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Author Topic: Disney/Pixar "UP" Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 06-14-2009 04:30 PM                        Julio, You brought up some very interesting points and i am inclined to agree with you on some of them. As I had mentioned in my thread about UP, it was the first of the current 3-D film not to use the gimmicks others have used to sell the process such as object coming at you. It told a very touching story of a man who had shared his life with a loving wife and after she had passed away, would go away on a adventure with a little boy in search of a South American waterfall in his house propelled by hundreds of balloons. The thing that irritate me most about current 3-D films is the fact that most of them are animated and if they are live action are all directed to either children or brainless young people who delight in seeing people getting slashed or stabbed with a pick axe. With the exception of James Camerron's AVATAR" and ICE AGE , all of the upcoming 3-D films will all be the same thing. As much as I love 3-D, I intend to stay away from them. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 06-15-2009 02:58 AM                     I saw the film last night (Sunday) at the El Capitan in Hollywood. While it was in 3-D, the image was considerably brighter than I normally see on Real-D systems (being in the balcony, I couldn't tell if they were actually projecting with 2 projectors or not. They did on Chicken Little. Anyway, I think the 3-D was only a slight enchancement and the film would be just as good in 2-D. The stage show that proceeded it was the lamest one yet. The theatre has gotten a bit too splashy on their pre-show curtain openings, though, with a huge catalog of distracting lightin cues. They've also added yet another curtain to the three existing, bringing the count up to 4. Even though I believe in curtains, 4 is a bit excessive.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-15-2009 04:39 AM                     quote: And an obviously NOT-camcordered version of the short is already online here. Damn those movie theater people and their camcorders!!! I guess that's what happens when you make it available for download on iTunes.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 06-15-2009 05:19 PM                        quote: Joe Redifer Anyone showing this in digital 2D? Yeah, Muvico's [URL=Rosemont 18]https://www.muvico.com/default.asp?t=210[/URL] has only digital projectors, and they offer both 2D and 3D versions of Up.  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 06-16-2009 07:44 AM                     Finally got to see it last night and it was excellent. Both my husband and I were moved and entertained by the story. Usually averse to animated features, afterward he said a couple of times, "I forgot it was a cartoon!" he was so wrapped up in it. That's a huge compliment coming from him. To me, it had all the magic one wishes for from the movies. Our local cinema just got a RealD installation and perhaps it's the later version, because the picture was bright and sharp, with vivid colors. A flawless presentation, and the best moviegoing experience in a long time. BTW, like any PIXAR movie, it did not need the 3D, but for us, it added enormously to the entertainment value. I thought the depiction of the flying sequences was made much better by the depth.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-18-2009 10:04 PM                        DTG: Wed, 6/17/09, 4:45pm Theater: Regal Red Rock Screen #3 Price: $11.25 matinee Great little story and some memorable characters. Yes, I too choked up a bit at the end of the prelude. Pixar does it again. "SQUIRREL!" * * * * * Saw this in RealD 3D. The light was definitely DIM and not focused very well - very pronounced hotspot that wasn't centered.  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 06-25-2009 05:22 AM                     This was a very good animated movie but I don't see how it is a kids movie at all. Besides the "talking" dogs and the helium balloons lifting a house, this movie could have been made as a live action drama and been really good. It was a very touching story (definitely a little sad at times) and very entertaining. The 3D depth was interesting but it doesn't really add anything to the movie. It wasn't distracting or anything but the movie would have been just as good in 2D. Definitely NOT worth paying a 3D upcharge to see in 3D if you have a choice. I mean, I appreciate that they didn't go nuts with 3D gimmicks but at least throw something at the screen for the kids. I'm sure that Up was developed without any thought of 3D at all at the beginning and then they just decided along the way to render the 2nd eye. Overall 3.75 out of 5 stars. If it had one truly loveable/memorable character it would have been 4.5 to 5.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-25-2009 01:31 PM                        quote: Lyle Romer ...this movie could have been made as a live action drama and been really good. Lyle, that's the highest complement you could pay to John Lasseter and his crew Pixar. Lasseter, just like his friends Miyazaki and Takahata at Japan's Studio Ghibli, has always felt that animation can be just as valid as any other medium to tell adult-level stories. They all feel that animation can have a seat at the grown-ups table.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-20-2010 01:04 PM                     Given the direction of discussion on Up this past summer, I think this thread is worthy of a bump. Up is one of TEN Oscar nominees for Best Picture. We have ten of them instead of the usual five so the Academy can grant token nominations to a few films they didn't really want to nominate. The Academy got into a lot of trouble with critics and film fans alike when they didn't nominate The Dark Knight for Best Picture of 2008. Avatar and The Hurt Locker are considered the front runners for the Best Picture award, as well as Best Director for the two nominees who used to be married to each other. Up is only the second animated movie to be given a Best Picture nomination. Beauty and the Beast was nominated back in 1991. Some critics, such as Time Magazine's Richard Schickel, are saying if the Academy had any balls at all they would give the Best Picture Oscar to Up. Unfortunately there's little chance of that happening since Up is an animated movie and it's obviously going to win the Best Animated Feature Oscar. Over the past few decades the Academy has shown it clearly doesn't respect certain movie genres. They don't like super hero movies despite the way super hero movies have grown up during this past decade, culminating with the greatness of The Dark Knight. The Academy doesn't like animated movies either. The animated feature category operates as the kid's dinner table of the awards while the "real" live action movies get situated as the center of attention. The Academy doesn't like giving awards to fantasy movies or westerns either. The best they can do with science fiction is throw in some technical awards and leave it at that. I've seen Avatar and The Hurt Locker. While I believe both are good yet flawed movies, I absolutely do not believe either one is great and worthy of a Best Picture nomination. Up isn't quite perfect either, but it's still a wonderful movie and I enjoyed watching it more than any other movie I saw in 2009. I think it is worthy of both the Best Animated Feature Oscar and the Best Picture Oscar.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-20-2010 03:30 PM                        quote: Bobby Henderson We have ten of them instead of the usual five so the Academy can grant token nominations to a few films they didn't really want to nominate. It's actually got more to do with the ratings of the Oscars TV show than anything else. With 10 nominations, some more popular movies like "The Blind Side" can get into the list and draw a bigger audience of fans. As with anything else...follow the money.  |  IP: Logged

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