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mdmost
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Our normal Father's Day tradition is watching a Pixar movie. Since we just got back from our vacation, we decided to stay in instead and watched this on Disney+ which I thought was pretty great. Maybe I'm just getting easier to please in my midlife years but I don't see why people keep crapping on Disney and Pixar. It's still pretty good to me. We'll see Elemental at a matinee this Tuesday.
Bohnjaggs
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Our normal Father's Day tradition is watching a Pixar movie. Since we just got back from our vacation, we decided to stay in instead and watched this on Disney+ which I thought was pretty great. Maybe I'm just getting easier to please in my midlife years but I don't see why people keep crapping on Disney and Pixar. It's still pretty good to me. We'll see Elemental at a matinee this Tuesday.
This one isn't Pixar but I do want to watch it eventually
TenderLovingKiller®
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I think this movie had the worst opening weekend in Pixar history, made less the $30M domestic. Reviews have been solid though so maybe it will pick up or maybe families spent too much money at Spider-Man and Super Mario Brothers and decided to watch this one on Disney+ in a couple months.
Bohnjaggs
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My parents were here this weekend for Father's Day and they were going to watch our daughter while my wife and I went to see Asteroid City but it turns out that it doesn't open everywhere until NEXT weekend. Oh, well. I guess we'll just have to go see it separately.
ayayrawn
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It's one of the worst reviewed Pixar films, second only to Cars 2. I'll probably see it eventually, and I'm sure it's cute, but there isn't really a spark for me. Seems like a concept we've seen a variation of like 4 or 5 times already.
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mdmost
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I think Disney has effectively trained their audience to simply wait for movies to come out on Disney+ and that’s hurting their theatrical releases. Onward, Soul, and Turning Red were all available on Disney+ due to Covid. Even a hit like Encanto was easier to get on Disney+ than the theater. It sorta trained the audience that these movies aren’t necessarily ones you have to see in the theaters. Super Mario and Spider-verse, you don’t have a streaming option for a long time.
I regretted last night that we didn’t go see Strange World in the theater because it’s visually very stunning.
mdmost
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On another forum, I made this observation about the sad state of movie watching now and how we don't seem to want anything other than sequels, reboots, or nostalgia plays.
The domestic top 10 of 2021, 2022, and through current 2023 are all sequels except one which is Free Guy in 2021 that came in 10th.
As far as original ideas and their place in the domestic box office and I'm excluding comic book movies:
2021- Free Guy #10th, Encanto- 15th
2022- Elvis- 12th, Uncharted-13th, Nope-14th, Smile-16th, The Lost City-17th, Bullet Train-18th, The Bad Guys-19th
2023- M3GAN-13th, Dungeons & Dragons-14th, Cocaine Bear-16th, A Man Called Otto-17th, Air-20th
So yes, we don't seem to really want original stories or studios just aren't making them because they know what is successful for them: sequels and nostalgia.
The Denmarkian Wonder
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ayayrawn
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One of the best movies of 2020. Very affecting.
Melt Face Molly Drop
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Agreed, great message and an absolute powerhouse performance from Riz.
EvanBenner
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The movie that convinced me to invest in a set of ear plugs. Consider me shook.
kvetcha
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this has been on my list forever, need to finally watch it.
in other news, got my tickets for Asteroid City on Sunday! As one of the handful of people who loved The French Dispatch, I’m pretty excited for it.
TenderLovingKiller®
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I am there with you on The French Dispatch and am very excited for the new one.
ayayrawn
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Agreed, it's become trendy to hate on him I guess, but I love at Wes' work as variations on a formula. It'll be gorgeous, creative, and melacholy and apart from that I'm always excited to see what he comes up with.
TenderLovingKiller®
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and usually pretty funny too.
Melt Face Molly Drop
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Need to catch up on some Wes. Haven't seen anything of his since Grand Budapest, which is my favorite.
As for back-catalog, haven't seen Darjeeling Limited or Fantastic Mr. Fox.
As for back-catalog, haven't seen Darjeeling Limited or Fantastic Mr. Fox.
TenderLovingKiller®
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The works of Wes Anderson sounds like a fun movie marathon theme.
kvetcha
Chet Hanks' Filmography Buff
Darjeeling and Isle of Dogs are my only gaps, but I enjoy all of his movies I've seen to varying degrees. Grand Budapest and Moonrise Kingdom are masterpieces, imo.
ayayrawn
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I've seen them all and can say with confidence he has no bad movies. My least favs are probably Bottle Rocket or Darjeeling, but they're still at least good.