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Ensign Kirk lavishes praise upon IRON GIANT

Iron Giant by TheKellySisters	Mar 29th, 1999 07:28:27 AM
I have never been a fan of Warner Brother's Animation. Mask of the Phantasm is the best thing they've put out so far. Their animation always looks so cheap and the writing is always so terrible. But I have faith in Iron Giant. It has been officially put on my list of movies to see.
I gotta say... by Yossarian	Mar 29th, 1999 08:14:13 AM
From all of the over the top praise this has gotten, this has turned into one of my top-five-to-see-this-year. I love a good story, it doesn't matter if its live-action, animated, a combination of the two, CGI, paper-mache', whatever: it doesn't matter as long as it tells a good story. I have always been a lover of sci-fi, ever since I saw that star destroyer roll over my field of vision as a three-year-old and I watched, mesmerized, as the spaceship descended on Wyoming from my seat between my parents on the tailgate of my dad's old Chevy 4x4. But the things that make both of these creations classic is the story, without it, it's just another Wing Commander. My preferred genre is sci-fi, but I would rather watch Ulee's Gold for the 12th time than be forced to endure Wing Commander again. But I'm getting off the point. No one is saying anything about the visuals of Iron Giant, they keep going on about what a great story it is, and that's what gives me reason to believe that this is gonna be great. I just hope it comes to my backwater system which is reknowned to only catering to the mass market, forgoing worthwhile smaller films for the "I Know What You Did the Summer before the Summer before Last" irk and anything with Pauly Shore in it. PS don't knock the animated Batman direct-to-video stuff. It beats the hell out of the live action multi-million dollar productions by a long shot. Which of course, isn't saying much, but I digress...
Warner not THAT bad by Falcor	Mar 29th, 1999 02:04:04 PM
Let me rattle off a few good animated things warner has done. Batman, which is quite frankely the best animated thing on tv today, and the Animaniacs, who never fail to crack me up. My brain is now stumped, but I'm sure there are others, and I'll mention them when I think of them.
Iron Giant by Rocqueja	Mar 29th, 1999 03:09:17 PM
Hi! I'm new to the world of Iron Giant, can I get a quick plot line? No spoilers please!
Secret of NIMH by PipsOrcle	Mar 29th, 1999 04:06:21 PM
I certainly hope Iron Giant will be what it is hyped to be. I just want to leave seeing I.G., feeling as if I saw an intelligent animated feature, rather than a dumb-minded, one-dimensionally written, obnoxious lyric, Disney feature. Secret of NIMH took itself seriously and had a sense of mood, when most animated features these days seem to imitate each other in goofiness.
Iron Giant, and an e-mail I got yesterday by Nordling	Mar 29th, 1999 04:22:15 PM
I am really looking forward to this, just based on the reaction of the lucky few that have seen it. This, and The Blair Witch Project are receiving great word of mouth, and that always gets my attention, because people who post here love movies, and I value their opinion. If anyone is interested, I received an e-mail from director Guillermo Del Toro (Cronos, Mimic) about his future projects - DOMU:A Child's Dream (a terrific graphic novel by Katsushiro Otomo, creator of AKIRA and this work is better) and HELLBOY. Also some info about a live-action GHOST IN THE SHELL movie. E-mail me if you want me to forward it to you. If this ain't for real, then I've lost all sense of perception. This feels real to me.
AICN Steered Me Right Before!... by Unicorn	Mar 29th, 1999 05:13:09 PM
I will see Iron Giant when it comes to theatres. The last time I saw Harry & co. put so much faith in a film prior to it's release (Star Wars aside) was a tiny little film everyone in my neck of the woods was joking about and NOT planning to see: Titanic ("we all know how it ends: the boat sinks"). Thanks to Harry's positive posts my spouse and I saw that on opening day. Iron Giant? Well, now we have a 14-month-old to plan for...but I'm sure once I know an opening date I'll start looking for a babysitter! And if it's as good as I hear, I'll be planning to make sure we get a DVD of it when available, so my son can enjoy it when he's old enough. Thanks as always, to all the folks who contribute to AICN and tell us what to see and what to avoid. I thought much of the latter recently when I popped in a tape of SPEED and thought about the sequel...which I've never seen (thanks again, Harry!) . Uni.
Let's just hope... by Walter Burns	Mar 30th, 1999 01:02:21 AM
...that they don't get a last minute attack of cold feet and decide that it needs a few snappy/sappy musical numbers 'to bring in the kids/families'. Remember what happened to the Thief and the Cobbler (possibly one of the most heartbreaking botch-ups to happen in animation). My head says "don't get your hopes up" because we have been here before, but I so much want this to be good - and if good, to make money just to show the studios that it CAN be done.
His praise is getting the Iron Giant all sticky. by Wolfpack	Jul 15th, 2006 08:32:50 AM

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