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Hand Drawn Animation Sure Is Beautiful, Even For This Silly Ol Bear...
Merrick here...
Next Summer, WINNIE THE POOH WILL return to the big screen in a new, hand-drawn animated film from Disney.
Veteran Disney animator/storyman/director Burny Mattinson (a key animator on the 1974 featurette “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!”) serves as senior story artist, with a dynamic young directing duo—Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall—at the helm.
...says Disney's press material about the project.
Glad to see Disney working on occasional hand-drawn projects, although I felt similar effort was largely betrayed by crappy pacing and uninteresting story movements on their recent PRINCESS AND THE FROG picture. Hopefully The Powers That Be learned some critical lessons from that one, and will apply them here...
Eeyore bumping into that tree is pretty funny...
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Veteran Disney animator/storyman/director Burny Mattinson (a key animator on the 1974 featurette “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!”) serves as senior story artist, with a dynamic young directing duo—Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall—at the helm.
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i want more hand-drawn animated films
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but you beat me to it.
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top critics. Thank god for critics' lessons or hollywood would just keep making the same mistakes over and over.
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not too twee, and not overrun with horrible american child voices. Hope this is made in the same spirit.
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was pretty well done. Lots of color and movement. Good songs. It was good to see new hand drawn Disney animation.
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I don't know, just pooh
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The Princess and the Frog was great. It still bothers me to no end that the inept Squeakquel made so much more last year.
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would hold more interest for me. Plus, listening to Keane is like wiping your shit covered arsehole with a razor blade.
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hand drawn cartoons are.
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Yes!! I love the vibe, the song matches it perfectly "Oh simple things, where have they gone?" This is a bold move by Disney which is spot on for the season the human race is in.
Sometimes you dont need motion capture and 3d, U just need alot of heart.
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by whatever half ass sack of shit cg 3d flick comes out the same week or there's abouts.
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but only the "Many Adventures of" film. Any time they've tried to do another full-length film with these characters, it falls flat. The magic is just not there. I think the original film is brilliant, but it might be a product of its time. It will be great to see hand drawn stuff again, though - esp. if they do EVERYTHING by hand, including the backgrounds, which is something the industry has pretty much delegated to computers these days, but here's to hoping, I suppose.
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all they want is our honey and picnic baskets and they'll do whatever it takes to get them
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He doesn't have time for Eeyore????
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...it really is...isn't it?
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Like where the wild things are, they are the lead boy's escapist imagination he uses to avoid the confrontation of being molested. It's all right in front of you if youw atch closely
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Bud Lucky of Pixar is the voice of Eeyore.
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I don't know if I'd go to see it myself. Maybe on netflix on a saturday afternoon.
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Hate hate hate.
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I had heard that Disney is making a point to make this one be more inspired by the old books, and match with Disney's earliest Pooh film. This trailer says a new story, but I thought that it was actually supposed to include some book stories Disney has yet to adapt.
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THe house of A.A. Milne has had two rock n roll deaths.
One. Brian Jones - Rolling Stones.
And the partner of Moody Blues founder Denny Laine. Jo JO Laine fell down the stairs there. -
It's not one of the "adult humor added in to a kids' story" movies. I mean, I understand making some things for a wide audience, and making something that parents can actually sit through, but they still have to make things for kids. As long as they don't have the mentality that "for kids" equals "really stupid".
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I thought they might have gone for something different. BEcause just seeing that trailer alone i thought it was same one from years ago.
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and then they threw it out and redid it in 3D?
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Just lifts his legs and lets loose. I hate it when you think it's just gas and you end up with bees.
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Its not the format that was lacking...it was the stories. Disney made some really crappy movies and then when they tanked decided it was because they werent CGI...no,they tanked because they were crappy stories with crappy characters!
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Nov 12, 2010 12:21:36 PM CST
Why always with the obligatory emo music in the trailer?
by yotzvonfrelnik
I know... it makes it MODERN. But I don't want my classics modernized. We love the classic Winnie The Pooh features because they're from back THEN, not today. If they used some music in the vein of the late '60s/early '70s I don't think it would offend.
