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ShoWest: Quint has seen Pixar's RATATOUILLE trailer!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here from my first night of stuff at ShoWest. My flight got in with time to spare, but I was misdirected to where I could register a couple dozen times, so by the time I ran into the "you might not have a seat, but go ahead and take a look" sold-out screening of CARS, director John Lasseter was being presented some ShoWest award. He told the audience that we were seeing the film digitally projected and it must have been a 4k projector or something new because the projection was absolutely gorgeous.
Anyway, he also said that he had a couple surprises for the audience before CARS ran. CARS had just been finished, with Pixar having just thrown the cast and crew completion party 2 days prior, so that was a treat. But the special thing we were seeing was the RATATOUILLE trailer, the very first people outside of the Pixar shareholders to be shown this trailer.
As you probably know from recent news reports, Brad Bird is directing RATATOUILLE for Pixar after Jan Pinkava (GERI'S GAME) stepped aside.
The trailer opens with a big table of cheese with the waiter, in heavy French accent, pointing to different kinds of cheese, describing the differences of the cheeses. We never see his face, just his hand as it gestures at the tray, with the camera focusing on each different sample of cheese as he's talking about it. Then, he says this last cheese is rare and expensive, but exceptional. The camera pans over to see a gray rat caught like a deer in headlights, a piece of the expensive cheese in his mitts. The rat is of the cute rat varieties, not the evil R.O.U.S. type ("I don't think they exist.")
The waiter shouts, the patrons scream and the rat screams himself and runs like a bat outta hell. He runs through the kitchen, knocking pots and pans over, cheese still in a death grip. He makes a leap off of a table, kitchen knives and other utensils falling around him and then it freeze-frames, like an action movie with the hero jumping over a cliff or away from a fireball or something.
The rat introduces himself to us. The voice was familiar, but I couldn't place it. He says that he loves good food, and it's a good thing he lives in Paris because there's a lot of it... It's just hard to get.
It cut to our hero grey rat walking about outside, near what looked like a sewage pipe or something. He tells us about his distaste for trash and love for real food. His dad yells at him from inside the pipe (we never see him), telling him he wouldn't be hungry all the time if he just ate trash like all the other rats. A chubby rat comes along eating something... dirty. It's gray-ish/black and it could be rotting oyster... or something. The chubby rat tells the gray rat that once you get paste the gag reflex, you'd be surprised what you can eat. The gray rat asks the chubby one what the hell he is eating. Mouth full, the chubby rat just kinda goes, "I don't know."
Then it cuts back to the freeze frame of the gray rat in mid-leap and it reiterates how dangerous it is for a rat with a taste for real good food is in Paris. The film unfreezes and the rat hits the ground running, darting into a crack in the wooden wall, followed almost immediately by the falling cutlery imbedding itself into the wood around the hole.
So, there you go. RATATOUILLE the trailer. It was funny, looked good... It didn't blow me away or anything, but the talent involved is undeniable.
I have been forbidden from reviewing CARS, but I am allowed to tell you that I have seen it and yes, I did like it. I really liked it a lot. If I say any more, Walt Disney himself will bust open my hotel room door and his disembodied head, floating in a jar filled with a mixture embryonic fluid and Mountain Dew, will tell his robotic limbs to tear me apart. I can't have that. I hope you understand.
I'm still working on nailing down some interviews while out here. It looks like my follow up with Natalie Portman has fallen through and Wolfgang Peterson is jetting out right after he shows whatever he's showing from POSEIDON. Still the chance for some super-interviews, though.
Keep an eye out for that, plus random pictures from ShoWest. 'Til then, this is Quint bidding you a fond farewell and adieu.
-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com
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Seriously though, this has gotta be the least hyped PIXAR film ever. What up with the Rats of Nimh prequel??!!
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...ask him why Pinkava isn't doing 'Ratatouille' anymore. Sorry to make that sound more suspenseful than it was, I just couldn't cram the whole thing into a subject header and I couldn't find a more appropriate one, so I just split the conditional. Anyway, yeah. If you're interviewing Lasseter, do that thing that I said. Kind of curious what happened.
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Although it was a 4 word review, i'm glad cars is looking ok. Was worried about trailers i've seen and my little brother said for the first time "that looks crap" to a pixar trailer. Here's hoping for another classic!
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they saw the other day, which is a very promising sign. And Brad Bird is on Ratatouille? SA-WEET.
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Great to hear that Quint liked Cars...maybe there's hope for it yet. Dunno about Ratatouille, I'll wait til I *see* this thing. But big ups for the Princess Bride ref, Quint Daddy O!
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I didn't know that Brad Bird was directing Ratatouille. My interest in that movie is now definite. Pixar can count my admission money as theirs.
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the movie looks like shit for one reason...talking cars...im sick of these herby type movies...cmon pixar make toy story 3 or monsters INC. 2 so i can shut up!
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Glad to see that Pixar has such confidence in the quality of Cars.
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But Cars still looks bad. Good to hear that it probably isn't.
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you'd be surprised what you can eat.
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that's my hightest position ever!!
