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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99


 - posted 11-17-1999 12:40 PM      Profile for Ian Price   Email Ian Price   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I have not seen Pokeman, and I will not be seeing it. However, if you want to see some really cool animation, you should check out Princess Mononoke. It is a Japanese animated film that is 9 reels long. The animation is some of the best I have seen. They aren't very good at expressions, but the seenery is the best I have ever seen.

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Randy Stankey
Film God

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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99


 - posted 11-17-1999 01:57 PM      Profile for Randy Stankey   Email Randy Stankey   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
As far as I am concerned, there IS nothing and there will NEVER be anything as good as the old Bugs Bunny shorts or theMickey and Donald shorts that W.B and Disney used to make. (respectively)

Although the computer animated stuff that's comming out looks good, VERY good, it still looks 'synthetic'. Furthermore those 'oldies' broke all the ground in animation. There's nothing that the new features can do that hasn't already been done.

Even the NEW shorts that Disney is making for their features SUCK! The voices are all wrong. (I DO like Billy West, but he's just not Donald!)

I think W.B, the guys who pretty much INVENTED the animated film, should be ASHAMED to put out such drabble!

(OK Disney 'invented' it. WB re-invented some things -- but I think you get the point.)

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Aaron Mehocic
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: New Castle, PA, USA
Registered: Jun 99


 - posted 11-18-1999 11:17 AM      Profile for Aaron Mehocic   Email Aaron Mehocic   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Three things:

1) Yes, the change at the end of reel one was very hard to do, but I had extra time and pulled it off corectly, even getting the ending credit in frame. I'm happy about that.

2) Our print must be on Kodak film because it is powdering (but not very bad). I'll have to check. Thank you to whoever mentioned the product is on two different film types.

3) I think our cinema only received 200 cards, which were gone by the end of the 5:45 show on Friday afternoon. I don't really care about the cards, but two boys who go to school with the owner's son accused him of stealing a pack because they didn't get any. Guess you just had to be there to appreciate that story.



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John Wilson
Film God

Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999


 - posted 11-21-1999 04:20 AM      Profile for John Wilson   Email John Wilson   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
It looks like you may not have to put up with your Pokemon Hell much longer. It had (as I'm sure you all could tell by looking out the port glass) a massive 78% drop in attendances on Friday from the Friday before. 1 per cent for each frame of artwork.

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Brad Miller
Administrator

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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99


 - posted 11-21-1999 05:28 AM      Profile for Brad Miller   Author's Homepage   Email Brad Miller       Edit/Delete Post 
Yes, but with the money made the first week, you can bet there will be more Pokemon hell to come. I don't see it going much past a second movie though. This is reminding me slightly of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Fortunately, the worst is over.

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Tom Ferreira
Expert Film Handler

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From: Conway, NH, USA
Registered: Jun 99


 - posted 11-21-1999 08:07 AM      Profile for Tom Ferreira   Email Tom Ferreira   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
That's exactly what I was thinking, Brad. Remember when the first Turtles movie came out? It was like a madhouse-that had a huge following at the time, and it really wasn't that bad of a film, nor was the second one. By the time the third came out, no one cared. The Power Rangers also had a massive opening weekend, but the second one might well have been released straight to video-by that time there was no interest. It will be interesting to see in the Pokemon craze lasts long enough to carry over to the promised(threatened)summer sequel.
By the way, we still had very good matinees of Pokemon this weekend, but that's all about to end. The anticipation for Toy Story 2 is higher than any family film I've seen in many years. Should be a very good movie, too.

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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001


 - posted 07-28-2002 12:29 PM      Profile for Charles Everett   Email Charles Everett   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
WB released Pokemon 2000 in 2K (stiffed) and Pokemon 3 in 2001 (bombed). What's next? Pokemon 4 -- to be released in October by Miramax

Yes, Miramax -- the same company that sat on Princess Mononoke for a year, redubbed it with American voices, and dumped it on a Halloween weekend. The New York crowd thought better of it and saw Being John Malkovich instead.

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Mike Olpin
Chop Chop!

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From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Jan 2002


 - posted 07-28-2002 09:13 PM      Profile for Mike Olpin   Email Mike Olpin   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
WHY?!?!? I don't understand how kids watch this show.

according to the trailer http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/pokemon_4ever/
it will have the same type of "free card" promotion.

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Thomas Procyk
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002


 - posted 07-28-2002 10:31 PM      Profile for Thomas Procyk   Email Thomas Procyk   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Is Pokemon even popular anymore? I don't hear or see much about it (them?) as much as I used to. As for the cards, I think the distributors get some sort of sick rush knowing that there are parents cursing out theater employees somewhere because their little brat didn't get one. Oh, the death threats I recieved during the opening weekend of the first one...

=TMP=

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Steven Gorsky
Expert Film Handler

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From: Frederick, MD, USA
Registered: Sep 2000


 - posted 07-29-2002 05:32 PM      Profile for Steven Gorsky   Author's Homepage   Email Steven Gorsky   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Just wait a 5th movie has already been released in Japan.

Steven Gorsky

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