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hilarious
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I guess Nic Cage and his trailer will have to wait... The witches must not be in season yet...
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Christopher Robin married his cousin and had a retarded baby. True story.
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are and always were the best part of Disney's hand-drawn movies, for me. Pure magic.
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I don't see why he wouldn't. He's always said he enjoys the character. But to the point of "Bayformers;" if he ever was presented with a choice, I'm sure he's getting paid more on those movies then he has ever gotten in his whole career.
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The Princess and the Frog was one of Disney's best ever. I was in utter awe that it turned out as well as it did, and my 3 yr. old was hooked as well.
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Rottentomato score for Princess & the Frog is 84%!
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Damn, yo. That voice sounds rough. Movie looks gorgeous and sweet, though.
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This is how you do it. Take note, Yogi Bear
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Winnie the fuckin Pooh. How awesome.
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There's no reason to drop hand drawn completley, but I think in todays world, a studio would be stupid to do hand drawn exclusively, If they want to make money then CGI is the best way to go..sad I know, but the truthI think ol' Walt would have approved of computers, he was always exploriong new ways of doing animation and essentially a CGI renderd film is just an evolved animated film, the cimputer is the artists tool rather then a pencil (I laugh at people who say theres no art form in a CGI movie - Like you just tell the computer to do it and it appears)
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As much as i love the computer animated stuff from Pixar and some of the stuff from Dreamworks ("How to train your Dragon" was FANTASTIC!) i sometimes miss the warm feeling that hand drawn movies can have. This looks like it has that 'old school' feeling of animation. Maybe it's just because it reminds me of the style that animated movies from my childhood had. Who knows?
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. . . and they left out that Zooey Deschanel is singing the theme song this time 'round. All the kids will be distracted by fanboy douches jerking off. . .
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...as the original. Damn, but Disney is creatively bankrupt these days. Tron returns, Pooh returns, and there's Muppets and Black Hole etc. Jeezus christ, is there no faded franchise Disney won't zombify? That trailer, while it's cute, sorta, makes me ache for the original Pooh toon that was animated by the Nine Old Men. The craft of that original is nowhere in this trailer, except where Tigger bowls Pooh over...does that scene look familiar to anyone? The current Disney animators couldn't draw fresh animation for that move? Or maybe they realized that they couldn't match it, so they just re-used it? Poo on this Pooh. How about something a little fresher, Disney? God, Rich Ross and Bob Iger suck. I'm beginning to doubt Lasseter too. THIS is the best he can do?
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...you can hand draw straight into the computer?
What manner of wizardry is this? Yes! they use inkless drawing implements to allow artists to draw pictures... in a machine....
Burn them! Burn Them! They be witches.
No, 'tis true.
Nostalgia is a sweet thing but it can also be blinding.
That music... Not working for me. It leans towards the wiener.
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And you'd have a smash hit. I can see it already. That excellent John Barry score cues up and we slow zoom into the robot Maximilian's eyes , to see its Animal underneath the Helmet
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Nov 12, 2010 1:48:56 PM CST
Will it be based on any of Milne's stories, or will it be...
by royston lodge
...yet another direct-to-dvd, lowest-common-denominator, crap-fest?
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from Disney. Or I wouldn't mind Pixar breaking off a bunch of Marvel Universe films, and possibly creating another branch to put out only Marvel films. Could you imagine a 60's X-Men film done in the style of the Incredibles? My God.
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If you were looking for Node 47431, apparently that node has been asked (Kindly, I'm sure.) to cease and desist. NO SEASON OF THE WITCH TRAILER FOR YOU! trailer nazis... um, Oh yeah, 2-D animation vs. CGI? Alas, the little ones don't know. Don't care either. *shrugs* Whatcha gonna do? They want their Happy Meals. NOW!!
