Dreamworks Animation shits in your mouth again: Rise Of The Guardians

What the fucking fuck is this fucking piece of shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPLiBxhoug0

It's because of that time you were bad.

http://static.moviefanatic.com/images/gallery/santa-claus-rise-of-the-guardians_383x600.jpg

I'm having a hard time putting a finger on why this particular atrocity, among all the other stupid garbage the movie studios crank out, makes me so mad. Who is it supposed to be for?!

read this thread title really confused because I thought it was that owls of gahoole movie from a couple years ago

the posters for this were all over my theater and just look egregiously awful

great thread title

it makes me so mad that my nieces and nephews like dreamworks movies as much as, if not more than, pixar ones. is expecting 5-10 year olds to have nuanced aesthetic judgement unreasonable? i think not.

Uh, a lot of the recent dreamworks movies are quite a bit better than what Pixar has been doing lately. I'll take Kung Fu Panda or How To Train Yr Dragon over any of the Cars movies or yet another Toy Story sequel. But I guess if Dreamworks threw in some tearjerking shit for adults in the first half of their movies then they might be taken more seriously by adults who don't know what kids like. Have you actually watched any of this stuff?

this ain't yr grandpa's santa claus!

wk stop feeding yr kids garbage culture

What was wrong with the Toy Stories?? 3 was the best and brought me to tears.

a+ thread title

i heard good things about how to train yr dragon from many people and about kung fu panda from zizek but a+ing this based on "shark tale" and the last few dozen shrek movies

lol executive producer guillermo del toro

sandman huh

Easter Buuny is Australian, mate? Good thing he didn't catch Mixematosis.

I'll take ... How To Train Yr Dragon over any of the Cars movies

hell yes

I'll take Kung Fu Panda ... over ... yet another Toy Story sequel

hell no

christmas cartoons suck is the problem here i think.

Ever see Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July? Even Rankin and Bass made a real stinker...

yeah i'm struggling to think of good ones. this did look horrible when i saw the trailer at the weekend tho, and i say this as somebody who then sat thru and reasonably enjoyed Madagascar 3.

I'm also seriously not excited for Wreck-It Ralph

I am, but I'm well aware that I'm being pandered to.

wk stop feeding yr kids garbage culture

What's balls-approved kids culture?

I think it's dumb to censor or criticize what your kids are interested in. I remember my parents looking down on stuff like Pee Wee's Playhouse and The Simpsons and telling me it was stupid, and they were wrong.

This mostly just comes across as anti-comedy. Yeah, Dreamworks movies are generally dumber and more broad than Pixar movies but they're also quite often funnier and more fun. Pixar movies occasionally reach higher heights than Dreamworks but they're often overly saccharine, sentimental and Disneyfied. And at their worst you get an overreaching mess like Up.

Uh, a lot of the recent dreamworks movies are quite a bit better than what Pixar has been doing lately. I'll take Kung Fu Panda or How To Train Yr Dragon over any of the Cars movies or yet another Toy Story sequel. But I guess if Dreamworks threw in some tearjerking shit for adults in the first half of their movies then they might be taken more seriously by adults who don't know what kids like. Have you actually watched any of this stuff?

well I haven't seen Kung Fu Panda or How to Train Your Dragon, but that's because they aren't on my nieces and nephews' regular watchlist! With them it's more lots of Shrek and Shrek 2, lots of Madagascar, bits and pieces from here and there. And anyway my point wasn't really an adult aesthetics one (though I would put Pixar ahead even from a comedy-centric perspective), more that I'm a ridiculous dickhead for expecting children to share my adult aesthetic judgements. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT TO WATCH SHREK, WE'RE ONLY EIGHT HOURS INTO THIS OZU MARATHON.

for some reason i ended up seeing this with my flatmate the other day because we missed the movie we were planning to see. it's just as bad as you'd expect. only thing that made me laugh is when they try and help the tooth fairy and find a mouse doing her job, to which she replies that those are her european counterparts. which probably makes no sense to anyone who doesn't speak french but which really helped me, as i was desperately trying to remember the french expression for tooth fairy and kept coming up empty (yes the movie was that terrible). so yeah in french the tooth fairy is called "la petite souris" (the small mice), hence the joke. also, santa swears by shouting out russian names - rimsky-korsakov! & tchaikovsky! being the two i remember.

i like in yellow submarine when the beatles bring music back to pepperland and the chief blue meanie says WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS? and one of the others says "rimsky-korsakov?" it's just a funny name for a cartoon to say, idk.

I doubt I will ever see this movie, but the score by Desplat is totally brilliant. He hasn't been given the opportunity to do a big-scale magic-and-wonderment project since The Golden Compass (for which his music was amazing) and he is all over the ball here. It does tend toward the antic and hectic, but is so wonderfully transparent at all times, and the amount of evocation he is able to accomplish simply by means of orchestration itself is crazy.

Only cavil for me is the 'rousing' Guardians theme which sounds a little derivative compared to everything else in the score; luckily he does not belabor it.

this is the Hop of Christmas movies

I've had a few friends whose judgment I trust say they really like this so hmm.

really?

it looks so terrible

also I don't know why but that promo of Santa with the arm tattoos really makes me IA

and me, and our Joel

Not technically dreamworks, but shit, when is this aesthetic going to finally die?
seagull on the right has the requisite smugface that every poster for this kind of movie has

http://www.impawards.com/2016/posters/storks_ver11.jpg

well this is a total fucking nightmare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prWBrMJOg2k

baby revolution.....fuck

ugh

get ready for two years of eight year olds loudly saying "what the fudge" at every family reunion and expecting to be applauded