RussM Wrote:Saw the movie last weekend and really enjoyed it. Here's an interesting post from Laissez Faire Books:
http://www.lfb.com/index.php?action=help...tml#110904
Russ Madden
Had me a little worried there Russ. Posting about a movie and all...Just kidding.
I thought this was an enjoyable movie as well and did actually see some of this in the movie. Damn you and Ken for poisoning my impressionable mind!!
RussM Wrote:One thing I thought a bit odd was one of the funnier scenes from the preview was missing from the movie, i.e., Mr. Incredible is in his red suit, still fat, and trying to put on his utility belt without success. Was rather disappointed they couldn't fit that in the actual film somewhere.I think that was made exclusively as a teaser, never actually supposed to be part of the movie.
Russ Madden
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
RussM Wrote:One thing I thought a bit odd was one of the funnier scenes from the preview was missing from the movie, i.e., Mr. Incredible is in his red suit, still fat, and trying to put on his utility belt without success. Was rather disappointed they couldn't fit that in the actual film somewhere.
Russ Madden
My husband and I saw this movie and he noticed the same thing. It bugs him when they do that. I loved the Incredibles. I thought it was funny and great to watch. Some of my favorite parts were the typical family banter between brother and sister and husband and wife. They captured the tone and nature of those spats perfectly. I may not have noticed if I hadn't read the article RussM posted a link to, but I also saw some of those themes throughout the movie. They did a very good job.
jimbow8 Wrote:I think that was made exclusively as a teaser, never actually supposed to be part of the movie.
That reminds me... I remember that the teaser for "Freddie Got Fingered" showed a big yacht being dropped and smashed. But that scene was not in the movie anywhere and it did not even make it to the DVD out-takes. That always irritated me.
RIK
Richard Kendrick Wrote:That reminds me... I remember that the teaser for "Freddie Got Fingered" showed a big yacht being dropped and smashed. But that scene was not in the movie anywhere and it did not even make it to the DVD out-takes. That always irritated me.THAT is what irritated you about Freddie Got Fingered ? I hope there was more than that.
RIK
Some scenes are obviously just edited out of the movie. I have wondered whether that is the case for animated movies also. In the case of the Incredibles scene, though, that struck me as something that was made exclusively as a promo.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
jimbow8 Wrote:THAT is what irritated you about Freddie Got Fingered ? I hope there was more than that.
Some scenes are obviously just edited out of the movie. I have wondered whether that is the case for animated movies also. In the case of the Incredibles scene, though, that struck me as something that was made exclusively as a promo.
Steve D
This is the first Pixar movie to actually be a movie, that is, it could have been a nonanimated movie and still worked. And after all my talk about Pixar putting jokes in the background, this movie avoids that in order to concentrate on the characters and action sequences. However, there were dozens of tongue-in-cheek references to comic book heroes and villains, one of my favorites being The Mole Man, complete with giant drill; Mirage was Phoenix-ish, and I'm sure you got Ice Man, Cyclops, Batman, and all the others as well. What a load of fun this movie was for a comic book loving fan like me.
jimbow8 Wrote:THAT is what irritated you about Freddie Got Fingered ? I hope there was more than that.
Some scenes are obviously just edited out of the movie. I have wondered whether that is the case for animated movies also. In the case of the Incredibles scene, though, that struck me as something that was made exclusively as a promo.
Well, I definitely have to be in the mood for that movie...
"Daddy Would you like some sausage...
Daddy would you like some Saus--Ag--Es..."
Warped.
RIK
Just returned from The Incredibles. What a wonderfully subversive movie. Very politically incorrect. But better than that was how you came to feel real emotion for these animated images.
Dash was my favorite. Here's a kid with a startling natural ability and he's not allowed to use it. Why? Because he'll be identified as super. The pure joy on his face when he's first told to run, run as fast as you can...I got verklempt.
Dash was my favorite. Here's a kid with a startling natural ability and he's not allowed to use it. Why? Because he'll be identified as super. The pure joy on his face when he's first told to run, run as fast as you can...I got verklempt.
FPW
FAQ
"It means 'Ask the next question.' Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created." Theodore Sturgeon.
Most telling quote (paraphrasing):
Buddy/Syndrome: "And after I'm a superhero, I'll sell all my inventions to the world. And then everyone will be super." (sotto voce as he turns away with an ugly look on his face) "Which means no one will be super."
If that's not channeling Ellsworth Toohey, I don't know what is.
Buddy/Syndrome: "And after I'm a superhero, I'll sell all my inventions to the world. And then everyone will be super." (sotto voce as he turns away with an ugly look on his face) "Which means no one will be super."
If that's not channeling Ellsworth Toohey, I don't know what is.
FPW
FAQ
"It means 'Ask the next question.' Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created." Theodore Sturgeon.