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See Some Retroriffic MEET THE ROBINSONS Machines!! (Not The LOST IN SPACE Robinsons...But We Talk About Them, Too!!)
Merrick again...
DragonRider23 sent in some developmental art from MEET THE ROBINSONS, which opens at the end of this month.
Whenever I hear the title of this film, I instinctively think it's a LOST IN SPACE sitcom - but it isn't. This one has gloomy cities of the future, and a bunch of time machines...all of which you can get a sense of below:
The "feel" of these time machines reminds me of Dino De Laurentiis' FLASH GORDON (which, in turn, took inspiration from elsewhere). Call me a sentimentalist, but I’m kind of a sucker for giant robotic attack spiders.
You know, now that I think about it, a pilot for a series called THE ROBINSONS was shot...it was a revamped LOST IN SPACE...the pilot was directed by John Woo and never aired.
I've seen it. It's not terribly inspired, filled with unnesessarily beautiful people, but it wasn't as altogether awful as one might expect (this isn't to say it was terribly promising, either).
There's a really cool explosive decompression shot in it...someone running towards the camera in John Woo slow motion...the bulkhead shatter behind him...he gets sucked into space (more or less in one shot). What does this have to do with MEET THE ROBINSONS? Nothing at all, other than it's about a family named Robinson.
Here are some clips from the defunct LIS pilot:
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DragonRider23 sent in some developmental art from MEET THE ROBINSONS, which opens at the end of this month.
Whenever I hear the title of this film, I instinctively think it's a LOST IN SPACE sitcom - but it isn't. This one has gloomy cities of the future, and a bunch of time machines...all of which you can get a sense of below:
The "feel" of these time machines reminds me of Dino De Laurentiis' FLASH GORDON (which, in turn, took inspiration from elsewhere). Call me a sentimentalist, but I’m kind of a sucker for giant robotic attack spiders.
You know, now that I think about it, a pilot for a series called THE ROBINSONS was shot...it was a revamped LOST IN SPACE...the pilot was directed by John Woo and never aired.
I've seen it. It's not terribly inspired, filled with unnesessarily beautiful people, but it wasn't as altogether awful as one might expect (this isn't to say it was terribly promising, either).
There's a really cool explosive decompression shot in it...someone running towards the camera in John Woo slow motion...the bulkhead shatter behind him...he gets sucked into space (more or less in one shot). What does this have to do with MEET THE ROBINSONS? Nothing at all, other than it's about a family named Robinson.
Here are some clips from the defunct LIS pilot:
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Does Pixar have a part in all CG features now? Or was this done in the "old" Disney CG studios?
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Of the unaired TV pilots, Darkman was better...
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Actually, from what little these clips show of the aborted Lost in Space series, it doesn't look too bad...surprised it never got the chance. Network executives! - Incompetent ninnies!!!
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Yeah!!
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"Okaaay. You're kinda creepin' me out right now!" Because Annapolis is SO FUCKING CREEPY. Shut the fuck up. 10 seconds was all I needed.
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Let the "Disney ripping off Pixar" begin! This soulless clone of a Pixar film is exactly the reason that Disney needed to throw a grotesque amount of money at Pixar and buy them outright. Makes me want to VOMIT! I wish Pixar had split from Disney so that we could see what they would do without the yoke of Disney's money around their necks. Brad Bird RULES! out.
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looked like it would have been as good as the movie, without the charm of TV's Joey!
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IPAMPILASH!
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money and some recasting and some added script tweeking and the show might have taken off [no pun intended]. Too bad though.
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Mar 03, 2007 10:44:49 PM CST
Isnt this the plot of the "Star Trek Voyager" pilot?
by cotton mcknight
I got misty when I heard "Danger Will Robinson", though. I don't care how bad it is, that... moved me.
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Mar 03, 2007 10:45:37 PM CST
oh and all that artwork makes me think wherever this is
by cotton mcknight
is the planet where the Iron Giant came from.
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Is what the prequels should have looked like. Sorta. : - )
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That Lost in Space show doesn't look too bad from those clips. Does anyone know where we might download the entire thing? BitTorrent maybe?
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Because you know that any movie with a break dancing animal is just going to be stellar! *cough*
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I grew up, inasmuch as I grew up, I managed a halfhearted effort at best, watching Lost in Space in the sixties. It was easily the coolest thing on tv at the time, along with Batman and (for us in the UK)Thunderbirds. The film was a bit of a disappointment, where was the ubercool Jupiter 2 (apart from a little stage 1 lip service) ? Why change the robot (but thank Asimov for Dick Tufeld's voice).
As for the graphics up above, damn I just LOVE the retro sci-fi look. Count me in. All the way. IN !!! -
Damn you Michael Bay
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you'll know that it doesn't look a THING like this developmental artwork. Sad.
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remind me of the Lilo & Stitch ship designs. I remember hearing a designer saying that they wanted to get away from all the sharp edges on their designs. I think they were getting away from sharp edges so the toys from said film wouldn't be ostracised by the consumer product police.
