Most Surprising Animatied Movie
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Ah... when I look at some of the movies Dreamworks have put out it kinda makes me sad. How they went from delivering crisp, beautiful animation with powerful music to Shrek I will never know.
Rango. Really, the entire movie was a surprise to me, it was hilarious and looked nice, and it's a good definition of a movie meant for children and adults.
My family hated the movie, I thought it great.
My family hated the movie, I thought it great.
I love that movie, even today.Willinium said:
Les Triplettes de Belleville is the best one I remember.
Also, grave of the fireflies. One of the best war movies imo.
Also, grave of the fireflies. One of the best war movies imo.
I'm going to go with Grave of the Fireflies, simply because I had absolutely no idea what it was about when I first watched it and I didn;t know what to expect. It ended up being one of the best animated films I had ever seen, and I still consider it to be one of the most moving and depressing films I have ever seen.
A Christmas Carol had impressive animation and design, great acting andgood use of 3D, it was scary in parts.
Mask of the Phantasm is the best Batman movie ever made. Not best animated batman, best batman.aba1 said:
Eh as of late, Osmosis Jones has been a real favorite of mine, me and my friends really like to watch it for it's odd take on the human body and it really does a good job translating human responses to a funny cartoon like take on it.
also, just watched on hbo a bit ago, eight crazy nights, i forgot how much i liked that movie.
also, just watched on hbo a bit ago, eight crazy nights, i forgot how much i liked that movie.
really :O I thought it was good but that joker was deffinatly off. I mean the joker in that movie rarely laughed and was generally fairly calm and collected which felt very off to me. They also never explain how exactly the Jason managed to survive without any sort of ID or food let alone get funds to buy expensive equipment like that helmet the guns and knife he used not to mention all the other items he had.protogenxl said:
The most surprising animated movie I've ever seen, and probably will ever see in my life, is Grave of the Fireflies. Until that point, I never knew that animated movies could be SO FUCKING DEPRESSING! It's a really well done movie, but holy hell is it sad. It's more depressing than Schindler's List.
I think the reason why the Prince of Egypt worked was because it wasn't trying to be a religious film. In fact, it's probably a family film first and a religious film second. It's about two brothers torn apart by the whole thing when all they want is to be a family again, get things back to the way they were. There's no religious preaching or whatever, and it's stronger for it.Willinium said:
Most everything on this list is a great animated movie. I am just an animation nut, so most anything by Miyazaki, Pixar, and others are on my list of "awesome". Unknown ones like "Grave of the Fireflies", and some pretty decent fliks like "Summer Wars" always tickle my animation button.
The Iron Giant is a great animated film, just a great, whimsical tale of a boy and his [x]. The characters just work, you know?
How to Train Your Dragon was severely underrated. I just absolutely loved the movie, better than Toy Story 3 in some ways. The flying sections really made you feel like you were there with the characters, and the music just synched up with it perfectly. The whole pace was great, and the animation was gorgeous. It is severely underrated compared to Toy Story or anything that Pixar does.
It's a shame, because absolutely everyone always compares any animation studio to Pixar which I think is unfair. Dreamworks don't get the credit that they deserve. It's like everyone automatically decides that Pixar makes gold, and they certainly do make gold films, but it comes to the expense that everyone believes that everyone else is trying to just copy them.
I was gonna say Rango. I don't remember really laughing at it, but I'll be damned if it wasn't impressive. They captured the western feel really nicely, and the detail was mind-boggling.TheYellowCellPhone said:
Good stuff.
Wallace and Gromit and the Fantastic Mr Fox are also great, stop motion animation gives them an entirely different feel.
I thought that the movie "9" was going to tank, but then I went and saw it. I was surprised at how dark it seemed to be. It was certainly a different kind of animated movie than most that are made today, with cute little creatures getting savagely killed by machines. I enjoyed it, especially how most of the characters died by the end, not something I ever expect to see in an animated movie.