Big Zero/6.
But seriously it was actually pretty decent. Like most of you would probably like it. It get steadily better from the beginning and managed to subvert a few Pixar cliches so that was nice. I still wish Disney could make movies that try to appeal equally to all genders like they used to but whatever. I guess Frozen more or less accomplished that.
Yeah just don't go in expecting too much.
Quote from: Bamyasi on November 11, 2014 05:46 AMPixar cliches
isn't this a disney film?
i have no desire to see this movie, as i did with frozen. and i didn't like frozen. why will i like this movie?
Yeah it's Disney but I think Pixar brought a lot of the former's worst narrative cliches to 3D.
You probably wouldn't like it because it's basically free real estate, and by real estate I mean merchandising. When I said "most of you" I was really just talking about bd648 (because charming robot) and maybe the stu's (because Japanese-American crossover aesthetics). So yeah that's three people I guess. I don't know about anyone else.
I liked it better than Wreck-It Ralph, but not as much as Frozen. This probably has something to do with playing with dolls and trying on dresses as a kid but who can say. I just wish Disney could make more animated flicks where they try to appeal equally to all gender stereotypes. Also the opening short for BH6 was absolutely terrible.
Why didn't you like Frozen? I'm guessing you saw it after all the hubbub and brouhaha reached critical mass.
i saw it a few months ago so yes i saw Frozen after all the hype. i watched it on my computer while i was working. i like to think i went into the film with no expectations, as i largely ignore the fandom (as impossible as that is). i thought the two female leads were shallow and written to be and act stupid. they do things that stereotypical women are expected to do under their circumstances. they use magic and the power of love to explain away almost everything in the movie, and the ending was extremely underwhelming and blunt. i feel like the only person on earth who feels this way but i thought the musical segments were extremely mediocre, bar Olaf's song about the summer, which i thought was charming. in fact, i didn't mind his character so much despite how annoying he was portrayed in the trailer.
there were so many tropes and other small things in this movie that really bugged the crap out of me, too. one example is male leads' moose acting like a dog (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllAnimalsAreDogs). then there were little plot holes all over the place, like Anna and male lead seemingly not having slept for 3 straight days while wandering in the deathly cold, Elsa making a stupid ice castle in the middle of nowhere with no food source (not that she seems to eat with a waist that small anyway, despite the fact that both her and her sister have a collective orgasm about chocolate in an earlier musical set piece), and Anna punching the villain in the face and the townspeople cheering from a mile away despite having absolutely no clue what is going on.
yes, little things, but lots of little things. and the big things are the stupid plot and stupid characters and stupid cop-outs. Frozen is not a good movie, and i'm amazed so many people think it is.
Yeah that review is pretty much spot on. I guess I just never expect anything better from a company as conservative as Disney, but perhaps my standards are too low.
Frozen was definitely a bad movie, but I still had fun watching it with the people I saw it with (I probably would have hated it had I watched it alone). That tends to be how I judge movies though, without any kind of methodology. Like I recommended Grand Budapest Hotel to everyone based purely on my experience seeing it with my father. I revisited that movie recently and realized it was pretty much utterly devoid of content. Other times I think I end up being right, as I won't enjoy watching a movie if I can predict every single plot point, and those are also the grounds on which I recommend stuff like Snowpiercer and Nightcrawler, movies of actual substance. So basically you shouldn't listen to me because I don't deal in respectable criticism.
With that said yeah I don't not recommend Big Hero 6 if you see it with friends.
i think seeing a movie in a theater, even if you're alone, has more impact than it would on a smaller screen. and a lot of movies made today seem to be made with that fact in mind, so if you miss them in theaters you probably shouldn't even bother.
i'll probably end up seeing big hero 6 months from now. i'm just not interested in the premise, and disney can go fuck itself
Already on my list of things to see. It seems kinda cute.
I'm seeing this tomorrow! I've heard pretty good things about it
it was okay
Big hero 6 more like
halo 6
dew the dewwwwwwwwwwwww
oh fuck off
Big Hero 6 was exactly what I expected of it. A Saturday morning cartoon condensed into a movie.
B-/5
Saw it today with some friends. It definitely had a lot of charm to it, and visually it had some pretty great moments. Some of the plot points annoyed the hell out of me though. For such a "smart", tech savvy world, you'd think
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- a tech expo would have some safety measures, like say fucking fire sprinklers. How the fuck did the fire spread that fast without anyone noticing anyway?
- Onii-san wouldn't blindly run into a blazing building when he's not a firefighter
- Our whiz-kid engineer would realize letting air out of a balloon is a no-brainer source of propulsion
Also I totally called the mentor as the bad guy, even though that motherfucker had an unbelievable poker face in the presence of someone he was hell bent on killing for revenge[/spoiler]
Feast was kind of cute though.