tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post2037805689272049977..comments2024-03-26T22:42:06.412-07:00Comments on TAG Blog: Idiot WatchSteve Huletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-14675062298209758852010-06-21T21:25:58.750-07:002010-06-21T21:25:58.750-07:00In America, Americans have been paying Big Money f...In America, Americans have been paying Big Money for animated features since December, 1937.Steve Huletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537689111433326847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-31350612638391946452010-06-21T20:41:30.008-07:002010-06-21T20:41:30.008-07:00Americans are so far behind...
In Japan, adults h...Americans are so far behind...<br /><br />In Japan, adults have been attracted to animation for DECADES.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-26591209336838347382010-06-21T20:40:21.679-07:002010-06-21T20:40:21.679-07:00So Avatar wasn't worth a darn, and Pixar is??...So Avatar wasn't worth a darn, and Pixar is??? I'm not sure about some of you, but Pixar movies are just as overloaded with fluff and eye candy. Good as they may be, some of them have seemed a bit story-lite. (Finding Nemo and Wall-E, for example, seemed to be composed mostly of antics and chase scenes.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-3702350551966164642010-06-21T19:16:00.383-07:002010-06-21T19:16:00.383-07:00That's getting pretty old (except in the minds...That's getting pretty old (except in the minds of clueless media columnists)--<br /><br />And yet some studios (which shall remain nameless) still labor under the media-analyst delusion that a sitcom-gagged CGI became a hit, or at least "legitimized", because it had "Humor Adults Can Enjoy Along With Their Kids[TM]", unquote.<br />In other words, the adults like the stale sitcom jokes and cynical gags, while the kiddies like the bright colors and critters....Yyyyeah. No condescension there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-28206105118154559672010-06-21T18:58:05.573-07:002010-06-21T18:58:05.573-07:00I understand what the writer is getting at.
In &q...I understand what the writer is getting at.<br /><br />In "real" America you still can't get an adult to say they went to an animated film without quickly adding they took a child.<br /><br />Most adults are cowards about that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-70328781526312778242010-06-21T11:46:04.961-07:002010-06-21T11:46:04.961-07:00It seems you can never have your cake and eat it, ...It seems you can never have your cake and eat it, too. Peter Jackson, who did a lot of things right in the Lord of the Rings" trilogy, never managed to make New Zealand look like anything other than New Zealand. Rather than being transported to a mythical environment, you felt like you were on a contemporary day hike and took a wrong turn. Jackson could have used a little bit of Cameron's visual ingenuity. (Fortunately, they are trying to correct that with The Hobbit).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-1298248020250482062010-06-21T10:04:42.246-07:002010-06-21T10:04:42.246-07:00"Where was the CANDY? It was a badly designed..."Where was the CANDY? It was a badly designed, UGLY film, that looked like Thomas Kinkade got drunk and painted."<br /><br />Despite your pretention to good taste and higher standards than everyone else, Avatar made 2.7 BILLION bucks. That was the point anonymous 7:05 was trying to make, which you (anonymous 7:58) totally missed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-24559579891979656702010-06-21T08:28:30.424-07:002010-06-21T08:28:30.424-07:00Back in '01, the public's issue with Monst...<b>Back in '01, the public's issue with Monsters Inc. had been "Okay, so maybe all CGI films aren't created equal, and maybe it is better than Shrek".</b><br /><br />And then came 2004 and Shrek 2, and the general public showed they indeed preferred Shrek to anything in live action, and anything ever made by Pixar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-58284376682561240462010-06-21T07:58:48.260-07:002010-06-21T07:58:48.260-07:00"EYE CANDY?"
Where was the CANDY? It w..."EYE CANDY?"<br /><br />Where was the CANDY? It was a badly designed, UGLY film, that looked like Thomas Kinkade got drunk and painted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-62187876584861073622010-06-21T07:05:58.358-07:002010-06-21T07:05:58.358-07:00Avatar is an excellent example of how dumbed down ...Avatar is an excellent example of how dumbed down the audiences are of today. Just give us eye candy and we will open our wallets. Almost extinct is the art of story telling which pixar is rightfully rewarded profits for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-4484429864402188942010-06-21T00:32:46.170-07:002010-06-21T00:32:46.170-07:00How hypocritical of a Hollywood pundit to grudging...How hypocritical of a Hollywood pundit to grudgingly and patronizingly allow that quality entertainment might actually supersede the stigma of animation being a "children's" medium when it was Hollywood's fixation on celebrity that created the stigma in the first place.<br /><br />In markets where this preoccupation is minimalized or non-existent, there are only two kinds of movies; good or bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-59511216980276879742010-06-20T22:16:27.711-07:002010-06-20T22:16:27.711-07:00"Plus, most of Avatar was animated too."..."Plus, most of Avatar was animated too."<br /><br />Not by my standards. Animation to me means "bringing to life." That film was as dull as old dish water.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-13114445901686155032010-06-20T19:16:21.342-07:002010-06-20T19:16:21.342-07:00Also, even for EW trying to cash in on "Pixar...Also, even for EW trying to cash in on "Pixar-mania", that's already seven years late to the party:<br />Most of "Finding Nemo"'s mega-grosses in '03 were the public coming forward to admit they'd rather see that one than most of the failed action blockbusters that summer, and there were plenty of live-action failures that summer to prove the point.<br /><br />(Back in '01, the public's issue with Monsters Inc. had been "Okay, so maybe all CGI films <i>aren't</i> created equal, and maybe it <i>is</i> better than Shrek".<br />But it wasn't until other studio execs were "amazed" that Nemo was outgrossing the competition that the public took the issue up a notch and started flying their Pixar-vs.-Real-Movies banner.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-53210485648896564752010-06-20T19:06:23.377-07:002010-06-20T19:06:23.377-07:00Plus, most of Avatar was animated too.Plus, most of Avatar was animated too.Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01362258346709631715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22906998.post-43693543482197670592010-06-20T17:24:36.616-07:002010-06-20T17:24:36.616-07:00But Snow White is still a FAR superior picture to ...But Snow White is still a FAR superior picture to avatar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com