Last movie you watched......

It's a beautiful opening, on balance . . . the peak of the picture, actually . . . and sets up the remainder of the piece, beautifully.

 

My Pixar Pantheon:
Toy Story 1
Toy Story 3
The Incredibles
Finding Nemo
Toy Story 2

 

I thought Wall-E was incredibly overrated.

 

Up is the shittiest shittastic movie I saw that year. I fucking hated it with every ounce of my being.

Pandering, boring shit.

 

Agreed.

And 93D, I don't think we're forgetting the Lion King because it's a Disney movie, not a Pixar movie. As far as Disney movies go, the Lion King and Aladdin are my one and two. I watched them both a ton when I was a kid.

One of the many reasons I love Wall-E is that in the first 30 minutes there are no words spoken and yet it's incredibly captivating the whole time. That's extremely tough to do, and they pulled it off brilliantly. Like Up, I think the movie drops off after that beginning, but in both cases I think that's because it's almost impossible to keep up that level for the whole movie.

Oh, and Dick, I get that about Toy Story. And I'm the same way about feeling time moves too quickly so I can't really explain why those movies don't hit me the way they do other people, but they don't.

 

Thanks for the recommendation. That sounds awesome and I hadn't heard of it before.

Also, has anyone here seen "A Separation", the Iranian film that won best foreign film last night? It's only playing in limited places at the moment, but the trailer makes it look incredible.

 

I agree. I am just trying to imagine a three year old watching it.

Jason Bourne has a pretty nice 1-2-3 also.

 

Man, Wall-E was horrific, in my opinion. A complete dull. I couldn't be paid enough to watch that dreck again.

 

Wall-E is my favorite Pixar film, but I'm not sure I would have had the attention span to watch it as a kid. The opening is a brilliant piece of cinema that compares to Kubrick's 2001's first half hour.

 

Saw "The Descendants" last night. Beautifully shot, wonderfully acted, superbly written and such a real movie. I would not be upset at all if this won the Oscar. But it won't. Because it's not the kind of film that does. I'm predicting "Ides of March."

 

No way in hell.

It's a two-horse race between "The Descendants" and "The Artist," with the smart money on "The Artist."

"Ides of March" won't even be nominated. I am looking forward to it, though. Just got it from Netflix today.

 

On the Pixar debate: I've loved all of them, but to me the Incredibles was the best by a wide margin. I wish TNT would get the rights to it so I could alternate between it and Shawshank.