…and that level of technology is why Billy Crystal didn't want to be in Toy Story at the time.
Its easy to forget it wasn't that long ago CGI really, really sucked.
Neat as a piece of history tho.
…and that level of technology is why Billy Crystal didn't want to be in Toy Story at the time.
Its easy to forget it wasn't that long ago CGI really, really sucked.
Neat as a piece of history tho.
It was so weird watching the making of Toy Story 1. All the bad short films they went through to finally get to making a full on feature film in CG.
Been watching TS3's special features. I already knew about the Secret room, but I had no idea they had a Cereal Bar….dammit I want to take a tour of Pixar. I wanna see their Render Farm.
Okay, I just asked because of Natalie Portman earlier and I find it impossible to hate her.
Didn't she marry the guy she's having a kid with anyway.
I hated her in the past because I associated her with her character in Star Wars, whom I consider a useless, bimbo who had no backbone. I reflected that on her, and felt she was a bad actress. I grew out of that mindset, realized that actors are beyond their characters, and that anyone associated with the Star Wars prequels were just fucked overall.
And she married the guy AFTER getting knocked up by him. I don't think or know if the marriage will last, but who knows, maybe that got really lucky. I just would be surprised if there was real love behind that relationship. I'm willing to believe it, but we'll see.
@RobbyBevard:
If its any consolation, Larry the Cable Guy is just an act. The actual man isn't like that.
I know. I don't know anything about the real man, so I won't say I hate the real man, but I hate his act. And Mater is pretty much Larry without the offensive jokes. I will say that I like Mater though.
Lightning, not much at all.
Fun fact: Chris Evans went to my high school, three years ahead of me. Of course as a freshman I never rubbed elbows with him, ever.
Cool. I heard he was a big drama freak in high school, so I can imagine him being well known in that school. One of my favorite things about him is that he's apparently a very nice and approachable guy.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/captain_america/news/?a=23445
^Always love this story.
@RobbyBevard:
…and that level of technology is why Billy Crystal didn't want to be in Toy Story at the time.
Its easy to forget it wasn't that long ago CGI really, really sucked.
Neat as a piece of history tho.
I'm just glad he was Mike Wazowski. Seriously, nobody could do that character better than Billy. Mike pretty much IS Billy.
@DanialG:
It was so weird watching the making of Toy Story 1. All the bad short films they went through to finally get to making a full on feature film in CG.
Been watching TS3's special features. I already knew about the Secret room, but I had no idea they had a Cereal Bar….dammit I want to take a tour of Pixar. I wanna see their Render Farm.
Did you watch the ones with the skooter races and everyone shaving their heads? Oh god, if I ever end up an animator, I'd love to work for Pixar. They look like they have a freakin' blast everyday they go to work.
I want to work there because I hear they have an in house theater that they still show old Disney classics on
FINALLY, some preview art for BRAVE (formerly The Bear and the Bow)
Obviously its just concept art, and considering the movie comes out in a year they have to be further along than that… but I've been looking forward to this one. Pixar's take on a fairy tale, their first female lead. and all the industry inside teases say it may be somethin' special. The concept art at least looks a fair bit darker and shadowey-er than Pixar's usual, but I imagine the actual finished product will be closer to their standard look.
The plot, according to EW,
! involves Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) who one day breaks a sacred custom of her kingdom, led by King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson), that brings disorder to the land. To try to rectify the situation, Merida seeks out a Wise Woman (Julie Walters), who grants her a wish that turns out to have unlucky consequences.
nice to finally start getting some teasers. I imagine we'll probably have the first real preview/trailer in front of Cars 2. tho given that its hard to build up any enthusiasm for Cars 2, even with full trust in the company…
Could it possibly, POSSIBLY be their answer to Princess Mononoke? Probably not, but I can dream.
i FLEW over here to post that but robby beat me :cwy:
also
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Hee. I just knew you'd react like that Taboo. Now where's Satsuki….
That pic wasn't on the site I got the info from. Very pretty tho. Making me wish it were gonna be 2-D cause those backgrounds are stunning.
And huge.
"Brave", AKA "the only reason to skip over this year's movie just to get to next year's." (yeah, Cars 2 will be fun but this is their next big movie)
Surprised I never posted in this thread but just to list my top 5 films:
1. The Incredibles
2. Toy Story (the original, I loved 2 as well but some of it did feel a tad repetitive..and 3 was good too but some of the whole pre-school/prison stuff didn't feel like it got at the true spirit of the series and was more "let's just have the toys have an adventure on their own barely connecting to the humans…though it had great payoff with the ending")
3. Ratatouille
4. Up
5. Finding Nemo
Oooooo, purty. (you wanna put that pic behind a tag, taboo?)
