lennyleonard101
Newbie
- Joined
- Mar 17, 2017
- Messages
- 4
aww the herman video got taken down
Pixar #7 is recorded and is in editing. It turned out really long... Will probably rival the length my The Good Dinosaur review, at about 25 minutes when it's all said and done. I didn't feel like I personally had as much to say about this one, but there's so much little stuff that happens in it, it's hard to gloss over things. Keep a look out for it!
It honestly says a lot about how great Pixar can be that a review can be this positive and yet still only ranked at #7.
Not the film I guessed (I thought this would crack your top 5 or something, but it's not surprising it didn't since your rankings have sometimes been a bit out of the ordinary).
One of the best Pixar films in my opinion. It really does a lot of things with what could have been a rather simple and straightforward story & it works wonderfully. As much as I like this one, Monsters University didn't work so well for me and was kind of disappointing; I'd rather have seen a sequel to the original and I'm sure they could have done it (Toy Story 2 and 3 turned out really well so I think they could have done something good with a Monsters sequel too).
Am curious now, which one did you think it was going to be? Didn't know if you'd been seeing the comments in YouTube I'd been dropping for each video (this one's was "a film in which the protagonist has blue fur")... Were you thinking Toy Story 3 or The Incredibles? Those are the only other ones whose plots seem as dense as Monsters Inc's. I felt like this would be one of my less controversial rankings, to be honest. I feel like a lot of people find a reason to discount Monsters Inc. a smidge and stick it somewhere in the middle. Had one commentor on an older video mention how much they dislike Monsters Inc., which I didn't get. Who actually hates Monsters Inc.? It feels like a super inoffensive film.
My first guess was Ratatouille (since the protagonist has blue fur and the film has a lot of small stuff in it, not as much as Monsters Inc. on a second thought but it just has that feel). My second guess was this film and mainly because I never really consider Sulley as the protagonist as I counted both him and Mike as kinda sharing that role even though the latter is more of the supporting protagonist and not as important to the overall plot (it must be because his close friendship with Sulley whom he rarely is seen apart from and how he really steals the spotlight when he's in a scene).
And I haven't seen a lot of people hating on Monsters Inc. and I've rarely seen someone put it somewhere in the middle (or even in the bottom half) of their Pixar rankongs. It always seemed like one of those Pixar films that is generally really well liked and even loved, but you putting it at #7 isn't wrong at all and it feels like a good placement. You gave good reasons of why it ended up there and I agree with what you say of it, it's just that I at first imagined it would crack your Top 5.
where's this die hard content Jims?
give me the inside scoop
I think Simple Simpson is like Ralph Wiggum, in that the casual fans seem to like it a lot more than the fanatics. (Not that I’m accusing you of anything...:shifty:.) It’s good for what it is, and it’s definitely unique and memorable, but it’s not exceptional. Episodes that strive to be just plain goofy have been done better (King-Size Homer), but for where it is in the series, I think it achieves what it set out to do.
Simple Simpson is probably one of the better and most memorable episodes from the post-classic era (and yeah, casuals seem to really like it). It's pretty silly but a good episode, is a nice spoof on superhero movies (especially Spider-Man) and has some nice jokes, but I have to agree that the last act is not as good as the rest of the episode (feels like they already did something like that with Homer and Mr. Burns in 'Homer Vs. Dignity' so it's not that original either).
(By the way, [MENTION=13536]Jims P. Sullivan[/MENTION], I saw someone in the comments suggesting you do 'The Day The Violence Died' and I have to echo that. I think it would interesting if you covered it next).
Happy Halloween! [MENTION=72189]euthanasiataeaf[/MENTION] was on the right track that I had a THOH Showdown ready, but I swapped out THOHII and did THOHIII vs THOHIV. Enjoy!
Ah, nice! What made you want to do III instead of II (as II vs. IV is what’s represented in the intro)?
Also, next year you should do I vs. II!
Happy Halloween! [MENTION=72189]euthanasiataeaf[/MENTION] was on the right track that I had a THOH Showdown ready, but I swapped out THOHII and did THOHIII vs THOHIV. Enjoy!
So, after the news about John Lasseter, are you still going to continue with your Pixar project?