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Nov 12, 2010 1:51:20 PM CST
Think a cinematic version of The Tao of Pooh would work?
by royston lodge
Please consider this a sincere question, and not my usual sarcasm.
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I thought they had decided to keep the whole thing "walt Disney presents" whenever it was a new, traditional,in-house production?
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Damn, I'm a mess today.
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Damn, I wish they'd followed-through on that one.
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Nov 12, 2010 1:53:37 PM CST
I would love to see a CGI Justice league from DC animation
by redhead_redemption
seriously watch the 6 minute trailer for the New Justice League video game and tell me that you wouldn't kill for the next Bruce Timm animated movie to be CGI as oppsed to cell animated. Under the red hood was great, but imagine if it was renederd to look realistic
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nice to see them now and again.
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Here's the trailer:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/ independent/seasonofthewitch/ omit the spaces please. -
...but only if they put in the effort required to really give those DC Universe movies a run for their money.
I'm imagining animated versions of:
- Demon in a Bottle
- Amazing Spider-Man #121
- Civil War
- World War Hulk
- Secret Wars
- Kraven's Last Hunt
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Watch Beauty & The Beast. When it first came out, even as a kid, there was something about it that I thought was wrong, that didn't quite add up. After deciding to watch it a couple of years ago just to see how it held up I was shocked at how... There is an incredibly small amount of character development - for instance, the Prince's backstory is told in the story-book-prologue in the beginning.
Which might be ok in a better movie, but then you look at his actual story: He was a young teen (around 16 or 17) when he first encountered the enchantress, I mean, who wouldn't be kind of a douche at that age, am I right? Especially with all that money!
And Gaston, while full of himself, never really is established to be a complete asshole, except that he's really into Belle when he could have any other girl in the village.
I just, I mean, I don't know, it's been a while since I re-watched it so I can't remember all of the issues I had with it, but I am stupefied that it got nominated for Best Picture. As for The Princess and The Frog, having lived in New Orleans for a year, I thought it was a really pleasant movie and kind of a shot in the arm that Disney needed with it's flicks. I mean hell, it had the balls to kill of a main character! -
it was released last year or maybe 08 but it was an official sequel by an author who got permission from Milne's family. its a bunch of little stories as well so they can make movies outta that one for years if they've gone through the originals.
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...Conan O'Brien trying to sound sexy.
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the damn movie, totally robbing any sort of anticipation or dread about what he actually might look like.
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I can think of quite a few Disney classics where pacing is an issue.
Lady & The Tramp. Aristocats. Bambi. Dumbo. Robin Hood.
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I knew I'd heard that sound before and thought it was REALLY odd they were using it in a kids movie...
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Nov 12, 2010 2:11:24 PM CST
I don't know about the others, but I give Bambi a pass
by iamnicksaicnsn
(another movie I'd watched in the last couple of years to see how it held up), just because it's so old, and the whole thing has this sort of airy mystical feeling to it, that I didn't really mind how quickly everything happens.
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I've often wondered if they could pull off a movie of Tao of Pooh, preferably a mix of live action and animation. Doubt it would be in theaters, especially with it's Eastern philosophy... I imagine it would anger a lot of fundies... but I'd still like to see it made as a TV movie or direct to DVD.
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Go ahead and say it, I'm a gigantic queer.
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It was always going to be CGI, but the original writer-director had planned a non-photo realistic CGI look that evoked a painterly/hand-drawn style. There's concept art out there that looks amazing. Rapunzel had a similar plan. For whatever reason when Disney and Pixar renewed their agreement and put Lasseter in charge of Disney's animation division he axed both approaches and brought in new writers and directors to make the flicks more conventional Pixar styled CGI.
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...just because hand-drawn animation is so bloody labour-intensive, and because those movies are still freakin' gorgeous regardless of any issues.
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is how universally praised it was, to the point of earning an Oscar nom, when that Renaissance period of Disney movies gave it such stronger Competition (Lion King and Aladdin, Mulan, even The Hunchback and Pocahontas, and to a lesser extent Hercules and Tarzan, though I'll never forgive the Academy for giving Phil Collins the award over Trey and Matt that year.)
