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RATATOUILLE behind the scenes special scurrying up your Yahoo!
Hey folks, Harry here... We're all big Brad Bird fans here on AICN - THE IRON GIANT, THE INCREDIBLES... before that... THE SIMPSONS and FAMILY DOG. Oh yes, we're BIG HONKING FANS of Brad Bird.
It's taken longer though with RATATOUILLE to find my excitement for this - as a Brad Bird project. I didn't need a talking rat movie again. Oh sure - that's like saying "I didn't need another buddy cop flick" - but HOT FUZZ will cure your ass of stupidity like that. It's just - with Brad - I like that his animation isn't just that basic Disney formula. It's kinda - a special Brad Bird thing. Where he takes the humor and the endless possibilities of animation... hits you with them right up front, but then slowly but surely makes you forget that it is animation as you invest so much emotionally - that suddenly... blissfully... you're caught up in whatever bit of outrageous, yet emotionally intimate - form of drama - suspense that he's laid out for you.
I just wasn't seeing that in RATATOUILLE's glimpses that we were getting. It seemed like another story about wise-cracking rats up to non-rat things... and frankly, that will never be done better than THE SECRET OF NIMH.
Then this latest trailer hit! And suddenly I got it. Brad Bird and Pixar are adapting the classic Chuck Jones Looney Tunes ONE FROGGY EVENING - only - the man and animal form a co-dependent relationship - for each to achieve their dreams. I like it. I like it alot.
Right now - over at Yahoo in the mind-numbingly aggravating Windows Media format is a Behind the Scenes feature on RATATOUILLE featuring the maestro, BRAD BIRD and we even get a wonderful earful of Michael Giacchino's lush scoring work for the film. So give it a watch - and - listen - if the format doesn't choke on ya!
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ZOMG!
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stop assuming that just because a certain person is helmed to star or direct a film that it will be good. Tom Hanks screwed up DaVinci Code, Spielberg did Hook, etc.
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Love me some Brad Bird...although I like the muppet rats...Secret of Nymh is good too, but c'mon show some love to Henson and Co...ok, I'll admit they're a little annoying...what? Ok, well I liked them when I was little.
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How hard are you flipping the bird right now?
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hi harry, go to this link and download this great plugin. you watch wmv files in quicktime. much much better.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx
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It's the Real Deal
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I smoke when I shoot the bird and as Ignignokt once said "I hope he can see this because I'm doing it as hard as I possibly can."
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hmmmm?
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And Bird is God, so stfu ty :)
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Hook was meh.
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Brilliant cast and amazing music + a great take on a familiar story = priceless Childhood Spielberg sentiments.
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WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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...to be certain, but it didn't come together that way.Maybe it was the kids they cast (as Peter's kids...the Lost Boys were mostly fine).Maybe it was Robin Williams frequent trips off the reservation while shooting (his obviously scripted moments came across brillianly, but the stuff that I suspect was improv feels very improv). Maybe it was just too much of Steve's own baggage (hadn't he just dumped his middle-aged wife for a slightly younger model) infused int he material. It didn't feel like the story of a grown up Peter Pan at all.Hoffman's Captain Hook was fun, though.
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The Main Attraction I think it was called. Wasn't all that great, but you could see some of the Brad Bird sensibilities in it.
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Here ya go. Windows sucks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utCMr03W8wc
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...and abolish Media Player, Real Player and any other kind of half-assed, barely functioning, head exploding player. There should be only Quicktime. Beautiful, sweet Quicktime. I hope this is a major issue during the '08 elections. I will vote for whoever takes this stance.
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I've rarely disliked a movie character more that I disliked Rufio. I just hate the character, beginning to end. And most of the rest of them were FAR too cutesy. Overly so. I had no problem with Charlie Korsmo (sp?) and the little girl that played Peter's kids at all... but those Lost Boys. Sweet Fuck! I'll take the Lost Boys in the live action "Peter Pan" any day...
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...but I thought he sucked most when playing off Williams. Peter's kids, however, annoyed the piss out of me every time they were on screen.
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Back to Ratatouille... it looks good. It looks like it's keeping a LOT in the bag, though. These trailers show only what seems to be a shell of a plot, I imagine there'll be a lot more to it in the actual movie. Hopefully lots of good supporting characters, too.
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(even though that's when he was supposed to be UNlikable) but hated his rosy cheeked, shaved armed Peter Pan. But yeah... as for this movie. I will see anything with Bird's name on it... but I was only cautiously optimistic about this before... now I'm officially psyched.
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Only an American would say "Paris, France."
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Damn you Iron Giant!
