tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post4392973768307862387..comments2024-02-25T03:15:48.893-05:00Comments on News and Views by Chris Barat: Movie Review: MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (Disney/Pixar, 2013)... plus Some "Get Off My Lawn" style grousing about Pop-Culture PredictabilityChris Barathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-85095465909616063672013-07-06T18:41:06.615-04:002013-07-06T18:41:06.615-04:00You didn't like the "Tintin" movie G...You didn't like the "Tintin" movie GeoX ?<br />I enjoy it a lot, propably the best animated movie I've seen that year (and being an animation fanatic I see them all)<br /><br /><br />As for the 'MONSTER UNIVERSITY" I saw it today (it came out this week in Poland) and I while I like it in general I felt it was missing that "special something" older Pixar film had. <br /><br /><br />I rember how Pixar use to blow-me away each year with their movies getting just better and better and more mature and clever story-wise. <br /><br /><br />I was madly in love with "THE INCREDIBLES" ,then that love god "top" by "WALL-E" and "Up".I even enjoy "Cars". It was silly but cute. <br /><br />I rember how shock I was by "Toy Story 3". This was has propably darkest third act I've seen in a "kids" movie and I coudn't belive how far they went...<br /><br /><br />And then "Brave" came along and I was shock how generic it was ["Cars 2" I didn't mind since it was cute and targeted for younger children plus ad least they had some creative ideas... Heh... the Pope mobile inside the Popemobile joke crack me up] Unlike the previews Pixar movies it didn't try to push the anvil and if anny thing scriptwise it felt like a movie made 10years ago. <br /><br />Same goes for "Monster University" - this would be great as a Pixar movie made a two or three after the first one but now compering to movies like "Up" or "The Incredibles" it feels like many steps down. <br /><br />It's still funny (I love the final fate of one of the monsters mom, some funny lines in Polish dubb, the creerleders who where sweeching between cute and demonic was ingenius, few great horror homages in the last act and the bit after the credit crack me up ), creative and sweet (my friend clame she cried near the end) but I wish Pixar would go on making daring movies like "Wall-E" or "Up".<br /><br />One extra complain I have - and it's a super personal nitpick - is that out-side of the few main characters I never like the desings of the monsters in the first movie and I can say they where much more creative in this one. The head teacher had cool one but that's about it.<br /> <br /><br /><br />BTW -> Here is a photo of me and friends from company where I work during the Pixar Party ad Annecy film festival. Just look who I meet in person :D :<br /><br /><br />http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/q71/s720x720/1006170_571031262919420_1281791715_n.jpg<br /><br /><br />Pan Miluśhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01364446151493198587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-64158791485208519832013-07-03T18:57:17.906-04:002013-07-03T18:57:17.906-04:00Geo:
Popular though “Tintin” may be, it never tru...Geo:<br /><br />Popular though “Tintin” may be, it never truly entered the American mainstream – in such ways that even Uncle Scrooge has. I tend to blame the odd-sounding name as a deterrent for a certain segment of the potential readership. The name has an ambiguous, even childish, ring to it that doesn’t do the product the justice it deserves. <br /><br />My ages-ago discussion with Chris on the subject went to the place where greater acceptance (from an audience less inclined toward Euro-comics, than we tend to be) could come if he were named “Johnny”-something. Think “Jonny Quest”, “Johnny Storm” (The Human Torch), and heck just for laughs even “Johnny Bravo”. Together (though more “he” than “me”) we came up with the name “Johnny Venture” – and that’s another story from the “Ancient Fannish Discussions Archive”!Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-12703326354643452252013-07-03T18:06:33.541-04:002013-07-03T18:06:33.541-04:00I have to ask: how does the idea that "the na...I have to ask: how does the idea that "the name 'Tintin' simply does not work for an American audience" jive with the fact that the English versions of the Tintin albums are perennially popular and indeed are, along with Asterix, one of the few well-known European comics around that you can find at just about any bookstore?<br /><br />If you ask me, we might trace the poor performance of the Tintin movie to the fact that it was, well...kinda bad.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-80351390464563940992013-07-03T17:31:20.428-04:002013-07-03T17:31:20.428-04:00Hello, Chris. I've seem "Monster Univers...Hello, Chris. I've seem "Monster University" and I enjoyed it. I like the way the plot seems to be going in one direction and then takes zig or zag onto a different course. The writers seem to be following the World War Two advice to fighter pilots: Never fly straight and level more than 30 seconds!<br /><br />The cameo appearances of characters who show up in "Monsters, Inc." is also fun. Of course, Randall is a major character in "Monsters, Inc" but the idea of him being Mike's first room-mate was a nice twist. And one of the members of Roar Omega Road (ROR) is the monster who keeps getting stuck with "Twenty-three nineteen!" in "MI."<br /><br />At the end of the film we see Mike and Sully working in the mail room at "MI" and who is their boss? The Abominable Snowman!" And the still picture of Mike & Sully's first day as scarers includes Mr. Waternoose.<br /><br />Incidentally, I agree with you about the nature of the "Shrek" movies. I saw the first one, and found it to be like the curate's egg: "Parts of it are excellent." But as a whole, it wasn't my cup of tea.<br /><br />Richard Smyers<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-42657997126417541062013-06-30T20:44:39.664-04:002013-06-30T20:44:39.664-04:00Chris writes: “Among recent releases, The Adventu...Chris writes: “Among recent releases, The Adventures of Tintin came the closest to splitting this difference, and that movie's disappointing American b.o. is a cause for concern.”<br /><br />As I’ve been telling you for years, the name “Tintin” simply does not work for an American audience. <br /><br />Is he a DOG (like “Rin Tintin”)? Is he a ROBOT (made of Tin)? Is it just some random bell-like noise (like “tintin”-nabulation)? Your average civilian don’t know, and doesn’t have time to figure it out because he or she is too busy feeling that newspapers are against them – or texting and tweeting! Call him something like “Johnny Venture” (at least in the States) and be done with it! <br /><br />And, you’ve just echoed my own thoughts on newspaper strips that I’ve held for years! You need no greater talent than to doodle and toss off marginal gags.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.com