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Nov 12, 2010 2:18:52 PM CST
Royston, have you seen the Disney Copy Paste youtube clip?
by iamnicksaicnsn
Yeah, I'm sure I'd agree that I'd give all of those a pass considering how incredible they are , visually. Still think this video is fascinating, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh84g8rC2oA
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Pacing is a major problem in most modern movies. They try to cram so much eye-popping action into the 2hr slot, that they end up losing valuable time for character development.
Just look at the original "Star Wars - A New Hope"; That movie feels like it spans months, the whole first chapter on Tatooine feels like you actually live it with them. Nowadays you get "Transformers", where the entire experience is like being hit over the head a thousand times with an articulated truck at such a rate that the entire assault is compressed into 4 nanoseconds. -
The style of A. A. Milne is so perfect for hand-drawn and so wrong for CGI. I'm glad to see that the artists at Disney continue to agree. While I no longer watch Disney films with my kids--we're all too old--I'm glad the latest generation can see what great artists and animators can still do with their hands.
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So obviously it's going to finish second, but I suspect this will be more of a nostalgia trip for the oldheads.
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but probablyd din't cost hardly anything to produce..quick cash grab by Disney..they are good at those.
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It makes me chuckle.
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...come from Disney flicks I mentioned as having pacing problems. Maybe those happen to be the movies where they cut corners.
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Peter Cullen didn't turn down the job,he was replaced.Bud Luckey is the new voice.
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I'm glad I'm finally old and mature enough to enjoy going to the theatre with my fiance and enjoying a nice animated movie. The best movie we've seen in the last few years was Toy Story 3...
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like Shepard's style, which is superior to Disneyfied Pooh.And B&TB does indeed have shallow character development, though The Beast does lighten up progressively as Gaston gets nastier.Go look at the Little Golden Books for Recent Disney & Pixar; they are stylized and simplified in muted pencil colors and strokes, and have vastly more soul. The one for Bolt is a startling contrast to the CG rendition.
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This doesn't look bad, but it sure isn't going to win any awards for animation. Not classic Disney, to be sure. Straight to DVD quality, I'd say.
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Those twee songs make me want to puncture my eardrums. Is there any truth to the rumor that Christopher Robin grew up to be Brick Top Tony from Snatch?
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Piglet gets raped by a pack full of Tiggers?
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Really guys?
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Good choice. He has this awesome, Sam Elliot-style drawl.As for the film, the animation looks lovely, and I really want to support hand-drawn 'toons as much as possible, but...Winnie The Pooh is awfully kiddie stuff, even if you ARE a kid. If Disney wants to bring back hand-drawn features in a big way, they have to appeal to EVERYONE, and not in a retarded "throw in a bunch of pop culture references and flailing slapstick" way (like Tangled appears to be doing, although that may be the fault of whoever is cutting those irritating trailers). I really enjoyed The Princess & The Frog, and think it was shameful how mediocre the box office returns were. Disney needs to make more timeless features like The Little Mermaid, Beauty & The Beast and Aladdin (well, as timeless as a movie with Arsenio Hall references can be). Audiences didn't stop attending hand-drawn Disney features because they only wanted to see CGI movies, they stopped seeing them because they started to FUCKING SUCK after the 90's. In 1994 Disney released The Lion King. in 2004 they released Home On The Range. See a pattern?
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the animation was gorgeous. I would love for Disney to put out a hand drawn animated feature at least once every other year. I really hope there is a market for these types of films.
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I found this trailer to be strange... and sad.
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Is this, like, the same people from the old ones doing the voices?
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Just look at the middle of the trailer where Pooh is floating in a fantasy of hunny: don't tell me that 3-d flowing hunny is done by hand.
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Does anybody REALLY care about Winnie the Pooh any more? I mean really??