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Wow Disney bashing, haven't seen any of that his hour. When I see phrases such as "Let the Disney ripping off Pixar begin" I realise just how moronic half the people on this site are. I don't see any similarities between this and Pixar films other than that they're in the same medium.
Oh what the hell, let's just slap the Pixar name on the front of this film then I'm sure everyone will love it right? Oops, how cynical of me to think there's ANY form of biased against Disney on this or any other site.
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Robot looks like shit and all the actors were wrong.
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When the new LIS pilot was not picked up, Ronald D Moore bought up the Jupiter 2 sets for next to nothing and used them for the CIC onboard the battlestar Pegasus
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You heard the story wrong, James Cameron bought those sets for his Jesus' Tomb Mockumentary. They look so Jerusalemy. The only thing redeeming about the LIS movie was Gary Oldman and Heather Graham's tits. The pilot looked awful (that's the Robot?).
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I saw it in the theater when it came out, back when I lived in South Austin, and I remember thinking it was reasonably good fun. There was some CGI alien who was all crazy. Then again, maybe the fact I was so fucking high at the time that I was hearing voices had something to do with my overall impressions. Oh how I miss that cheap Mexican brick weed...
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in the last clip? Tyra the skank?
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What the hell is the movie ABOUT!? All the trailers and commercials are a strung together pieces of non-sequiter gags.
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You're not going to see any similarities between "Meet the Robinsons" and a Pixar film because it is missing one key ingredient...heart. The comparison I was making was in the fact that the look and the design of the film is quite reminiscient of "The Incredibles", which is not better because it has the Pixar name on it, but better because it was a far superior film! "Meet the Robinsons" looks a lot more like a "Chicken Little" sized failure. A soulless damned creation whose only sin was having no heart. I'm not Disney bashing so much as I am voicing a complete distaste for the corporation and their product. If I were bashing them, I would disrespect all of their films out of hand without judging them on the merit of the work, but by the name that they bear. I just happen to dislike all of Disney's work as a matter of taste. I also dislike yogurt, are you also going to accuse me of yogurt bashing because I dislike all yogurt products?
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or maybe you'll just refer to me as moronic because you like yogurt as well as Disney.
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I really don't understand the appeal. There's a couple good gags in the trailer, but it all seems half-baked and uninspired--the bastard stepson of The Incredibles, with some Robots, Iron Giant, and Sky Captain thrown in for good measure. And acebandage, I was honestly getting a Chicken Little vibe from this for some reason.
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That is EXACTLY what I was saying!
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After all, yogurt gotta eat.
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I actually really enjoyed Lost in space the movie.
I was disapointed it didnt do that well, although it did open in first place at 20 million back in 1997
i was working as a projectionist at the Muvico Palm Harbor 10 in florida when it opened.LOST in SPACE was the first movie i Built up on my own as a projectionist after a month of training.
there was one scene in particular that i allways made a point of being in the back of the auditorium to do a theatre check on.
when the robinsons are trying to escape the planet and John Robinson chews up the scenery with the line "WE HAVE TO GO DOWN THROUGH THE PLANET...." oh that movie was so much fun, I thought the ideas they had for the sequal that they talked about on the dvd could have shown some real promise.
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in fact im going to put the DVD on now on my Toshiba DLP home projector right now.
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John Lassetter from Pixar is now head of all Disney animation and creative, including imagineering for the parks. Once he came onboard he scrapped 60 percent of the Meet the Robinsons movie and started over. He has stated that "Pixar is Pixar and Disney is Disney". and no Disney is not ripping off Pixar ....actually it is Lassetter who has led the way for a brand new state of the art studio being built in California for Disney which will bring back the 2-d hand drawn animation......including shorts (the first bringing back Goofys famous "how to" series....)
Aint it cool news talkbackers suck.....your a bunch of babies. WAAAAAAAAA -
I care not if Walt Disney, Orson Welles, and Gene Roddenberry came back from the grave to make this film. I still say it looks like reheated derivative crap. ____ P.S. : Jimmy Neutron is the other big influence I was trying to put my finger on. Thus making this film the bastard child of Jimmy Neutron and Elastigirl.
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is fantastic as the voice of the tyrannosaurus!!!
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fact one: Disney bought Lassiter and he is now as much a part of Disney as he is a part of Pixar. fact two: Meet the Robinsons is a DISNEY picture, not Pixar. and as you so eloquently pointed out, "Pixar is Pixar and Disney is Disney" fact three: this movie looks derivitive of many different animated films. Given these facts, along with my opinion that it looks like a derivitive pile of steaming cinematic failure, I am lead to sumise that my prior statements about the flop sweat dripping off of this project are in no way contrary to the facts which you have laid out. Now, if you don't mind, it appears I have made "boom-boom" in my "dipeys" and it is time for baby to go "beddy-by". Waaaa for now, Y'all!
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