The Good Dinosaur - The Dinosaurs Need to Stay Extinct, Pixar
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I feel as though people are acting as though this is another great Pixar movie for the same reason they did when Inside Out was released: they've had so many consistently bad or mediocre movies in the post-Wall-E line-up that even a middle of the road film that is worst then we should expect from them seems good by comparison.
I saw the trailer for this thing and nothing speaks to me. There doesn't seem to be any interesting ideas in it, the 'gorgeous views' is something that anyone worth their salt with a render farm and half-competent artists are required to master by now, and the characters look uninspired in that whole 'Cartoony' sort of way.
Not even going to look at it when it trundles into my Netflix a few months from now, seems like I'd fall asleep.
Not even going to look at it when it trundles into my Netflix a few months from now, seems like I'd fall asleep.
Regardless on what you say (other reviews did say it was an ok film) but I still intend to check it out!
Also I for once actually LOVED cars!
When I first heard of this movie being made, I thougth the Dinosaur would had evolved into human (ok kinda did on what I read) but I mean when it come to shape (humanoid dinosaur).
Also I for once actually LOVED cars!
When I first heard of this movie being made, I thougth the Dinosaur would had evolved into human (ok kinda did on what I read) but I mean when it come to shape (humanoid dinosaur).
I found this year's Pixar's film rather week. Inside Out has become so overrated that it became Pixar's Frozen so much so that the internet dug up Osmosis Jones from the grave to bash the movie to show how to do a movie like it positively.
Now I am worried that The Increadibles 2 will lose its "Mature Themes" in favor of just making toys and being no different to the Marvel movies.
Now I am worried that The Increadibles 2 will lose its "Mature Themes" in favor of just making toys and being no different to the Marvel movies.
This sounds like it's not any better (or worse) than Walking With Dinosaurs 3D to me... and that movie took me a while to realize that it was a live-action background movie with CGI dinosaurs and an English dub-over... (At least that movie had more species of dinosaurs present, even if some were just cameos at best...) But seriously, some of those trailers seemed like it wasn't giving this movie any justice and now you're telling me that they're as "accurate" as basically saying "stuff happens, but you know where this is going to go anyway, so just watch it because it's Pixar"...
Other than that, both Cars movie were great in their own right, yet had moments of missed potential given the concept... with small exceptions to the sequel, which had me laughing at [almost] all of the little car references with my mother attesting to that...
Other than that, both Cars movie were great in their own right, yet had moments of missed potential given the concept... with small exceptions to the sequel, which had me laughing at [almost] all of the little car references with my mother attesting to that...
My biggest fear for The Incedibles 2 is the movie trying to throw in as many heroes as possible in an all-out brawl to save the world or some shit like that... Basically, just like in the third Spy Kids movie but somehow worse by extension...Samtemdo8 said:
To the Recommendation line: the only good Land Before Time movie was the first one. You know, the one that was actually a coming of age movie that dealt with some serious themes. All the rest are just pointless sing-alongs. 
As for this movie: that's pretty much what I had heard about it. Apparently it's just a safe, by-the-numbers Pixar movie that doesn't really have anything special about it.
As for this movie: that's pretty much what I had heard about it. Apparently it's just a safe, by-the-numbers Pixar movie that doesn't really have anything special about it.
My biggest fear is that Brad Bird isn't going to put his heart into it. Which seems justified as apparently he's only doing it so that he's allowed to make some other movie by Disney. That's what I heard anyway.FPLOON said:
And seeing as the enjoyment of the first film came from watching these characters slowly come out of their shell (again), and form a cohessive super hero unit, I doubt a sequel will be as engaging. They'd also have to deal with Jack-Jack, who's final revelation in the first film was a fun joke, but who's presence in the sequel would totally break any tension. That is assuming they're going to set it some 5 to 10 years later.
Some would say it's actually the tale of 5 orphans living through the final days the age of dinosaurs, ending with them meeting their relatives again in the afterlife. Doesn't make too much sense considering Littlefoot's mom, but it does fit the rather bleak and sad tone of the entire movie quite nicely.RJ 17 said:To the Recommendation line: the only good Land Before Time movie was the first one. You know, the one that was actually a coming of age movie that dealt with some serious themes. All the rest are just pointless sing-alongs.
The point remains that the first one is the only one that's any good/worth watching.Casual Shinji said:Some would say it's actually the tale of 5 orphans living through the final days the age of dinosaurs, ending with them meeting their relatives again in the afterlife. Doesn't make too much sense considering Littlefoot's mom, but it does fit the rather bleak and sad tone of the entire movie quite nicely.RJ 17 said:To the Recommendation line: the only good Land Before Time movie was the first one. You know, the one that was actually a coming of age movie that dealt with some serious themes. All the rest are just pointless sing-alongs.
Just trying to reignite some of those good ol' sad Land Before Time feels.RJ 17 said:The point remains that the first one is the only one that's any good/worth watching.
That's true... I mean, unless they somehowCasual Shinji said:
make Jack-Jack the movie's villain like an even more subversive Frozen-esque equivalent,
Then again, it could just turn into another Car 2-like movie where all of the missed potential that could have been in the first movie is present in the sequel only regulated to background references and "unintended" world-building for the "unneeded spin-off" if it even comes to that in the first place...
Just go back and watch the first Ice Age movie. Fantastic visual design, great voice cast, and a much better developed family dynamic (surrogate families, forgiveness and redemption being major themes of the film), and a catchy as all hell soundtrack.
There's a free streaming site that has every anime and western cartoon you can possibly think of - both series and movies - and I watched the first Land Before Time on there a month or two ago just for fun.Casual Shinji said:Just trying to reignite some of those good ol' sad Land Before Time feels.RJ 17 said:The point remains that the first one is the only one that's any good/worth watching.
And yep, I was crying during a good portion of it. Part due to the story - I'm a big sentimental sap
- and part due to the crushing wave of nostalgia that crashed into me at the first scene and lasted until the credits rolled.
Dinosaur killer asteroid missing the planet, and the evolution of intelligent dinosaurs that come into contact with humans is the plot of the Harry Harrison West of Eden trilogy. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Eden ) THAT would make a potentially interesting movie. This is just a plotless filler movie. "Kids love dinosaurs, here's one that talks, movie done. OK next!"
Yeah, all the ads I've seen for this movie don't tell me what it's about, besides blatant feels-extraction. Not even Sam Elliot as a grizzled old T-Rex could convince me to go if the lead isn't compelling enough. Hell, I could just watch ICE AGE again.
If there is one show with a token human in it worth seeing, it's Stop The Planet of the Apes, I Want To Get Off!
If there is one show with a token human in it worth seeing, it's Stop The Planet of the Apes, I Want To Get Off!