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My daughter loves it...so I get to see it at least once a week. It isn't a terrible movie. I'd put it somewhere along the lines of The Rescuers or The Little Mermaid. Not A list Disney, but watchable. And certainly leaps and bounds ahead of something like Shrek or Barnyard. I can't say I love the film...but I'm not a hater either. There are parts that I genuinely like. Just about any scene with Charlotte in it stands out. Too bad she wasn't the main character.
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He announced that he got the axe at a Transformers convention last year. The worst voice I'm hearing in this trailer is Owl. Ick.
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wow. Pretty hyped for this one. I pray that it's a success so Disney continues 2D animation. It looked so good. And I seriously cracked a smile at the end of the trailer when it zooms out of the book.
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Nov 12, 2010 4:34:24 PM CST
They should take the story from this Winnie the Pooh book:
by sifodyasjr.
http://tinyurl.com/34dswtx
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I watched the trailer just to waist time but I actually got chills (the good kind, but not the disturbing kind) while watching that. Now to just find a nephew or two to drag to the theater so I don't get all the weird looks.
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I've seen some pretty bad trailers before, but this one takes the cake. The editing is fucking atrocious. If the film turns out great, the what a shame to have it be represented by this trailer.
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...No, I do NOT want to know what Under the Red Hood would have looked like in CG. CG is NOT realistic, unless you have a gazillion dollars to pump into it, as in Avatar. CGI mixed with live-action, as in Lord of the Rings (and Avatar), looks decent enough, but the last entirely CG film I saw with even a few moments of realism in it was Wall-E. Thank god the new Pooh film is being done the old-fashioned way.
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So what? Almost every 2D animated film that's come out in the last twenty years or so has had at least some 3D stuff used for effect. Big deal. Does it cheapen the amazing work the artists have been putting into those films? I think not.
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I had the ORIGINAL cartoons on VHS, with the english narrator. Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too broke the fourth wall and blew my young mind.
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One of the best things I've seen since Disney's renaissance!
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Nov 12, 2010 6:24:43 PM CST
They definitely need to bring back the 2-D. Disney and Dreamwork
by codename
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He was the shit! an american tale, all dogs go to heaven. it was a standard of animation that outshined disney for a time. in terms of hand drawn work imo. but then disney had the bigger studio and budgets and could afford the best.
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Blah blah, bitch about Princess and the Frog, blah blah some more. PatF > Winnie the Pooh, because it's a story for grownups as much as kids. I'm sure this will be a fine kid's movie as Winnie the Pooh is meant to be, but it won't outdo PatF because it's not in the same league of storytelling.
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I think you're selling the maturity level of Winnie the Pooh a little short. While yes, the stories and films are designed to speak to children, the original film and the AA Milne books also contain an elegiac nostalgia for the innocence of childhood, and a wistfulness about the days when 'doing nothing' slipped away into grown-up responsibility. They're not just one-dimensional kid's stories.
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Will Lumpy be back or ignored? Most important question concerning this movie.
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Something that looks like it's done right recently.
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I am sick and tired of 3D/CGI/MoCap.
Bring back the traditional hand drawn animation style.
In 10 years I'll be watching Disney's 1970's Robin Hood classic...
...No way in hell I'm going to watch Wall-E.
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I'll be there.
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Probably my Favourite Disney of the past ten years. Great classical 2D animation with tasteful and well-spotted use of cel-shaded 3D (for jumbo jets and the like).
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I picture Dom DeLuise for some reason.
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Also, those early issues that dealt with the Norman/Harry/Goblin saga, culminating in Gwen Stacy's death followed by Norman's. God what I wouldn't give for that, especially set in the 60's and done in Ditko's style.
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Have Disney not already flogged this character to death? Bad enough that they Disneyfied Winnie The Pooh in the first place. Let me know when someone finally does a hand-drawn, sepia-tinted movie in the style of E.H. Shepard's original drawings and maybe then I'll give a Pooh.
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Oh do fuck off. Five Wikipedia minutes ago you had no idea who Sherphard was.