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Apr 10, 2007 6:19:22 PM CDT
I saw The Incredibles openning day and I'll see this as
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well openning day. I can name the my favorite animated movies in the last 10 years: Incredibles, Nemo, Over the Hedge, and A Bugs Life. And I've seen a ton since I enjoy cartooning / sketching. Anything, even sub par Pixar, is better then the "Open Season" shit anyday. And that's not saying I will settle for less. I have faith in Bird and the standards he works by. This will be great fun.Besides, Kurt Russell was laughing at the trailer so that's gotta mean something! Sorry - had to say it.
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Been there for a few days:
http://snipurl.com/1g09p
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This will be as good as the others. I mean, does the trailer intrigue you? It didn't excite me. BRING ON TOY STORY 3 MOTHERSCRATCHERS!
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I love Brad Bird, but this little video is worthless with all the predictable ass kissing, etc.
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Flushed Away.
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I hope I'm wrong.
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2-DISC special edition DVD on June 19th (2 days before my birthday, no less). Buy it and support traditional animation, Oh, and Ratatoulie looks okay, but the trailers haven't given me the same buzz as The Incredibles.
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..TAINT being included in the conversation?
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If so, i'm stoked, fella! Been waiting for Nimh for ages. Its the only good film that nonce Bluth ever did. he went sharply downhill after this. Nimh was on another level. In London its only on a skeleton shitty dvd edition with no extras. Will there be directors commentary? Behind the scenes artwork? Looking forward to dat shit...........to jimmy_009, i agree. they should do dat shit here too. I'll vote for David Cameron if he outlaws everything but quicktime. Windows shitdea player makes me wanna punch the person closest to me. Furious! dats my word from da streets.
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The best Amazing stories episode ever! by Bird.
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family dog rules.
i'm also very excited about ratatouille. "cars" didn't even make me want to enter the theater, but it looks like pixar is back on track with this one. -
His character design on Family Dog was great too. Too bad most of Danny Elfman's career is in there though. He's been repeating himself (with some great exceptions) ever since.
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Yes, there will be a Bluth/Gary Goldman commentary and the film's first-ever 1:85 widescreen transfer, as well as the original 1:33 fullscreen (which the film was originally animated in, only matted to widescreen for theaters). Bluth and Goldman will also be providing interview soundbites for a making-of documentary. I don't know what else will be included, but just the widescreen transfer + commentary makes this a must-have. Oh, and Bluth's Anastasia and Titan A.E. were both awesome, and An American Tail and Land Before Time are both very fine.
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Man i need to go to work for these guys.
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i, too, was bummed by the teaser, but i only just now saw the trailer - SO much better. worlds better. a different movie, even. even so...a proper nimh dvd would be in HEAVY rotation in my player.
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Horrible movie with lame characters, weak story, and too many gay effects.
And it's ugly and repetative, too.
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NIMH is one of the best fucking animated movies ever made. And "gay" effects? Huh?
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But HOOK is a spectacular failure. It does have a great cast, it is an interesting concept, and the score is brilliant, but the film just didn't work. The script is a mess and that is very difficult, if not impossible, to overcome. RATATOUILLE just doesn't seem that interesting. CARS looked very mediocre, and ended up being very mediocre, yet it still made bank. When will Pixar have a failure? CAN Pixar have a failure? That's the question.
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That news has made my day, fella. dat film was one of my favourites when i was a london rat growing up on the estates. more importantly it hasnt diminished with time. his others unfortunately have. american tale was a steep step down storywise. very treacly. land before time was okay (zondag brothers ripped it off later with shitnosaur...sorry, dinosaur), all dogs had serious problems- it was good up until that fucking alligator came in and sang about shit, nothing to do with the story, also charlie lost or changed his whole motivation half-way thru the picture for no apparent reason, rock-a-doodle was horse-shit, cant believe phil "baloo" harris signed up for dat. a troll in central park was crap and for under twos. thumbelina at least got the recognition it deserved- worst songs, worst soundtrack..etc. pebble n penguin was so shit, nonceman bluth removed his name from it. anastatia was a foot in the right direction marred only by artists who couldnt draw and stay on model, same with titan, but titan was his best since nimh. bartok the shitnificent was just embarrasing. dats my word.
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you're thinking of 'carebears in new york', you nonce. nimh is a classic. its the only bluth film i'll defend cos its not only wicked in its own right, but it ushered in period of change within the whole fucking industry. disney stopped churning out 70's style shit and returned to lush 40's style films (mermaid onwards), speilberg jumped on his (bluth's) ass to make american tail which as much as it pains me to say it was a fucking massive hit, despite shit reviews. had dat massive shit song too dat was played evrywhere n i wanted to tear my ears off and stick them on my mama's titties. so Undead03, go back and learn, you fucker. stop being a troll nonce and recognize.
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That's my word from the council estates
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