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mfunk9786 wrote:I broke down and got tickets.

Just imagine my wildly emotional Saturday next weekend:
5:00 - Blue Valentine
7:30 - Black Swan
10:00 - A Serbian Film a/k/a Can Anything Be Justified?

You'd better check in at the end of the night just so we all know you're still ok.

mfunk9786 wrote:I broke down and got tickets.

Just imagine my wildly emotional Saturday next weekend:
5:00 - Blue Valentine
7:30 - Black Swan
10:00 - A Serbian Film a/k/a Can Anything Be Justified?

Damn, thats awesome you get to see Blue Valentine, and the Black Swan!

knives wrote:Domino I hand you an Olive Branch.

The full thing.

The trailerfor Gus Van Sant's new film, Restless.

kougogo wrote:The trailerfor Gus Van Sant's new film, Restless.

Harold and Maude meets Breathless meets A Walk to Remember, amirite people?!

knives wrote:Will he make it? Yes, yes! Pixar lands it, they've jumped the shark.

Ummmm ... yeah. That is one serious OMGWTF right there.

Making a sequel to one of your most successful [box office, marketing] films (that wasn't necessarily panned, about 3 in 4 critics reviewed it positively if I recall correctly) is hardly jumping the shark.

Did you watch that trailer?

It's a cute, tongue-in-cheek teaser intended to entice small children, and contains no footage from the film. Am I missing something that I should be all worked up about?

Is there any way to ban the phrase "jumped the shark" permanently from the forum? It's done what it describes, and then some.

mfunk9786 wrote:It's a cute, tongue-in-cheek teaser intended to entice small children, and contains no footage from the film. Am I missing something that I should be all worked up about?

If Pixar's pitching exclusively to small children, isn't that news? Seems like they didn't used to limit their appeal to such an easy demographic. Maybe I just liked their old stuff better.

Anyway, the cars are spies now?

They just released the Best Picture nominee Up and sure-to-be Best Picture nominee Toy Story 3... seems silly to discourage them from making a film that small children will particularly enjoy.

Isn't there good things kids enjoy (most of Pixar, Gremlins and the like) and terrible things kids enjoy (Cars, Eddie Murphy, ect.) though. If we make that distinction can't we also call out poor films for being poor. Admittedly we can't judge the goals and purposes in the same way we judge exclusively adult materials, but we can still judge the overall quality.

Cars wasn't something I went out of my way to see, and it wasn't the best animated film I've ever seen, but was it really that awful?

Maybe it's just me, but I assumed that this teaser was taking the piss out of exactly what it's being mistaken for. I mean, it's not like a parody of a new James Bond trailer, it's more like a parody of a cheesy 80s TV show trailer. Maybe it's true what they say about Americans and irony, or maybe they just need to stick Poochie in there.

Haven't seen Cars, and I know it's not a Pixar favourite, but this is the first time I've heard it attacked in such hyperbolic terms. Hasn't this company earnt any good will in the past twenty years? Is a thirty second trailer really the occasion for hand-wringing about the Future of Animation?

My kid was about 5 when Cars came out, precisely the right age to love it. We saw it 3 or 4 times in the theater, probably 8 or 10 since at home, and I've never been bored by it. It's not my favorite Pixar by any means, but there are several I prefer it to (Finding Nemo, anyone?). It's less emotionally ambitious than most, but handles an unoriginal story with grace and good humor. I'm sure we'll watch the sequel, and, well, we'll see. Is the teaser really more bothersome than the one for the first movie, which was also a trailer-only gag?

Incidentlally, I watched the Warner Archives musical version of Small Town Girl a couple months ago - great fun, not least to observe how close Cars is to a straight-up remake. Even Mater has an analog character who may as well be played by Larry the Cable Guy.

On a scale of 1 to ten with 1 as Eddie Murphy and ten as My Neighbor Totoro I'd give Cars a four.

Edit: didn't see Zedz there

That trailer is not ironic. Here's a summary, admittedly from Wikipedia, that show's how little irony is in here.

It's definitely the least of the Pixars so far, but I actually liked the first Cars for the most part. On the other hand, I disliked it just enough that a sequel seems to be really pushing it. My reaction was solely based on the teaser and the attached summary.

Look, I'm all about Pixar goodwill, honest. I'm not going to do anything so drastic as not see the movie or anything like that. But, it does have "uh-oh" written all over it.

knives wrote:Zack Snyder's new stupid.

I usually like Scott Glenn, but he seems horribly inappropriate here; laughably so, although it's not like anything else in the trailer works that great. Why in the world did Zeppelin grant the license to use "When The Levee Breaks" in this?!

As far as I can tell, Zeppelin has undergone a total 180 in regards to licensing their songs after School of Rock. I'm sure the money must be fantastic.

knives wrote:Zack Snyder's new stupid.

The trailer for the video game is even better

Highway 61 wrote:As far as I can tell, Zeppelin has undergone a total 180 in regards to licensing their songs after School of Rock. I'm sure the money must be fantastic.

Didn't the Cadillac commercial come before that? And I think the first time it was licensed to a film was Almost Famous, but I believe it was a freebie as a favor to Cameron Crowe.