The Incredibles

Post by jb » Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:05 pm

I'm going to see this in a couple hours. I fully expect it to be TOTALLY SUPREMELY AWESOME.

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:29 pm

There needs to be something better than A+ for this movie. It kicked serious ass. I wanted to see it again right after seeing it the first time. Jawdropping awesomeness. Like literally, my jaw fell open from seeing some of the stuff. I have already started an online petition to have Christina Ricci star as Elasticgirl in the live action remake, or at least to shoot a bunch of photos in an Elasticgirl costume and send them to me.

c.layne · Post by **c.layne** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:55 am

saw this last night, it was a lot of fun. i wasn't bored for a second (and i have a tendency to get very bored during a lot of movies.)

there were some amazing advances in this movie as far as the technology goes. pay attention to the characters' hair, it looks extremely real. i don't know the first thing about computer animation, but i know this is an extremely huge undertaking. also, the clothing looked very nice. i think this is the first time i've actually seen so many wardrobe changes on the characters.

anyhow, yeah, this was fucking great. A++++++

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:20 am

It's very very cool. And I want Jack-Jack.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 5:24 pm

Just saw it; it in fact was TOTALLY SUPREMELY AWESOME. I gave it an A because I think I liked Toy Story a hair better.

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 5:45 pm

Yep, liquid awesome. I thought Toy Story was a hair better, but they're both in the top 5 percentile so I gave them both A+. Even though Pixar does a fantastic job of making movies everyone can enjoy, during every other Pixar movie there were moments where I realized that I wasn't the target demographic. Not in this one.

Post by jb » Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:48 pm

Agreed. I was bored through most of Finding Nemo.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:54 pm

That said, and I agree. Madi had to lean over and ask me to explain a LOT of this movie. Tons of it went way over her head, such as lawsuits and witness protection-like programs and stuff. Parents beware. It's pretty grown-up for being ostensibly a kid movie. And it's surprisingly violent at times. If you don't want your kids seeing that, it's probably got more than you'd expect from a Pixar animated feature.

But yeah, totally awesome. Madi asked me what was my favorite part and I didn't have the heart to tell her that my real favorite part was the speech the mother gave the teenage daughter when she had to leave the kids alone in that cave. The character-transforming moment for this shy adolescent character was as palpable as if it'd been acted by a real person. Very effective.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:18 pm

The fact that it wasn't for young kids really sold it for me, because there were no cheezy one-liners designed to produce manic sidesplitting high pitched squeals from the youngins. Also, no characters whose sole purpose is to talk funny or do dumb stuff.

Calfborg · Post by **Calfborg** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:24 am

Very good movie. It sure seems to appeal to a very large audience setting itself apart from most 'kids' movies (what Pixar probably does best). I've liked everything they've made, and it's not often you see every film a company has produced be rated so high universally. Their humor always has a solid ground that never really tilts to either just adults or just kids and that's pretty cool how they can make stuff so wholesome. Also, that animation just gets better and better. The hair on Violet looked real on several occasions and lots of the backdrops looked real. The preview for Pixar's next film, Cars looks fantastic. It amazes me everytime I see that rendered mechanical stuff look so real. Anyway, this movie seemed aimed even more at an older group than any of their earlier stuff. Yeah, great movie. I don't think Pixar can make a bad movie, or even a mediocre one.

Post by jb » Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:56 am

Jim of Seattle wrote:That said, and I agree. Madi had to lean over and ask me to explain a LOT of this movie. Tons of it went way over her head, such as lawsuits and witness protection-like programs and stuff. Parents beware. It's pretty grown-up for being ostensibly a kid movie. And it's surprisingly violent at times. If you don't want your kids seeing that, it's probably got more than you'd expect from a Pixar animated feature.

The movie IS rated PG. Just like Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:45 am

Calfborg wrote:Also, that animation just gets better and better. The hair on Violet looked real on several occasions

There's a very quick shot of the mother touching Violet on her neck under the hair, and you can see briefly the bulge her hand makes as it pushes up against the underside of the shiny hair. Pretty impressive.

