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Posted by Josh Kirkhart (Member # 1046) on 05-30-2003, 07:20 AM:

Beautiful Prints. If they don't win the 'Best Animated Feature Award' for this the Academy will confirm it has its head up its ass. Funny throughout, with great roles for DeGeneres, Brooks, even Eric Bana and William Defoe. One of the best sound mixes so far this year and the animation is just gorgeous, ramp up those bulbs to spec! The only thing that hurt was the tease of a SCOPE Pixar film, The Incredibles, that we must wait over a YEAR for, and which is one of the funniest teasers I've seen in a long while.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 05-30-2003, 02:33 PM:

A wonderful, FUN movie for the entire family. Witty script, excellent casting, and amazing computer animation make this a "keeper". (Sorry, Nemo, you're not getting thrown back into the water [Wink]

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Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 05-30-2003, 03:35 PM:

Being a self-proclaimed Pixaroligist, I couldn't help noticing that something was missing from the knick-knack short.

Boy has she changed.

Loved the movie.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 05-30-2003, 11:39 PM:

Loved it. I'll second the comment about the great sound mix, which makes great use of split surrounds (is it EX? doesn't matter for the theatre where I saw it, but I'm curious). The print that I saw looked a bit soft, but was otherwise nice, with good colors and saturation.

Anyway, this has "legs" and should do good repeat business. I saw the 10:00pm show and the entire audience (mostly adults) had a great time.

Posted by R. Andrew Diercks (Member # 1725) on 05-31-2003, 01:38 AM:

While I truly enjoyed Finding Nemo overall. Did we not all think it had a bit too much drama for a kids movie? Did we really need close to 6 near death experiences? The jellyfish could have just made them smoke a bit like scrat on Ice Age. I wanted injuries to make me laugh. Perhaps the sadist in me.

I'm new...photo is soon to come!

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 05-31-2003, 02:15 PM:

Attendance: 2003/05/30, Regal Madison Square 12, Huntsville, AL, Auditorium 2, Flat

I agree with the comments about the prints being beautiful. The movie was very visually impressive. Only time will tell whether it will hold up over time after several viewings like the Toy Story movies do.

The Pixar "Knick Knack" short was one of my favorites from the ones included on the Toy Story Laserdisc set. However, I did immediately notice the drastic changes to the girls in the animation. I guess they had to do that to get the G rating. I hope the one on the DVD will be the original, because the new version just doesn't look right.

The sound mix during the movie was great. The sounds were distributed so well that they didn't sound as if they were coming from the auditoriums's sound system, but from various places in the air in the auditorium. This auditorium has a recently-installed digital sound system.

The oddest thing about the presentation was after all of the flat commericals and trailers, a scope Regal policy trailer was put in, complete with cues to change the lens and side masking to scope before it and back to flat after it. This was followed by the scope teaser for the next Pixar movie, printed letterboxed in flat format! It was a very odd sequence. I think the scope Regal trailer was a bad choice.

One more I love about this particular auditorium. The pre-show music (Movie Tunes) has no center channel, which makes it much better to listen to. The annoying announcer cannot be heard and the lead vocal is either missing or weakened on many recordings, helpig the auditorium ambience a lot! I recommend that more theatres eliminate the center channel from the Movie Tunes program. [Smile]

So, I'm sure the question on everyone's mind is whether a new credits sequence will be introduced in a few weeks with "outtakes".

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 05-31-2003, 02:35 PM:

The recent Pixar dts discs have had the upcoming reel's audio printed on them, but the current set does not. No telling, but if they do, there will be new discs issued.

By the way, dts is not actually stamping the "dts-es" logo on the discs to end all confusion. [thumbsup]

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 06-01-2003, 11:09 PM:

Attendance: 2002/06/01 19:15, Carmike Century Cinema 8, Decatur, AL, Auditorium 2, DTS, Flat

I decided to see this one again! I enjoyed it on the second viewing, and as with most Pixar movies, I see them more than once looking for different things on each viewing. I sat very close to the screen to pay attention to things going on in the backgrounds. The center of the first row of seats in this auditorium puts you 24 feet from the screen center (of a 28 foot wide screen in flat mode), so I sat there.

This was an excellent presentation with no noted flaws (a rarity at this theatre).

After seeing the movie a second time, I can definitely agree that there were too many "close to death" scenes. The movie tended to go with the "out of the kettle, into the fire" approach on every scene. I would have liked some of that tension replaced with more good humor.

I don't think this movie quite stands up to Toy Story and Toy Story 2.

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-02-2003, 09:14 PM:

Excellent movie! Cool directional dialog! [thumbsup]

Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 06-03-2003, 08:40 PM:

The Marcus Crosswoods Sore-Knee count banged up 3 more times tonight...and this isn't the IMAX house.

Did anyone think the sound was a bit flat? Directionality was excellent, but the dynamic range seemed a bit compressed.

This certainly sets a new standard in computer animation. And Pixar makes it look SO easy. The underwater scenes are filled with such beautiful detail. The whale looked just like the whale I once saw in an Imax film.

Great voice casting, as usual. Pixar just does it right. They just understand the need for a great story and characters.

My favorite part of the film was the morphing school of fish. THAT took a few computer cycles to compute!

Very much looking forward to THE INCREDIBLES.

I don't think they'll put outtakes on this one. There are some very very clever things going on in the credits now (including one special, snorkeling guest star!) so outtakes just wouldn't be necessary.

Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 07-05-2003, 09:28 AM:

AMC Hamilton, 7/4, 12:45 PM matinee. Hall #16, attendance ~50 -- OK turnout for a holiday matinee despite the show not being listed on the (malfunctioning) showtimes board.

Spent the morning of the 4th in New Hope PA. What a CWOT -- pay $8-$10 to park all day, police enforce the meters even on the holiday, shops are overpriced, the "independent" bookstore is just like Borders. Not only that, the town doesn't even have an Internet cafe.

Nemo cheered me up. I grew up near the sea and I took to him like a seahorse would. How engrossing is Nemo? I didn't sip my Sprite for almost an hour -- and when I lifted the cup from the holder I noticed the ice had melted.

Presentation is as per our fellow Film-Techers. Even with the random changeover dirt Technicolor is getting a good rep for print quality. Sound was SDDS -- with this mix plus the new AMC "Silence is Golden" snipe your ears will get a good workout.

To make up for the lack of rolling stock (this is a Disney title, after all) AMC set up a 6-pack of trailers: Radio, Brother Bear, Johnny English, Elf, Freaky Friday (remake), The Incredibles (letterboxed). Who says a G-rated feature only has to have strictly "family fare" trailers?