Pixar's answer to Mononoke? I have a hard time believing that, even if it's Pixar. Even with Pixar's gorgeous animation, I have a hard time imagining anything beating Miyazaki's animation at it's best, which Mononoke is.
It still should be gorgeous and awesome, though. And I'm looking forward to Cars 2, unlike some I like it perfectly fine. Cars is far from their best, but it's still lots of fun with a heart. They have yet to make a truly BAD film. knock on wood
I'll see Cars 2 for the visuals alone. (Tokyo looks amaaaazing). And I'm sure the story and character stuff will be solid and I'll end up liking it, just like the first one, which has managed to crawl its way up my Pixar favorites list with repeat viewings.
Pixar=guaranteed good movie=my butt in the seat. It's just hard to get enthused about it when the stuff on the horizon seems way more up my alley.
Pixar's answer to Mononoke? I have a hard time believing that, even if it's Pixar. Even with Pixar's gorgeous animation, I have a hard time imagining anything beating Miyazaki's animation at it's best, which Mononoke is.
Well, Mononoke is one of my all time favorite films. I don't expect them to match it, let alone beat it. And I'm not asking for severed limbs either. I mean more of the, movie set in a fantasy setting, that's willing to be a bit more adult, a bit darker and more ambiguous about who is right and wrong. I don't really expect it from them given their brand and the kind of movies they make, but I can hope.
Lilo and Stitch had some of that maturity until Gantu became a clear cut villain in the final act. UP could have been that if the villain had been more nuanced and shades of grey instead of just randomly crazy maniac. (That movie didn't need a villain, they just sort of had him there because I guess they felt they needed a badguy that just HAD to die in the end. But just adventures would have been enough.) And I loved loved loved Ratatouille, that was smart and a bit mature, but it was also a very different kind of movie.
I think this movie could beat mononoke
it looks like another PG rating too
I actually sort of liked the idea of the bad guy in Up myself. Just the idea that Carl's childhood hero has gone crazy because of all of his years away and the failure of not finding the bird makes sense, showing the corruption of the dream that he gave to Carl and Ellie, which they for the most part kept pure and true to itself, keeping it about the journey as opposed to the destination. Sure there was some bits that seemed a tad silly but it was a good antithesis and polar point for Carl's progression, with Ellie remaining the "good side" of the whole concept.
I never got why some people criticise Muntz. He's basically just a symbol of what not letting go of the past an moving on- like Carl did, eventually - will do to you, and as such fits into the movies theme pretty seamlessly, in my opinion.
But yeah, the talking dogs in biplanes were a bit too much, perhaps.
Brave looks amazing. I'm getting some good, non-nombastic Fantasy vibes from it.
The talking dogs may have been a bit much, but let's face it, they were hilarious.
And without them we wouldn't have gotten Dug. And that would have been a tragedy.
SQUIRREL !!!
@Tokoro:
I actually sort of liked the idea of the bad guy in Up myself. Just the idea that Carl's childhood hero has gone crazy because of all of his years away and the failure of not finding the bird makes sense, showing the corruption of the dream that he gave to Carl and Ellie, which they for the most part kept pure and true to itself, keeping it about the journey as opposed to the destination. Sure there was some bits that seemed a tad silly but it was a good antithesis and polar point for Carl's progression, with Ellie remaining the "good side" of the whole concept.
Pretty much this. Sums up my feeling towards UP perfectly. The only thing I disliked was probably the subplot with the bird. It felt under developed.
Monsters Inc. 2 finally has a title.
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY.
As has been speculated, the film will be a prequel with Sully and Mike meeting in college. The appropriate voice talent is slated to return.
Considering that the end of the original film seemed a pretty definitive ending to the story, it was probably a good idea that Pixar dive back into the film's past for this one, Pixar's first prequel. Obviously this could suffer the same problem that all prequels suffer from - no tension with the characters because we know what happens to them later. Still, it's not as if Pixar would kill any of these characters off, so that likely won't make a difference.
I'm hoping it makes a perfect bookend and suddenly we can put the two flicks together and basically have a 3 hour movie.
