Hop 2: The Hoppening.
Non-Disney animation thread
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Hop 2: The Hoppening.
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Bob's Burgers is getting a movie.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/10/04/bobs-burgers-movie-in-development
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He-man is back and he works for Geico.
I'm actually really impressed with the production quality and care put into this commercial.
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Pfft. That's nothing compared to the Money Supermarket ads they've been doing.
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We're getting a live action adaptation of Dora The Explorer…...with Micheal Bay producing.
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It's been updated: to clarify, it's his production company Platinum Dunes but not Bay himself that'll be producing
Either way:
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Somebody must’ve seen the collegehumor trailer and thought it had merit, right? I can’t imagine another scenario where a live action Dora the Explorer movie would be made.
Heck, would’ve expected a TV movie that’s live action a la what the Fairly Oddparents did before an actual movie on Dora the Explorer.
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Boots will be glorious.
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honestly, i can't see something like that happening. just can't.
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brace yourselves folks,
cause Unikitty just got her own show.
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Very cute, but does Tara Strong have to be the lead on every show? I mean come on, Hynden Walch is by far a better voice match for Alison Brie.
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I just found this.
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It's kind of funny how the beginning of the trailer made me think it would focus around an obnoxiously cliche gimmick with Dracula seeming to have a pet only replace that with another obnoxiously cliche gimmick of changing the location to a cruise. I can't say I've been baited and switched like that before in recent memory.
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I'm really glad I have Netflix. Why?
FUCKING SHE-RA IS COMING BACK.
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CGI/Live Action Woody Woodpecker Movie trailer. Movie came out in Brazil in October & will be released on DVD in the US in Feb. Wikipedia Link
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Is this like the Top Cat deal where a character is inexplicably popular outside of the United States where he was forgotten a long time ago?
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When you include a poop joke in the trailer you KNOW it must be good!
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Is this like the Top Cat deal where a character is inexplicably popular outside of the United States where he was forgotten a long time ago?
Or Avery and France?
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http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/tbs-scraps-louis-c-k-s-animated-series-cops-155883.html
And not a single soul has given a care about this show.
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To be fair I don't think anyone even knew about it.
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CGI/Live Action Woody Woodpecker Movie trailer. Movie came out in Brazil in October & will be released on DVD in the US in Feb. Wikipedia Link
Can confirm he was on the morning cartoons in italy non-stop while I was growing up (10 years ago). Very popular character here. Picchio Picchierello. (with the most obnoxiously catchy opening tune too).
The movie looks AWFUL though. Oh my god, kill it.
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For those who don't know, Cartoon Hangover has been releasing a series of short cartoons by various artist.
This one is pretty cool
And this one is just adorable
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sooooooo, don't want to jump the gun too much here, but HTTYD3 is about a year away. Feels like we're in range for a teaser trailer, if HTTYD2 was a good reference point.
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What the hell? Boss Baby got nominated to an Oscar and Captain Underpants didn't?
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sooooooo, don't want to jump the gun too much here, but HTTYD3 is about a year away. Feels like we're in range for a teaser trailer, if HTTYD2 was a good reference point.
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Sadly, as much as I love the first one to death (still one of my all time favorite movies) the fact that it was supposed to be out in 2016, the sequel only being okay, (it had strong moments but was uneven) and the tv series being… a tv series... have sort of diminished returns on that franchise for me . Can't be as excited for it as I was.
Especially since Chris Sanders isn't attached to 3. (Even though after Croods he isn't quite the perfect magic bullet for me that he once was.)
I still look forward to it but... well, hopefully being the franchise ender it can get some real meat to it.
(And apparently Sanders is working on an adaptation of Call of the Wild?)
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Sadly, as much as I love the first one to death (still one of my all time favorite movies) the fact that it was supposed to be out in 2016, the sequel only being okay, (it had strong moments but was uneven) and the tv series being… a tv series... have sort of diminished returns on that franchise for me . Can't be as excited for it as I was.
