Come here to anticipate Rango (Industrial Light & Magic's first animated feature)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQjJEYTiga0

This is some pretty fantastic cg if you ask me.

Was hoping this was a Scooby Doo version of Django

I'm slightly concerned by the 'Speedy Gonzales' overtones, but maybe that won't be a problem. Looks gorgeous and lots of fun, though.

i was pretty cynical about this when i was just seeing the cardboard cutouts in movie theater lobbies, but im pretty excited about this after seeing the commercials... that animation looks eyepopping

Yeah, if I go it will be for the animation quality alone (the story seems flimsy).

Somehow I missed that this was ILM! Kind of interesting considering Pixar was a sold-off spinoff of ILM to begin with.

I really enjoyed this, although it's on the crazy side. Looks fantastic, except for one... part... maybe...
It's more 'adult' than you might expect, fairly wordy in parts (couldn't always understand some of the dialogue, think the sound in the theatre was on the quiet side, though), a little all over the place and no tons of bright colours for the kids.

My biggest gripe is from the trailer (not the one above, that's pretty good) it looks completely different - all nervous lizard laughter and dumb slapstick and predictable jokes. But most of those bits have been completely cobbled together from other bits! The actual tone of the humour is great, in comparison.

That sounds more promising...cool, may see it in the theater instead of waiting for dvd.

this had the most eye-popping animation i've ever seen (Roger Deakins got a prominent credit as a consultant), some pretty spectacular verbiage, and wall-to-wall awesome strangeness that kind of plays like an extended riff on the Johnny Cash/coyote episode of the simpsons. I was totally sold 5 minutes in when Rango was talking with the run-over armadillo.

was a little overstuffed, trying to make sure it was Chinatown, Leone, and Hunter S. Thompson simulataneously, and yet it still ran a little long toward the end (shocker coming from the guy who turned a disney ride into 9 hours of cinematic narcolepsy) but eh who cares theres too much to love here.

buddy of mine did the snake character, apparently

Voice talent or animation?

must be animation, unless shakeys pals with Bill Nighy

my gripe with the Rattlesnake Jake was that he's always staring right at the "camera" like it's a freakin Harry Potter movie. Why do monster CGI snakes always have to be looking right at the audience? Can I get a couple of overheads or establishing shots or something to get a good look at this thing? fuck you hollywood.

This was definitely one of the better kids movies I've seen in a while. I was kinda shocked at some of the adult humor in it. Not shocked as in offended, but when he asks the Barbie doll "Are those real?" I'm pretty sure they just crossed a boundary for PG movies that hasn't been crossed since the 1980s.

kids movies
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when he asks the Barbie doll "Are those real?"

just, fuckin'...let me die & get it over w/

this was great. my son got kind of freaked out by it which he rarely does during movies; it's definitely slanted more toward older kids (he's 4 1/2 but fairly mature).

the plot was a bit confusing though, to me, in the end. the mayor had turned off the water? was he diverting it? it wasn't really clear to me.

is this a remake of dead man or once upon a time in mexico idgi

it's an homage to westerns in general.

liked the Fear and Loathing reference in the beginning. Too bad they didn't get Eastwood to do the Man with No Name voice though.

yeah idk who thought they could substitute Timothy Olyphant for Eastwood

I saw a trailer for this in a theater and, while the cga has a mind-boggling amount of texture and detail, that super-crisp focus-in-depth look overall didn't work for me. Too busy. Didn't even add realism, since we don't generally see reality that way.

Also, from the snippets of scenes, the script seemed like the kind of product a committee might produce, if they were locked in a room until they passed a script over the transom. That might just be a by-product of producing the trailer, tho.

maybe you can start a thread where we talk about the Rango trailer

The script was lol as fuck.

As I said above, they seem to have gone to considerable lengths to make the trailer seem as different from the actual movie as possible. Not saying there aren't a few slapstick moments in there (although they're pretty much ALL in the trailer), but they've actually edited the jokes to take out the funny parts and add bits in from other parts of the movie. I imagine it's to make it look like LOL KIDS, when the movie isn't. There are a few references to 'they need a hero/ someone to believe in' that seem to have been crowbarred in by committee but they do even make a joke of that.
The first teaser trailer was great, just that fish floating around a desert iirc.

I had to watch Gnomeo and Juliet two weeks ago, trust me, this is an Orson Welles film in comparison.