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The greats never get old.
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Nov 12, 2010 9:19:56 PM CST
This looks beautiful! because it looks like a children's
by quadrillionaire
animated film that could have been released 10, 20, 30 years ago. Simple, innocent story, no modern references. Absolutely timeless!
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Nov 12, 2010 9:24:54 PM CST
FeralAngel no no... you have to rememeber this is Disney
by murdermostfowl
This is Disney. If anything, they are doing some of these reboots to be able to recopyright their works. The case of Winnie the Pooh is especially risky for them to let go of because if their endless battle against Stephen Slesinger, Inc for the rights from the Milne estate.
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Nov 12, 2010 9:31:35 PM CST
Now THIS is the only Winnie I would pay money to see...
by half-baked-goggle-box-do-gooder
http://boingboing.net/2010/07/21/winnie-the-hulk.html
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And the song 'Somewhere only we know' is actually pretty fitting. It's about the innocence of the past, and going back to that special place when you have troubles. WInnie the Pooh in essence follows that as well... especially in the context of traditional animation, familiar characters etc...
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Kids even know who winnie the pooh is, it will be somthing that their parents will drag them too while their screaming 'but I wanna see CatNutz in 3d!'
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That had never occurred to me, but it makes perfect sense. Excellent reasoning, sir! Yes, the loss of Pooh would indeed be devastating to Disney, because after all, if it lost the silly ol' bear it'd be stuck with characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie, Darkwing Duck...you know, losers (sounds like I'm being facetious, but one can only surmise that Disney does feel exactly that way about the characters it owns that were created in-house. Otherwise it would be making new movies of THEM, instead of movies about characters it's either adapted or bought. Sad, isn't it?)
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I'd love to see more hand drawn stuff, but the animation quality in that trailer reminds me of Eisner's direct-to-video cash grab sequels. I miss Don Bluth. Where's my Dragon's Lair full length animated feature?
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Hand-drawn is animation on cells, actually drawn by hand using pencils and paints. It is pretty much dead. This is "hand-drawn" in that a hand held the stylus used to imput the images into the computer, where they were composed, colored and effects like all that CG honey were added. You can barely even call this 2D any more, but that's still the only thing you can call it. 2D animation. Whichever style you prefer, there is a gaping chasm between this and real hand-drawn stuff.
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Or perhaps it's because I own the complete A.A. Milne Pooh books, my parents having bought them for me as a child. Don't be so quick to assume you know everything.
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You deserve all the hunny pots in the world!!!
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MAKE IT SO!!!!!!!
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Who belongs in the category "Only person ever allowed to voice this character as long as he is alive" along with Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime and Phil Hartman as the mercifully retired Troy McClure (Thank you, Simpsons producers, for not replacing him with Billy West. Zap is a great tribute, but it aint Phil) and a few others (suggestions?) I shudder to think who will do Mickey Mouse now that Wayne Allwine is gone. Also, dammit, I like the Keane song and think it's used perfectly here.
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After how he's been vocalized since the original Disney shorts, this new voice just doesn't seem to fit. Though we have to wonder if families will pay to see this, given that it will be on DVD 3-5 months later.
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...what brought them to the party.
I'm stoked. I've been revisiting their hand drawn classics this year on DVD, and this seems to be very much in that vein. Look at the backgrounds. Disney's drawn backgrounds never fail to take my breath away. Yes, I definitely have a good feeling about this. -
What the fuck are you on about? What difference does it make if a drawing is made by a hand holding a pencil or a hand holding a stylus? The hand is still doing all the work, only the tool used is different. "Hand drawn" is still a fully appropriate term to use.
