indecks wrote:Agreed. Paperman was awesome. Very moving, and very sweet. I love the animation on it as well. I think Presto is still my favorite animated Disney and/or Pixar short, but Paperman was brilliant.
Presto was great.
Paperman was also a huge winner, but it is very "Jim and Pam" -ish. I still love it and it will probably always get me a bit misty eyed, but darned if I don't think about the Office when I watch it.
If you are having a hard time finding the video on-line, check "Oscar Winner Paperman".
indecks wrote:Agreed. Paperman was awesome. Very moving, and very sweet. I love the animation on it as well. I think Presto is still my favorite animated Disney and/or Pixar short, but Paperman was brilliant.
Presto was great.
Paperman was also a huge winner, but it is very "Jim and Pam" -ish. I still love it and it will probably always get me a bit misty eyed, but darned if I don't think about the Office when I watch it.
If you are having a hard time finding the video on-line, check "Oscar Winner Paperman".
I watched it again on hulu, and it didn't seem edited. For the time being, it seems to still be available there for free.
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
Seriously. Screw you Shao Kahn I'm gonna play Animal Crossing.
1.5 stars = Your movie stinks of month old cottage cheese left out on the beach. Plenty of critics will think the same thing I did: Jim Carrey and Steve Carell finally starred in another comedy....and it's this?
That certainly is a valid question, but just because two funny people are in the same movie doesn't mean the movie will succeed at being funny. WONDERSTONE isn't an awful film, but I agree the laughs are few and far between.
I'll probably see it regardless because it's a PG13 comedy film (which are getting rarer and rarer these days) and I'm starving for something that might be funny without having tons of unneccesary vulgarity.
I'm not a glitch, I just have pixlexia.
Raiiban wrote:That's a moral dilemma. Capitalism has no morals.
Retrodude wrote:I'll probably see it regardless because it's a PG13 comedy film (which are getting rarer and rarer these days) and I'm starving for something that might be funny without having tons of unneccesary vulgarity.
You can always watch Marx Bros. movies instead. And WONDERSTONE isn't full of vulgarity, but it isn't free of it.
A little more Argento love from me, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is spectacular and more than deserving of your time if you enjoy thrillers. An American writer about to leave the country helplessly witnesses an attempted murder and is then pursued by the killer. A simple idea, but it becomes inherently more complicated as the writer seeks more clues on the killer's identity. Unfortunately the film ends on a bit of a deus ex machina, but the killer is revealed to be someone quite unexpected. As aways, Argento does infuse some moments of humor, such as the interview with the painter, but I found the film spellbinding and immensely entertaining.
Really enjoyed it. Some say the plot was a bit too convoluted, but I think it was fairly tight. Might have went on a bit longer than it needed to, but nothing out of the norm for a film like this.
Would like to have seen more of the other game worlds outside of Sugar Rush, but the whole movie was just fun to watch. I wonder how many retro game references kids will actually get?
Luke wrote:WONDERSTONE isn't full of vulgarity, but it isn't free of it.
I think I've said before that my problem isn't with vulgarity perse (I enjoy Family Guy and Kevin Smith movies), my problem is when filmmakers feel the need to go completely over the top and throw stuff in just to get the R rating when a PG13 would've sufficed for the story. It wouldn't be so bad if that only happened occasionally, but it seems like almost every comedy film these days has that problem and the genre is worse for it. That's why I generally do only watch older comedies (Billy Wilder's One Two Three is a great one), because up to the late 90s/early 00s, it wasn't an issue.
I'm not a glitch, I just have pixlexia.
Raiiban wrote:That's a moral dilemma. Capitalism has no morals.
Horse Feathers - My wife decided she wanted to watch a comedy and I always keep Marx brothers films on hand. It is not their best, but it is still a solid film with lots of quick banter. Though the dvd is edited, and one of the central points of the film is lost on a modern audience - College Widow is not a term that people use anymore (I had to look it up last night), it is still a fine classic comedy. Its no Duck Soup, but it is still better than Go West.
Next movie we watch will be another Bond film, we have been hankering for another one, and From Russia With Love will fit the bill nicely. Probably because we have watched Everything or Nothing (a great documentary about Bond on netflix). Apparently Ian Flemings writing style was just intense.
Retrodude wrote:
...my problem is when filmmakers feel the need to go completely over the top and throw stuff in just to get the R rating when a PG13 would've sufficed for the story.
I'm trying to pick up what you are putting down, but trust me, no writer is throwing stuff in to get an R rating. Unless a team is pushing for an R rating for the sake of it, everyone does everything for a PG-13 rating as that age group is their main demographic.