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Somewhat like all those "talking animals vs. the world of humans" type animated movies, but hopefully Bird will give it some maturity, maybe a Secret of NIMH/American Tail kind of thing.
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What the heck does "cute rat" mean? How about a bit more description. Did the rat have clothes on or what? How big was the rat? Did he walk and run on two legs or four? Was he more Secret of N.I.M.H.-ish or Flushed Away-ish?
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Never seen that in a cartoon before. Least original sounding Pixar movie yet, but it will still probably be genius now that BB is directing.
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Movie-goers like catchy titles! Ratatouille ain't one - try again, Pixar!
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the new trailer is amazingly lifelike in the backgrounds. can't wait. Faster than fast, quicker than quick..I am LIGHTNING.
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had an episode where a pet rat named Ratatouille got loose in the kitchen. I wonder if this Pixar film will have the exchange: "Where's Ratatouille?" "In the soup." "In the soup?!"
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And make the movie about a mouse with a machine gun... I like it already!
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You knew it wouldn't be.
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has anyone ever offered the definitive answer as to why film ideas come in two's? ratatouille/ flushed away, madagascar/the wild( or something like that), finding nemo/shark's tale, antz/bugs life. The list goes on.
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Manuel's rat was actually called Basil. "He put Basil in the ratatouille?!?"
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what is wrong with hollywood? we had two fish movies back to back- shark tale and nemo- then there's madagascar and "the wild", now we have "rat-pixar" and "flushed away". This is just retarded. can't these focus groups and test screenings and market researchers come up with something orginal and not just copy each other? what a rip off. i feel cheated.
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Because they made the eyes on the windsheid. wtf is that?! the techron cars for chevron are SO much more pleasing to the eye than those strange looking things pixar has. I guess they had to do something different or else they'd be accused of copying- wait! it already IS copying! the aradman cars are WAY better than anything pixar could do with cars, but at the end of the day, a car movie is just plain silly because where are all the PEOPLE in this movie? how do these cars drive around on their own? and who services them? voltron? megatron? optimus prime? give me a break. cars is dumb. i'd rather see an incredibles sequel than this shit.
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Apart from the fact it looks awful. I think NAASCAR is popular. I assuming it is a minority interest.
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Patton Oswalt.
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I'm glad to hear Quint really liked the film, but would love to hear what he was thinking before the lights went out based on the trailers we've all seen. Personally, I'm in the "Not excited by what I've seen and couldn't care less about NASCAR, but I trust Pixar to deliver" camp. Quint - now that we know you really liked it, were you concered or just "meh" about Cars beforehand, and are you a NASCAR fan? Answering those questions should not have you waking up to find Walt Disney's frozen head in your bed. Also the Ratatouille trailer sounds interesting and the joke about getting past the gag reflex and not know what he was eating was funny (plus Bird's now driving that bus), so I'm currently much more interested in seeing the film (but I'll see Cars opening weekend anyway).
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So a movie about a Rat trying to get good food in Paris is going to be directed by Brad Bird...Sounds like Over the Hedge with An American Tale. I also like how he said he "liked" Cars yet couldn't say. Pixar has done it again! The streak will not be broken! Cars races past all my expectations! He didn't fill it with hyperbole remarks which he could have. He simply said "It was good better than I thought it'd be." The response was that of ... eh.
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Coming in 2008, how a pig like shit!!
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But I can't see any red-blooded American or English kid pronouncing it like that. Change the title to something more pronounce-able. Like...cars.
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I saw the presentation at Wondercon (and might I add, it was boring as all hell. Having a Q&A panel works better when the questions arent all scripted and rehersed.)and the clip that they showed was really rather boring. I just cant get into a bunch of talking cars in a crappy old town. . . unless the plot has a big twist somewhere along the way I just can't see myself enjoying it nearly as much as I did The Incredibles, Toy Story, Nemo, etc. I really want to beleive its another home run, but it just feels to be missing something, like following up FF7 with FF8 or a good sloppy blowjob with a dry handjob, its not bad. . . just can't quite compare.
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So what's the fucking point of you fucking going to fucking see it, and fucking telling us went to fucking see it, and then saying you can't fucking tell us about it?
Grrrrrr.
This site is officially shit. I'm off. -
things are not the same as the years past.
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Your move, Dreamworks!
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'Ratatouille' has been a work in progress for... what? Like two years or so now? I'm not so sure they actually are biting off of Aardman Studios. Then again, who knows? Maybe they are.
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I took four years of French in high school. Ratatouille is a French soup and it's pronounced "rat-uh-TWEE," with a "Y" sound right at the end (like "see ya" with the "a"). Like the soup bouillabaisse is pronounced "BWEE-yuh-bess." It's *not* "rat-uh-TOO-ee" (although that pronunciation is funnier).
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Everytime I see him on tv acting goofy and wearing hawaiian t-shirts, I just think "Kids. He's touching kids"
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Seriously-is this what these talkbacks are coming to? Good breaking news- spilling the beans on a teaser trailer.
But, i guess i am anxious to see the Ratatouille flick because of this -
And yes, john lasseter looks like a child molester. His balding head, creepy glasses, crazy "fun factory," hawaiian t-shirts- sheesh
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