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Nov 13, 2010 11:16:09 AM CST
If you really want to do classic, hand drawn animation...
by l.h.puttgrass
Turn the computer off. Throw away the mouse, the stylus, the pad, whatever. Now, you're going to need some pencils for sketching ideas. Paper to sketch on... Oh yeah! And a studio set up for cel animation. Then you'll need to hand draw each cel. Then you'll paint them. Click off one frame of film for each cel. You'll need 24 cels for each second of film... Anybody feel like turning their computers back on yet? A society that can't wait for 30 seconds for a hotdog to cook in a microwave has killed cel animation. 35mm cameras are out, digital cameras are in. Hey, no waiting for developing! And look at all the cool things you can do with the pics! We can't wait for anything anymore. Need to make a phonecall? Wait til you get home? Fuck no! - Use a payphone? - What's that grampa? - It's a phone you put money in to use. - Fuck that! I got my iPhone! - iPhone? - Shit yeah! I'll just make that call now! While I'm drivin'! - Is that a good idea? - Good idea? It only costs me $100 something a month and I can call people from anywhere. Restaurants, movies, churches, bathrooms, and right here behind the wheel! - Wow. That's wonderful kid. Let's try not to hit that bus. OK? This is as close to classic hand drawn animation as Hollywood will ever get. Computers are faster. Nothing has to dry. No waiting, just rendering. The old studios are gone and computers have been cranking out animated stuff for 20+ years. I think they started with something called CAPS. I don't know what software they're using now. That trailer did look ok at first. Then the obviously cgi honey started flowing across the screen and the bubble popped. The spell was broken. Even when they're trying to resemble hand drawn animation, they just can't resist going "full-retard". Sure they could've done the honey like everything else, but that 3-D engine was just sitting there. Idle. They can't resist THAT! Ya gotta show off! Get used to it guys. Cuz it aint gonna change.
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When Shmuckichu is right here in the talkback? No waiting! Oh, thank you Shmuckichu!
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How much for some Pooh Bear Nike Shox? My little cousin doesn't play B-Ball unless he's "Stylin'".
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I am so sick of animated films miscasting movie celebrities to chase after box office. None of the great animated films are driven by celebrity voices. The best ones use voice pros and Broadway actors who KNOW HOW TO PERFORM and not "act" in the modern style of low-key mumbling.
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And who cares if 2D productions resort to CG to do shit that will get done in a fraction of the time and not give an animator a heart attack? I only care if teh end product meshes well together. In fact I love it when 2D and 3D CG combine to make an amazing spectacle where the two styles blend in well together! Even Studio Ghibli uses CG every now and then. The Japanese 2D industry has been churning out some quality stuff and 2D shows that adults can enjoy on par with what you get from live action. 2-D didn't disappear. Everyone else just got tired of the kiddy crap Disney kept churning out and went to where they'd find something of mroe substance. Princess Monoke, Spirited Away, Akira, Tokyo Godfathers etc. put all of this to shame! Hell even recent films like Steamboy, or OVAs like Karas, or the new Evangelion flicks, Summer Wars, REDLINE, Paprika etc. despite what you think of their story, are some outstanding quality 2-D work that also employs CGI when necessary and everything looks spetacular! Get with the times! But Noooo I guess American audiences are simply to closed minded. At least we get anthologies like Animatrix every once in awhile, and the Avatar show is great for all ages and just occasionally you'll get another Simpsons movie. Pooh looks like wonderful work, but I'm simply not interested in going to a theatre to watch this. I know we should support 2D, but come on, make something with source material that's better. Even Spiderman movies would be great, but we're giving those to the Japanese to do too. And frankly the new Iron Man is pretty good. Disney now owns Marvel. They should do a full length theaterical Spidey or X-Men flick. Hell, make a Kingdom Hearts movie if you have to, just do something different than what you've been doing. The people who watched your classics and love them are grown up now and want something else.
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and kids shows. That's what's missing from 99.9% of all modern children's programming and even, really, Pixar's films. If you remember Pinwheel, most of Sesame Street (especially the opening), Today's Special... hell, The Hobbit, they all had kind of a calming effect on me when I was a kid. Then you look at everything today, like Dora, Yo Gabba Gabba, it's all HYPED UP, ADD, SHOUT ALONG WITH US! type of programming. Every computer animated film has the same exact fucking trailer and the same beats, music, etc. No wonder so many run around like chickens with their heads cut off, everything they watch is TURNED UP TO 11. Then it seems like kids totally go from watching these shows to listening to Eminem if you're a boy and wishing you were Kim Kardashian if you're a girl... there is literally no inbetween anymore, they go from infants to wannabe adults.
