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DeAge™ : 7618 days • Here since 9 august 2005
Andrew Stanton Wall-E
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I hope that at least when it comes to Cars we can all agree that it's an awful fart...
Andrew Stanton Wall-E
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Well, I don't think anyone has ever claimed that Nemo and Monster are "adult" films. It's clear that both are excellent kid's movies that an adult can watch with a benevolent eye and find entertaining. On the other hand, it seems to me that the label of "adult" has been really overused when it comes to Ratatouille and The Incredibles, as if we were discussing a Tarkovsky film! I'm the first to acknowledge that they are packed with interesting, even cultured, references that a "minor" audience might struggle to grasp. But then the same argument could be made, just to give an example, for the shark listening group scene in Nemo. In any case, my criticism of those two films was meant to be much more straightforward: I simply found both really boring and predictable. I take this opportunity to mention another thing about the film: one of the best aspects of this Wall-E is the "poetic" component, which manages to never fall into the sentimental or pathetic. For those who have seen it, I’m referring to that "Define party," "Define dance," "Define earth," etc., which for me is truly a small stroke of genius.
Fern Knight Music for Witches and Alchemists
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Dear, I did it just to save you the effort of typing! And then, you know, as a good Milan fan, I'm starting to get a bit of a knack for "Fregare"... ;))
Andrew Stanton Wall-E
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@manliuzzo: I don't think I have much to say... I simply found Ratatouille unbearable: boring, utterly predictable, not funny at all, etc. And then all those rats mixed in with the food made me a bit nauseous. Many have called it an "adult" cartoon: I don't know, to me even the much-lauded Proustian quote seemed thrown in there, amidst a sea of gags recycling the usual refrain of the clumsy protagonist managing to scrape through. Same goes for The Incredibles: it just never made me laugh; some action sequences felt truly endless. And then there's the usual dilemma: I can never tell when it's "reference" and when it's "plagiarism." The powers of the family members, for instance, are taken verbatim from the Fantastic Four... is it "learned reference" or just plain copying? Same goes for the idea of "hunted superheroes," borrowed from Moore. Who knows! :))
Il Genio Pop Porno
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"I like how the little princess moves, I like that she’s a bit flat (...), definitely needs to be gutted. I can imagine her blushing when someone and something target her straight on to break her." Jesus Lord, man, find yourself a girl...
Fern Knight Music for Witches and Alchemists
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It sounds like an awesome thing... or maybe it's just you who did an amazing job!
Andrew Stanton Wall-E
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Hell, if you can, go see it in the cinema. Otherwise, wait for a medium-high quality file to be available, both in terms of audio and video: the entire first part set on Earth is visually stunning. But, above all, for the first half hour or so, it simply is NOT a Pixar cartoon: absolutely no dialogues, a color palette that is anything but cartoon-like, with impressive light effects.
Andrew Stanton Wall-E
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It doesn't really matter, but The Incredibles literally put me to sleep. I saw it in the cinema with my better half: we were woken up by the guys next to us because they couldn't get out. I downloaded it and tried to watch it again: I almost fell asleep on my couch at home too.
Andrew Stanton Wall-E
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I already had the chance to mention it a few days ago: this movie is beautiful. Really: at least for the first half hour, it's perhaps the prettiest digital cartoon I have ever seen. In the second part, there are some inevitable dips, but overall it remains truly excellent.
James O'Barr Il Corvo (The Crow)
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@psycho: we had the same comic evolution! :) I got up to 100 with the X-Men. With Spawn, more or less until I realized that the good intentions of the early days had gone up in smoke. And for me, reading Watchmen marked the turning point on the American front. I continued for a few years on the manga front, mostly for some authors like Adachi, but I couldn't resist the umpteenth nonsense from Katsura and quit them too. I've always been left wondering: were the comics better or was I just more of a nerd?!?! :DD