation? Not that there isnt good stuff coming out but with cartoons getting more and more political (because why the fuck not) instead of focusing on simple quality story telling, no one is showing interest in watching them besides creepy overweight older men who are way into shipping.

Most kids I see nowadays all seem to be mostly watching animes at this point...(well gesh, I wonder why, they arent telling your kids that not only its OKAY to be gay but that they should preferably BE gay too!)
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
So there's this new series from DreamWorks coming to Hulu:


And you're probably asking yourself, "Why should I care?"

Well, here's why. You know who one of the creators is? Lynne Naylor. An animation legend. One of the people without whom modern animation wouldn't exist.

It's a crying shame it took her this long to get a show, and that her husband can't be involved... but better late than never.
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Looks neat. Reminds me of a blend of UPA and old school Nick. Not much I can add besides that I hope it does well and gives Hulu some variety in animation.
The handsome tard said:
Am I the only one that thinks we are headed (if not already IN one, so dont rate me late) into a new dark age of animation? Not that there isnt good stuff coming out but with cartoons getting more and more political (because why the fuck not) instead of focusing on simple quality story telling, no one is showing interest in watching them besides creepy overweight older men who are way into shipping.

Most kids I see nowadays all seem to be mostly watching animes at this point...(well gesh, I wonder why, they arent telling your kids that not only its OKAY to be gay but that they should preferably BE gay too!)
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It is the naturally state of things; for every golden age and renaissance there must come a dark period. If you accept that the early to mid 2010s was a Neo-Renaissance of sorts, it’s just about time for a dark age, if we aren’t one already.
I can’t wait to see how the trends and patterns of this era examined years later. It’ll be kind of like how we observed all the TMNT ripoffs or all the gross out shows of the previous decades.
Steamboat_Bill said:
I tried to watch this once and I was bored stiff. Bakshi made better before and after.
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MrJokerRager said:
Pacing felt slow, underused potential of darkwolf as well as is he like Batman of that world or something and no sex scenes by Bakshi standards is weird.
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Doesn’t help it comes after Wizards, one of the most underrated animation classics when it comes to animated movies and one of the best attempts at bringing wider genre fiction to animation, imo.
Though a collab with Frank Franzetta will never not be cool and I wish more animators would try their hands at fantasy and sci fi at this scale again.
 
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