It breaks my heart when coworkers who are parents describe something like Gnomeo and Juliet as "pretty good."

dug this a whole lot. gorgeous. even the hero's journey walk across the highway was amazing. also generally does really well with the pop culture references, which is something I have come to loathe since the Shrek franchise went all behemoth.

couldn't help but smile at the creaking windmill sound that kept popping up.

i liked this, but i wanted to like it more. it just dragged a lot for me and felt like it had too much filler. gorgeous though, best looking computer animated movie ever made. i loved how ugly everything was - the rango character design is great, with the crooked neck, pot belly and beady eyes. doubt it's gonna sell a lot of toys. i wanted to root for this movie for all the things it was trying to do differently, but it just wasn't very involving on a story level and could've used some tightening.

also, i was surprised during the end credits by how many character actors with distinctive voices i didn't even recognize were in this - ned beatty, bill nighy, harry dean stanton! ray winstone was hard to miss though.

just, fuckin'...let me die & get it over w/

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saw this last night at the drive-in and this ^^ pretty otm. the opening dragged on a bit too long, and while ~i~ enjoyed the ugliness of all the characters, that shit is never gonna sell to little kids - which, let's be real, is where these movies make a lot of their $$. plus, i found a lot of the imagery pretty terrifying! but i did lol at most of the adult references - esp the fear & loathing one.

http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/57c281c0_c8ae_dc22.jpg

After I saw his name in the credits, I thought "Of course that was Bill Nighy!"

TamTam OTM. Fantastic film, would recommend to anyone, but don't expect a riproaring yarn, enjoy it for the attention to detail and fantastic animation.

I think I realised it was Harry Dean Stanton because the character looked exactly like him!

I really really loved this.

Voice talent or animation?

character design/animation. I know a handful of ILM folks

I met ned raggett once

lol we're a little closer than that

And you were a perfect gentleman.

Saw this tonight and feel like Verbinksi checked off a list of all the things I wanted to see in an animated movie, like it hit so many notes for me I was in hog heaven. Just,..so great. not Toy Story great, but...ii was grinning like an idiot through the whole thing. Love that it was basically half the Chinatown storyline.

Omg the animation was ridic. The sky?!!!! You guys. There were times where it honestly felt like a real movie where they shot a bunch of animated animals out in the desert. Crazy, crazy good animation.

I wanna see this

Let's go now, I'll go with u :)

I know I will sound like a stupid stan fangirl but it is now an official personal rule that I must bear witness to all Depp/Verbinski collaborations. (but I love all the Pirate movies and know that most everyone gives them a big eye roll)

Let's go now, I'll go with u :)

ok

Where do u live exactly

A few blocks from Cafe De Leche

I mean that's what I tell most people, it seems to work

Be right over

Get a movie room.

You can come too, Ned!

I'm seeing this tomorrow apparently

my first time seeing a CGI cartoon movie in the theater since Antz

There have been improvements.

presumably more dick jokes

Yep -- ILM now stands for Industrial Lingams and Manhammers.

this was pretty stupid, altho I did appreciate that the majority of the characters were ugly and filthy

WHY DO U HATE FUN

Shakey brakey heart ;_;

it just seemed ridden with yr usual Hollywood-CGI-kids' film problems - tries to split the difference with adult jokes/references (for the parents!) and then a lot of poorly conceived/hackneyed shit (for the kids! because kids love being pandered to with crap!) and then tries hard to make sure you don't notice how much these two approaches chafe against each other by spending all the real time/effort/money on the design and CGI. Like, don't pay too close attention to how sloppily this story is slapped together just LOOK AT ALL THOSE SCALES or whatever

I don't think kids' films need to be stupid, but the way Hollywood tries to split the difference and appeal to all age ranges with these movies just strikes me as really clumsy and off-putting most of the time

I'm gonna defiantly disagree w/ you, Shakes. I think this movie hearkens back to a kind of entertainment that isn't common any more: a family movie. Not a children's movie, not a teen movie, not a light adult drama/comedy combo doohickey but... the kind of thing that Rocketeer or the Sandlot unsuccessfully tried to resurrect, the movies of the '60s and '70s and even early '80s. It's a funny pastiche of the type Disney produced in its heydey, and it's easy to asperse because it /is/ deliberately light, fluffy, and kind of an amalgamation in terms of genre-style-tone-talent. I think Verbinski's career is moving gleefully toward this goal (Mousehunt, Mexican, Pirates), and I look forward to his future films as kind of a palate-cleanser between the more ponderous, overworked, and market-tested "family"-style movies like Harry Potter or Shrek. That said, I enjoyed "How to Train Your Dragon" quite a bit as well.

remy otm

i thought the weird chinatown-jr. plot of this was not much, and nor were any of the spoken jokes, but oh my god visually/design-wise this was wind of the willows on peyote. the clothes alone.

also the scene where a stagecoach chase sequence is beset by a squadron of ww1-style flying-ace moles with machine guns riding bats while the avatar of a fleeing johnny depp wears an aloha shirt must be some kind of pomo record

lmao

should have said "most" of the spoken jokes; i'm sure i laughed a couple times. laughed way more just at stuff moving, though.

Just saw this today. Really enjoyed it. The character design is astounding.

this was just an amazing looking film

Just saw this on blu-ray. Wow indeed. Story not so much, humor ok, some lols were had, but the design! Ambloodymazing. (I didn't realise where I knew the Gore Verbinski name from until I saw hundreds of pillbug/golf balls unrolling in the desert - then it reminded me of the third Pirates movie's Davy Jones' Locker scene)

Story's not bad, far from it, but it's a classic western. Although the more I think about it... I think I'm gonna watch it again tomorrow already.

this was p good