2 Pixar fliks next year. Gonna be awesome. Shame thats still so far off.
Monster, Inc. prequel Monsters University: http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/03/29/pixarmonsters-inc-sequel-is-actually-prequ/
A prequel, huh? Tricky Pixar.
Well, they've never done a prequel before, let's see if they can pull it off (I'm pretty sure they can).
As long as it has John Goodman and Billy Crystal doing the voices it can't go that wrong. And we know Pixar can do a buddy comedy (they're the best at it), but they've never done a school comedy. Wow, two firsts!
The source, who asked that their name not be used, says that Disney "recently requested that a Brave trailer [be] created to show in front of Cars 2."
http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/brave-trailer-attached-to-cars-2.html
Brave before Cars 2…well at least they're finally going back to what they had done for the most part prior. (putting the next film's trailer before the film you're about to see...I think the last I remember them doing it was the Wall-E teaser before Ratattouie...then again I think the first Toy Story 3 teaser was before Up but I can't remember anymore)
And...yeah, at least going back for a Monsters Inc prequel works better than a pure sequel. Sort of hope we maybe get some aspects that would sort of lead into the original as well, like the rivalry between Sully and Randal...but sort of not really spoil any of the surprises for those who haven't seen it.
! (like the whole aspect of "laughter being more powerful than screams" and that Monsteropolis is living on borrowed time with their current energy situation)
Here's an April Fool's joke about Pixar.
http://japancinema.net/2011/04/01/exclusive-first-look-pixar-studios-totoro-coming-2011/
Boo, no teenage Boo:(
that totoro image is going to give me nightmares
Guy got a tour of the Pixar offices as part of a promo tour for Cars 2, and had an interview with John Lasseter.
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49526
Nothing terribly new or interesting, a couple of very small spoilers for Cars 2 in there.
Lasseter swears that at some point, every Pixar movie is the worst movie ever made and some scenes get rewritten 30 or 40 times. Cars 2 is going to be a full blown spy movie thats incredibly different from the first… a little tiny bit about Monsters Inc 2... nothing we didn't already know (they're in college, its a prequel) a little tidbit about Brave tho. Also nothing new, but...
@John:
I’m happy to tell her a few things, because I’m very proud of this. It’s a real first for Pixar, in many ways. It’s the first true period film we’ve done, it’s set in medieval Scotland. And the big one is it’s the first female main character, and the story – it’s a fantastic story. But it’s like – it’s not a princess movie. She is a princess, you know, but it’s like she’s in charge of her own destiny, she’s not waiting around for her prince to come. It’s got swordplay, bows and arrows, big vicious bears, it’s got real emotional arc to it. There’s a tremendous relationship between her and her mother. You know, there are two parents in this family.
Really looking forward to Brave. Hopefully we'll start getting some teasers or promo art or something once Cars 2 is out.
It's kinda funny how they've had rats, robots and old geezers as main characters before an actual female.
Also any bets that there are gonna be Monoke references?
They've had a ton of great female characters in prominent co-star roles, (Jessie, Dori, Helen & Violet, Sally, EVE, etc) so they haven't exactly lacked female characters, but yes, they're due for a leading role.
Ellie was the best character in UP… but then she died 10 minutes in...
She died 10 minutes in, but her influence and presence was VERY strong for the rest of the film.
God, i wish I was working on The Brave so bad
I feel like I've missed a lifetime opportunity.
@Thousand:
Also any bets that there are gonna be Mononoke references?
Given that we know nothing about the movie yet, its impossible to say. Keep hearing word of mouth from animators that its going to be something else tho. Lilo & Stitch is the last time I recall that sort of talk slipping about animator message boards.
She died 10 minutes in, but her influence and presence was VERY strong for the rest of the film.
Very true. And she still managed to be be significant to the ending. She HAD to be awesome to carry the remaining 70 minutes of movie despite not being in it.
God, i wish I was working on The Brave so bad
I feel like I've missed a lifetime opportunity.
You graduate soon, right? You've still got time to be an unpaid intern on the last few weeks of production.
Apple has a new trailer and clip of Cars 2 up:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/cars2/
All I can say is: OMG Pixar I fucking love you, you put in a cars version of Ninja Warrior.
And yes, the Japanese toilets are really like that. (although not all of them, only the high-tech ones)
Okay, that looked like a lot of fun. Its definitely going to be different from the first. Which has, over time, climbed up my Pixar list, its at 7 or 8 for me at this point instead of 11 like it was.
Really looking forward to seeing Pixar's take on Japan. AND London it looks like!
