I agree. They are milking the Ice Age movies to death. Like 5 OF THEM?!?! Come on!
Taei-The writer of the Peanuts movie is Charles Schultz's son and he said that they were waiting for the perfect time to do it. So, I have hope that this is going to be good.
I saw Despicable Me 2 2 nights ago and it was very cute. But, gosh: I actually don't like the minions. Like I DON'T GET WHY PEOPLE LOVE THEM. Like they embrace them in open arms, but whn Olaf comes: "NO, NO, DISNEY. NO! OLAF MUST MELT IN THE FIRES OF HELL. WHY, DISNEY, WHY?!"
Lady Cluck wrote:
Next year doesn't seem much more promising sadly, so hopefully Big Hero 6 keeps Disney's streak going. I'm really looking forward to more news about it.
I think 2014 will be more promising personally. There is Big Hero 6 like you said, but also How To Train Your Dragon 2. The first one is my favorite Dreamworks movie and Dean Deblois is back to writing/directing it. There's also the Boxtrolls, Laika studio's third movie after Coraline and ParaNorman. Then there is the Lego Movie which looks really fun and creative if the trailers are any indication.
Ice Age is obviously something that 20th Century Fox pushes on Blue Sky to make, as they make massive amounts of money overseas even as the grosses start dwindling on the domestic market.
I basically see Ice Age as that compromise with the studio. Making an almost-billion dollar grossing sequel allows them the opportunity to then make something more personal like Rio (which was Carlos Saldanha's loving postcard to his childhood city) and Epic (which was Chris Wedge's, in my opinion, wonderful attempt at making a big adventure on the scale of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings).
I have complete trust they will handle Peanuts with the right level of respect. Putting my Blue Sky fanboyism aside, as previously stated, Charles Schultz's son is writing it and I don't think they would be willing to hand Charlie Brown and Snoopy to a new animation studio if they didn't think they would keep the integrity and feel of the original comic strips and specials. While not quite Bill Watterson, the Schultz estate is certainly more protective than Jim Davis when it comes to handing these iconic characters to a movie studio.
The worries that they will make the characters more realistic looking with the CGI are unfounded as Blue Sky's team works really hard in keeping somebody's artistic style within the computer animation. Horton Hears a Who looks exactly like what a three-dimensional Dr Seuss book would look like and William Joyce's recognisable finger prints are all over Robots and Epic.
"There are two wolves and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. Which wolf wins? Whichever one you feed." - Casey Newton, Tomorrowland
Didn't we see Sarah Silverman voice a little girl last year? I've never seen her act or listened to her songs (minus the one in Wreck-It Ralph, which I had no idea was her's until afterwards), but I'm sure she will do fine.
"There are two wolves and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. Which wolf wins? Whichever one you feed." - Casey Newton, Tomorrowland
Eeeeh not looking forward to Peanuts. Seeing how they shat Smurfs and Garfield I'm not awaiting MORE classic cartoon/comic characters being turned into awkward live-action/CGI films.
Peanuts is going to be a fully animated film, not a hybrid.
"There are two wolves and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. Which wolf wins? Whichever one you feed." - Casey Newton, Tomorrowland
thedisneyspirit wrote:Same thing, that does not mean it will be good.
Its chances of not sucking are bigger though.
Yeah, like I said with Schultz's son writing this, this has a really high chance of Peanuts, being really good! I can't picture his son, letting Blue Sky trashing it like the other studios did to Smurfs, Scooby Doo, Alvin...etc
PatrickvD wrote:
Its chances of not sucking are bigger though.
Yeah, like I said with Schultz's son writing this, this has a really high chance of Peanuts, being really good! I can't picture his son, letting Blue Sky trashing it like the other studios did to Smurfs, Scooby Doo, Alvin...etc
PatrickvD wrote:The problem with Rihanna is that she's completely lacking the talent department.
Eh, she's better than Jim Parsons.
Anyone is, really.
Jim Parsons is one the best actors in sitcoms in out current generation. Don't give him flak, he's more of an actor anyone of us will ever be. I hate it hw people complain about stuff they don't even know about or have any skill at.
Jim Parsons is one the best actors in sitcoms in out current generation. Don't give him flak, he's more of an actor anyone of us will ever be. I hate it hw people complain about stuff they don't even know about or have any skill at.
Eh, different strokes for different folks, but one of the best sitcom actors of our generation, when Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Donald Glover, Dani Pudi, Danny Devito, Charlie Day, etc, are around? Not to mention the cast behind the recently departed but brilliant 30 Rock. I can't say I agree myself.
just have to say, jim parsons is brilliant. even dad laughs at him, and dad doesnt laugh at anything! LOL
as for peanuts... im mixed. i just cant picture those kids done in CGI. plus snoopy was always worried about his big nose... itll be ginormous in CGI! hopefully it wont be 3d... will have a similar result to "get a horse"! LOL.
but, i cant see schultz's son letting anyone turn his dads creation into garbage. i think i read after his death, only a small number of artists were permitted to continue using his designs, so fingers crossed the movie designs will remain true to the comic strips. and they better not give the teachers/parents actual words either. that was always the best bit!
WHY, DISNEY, WHY?!"