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its true.
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is that Bud Luckey doing Eyore's voice?
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Jim Cummings back as Pooh and Tigger, these are good things. Then I see Spongebob as Rabbit and I hope that'll work, but Tom Kenny's voice almost always creeps through at me. Anyway, the trailer looks good, the musical choice is dubious, but the animation and art look top drawer, and having Christopher Robin actually be in there says the right things - the character had been mitigated to the sidelines in recent years.
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There's nothing that will get some kid to want to see this and not the next ham-fisted, humor in your face, bullshit CGI flick except for some BALLS OUT MARKETING. Otherwise, Pooh will just be a silly old flop.
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They gave away the ending! Pooh wants honey? What the fuck?!
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Disney threw Winnie the Pooh and friends to the back of the bus for one reason. About 10 years or so ago, he was more popular and made more money for them than Mickey Mouse. So they did their best to kill him. On his 80th birthday, there was nothing special at all, not even in the parks around his ride.
However, this has the look and feel of traditional Disney's Winnie the Pooh (which is how he is actually referred as instead of Classic Pooh). I like this and can't wait for it! I mean after all, check out my name! -
Nov 13, 2010 10:28:09 PM CST
Okay, I'm not as knowledgeable about Winnie the Pooh...
by l.h.puttgrass
as many of y'all are. So I have a question. What is a Pooh bear? They call him Winnie THE Pooh. So, is he a Pooh or a Pooh bear? What the hell is a Pooh? Or a Pooh bear for that matter? How did Disney get involved with a character with such a name? Did they not know that Pooh sounds like poo? That kids would go nuts with the poo jokes? Imagine if no one had ever heard of Winnie or any Pooh bears. Could Winnie the Pooh be introduced to today's world? Hey parents! Bring your kids down to the theater! We've got a movie for the whole family! It's called Winnie the Pooh! He's a Pooh bear! Yeah! And runs around the forest wearing a red shirt but no pants! Looking for hunny! He's got a friend named Piglet and another named Eeyore! Yeah! And all of Eeyore's friends are always trying to find something to stick on his ass! It's hilarious fun for everyone! Did we mention that Winnie is a Pooh bear? It's a new Disney classic for the whole family! Ah yes, I can see the parents with signs in front of the theaters now. I can see Nancy Grace filling hours of time wondering about Disney's moral values. "What are teaching the children with this Pooh bear?" Remember that song kids sang when you were little? I do. Winnie's poo! Winnie's poo! When you're in the forest, please try not to step in... Winnie's poo! Winnie's poo! Funny. Its funny because kids think poop is funny. Farts too. Again, what the Hell is a Pooh bear? Anybody?
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And HE runs... What are THEY teaching....
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This won't be an adaptation of "Pooh Goes Apeshit" then?
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If nintendo can make a console a console that shares a simuler sounding name as piss, then im sure winnie and his band of pooh loving forest dwellers can make a daring comeback.
everyone except piglet.....fuck him -
If so, bad show I say.
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He still can't serve openly in the military.
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Ahh, the wonderful WII. At least they only bust their TV screens with a loose controller. The new XBOX Kinect is apparently more dangerous. You may "Kinect" with your opponent! Check out the link. Ouch! http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81178458/ Mind the spaces.
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Haha Kinect looks fail, I play games on the couch with the least effort my thumb can manage, certainly wont be jumping around
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that looks awesome. Not that I intend to line up outside the theatre all night, but I'll definitely reward their efforts with a ticket for myself and my little Tiggr-cub.
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Love the use of the Keane song, and the hand-drawn animation has me wistful.
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