Of course in ten years we're all going to chuckle that we thought that was such an impressive thing. It reminds me of how technology improved audio recording in the early 20th century, and every few years there was a big leap in quality. From 1920 to 1960 we went from the dark ages to being able to pretty much accurately record anything anywhere. The leaps in animation technology seem to be doing that now, starting from Toy Story, or Tron even. Computer animation has gotten noticeably better every year, and is changing the entire genre of film, just as recording technology changed music. It's pretty cool to watch. The parallels are fascinating. Nowadays there's really nothing that can be imagined that can't be put on film, so creative filmmakers are free to use their fertile imaginations to tell stories in new ways, just as in music people eventually were no longer constrained by what could be rendered live.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:50 pm

GREAT MOVIE WOULD SEE AGAIN A++++++++++++++++++++++

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:37 am

Absolutely brilliant. You forgot it was an animation the story was so solid, yet the animation added to it hugely.
Rock on Pixar.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 5:18 pm

Awesome. Very very awesome.
I loved it.
I thought Kam was exaggerating when he said you could forget it was animated, but he's right.
I've got some experience in comp graphics, and the hair, the water, the trees were all awesome. And the people managed to look pretty real without getting into that "bad" zone where they look almost good enough and that freaks people out.
Pixar are my heroes!
-bill

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:00 am

I like that this is the first Pixar film featuring only human characters, and there's no huge hype about it. I think it's a huge step forward that they're making a CGI film that doesn't need to excuse its cartoon look with cartoonish characters, like Toy Story or Monsters Inc.

There were parts, like when Helen, Violet, and Dash all fall into the ocean and their hair gets wet, that I thought it could have been claymation. Overall, this film didn't disappoint, despite the huge amount of hype. Glad I saw it, I give it an A.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:18 am

Generic wrote:I like that ... there's no huge hype about it.

Overall, this film didn't disappoint, despite the huge amount of hype.

huh?

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:21 am

There's huge hype about the film itself, but not the fact that it's the first Pixar film with only human characters. Make sense now?

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 9:07 am

The commercials on TV would have you think that this is a comedy. In my opinion, it's barely a comedy..it is..but barely...it's an action movie. It's a total action movie. Explosions and fighting... BULLETS.

There was even touches of sexual innuendo in phrase and in clothing. They were obviously shooting for a broad audience and did a good job in doing so. Excellent movie.

Although everyone has already mentioned it..there are some really neat advances ...especially with the hair and the wet hair... and the hand bulging hair... it was fantastic.

AND, I think that some of the city scenes were enhanced with rendered photography. Right now I'm guessing, but I'll look it up later. If it wasn't, then I'm betting that there were pictures taken and some of the 'set' was modeled after the photography. (which is probably the case actually)

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:43 am

Just a moment here to remark about a script choice I just loved. The superhero family's powers all reflected their personalities. The Dad was supposed to strong, the mother flexible, the boy fast, and best of all, the awkward teenage girl could be invisible and protect herself with a force field. That's some inspired writing right there.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:18 am

Jim of Seattle wrote:Just a moment here to remark about a script choice I just loved. The superhero family's powers all reflected their personalities. The Dad was supposed to strong, the mother flexible, the boy fast, and best of all, the awkward teenage girl could be invisible and protect herself with a force field. That's some inspired writing right there.

<b>Warnin': Possible small potatoes spoiling</b>

Yeah, I noticed that too..especially with the teener girl. Right down to her hair 'sheilding' or 'hiding' her face in the beginning of the movie. Later developing her charactor, as she learned to know herself and discovering what she was capable of on two levels. Her super self and her regular self. Noticing that her hair was no longer 'hiding/sheilding' her face. It was more subtle than Dad's focussed development. You're right, that was very good scripting/writing.

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:30 am

Well, beyond that, when the mom and dad try and make it in the straight world, they become the exact antithesis of what their powers would suggest: the dad is weak and helpless at work and at home, and the mom is so rigid in her rules that they all must adhere to.

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