Also supposedly the first trailer for Brave will be in front of it. Supposedly. So… looking forward to it.
I'm looking forward to their take on Japan, too, especially considering the Lassetter is good friends with Miyazaki. (oh god, please let there be a little Ghibli cameo or something in there . . .)
I AM expecting a Speed Racer homage, though.
I'm looking forward to their take on Japan, too, especially considering the Lassetter is good friends with Miyazaki. (oh god, please let there be a little Ghibli cameo or something in there . . .)
Well, we already got Totoro in Toy Story 3…
I AM expecting a Speed Racer homage, though.
…..
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This must happen.
The "Cars Toons" shorts starring Mater was a pretty clear indicator of the direction of the series–pure entertainment over plot and a stronger Lightning McQueen/Mater odd couple partnership. The British undercover plot + the overall Grand Prix setting of the movie leaves the door wide open for a ton of references (The Italian Job, and Bond film, Bullit, Grand Prix, The French Connection, buddy cop/action movie cliches, etc), Heck, they might even re-use the Tokyo Drift parody from that one "Cars Toon," which was clearly a setting demo of what would be used in the movie (location and Japanese car characters).
Also, I'm sure there will be some sort of homage to Paul Newman, who did his last film performance for Cars before passing away.
…that was a crazy ammount of fun right there. way better than the other couple of shorts they did.
HA! That was a good short. Did anyone else notice the Car-ified Mike and Sully in the sushi bar at 3:32 (as Mater's skidding out of it)?
'Donuts'…snickers
Yeah, I noticed Mike and Sully (from "Monster Truck Inc.").
There a little bio out there for Francesco, the Italian race car, but I don't think I've seen anything for Shu, the Japanese race car. What's his character supposed to be like, if he has any role at all? (the race takes place in Japan, Italy, and London, and we've got prominent British and Italian characters, but where are the Japanese ones!?)
[You graduate soon, right? You've still got time to be an unpaid intern on the last few weeks of production.[/QUOTE]already applied and done been rejected
Apple has a new trailer and clip of Cars 2 up:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/cars2/All I can say is: OMG Pixar I fucking love you, you put in a cars version of Ninja Warrior.
And yes, the Japanese toilets are really like that. (although not all of them, only the high-tech ones)
…Nothing loads for me, just a big image of the 4 main characters :(
Did you click on the drop-down menu in the upper-right?
There's no drop down menu, just a black bar along the top.
Here Conekiller, its on youtube now.
Thanks, Robby, it wasn't the last time I looked.
EDIT: Yeah, that was pretty neat! Can't wait. Pixar has never let me down before.
HAHA.
I liked the gatling guns.
Is the blue-mustached car played by Michael Caine?
@Sniper:
HAHA.
I liked the gatling guns.Is the blue-mustached car played by Michael Caine?
Sounds like him, so it probably is.
Anyway, this looks alot better than the first Cars was.
@Sniper:
Is the blue-mustached car played by Michael Caine?
The car's name is Finn McMissile and IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes both say yes to Mr. Caine being the voice actor. Automatic win for me there!
Y'know, I wasn't going to go out of my way to see this one, because Cars didn't really interest me like other Pixar films. Seeing the preview though…well, I need to see something between Green Lantern and Transformers. (because heaven forbid I get a weekend off from movies this summer. My poor wallet.)
The car's name is Finn McMissile and IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes both say yes to Mr. Caine being the voice actor. Automatic win for me there!
Y'know, I wasn't going to go out of my way to see this one, because Cars didn't really interest me like other Pixar films. Seeing the preview though…well, I need to see something between Green Lantern and Transformers. (because heaven forbid I get a weekend off from movies this summer. My poor wallet.)
Awesome! Andja sorta made a pun with the "automatic win" part!
But the last time i went to a movie theater was Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince with my friend's family.
I doubt I'd be able to see anything anytime soon.
Yeah, I noticed Mike and Sully (from "Monster Truck Inc.").
There a little bio out there for Francesco, the Italian race car, but I don't think I've seen anything for Shu, the Japanese race car. What's his character supposed to be like, if he has any role at all? (the race takes place in Japan, Italy, and London, and we've got prominent British and Italian characters, but where are the Japanese ones!?)
Here are the released japanese characters….
http://pixarplanet.com/blog/new-cars-2-characters-meet-nobunga-tanaka-okuni-zen-master-new-posters
and here the japanese racer….
http://pixarplanet.com/blog/new-cars-2-character-meet-shu-todoroki