The "last movie I saw" thread

[Walter Sobchak]

Dragged to Coco yesterday. When did Pixar jump the shark? Cars 2?

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Dragged to Coco yesterday. When did Pixar jump the shark? Cars 2?

Heartless cynic!

I had the same reaction as Northwest. Stories about family always get me. Which is weird because my sister recently mailed me a thank you note for letting them stay at our house for a night on their way to California. Which is another way of saying, we’re not very close. Maybe it’s wishing that we were closer. Who knows.

The 21 minute Frozen short that they crammed between the previews and the movie was pure torture. They need to include some sort of warning for that. My 3 year old was ready to be done 3/4 of the way through that. Fortunately, he settled back down once Coco started. Great story. Beautiful animation. And I learned more than I knew about Dia de los Muertos. So now I have something Wuap and I can talk about.


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[Blueintheface]

I haven’t seen Justice League yet but I’m already a big fan of Ray Fisher who played Cyborg in the film. He’s at my cousin’s home today signing posters and other movie memorabilia for his (my cousin’s) son who’s fighting a rare form of cancer. Awesome.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Dragged to Coco yesterday. When did Pixar jump the shark? Cars 2?

Hmmm... Looking forward to it now.

[creekster]

Heartless cynic!

I had the same reaction as Northwest. Stories about family always get me. Which is weird because my sister recently mailed me a thank you note for letting them stay at our house for a night on their way to California. Which is another way of saying, we’re not very close. Maybe it’s wishing that we were closer. Who knows.

The 21 minute Frozen short that they crammed between the previews and the movie was pure torture. They need to include some sort of warning for that. My 3 year old was ready to be done 3/4 of the way through that. Fortunately, he settled back down once Coco started. Great story. Beautiful animation. And I learned more than I knew about Dia de los Muertos. So now I have something Wuap and I can talk about.


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Good point about the Frozen short. I had blocked it from my memory. It was truly awful. Dumb (like really dumb) jokes, pointless story, etc. I am impressed your three year old made it. I didn't. That Coco survives such a horrible intro is a testament to its quality.

[PaloAltoCougar]

We liked Coco a lot and also disliked the Frozen thing immensely. A close friend of our daughters worked on Coco, and she said many on the crew were pretty bummed by the lengthy and tedious short, thinking it diminished the overall experience. It did. A five-minute funny short is good. Twenty minutes of mediocrity is not.

I thought there were a few scenes in Coco that could (and likely will) be worked into lessons on family history.

[Walter Sobchak]

Hmmm... Looking forward to it now.

As others have noted, arrive 30 minutes late to miss the 20 minute "Shoot Me Now" prologue (+ 10 minutes of trailers)

No one is addressing the elephant in the room. Pixar is done.

12. Cars 2 ... absolute trash
13. Brave ... skipped
14. Monsters U ... derivative crap / skipped
15. Inside Out ... original and delightful, like the early Pixar stuff
16. The Good Dinosaur ... garbage
17. Finding Dory ... derivative / skipped
18. Cars 3 ... really? / skipped
19. Coco ... forgettable

Next up?

20. Incredibles 2 ... will skip out of respect for original Incredibles, the finest film Pixar has made
21. Toy Story 4 ... jfc! will skip

[Jeff Lebowski]

As others have noted, arrive 30 minutes late to miss the 20 minute "Shoot Me Now" prologue.

No one is addressing the elephant in the room. Pixar is done.

12. Cars 2 ... absolute trash
13. Brave ... skipped
14. Monsters U ... derivative crap / skipped
15. Inside Out ... original and delightful, like the early Pixar stuff
16. The Good Dinosaur ... garbage
17. Finding Dory ... derivative / skipped
18. Cars 3 ... really? / skipped
19. Coco ... forgettable

Next up?

20. Incredibles 2 ... will skip out of respect for original Incredibles, the finest film Pixar has made
21. Toy Story 4 ... jfc! will skip

Yikes. You are right.

[Moliere]

As others have noted, arrive 30 minutes late to miss the 20 minute "Shoot Me Now" prologue (+ 10 minutes of trailers)

No one is addressing the elephant in the room. Pixar is done.

12. Cars 2 ... absolute trash
13. Brave ... skipped
14. Monsters U ... derivative crap / skipped
15. Inside Out ... original and delightful, like the early Pixar stuff
16. The Good Dinosaur ... garbage
17. Finding Dory ... derivative / skipped
18. Cars 3 ... really? / skipped
19. Coco ... forgettable

Next up?

20. Incredibles 2 ... will skip out of respect for original Incredibles, the finest film Pixar has made
21. Toy Story 4 ... jfc! will skip

Misty agree. They have missed quite a bit later. The Good Dinosaur was really bad. Didn’t mind Brave. Inside Out was very good. The others I’ve either tried to watch and fell asleep or got bored so I went and did something else while the kids finished them up

I will go see Coco though.


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[Northwestcoug]

Heartless cynic!

That goes without saying...

As others have noted, arrive 30 minutes late to miss the 20 minute "Shoot Me Now" prologue (+ 10 minutes of trailers)

No one is addressing the elephant in the room. Pixar is done.

12. Cars 2 ... absolute trash
13. Brave ... skipped
14. Monsters U ... derivative crap / skipped
15. Inside Out ... original and delightful, like the early Pixar stuff
16. The Good Dinosaur ... garbage
17. Finding Dory ... derivative / skipped
18. Cars 3 ... really? / skipped
19. Coco ... forgettable

Next up?

20. Incredibles 2 ... will skip out of respect for original Incredibles, the finest film Pixar has made
21. Toy Story 4 ... jfc! will skip

I didn't see Cars 3, Brave, or the Good Dinosaur. I new I would be disappointed so I didn't waste my time. Agree with Inside Out. Finding Dory was a solid 'meh'. The dancing scene at the frat party of Monsters' University was amazing, and saved the movie for me.

I will see Incredibles 2, because I give the first sequel of every Pixar movie a shot. Did that with Toy Story, and I was rewarded with a movie even better than the original. Not so with Cars 2, of course. And by the same token, I will probably see Toy Story 4. The 3rd movie still had the original Pixar touch.

Coco was very good, dude. It has the same Pixar magic as the greats.

[Commando]

Coco was awesome.

(Cars is probably the best ride at Disney, so Cars 2 might have been worth it. )

[Green Monstah]

Wonder. There's a lot a critic could nitpick about this movie, but I left the film feeling better about humanity and re-evaluating the way I view and treat others. With that said, I missed about five minutes, as I asked the manager of the theater to remove a rowdy group of kids who loudly called the main character "douchebag" and "retard". Maybe I should have been more patient, but it was that or escorting them out myself, which probably would have resulted in an assault charge.

[falafel]

Coco was awesome.

(Cars is probably the best ride at Disney, so Cars 2 might have been worth it. )

[Donuthole]

Seems like the Pixar offerings were great when they were pumping out one every 18-months to 2 years. Once they started coming out with one every year, the quality became pretty hit-or-miss.

[Commando]

Overall? I say no question. Kind of the classic dark ride but with a bit of a visceral thrill to it- great for kids and entertaining for adults (much like Pixar movies in general). Not my personal favorite, but I esteem it as probably the best-conceived and original ride.