Especially since Chris Sanders isn't attached to 3. (Even though after Croods he isn't quite the perfect magic bullet for me that he once was.)
I still look forward to it but... well, hopefully being the franchise ender it can get some real meat to it.
(And apparently Sanders is working on an adaptation of Call of the Wild?)
I'm firmly in the camp that HTTYD2 was a step down from the first (still probably my favorite movie), but it was a pretty high point from which to step. There are still some fantastic moments in there–the dance, Toothless v Alpha, small character stuff with Hiccup--but the secondary stuff just didn't click as well. The fact that this has been planned as a trilogy since the first movie merited a sequel is a point in the third movie's favor, as well. And Chris Sanders is great and all, but Dean Deblois is no joke, either.
I'm still excited. Not as much as I was for 2, but John Powell's still on board for the soundtrack and it's going to be gorgeous, so I'm in. Helps that I never paid any attention to the shows.
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What the hell? Boss Baby got nominated to an Oscar and Captain Underpants didn't?
Lego Batman didn't get a nom either. Either the councils are screwed or there's some serious bribery happening.
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The academy really doesn't seem to like Lego movies. Surprised that Boss Baby and Ferdinand got in, thought Cars 3 was deserving of a nom
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The Oscars are a joke. Especially where animation is concerned.
Best Animated Film is just "You're Disney or Pixar and you made something"
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Boss Baby got nominated? Really? REALLY?
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They changed the rules regarding who could make nominations for the Animated Feature category; in the past, it was limited to people who work in animation. That's how relatively unknown films managed to get onto the ballot so regularly in recent years.
This year, it was opened to any Academy member. The end result there is that films from big studios get a ton of people nominating them. That's also how the actual awards are decided as well, which is why people basically just vote for whatever Pixar or Disney film is on there. You have a lot of people with no interest in the category (if not outright disdain for it) that just vote for whatever made the most money or that they've heard of with no real consideration for the quality of the film since they've probably not seen most, if any, of them.
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In retrospect, 2017 wasn't a particularly strong year for animated films. We got Boss Baby, Despicable Me 3, Ferdinand, Captain Underpants, Cars 3, Nutjob 2, Smurfs, The Ninjago Movie, and the utter joke that was the Emoji Movie.
I guess the two standouts for me were Coco and Lego Batman, but even those I wasn't amazed by. And yes, there were also the foreign films like Breadwinner and Loving Vincent, which, admittedly, I haven't seen.
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Loving Vincent based on art alone should get it.
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I haven't seen Boss Baby but would have put My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea in over Ferdinand.
I guess I missed Loving Vincent if it ever got a release around here.
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I don't remember seeing Loving Vincent around here. But if it's art is what it says it is it should win for being, well, ART.
@Below:
The Oscars are a joke. Especially where animation is concerned.
Best Animated Film is just "You're Disney or Pixar and you made something"
To be fair, the first award went to Miyazaki.
But yeah, they just didn't want to risk awarding Best Picture to anything animated.
In retrospect, 2017 wasn't a particularly strong year for animated films. We got Boss Baby, Despicable Me 3, Ferdinand, Captain Underpants, Cars 3, Nutjob 2, Smurfs, The Ninjago Movie, and the utter joke that was the Emoji Movie.
I guess the two standouts for me were Coco and Lego Batman, but even those I wasn't amazed by. And yes, there were also the foreign films like Breadwinner and Loving Vincent, which, admittedly, I haven't seen.
Captain Underpants looked fun, that sounds like it's more deserving for a nom than Boss Baby or Ferdinand. Ferdinand I reject purely on the basis that it totally misses the point of Ferdinand.
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To be fair, the first award went to Miyazaki.
No, the first one went to Dreamworks for Shrek.
Captain Underpants looked fun, that sounds like it's more deserving for a nom than Boss Baby or Ferdinand.
