I will NEVER go see this movie good or no. With the communist piece of garbage, Ed Asner, as it’s lead voice? N way will I put money in that scumbag’s pocket.

Warner Todd Huston on June 7, 2009 at 11:45 PM

Where I completely agree with you in many ways on the Political Scumbag List. Ed made his money already, so boycotting to avoid paying him is a bit late. The movie is worth seeing, and truly, I didn’t even realize I was listening to Ed Asner during the movie.

Speaking of which…I saw LAND OF THE LOST, and didn’t realize until I was watching the credits that Leonard Nimoy was in it!! Yes, Leonard Nimoy does a voice in LOTL.

Excellent movie. Saw it the day it came out. Medved declared it the best Pixar movie ever (which is saying a lot). I agree.

Oh… did I leave out the word OPERATING?

Yes, you did. “Computing System” is the long way of saying “computer,” just like “Glorified See n’ Say” is the long way of saying “Mac.”

BTW – “LINUX GUI FTW” is some kind of oxymoron or joke.

Ugly on June 8, 2009 at 3:55 AM

We can’t all be Appletards. Some of us like computers.

Oh… did I leave out the word OPERATING?

BTW – “LINUX GUI FTW” is some kind of oxymoron or joke. You’re having one over on us, aren’t you? Because that would be funneh.

OH I KNOW… a retard like you, whom implied that I suggested such a thing.

Are you using a PC or a Mac?

Quote: You do know, don’t you, that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are both people you would disagree with politically? Yet, you are utilizing one or the other’s computing system to communicate on the Internet… right?

You do know, don’t you, that people can read what you posted, right?

But am I alone in thinking that these modern animated characters are a little generic looking and lack character? It just seems like once you start from the same basic 3D primitives and add layers of digital processing, the results look similar no matter who makes the movie or does the design.

I can find one single Calvin and Hobbes drawing funnier and more touching than a hundred thousand computer generated frames. That’s because the character and the love of the artist flows directly from ink to paper. It’s this human touch that makes a hand drawn picture easier to connect to. Remember the old English movie “The Snowman”? There is no way in the world you could produce something quite so cosy and magical on computer.

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against computers (I program in my spare time and love it)…it’s just I think that somewhere along the line, a deeply human element of art has been lost under layer after layer of digital processing and automation.

Your reasoning is all messed up, man. Gates doesn’t own PCs, just Windoze.

TMK on June 8, 2009 at 2:42 AM

Did I say Gates owns PCs? What kind of retard would I have to be, to suggest such a thing?? OH I KNOW… a retard like you, whom implied that I suggested such a thing.

Linux huh. You run that on a PC or a Mac? I’ve seen it on both.

Those of us with a conscience will always find a way. Everyone else is just an indolent turd making feeble excuses.

TMK on June 8, 2009

How’s that salvia divinorum treating you?

Ugly on June 8, 2009 at 2:12 AM

Your reasoning is all messed up, man. Gates doesn’t own PCs, just Windoze. Those of us with a conscience will always find a way. Everyone else is just an indolent turd making feeble excuses.

NO$ LINUX GUI FTW.

I will NEVER go see this movie good or no. With the communist piece of garbage, Ed Asner, as it’s lead voice? N way will I put money in that scumbag’s pocket.

Warner Todd Huston on June 7, 2009 at 11:45 PM

Are you using a PC or a Mac?

You do know, don’t you, that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are both people you would disagree with politically? Yet, you are utilizing one or the other’s computing system to communicate on the Internet… right?

Can say you will never use the Internet again because they hold different political ideals than you? Or maybe you will just Twitter via Blackberry. BUZZZ nope again, you’ll find a liberal.

Your reasoning is all messed up, man.

Just go see Up. Trust in the many positive short reviews here, and in Ed’s very positive review. Lighten up, dude. Ed Ansner is only one voice in an extremely delightful movie.

My spouse thought “UP” was too emotionally complicated for our ten year old son who agreed with dad. His best friend who accompanied us, viewed “UP” for the second time and also wasn’t a big fan – specifically noting he just thought it was an ‘ok’ film.

Personally, I LOVED this film. I especially appreciated the effort to fully develope the characters to the point where the audience was emotionally invested in them. Creativity was top notch.

This is the kind of animation style that can keep my attention. — [I despise the pathetic animation style of cartoon network (Ben10, Camp Lazlo, chowder, cow & chicken - ew!)]

Perhaps the emotional component of “UP” renders this film a chick flick. My daughter and I are the only two in my family that absolutely loved it. The fellas in my clan thought it was just ‘ok’.

youngturk on June 7, 2009 at 6:50 PM

I was thinking Walter Matthau myself – and marveling that Pixar made Carl such a real character, not just a grumpy old man. That Carl/Ellie opening sequence may be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen on film. Worth the price of the whole movie.

I loved Up, but I have to say I didn’t care for the supersmart dogs (loved all the dog jokes though … “My name is Dug. I have just met you, and I love you!”). To me part of the enchantment of Up is that you should be almost able to believe it could really happen. Maaaaybe an old man could tie a thousand balloons to his fire grate and float the house away. Okay. Maaaaybe a stowaway with a GPS could steer them to a specific spot in South America. Well, maybe they started from Miami. But then the dogs show up, and they can talk. All right … a little suspension of disbelief here … but then they start flying little planes, and that’s where they lost me. I guess I’m not as into big long action sequences as I used to be either.

God, I’m getting to be such a curmudgeon … I hated the start of the cartoon at the beginning too. Way too twee.

But after the Carl/Ellie sequence, the next best part is where the house takes off and all the jewel colors of the balloons make beautiful shadows as it moves along. Gorgeous – and so imaginative!

Have you forgotten “Cars” or did you actually enjoy it?

thecountofincognito on June 7, 2009 at 1:09 PM

“Cars” was good… in more ways than one.

Of course, I saw it as I was going through a momentous time in my life… and I have a love for my hometown. So those are two very good reason why my review of it might be skewered…

But “Cars” was good. I really did like it.

Godlywood producing more hits than Hollywood

William Amos on June 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM

Thanks for the link. Good story.

youngturk, from the clip it seems they put the Matthau personality into Tracy’s caricatured body, sent off to a masculine Oz.