― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)
But yes, this upcoming film looks to be great. :-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)
I think it was compromised in trying to appeal to a Trans-Atlantic audience. Too much Mel Gibson, too many English stereotypes, pandering to an audiences (and Dreamworks) expectations. This looks rather more idiosyncratic and all the better for it.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)
This I will agree with. (As for stereotypes, surely Wallace IS a stereotype himself. Albeit an inventive one.)
Bunnicula roolz OK.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)
Wasn't there some kind of W&G collection of short films or something once before?
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)
We should start a Bunnicula thread, but I'm not really sure how much dicussion we could have about him.
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)
yeah I saw the previews for both of these at the same time and the audience silence during Valiant was notable. the W&G trailer went over great though!
Valiant is Disney's first non-Pixar cgi film, right? does not bode well for them.
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)
My daughter's going to be pleased - she's been watching 'Wallace and Grommit: A Grand Day Out' since she was three, and always has a plate of cheese and crackers at her elbow as part of the experience.
― moley, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)
I'm psyched for the W&G movie: movie length laff-riots are hard to sustain, tho.
― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)
― isadora (isadora), Monday, 19 September 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)
― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)
There's a lot of playing with stereotypes, both of general Northern/rural character and mid-C20th British film archetypes.
No doubt there will be a deluge of merchandise, especially given the multiplicity of a new Park-design for incidental anthropomorphics (though I haven't seen any ads for anything yet actually!), but strangely it feels like the film could be a really good model for a video game rather than a line of cuddly toys.
― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 19 September 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)
― j woo, Friday, 7 October 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)
― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 7 October 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 8 October 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 8 October 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Saturday, 8 October 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)
― viborgu, Sunday, 9 October 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Sunday, 9 October 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)
This is a dreamworks movie, you can tell by all of the celebrity voices and the shoddy animation.
― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)
"Mummie's Sauce"? Grommit graduating from "Dogwarts"?
― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 9 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)
"Orson Welles, Jerry Bruckheimer, who fucking cares..."
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 9 October 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)
Phillip's look of glee when he finds the 10 p coin in his change purse still has me in stitches.
The vicar's nun porn...
The kong reference...
"Totty"...
Grommit's rolled eyes when Hutch says 'rabbit food'...
― M. White (Miguelito), Sunday, 9 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)
Aardman had just learned that "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," the first full-length adventure for the eccentric inventor and his indomitable dog, had topped the U.S. box office on its opening weekend.
"Today was supposed to be a day of celebration, with the news that Wallace and Gromit had gone in at number one at the U.S. box office, but instead our whole history has been wiped out," said Aardman spokesman Arthur Sheriff. "It's turned out to be a terrible day."
The Avon Fire and Rescue service said the roof and three interior walls of the Victorian warehouse collapsed in the blaze, which broke out at about 5:30 a.m. (0430 GMT). The cause of the fire was being investigated.
Sheriff said the warehouse contained sets, props and models from all the company's past productions, from the children's cartoon character "Morph" through the Oscar-winning, anthropomorphic "Creature Comforts" series to the Wallace and Gromit films.
Aardman said the sets and props from "Curse of the Were-Rabbit" were not caught in the blaze.
Wallace and Gromit's creator, Nick Park, said the earthquake in South Asia helped put the loss into perspective.
"Even though it is a precious and nostalgic collection and valuable to the company, in light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal," he said.
Founded in 1972, Aardman is closely associated with animator Park, who joined in 1986, fresh out of film school.
Park used stop-motion clay animation to create cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his mute but resourceful dog Gromit. They starred in three shorts — "A Grand Day Out" (1989), "The Wrong Trousers" (1993) and "A Close Shave" (1995). The latter two won Academy Awards.
Park and Aardman's Peter Lord also directed the 2000 feature "Chicken Run," which spoofed the World War II prison-camp classic "The Great Escape" with a cast of clay poultry.
"Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" opened in the United States on Friday and took US$16.1 million (€13.3 million) at the box office over the weekend. It opens in Britain Oct. 14.
― gear (gear), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)
― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Monday, 10 October 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)
― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)
― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Saturday, 15 October 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)
― howell huser (chaki), Saturday, 15 October 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 October 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 16 October 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, I caught that as well -- a fun (and literal) touch.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)
― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 17 October 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)
Also, I vow to see this movie again sometime, when the boy isn't around, incredibly giggletits stoned.`
― icknayaliciousyay, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 October 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)
# Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)# "Creature Comforts" (2003) TV Series# Chicken Run (2000)... aka C:R-1 (USA: promotional abbreviation)
# Wallace & Gromit: The Aardman Collection 2 (1996)# Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation (1996)... aka Wallace & Gromit... aka Wallace & Gromit: The First Three Adventures (USA)# Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave (1995)... aka A Close Shave (UK: short title)# Wallace & Gromit: The Aardman Collection (1994)# Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (1993)... aka The Wrong Trousers (UK: short title)
# A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit (1989)... aka A Grand Day Out (UK: short title)# Creature Comforts (1989)
That's a pretty spectacular CV.
This film has also given me an enormous cheese craving. I'd forgotten how nice cheese is.
― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)
― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)
Favorite joke I caught this time around -- Lady Tottington introduces Wallace to her secret garden, saying that while a butterfly lands on her outstretched hand. Cut to Wallace saying something in response, cut back to Totty responding with a smile and clapping her hands together. Without missing a beat, she keeps talking while looking down, seeing the smashed butterfly and then wiping it off on her dress. A perfect tour de force of comic acting without a human actor in the frame -- Aardman, I love you!
(I hadn't realized that the old DVD of the three short films has been replaced by a new one that adds the ten mini-shorts done more recently. Hmm...)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)
That's the best bit.
― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)
I just love the sheer surreal happiness of all the bunnies floating about in the vacuum while Wallace and Lady Tottington and etc. all chat away a bit. They look so content in there!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)
that's my wife's favorite scene as well. and I liked the bunny thinking he's dead as he's sucked through the hole toward the light.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)
I double checked this -- Julian Nott, as with the other films, did the music, but Zimmer is the producer, for what that's worth (probably not a lot).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)
― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)
Yup!
I have three rolls of colour super-8 that have to be processed by the end of the month. Maybe I'll make a claymation movie!
You could film The Return of Morph
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)
― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 07:24 (twenty years ago)
― C J (C J), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 09:06 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)
― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Monday, 6 March 2006 04:58 (nineteen years ago)
HMC was really nice
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 6 March 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)
― Ed (dali), Monday, 6 March 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)
Stand back, there may be a large rabbit dropping!
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 26 March 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)
that cheese box "may contain nuts" !the air bag when Gromit hits the wheel!"the buck stops here!"
aaaaahh... perfect fun.
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 26 March 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)
― ratty, Friday, 7 April 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 7 April 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)
This film was hard on our cheese supply.
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), August 3rd, 2005.
My prediction was deeply wrong, obv. (Finally got this on DVD the other week.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 October 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)
What's weird is that said person's main complaint about the film, apart from a brief nod to the whole "doesn't work as well at feature length" thing, is this:
[T]here are good people in the world, who always look that certain way we have come to recognize as good; not a bad bone in their good bodies. The universe can basically be split right down the middle with the good people over here (with us) – but over there are the bad people, who always look the way we’ve come to expect them to look.
Which is really, really weird, since so much of the plot revolves around hysterical townspeople who are really neither good nor bad -- just essentially a mob.
― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 9 October 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)