View Full Version : Finally Watchd "The Iron Giant"


goofyfish
11-13-04, 07:39 PM
It's one of those movies I just never got around to seeing.

It's truly fantastic - beautifully written and animated, very moving in parts, and Harry Connick's hipster sculptor is a crack-up. Oh, and the kid's mom is the sexiest cartoon character since Jessica Rabbit. I can't understand why it didn't do better at the box-office, but I think it's destined for the same kind of must-see cultdom as The Princess Bride.

:m: "Suuuuuupermaaaaan!"

cosmictraveler
11-13-04, 07:46 PM
It was a fair animated movie. Did you ever see Legand or The Neverending Story?

slotty
11-14-04, 06:19 AM
I saw it when i was bored one afternoon, and yeh, it really was a nice bit of animation.

c20H25N3o
11-14-04, 06:36 AM
It is my boy's favorite film :)

I love it when the Iron Giant does the bomb dive in the lake. Great piece of animation when the guy gets swamped under still reading his paper. It truly is a beautiful piece of animation. I am soooo jealous of people who can draw like that.

peace

c20

slotty
11-14-04, 06:39 AM
I am soooo jealous of people who can draw like that.

peace

c20

Or the computer nowdays ;)

c20H25N3o
11-14-04, 06:56 AM
Yeah. Shrek rules and you know it ;)

I can get into 3d studio max but I know that to get anything decent out of it would require a lot of scripting and I just do not have the patience. I'm pretty sure I could write some good story boards if their are any animators out there who fancy a project though :)

peace

c20

sargentlard
11-14-04, 01:11 PM
This movie should be a slap in Disney's face and their idiotic notion that 2d movies can't be interesting anymore. It is an incredible movie....I must get around to getting it on DVD sometime.

Extra info: The Incredibles was written and directed by the man responsible for The Iron Giant: Brad Bird.

slotty
11-15-04, 02:43 AM
The Incredibles does look quite cool, have you seen it? is it worth a look?

nbachris2788
11-21-04, 01:50 AM
I prefer 2D animation to 3D, and I find Pixar to be too hip for its own good sometimes. I thought Finding Nemo and Toy Story 2 were ghastly overrated, while Monsters Inc. was not praised enough. "A Bug's Life" made me want to puke because of its oh-so-clever cuteness, while Antz blew me away with its almost cynical humour. I was never impressed by Shrek and never watched the sequel. I don't plan on watching The Incredibles either. The best Disney animated movie is Mulan by far. Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast are all good (though Aladdin being easily the worst of the three), but all of them are all about love and fairy tale romance, although B&B tries to go a little beyond that. Mulan deals with honour, war, and identity, and thus strikes a much more universal and accessible chord than some castle romance.

buffys
11-21-04, 02:21 AM
Or the computer nowdays ;)

lol, the biggest problem with animation today is people that know nothing about the process insist on making their views known.

here's a news flash for those that don't understand how these movies are made: Computers can only do only what they are told, expecting more is like hoping a pencil will draw a picture by itself. Wether it's 2d OR 3d animation, every moment is designed and created by someone. Computers just allow for a more complex image.

Roman
11-21-04, 02:23 AM
Incredibles was actually pretty good.
The cartoony violence was replaced with submachine guns and superheros getting sucked in jet engines. And it wasn't the funny kind of getting sucked in a jet engine; it was the career/life ending type.

Now that I think about it, it was really bloody violent. For a kid's flick.

buffys
11-21-04, 02:44 AM
Now that I think about it, it was really bloody violent. For a kid's flick.

kid's flick? who called it that? It's PG this time for a reason.

anyone that's watched the cartoon network after 7:00 pm knows how silly it is to assume animation = "kid's flick".