SCULLIBUNDO
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Ceres said:
Damn right.
LTTP: Astro Boy | 2009's Speed Racer
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Damn right.
Hot Coldman
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Scullibundo said:
:lol I'll admit, there is something about that film which is OK. El Dorado is better though.
Buckethead
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Scullibundo said:
Easy there internet typer.
That's hardly Dreamworks. At least the Dreamworks that exists today.
Most of the people that worked on that flick were exiles from Disney and other people that later returned, moved to Pixar, or other studios.
And 1998 was a long time ago as good as that movie is, you can't hang your hat on 1 movie 12 years ago.
Hot Coldman
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Willy105 said:
Kenneth Branagh says shut your damn mouth.
QuiteWhittle
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Watched this after reading Pluto....shouldn't have done that.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Buckethead said:
That's all well and good, but name me one Imagi project in their entire lifecycle that compares with Dreamworks' better pictures. Don't get me wrong, I think Dreamworks today is 95% dogshit. But 5% of those flicks are at least decent. PoE, the original Shrek and Kung Fu Panda (which I still think is slightly overrated) are better than any of Imagi's output.
Whimsical Phil
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I missed this in the theaters as well, which is odd considering I'm a big Astro Boy fan. I ended up watching the movie last night through Netflix and came away thoroughly disappointed.
Every now and again, the movie did a scene right (Toby's death and Tenma's rejection of his creation come immediately to mind), but those moments were few and far between. They were mostly buried among pointless characters (the surface urchins, the RRF) and bad, Dreamworks-style shtick (wise-cracking spray bottles, the "wacky" messages popping up on the police visors, "I am so freaking out!", "I'm old school").
The script was also filled with awkwardly-inserted exposition ("she'd flip if she knew I could lift it," "the robot laws have been in place for 50 years," etc.) that kept breaking the flow of the story.
As for the voice acting, the only actor who left me impressed was Bill Nighy. Nicholas Cage and Donald Sutherland in particular were horrible. Especially Sutherland. Freddie Highmore was serviceable as Astro.
The movie did, however, look quite nice. Although I felt that the robot design was a lot more Ratchet & Clank than Astro Boy.
I was planning on picking up the BD because, like I said, I'm a big Astro Boy fan, but I'm gonna pass now. It just wasn't very good.
And for the record, Speed Racer was my favorite movie of 2008.
Every now and again, the movie did a scene right (Toby's death and Tenma's rejection of his creation come immediately to mind), but those moments were few and far between. They were mostly buried among pointless characters (the surface urchins, the RRF) and bad, Dreamworks-style shtick (wise-cracking spray bottles, the "wacky" messages popping up on the police visors, "I am so freaking out!", "I'm old school").
The script was also filled with awkwardly-inserted exposition ("she'd flip if she knew I could lift it," "the robot laws have been in place for 50 years," etc.) that kept breaking the flow of the story.
As for the voice acting, the only actor who left me impressed was Bill Nighy. Nicholas Cage and Donald Sutherland in particular were horrible. Especially Sutherland. Freddie Highmore was serviceable as Astro.
The movie did, however, look quite nice. Although I felt that the robot design was a lot more Ratchet & Clank than Astro Boy.
I was planning on picking up the BD because, like I said, I'm a big Astro Boy fan, but I'm gonna pass now. It just wasn't very good.
And for the record, Speed Racer was my favorite movie of 2008.
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Monroeski said:
No, it's nowhere near as good as Speed Racer.
But it IS a fun little movie in it's own right.
Okay. You guys win. Speed Racer is the shit. The only bad part was really Speed's little brother, but other than that, damn good flick.
Guess I'll hunt down Astro Boy now.
Guess I'll hunt down Astro Boy now.
Eh, Yatterman was okay. I would have to see Astro Boy to compare, but I wouldn't be surprised if I liked that more. Though, Yatterman gets points for staying incredibly true to the source material. So much so, in fact, that some things were a little hard to understand. (Seriously, what is that pig on the palm tree thing all about? Why is it funny?) And the rendition of Tensai Doronbo was pretty bad.hiredhand said:Astroboy isn't 2009's Speed Racer because that spot is already taken by Takashi Miike's Yatterman.
SonicMegaDrive
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I liked Spritle! He was.....Spritle.
Except for the part where he flipped the bird. That was just awkward.
Except for the part where he flipped the bird. That was just awkward.
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Willy105 said:
There's only one thing I remember liking about El Dorado. And it definitely wasn't Elton John's songs.
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Whimsical Phil said:
Pretty much echoes my feelings after watching this last night. And I noticed Astroboys point moving from the left side of his head to right in almost every other shot, it started becoming really distracting. :lol
Imagi has some decent animators, but their writing and attempt at humor is god awful.
Whimsical Phil
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I honestly didn't notice the moving hair points. Of course, that may have been because the movie was so lackluster that I simply wasn't paying close attention some of the time.robot said:
I think the moving points were a compromise to make Astro's hairstyle work in 3D. Astro Boy needs to have his iconic two points at all time, and it's fairly easy to cheat the perspective of that in 2D. With a 3D model, though, you can't, and there are going to be some angles where only one point is visible. I'm guessing that's why the animators flipped the points on occasion.
But still, Astro's moving hair was the least of this movie's problems.
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I'll vouch for the OP and say that this movie is pretty good. Some might not like it solely because it doesn't resonate on that nostalgic level that most people are expecting. Even so, it isn't in any way an detrimental to series. All in all, it's a good little flick to watch when you've got down time.
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