Yeah, admittedly I have heard good things about Captain Underpants, but of course I haven't seen it yet.
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Whoops, you're right. Miyazaki was next year.
Jesus Fucking Christ that is gorgeous. It actually made me sniffle. The winner will definitely be either this or Coco.
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No one even knows Vincent exists and its clearly had almost no release. (And consensus seems to be the story is weak but the visuals make up for it.)
It's almost certainly going to be Coco.
Vincent will probably clean up the animation industry awards though.
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Well, it got me in the mood to go to the museum again. The MFA doesn't have a giant Van Gogh collection, but they've got that nice portrait of the postman.
Plus, they've got a Takashi Murakami exhibit right now.
And I think Coco is worthy. Definitely more worthy than fucking Boss Baby.
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I wonder if maybe the academy chose Boss Baby because they thought it was some kind of slam against Donald Trump.
Or, you know, I guess their grandkids like it.
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There were plenty of good anime films out in 2017, but something something "Chinese fucking cartoons".
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I wonder if maybe the academy chose Boss Baby because they thought it was some kind of slam against Donald Trump.
Or, you know, I guess their grandkids like it.
The books came out long before Donald Trump went into office.
The baby was always a butt in the office space. lol
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There were plenty of good anime films out in 2017, but something something "Chinese fucking cartoons".
Ghibli films are the only foreign ones really given any sort of studio push and money put into it. (Except Persepolis or Secret of Kells I guess) Even though something like Wolf Chidren or Your Name might be a legit contender, no on in the cartoon hating academy is going to watch them, even with free screeners, so… it's just not worth putting in the time and effort to push a film that has no chance. Heck, many years they don't even have five entries even though there's clearly plenty of animated films that qualify.
As is, its a miracle Spirited Away won, but it didn't have any Pixar competition and the Dreamworks outing was Spirit, so... (I woulda have loved Lilo and Stich to get it but its for the best the anime did.)
It's probably the same reason Wallace and Grommit managed in 2005.
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It's probably the same reason Wallace and Grommit managed in 2005.
True. Howl's Moving Castle was not Miyazaki's best.
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Now now, to be fair I think The King's Speech and Inside Out deserved their rewards.
But yeah, spot on in general. But I didn't even know that the Academy rules changed and now it's not just the animation people who vote for it. Eeesh.
And I still can't figure out how Brave beat Wreck-It Ralph. You could argue that it's Pixar but the other is Disney, so they're equal studio-wise.
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And I still can't figure out how Brave beat Wreck-It Ralph. You could argue that it's Pixar but the other is Disney, so they're equal studio-wise.
Wreck it Ralph speaks strongly to a very specific age, very specific demographic.
Brave meanwhile, speaks to basically all mothers and daughters.
Whatever you personally think of the quality of either film, one had a much bigger more general target audience and that's what the academy is.
I personally liked Ralph better than Brave, but If you weren't between the ages of of 25-35, that movie just didn't hit very strongly. If you take away all the inside jokes and references the entire first third of the film completely falls apart… and a huge chunk of the movie is just spent in candy land rather than a variety of games, with a final surprise villain reveal that doesn't work nearly as well as say, the one in Frozen. It honestly, isn't that strong a film. It has a kind of awkward confusing scenario and a very limited scope on the different worlds it showcases and half the characters are hard to get behind. The relationship between Ralph and Vanelope is eventually pretty decent but it takes a while to get there. But if you aren't geeking out about M. Bison and Robotnick being in villain councelling then a lot of the appeal of the film is lost on you. Now, if you're the RIGHT target? WHich is basically this forum's demographic? It hits a pretty good sweet spot and you can love it a lot, but its kinda like Scott Pilgrim in that's a small group.
Brave meanwhile, for all the disappointment that it wasn't Pixar's Mononoke, was... slightly magical Scotland and a really basic disapproving mother" setup.. Easy to grasp.