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Wreck-It Ralph |OT| I'm Gonna Wreck It!

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So we went and loved it. Even though we all went in expecting to be disappointed we all thought it was really great. I definitely enjoyed it more than Tangled, which is saying something.
 
I REALLY liked Wreck-It Ralph! So many dominos set up, and I feel it was all worth it. You think all the stuff in Hero's Duty was just fun sight gags, but the way it all builds up in the climax is brilliant! I teared up a few times, not gonna lie. That said, I was disappointed with the direction the story went. When King Candy told Ralph about the dilemma with glitches and the hard decisions he had to make, I had no idea where the movie was gonna go. Here's a morally complex idea, the hard center of what's been a sweet treat. Things just got very interesting!

Buuuut it was all a lie and King Candy is a big bad guy and happy smiles for everybody at the end, whee. And it works(the last 20 minutes are the best section of the film, with it's big racing/action set pieces and all the sub-plots and ideas finally coming to a head), but I do feel it went in a less interesting direction. I feel like there was a level the movie couldn't get pass, so it used a cheat code to skip the final stage. It's a 8/10, when it possibly could have been a 9/10.

But its definitely better than Brave, and the best animated film I've seen all year.

OH, and how fuckin' cute was that opening short!?
 
ViewtifulJC said:
I REALLY liked Wreck-It Ralph! So many dominos set up, and I feel it was all worth it. You think all the stuff in Hero's Duty was just fun sight gags, but the way it all builds up in the climax is brilliant! I teared up a few times, not gonna lie. That said, I was disappointed with the direction the story went. When King Candy told Ralph about the dilemma with glitches and the hard decisions he had to make, I had no idea where the movie was gonna go. Here's a morally complex idea, the hard center of what's been a sweet treat. Things just got very interesting!

Buuuut it was all a lie and King Candy is a big bad guy and happy smiles for everybody at the end, whee. And it works(the last 20 minutes are the best section of the film, with it's big racing/action set pieces and all the sub-plots and ideas finally coming to a head), but I do feel it went in a less interesting direction. I feel like there was a level the movie couldn't get pass, so it used a cheat code to skip the final stage. It's a 8/10, when it possibly could have been a 9/10.

But its definitely better than Brave, and the best animated film I've seen all year.

OH, and how fuckin' cute was that opening short!?
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Yeah Brave was horrible. A good first five minutes followed by ehhhhhhhh.
 
ViewtifulJC said:
I REALLY liked Wreck-It Ralph! So many dominos set up, and I feel it was all worth it. You think all the stuff in Hero's Duty was just fun sight gags, but the way it all builds up in the climax is brilliant! I teared up a few times, not gonna lie. That said, I was disappointed with the direction the story went. When King Candy told Ralph about the dilemma with glitches and the hard decisions he had to make, I had no idea where the movie was gonna go. Here's a morally complex idea, the hard center of what's been a sweet treat. Things just got very interesting!

Buuuut it was all a lie and King Candy is a big bad guy and happy smiles for everybody at the end, whee. And it works(the last 20 minutes are the best section of the film, with it's big racing/action set pieces and all the sub-plots and ideas finally coming to a head), but I do feel it went in a less interesting direction. I feel like there was a level the movie couldn't get pass, so it used a cheat code to skip the final stage. It's a 8/10, when it possibly could have been a 9/10.

But its definitely better than Brave, and the best animated film I've seen all year.

OH, and how fuckin' cute was that opening short!?
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as enjoyable as it is, it's still a childrens movie.

Putting in philosophical dilemnas about "doing the greater good" or going against that might be to complex for a child
 
LoL, I thought I was the only one who thought he is too smart to
think that when M. Bison said going turbo, he meant SFII Turbo
we were overdoing it guys :p
 
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cantona222 said:
LoL, I thought I was the only one who thought he is too smart to
think that when M. Bison said going turbo, he meant SFII Turbo
we were overdoing it guys :p
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It is a reference to that if you think about what he said without context. Early when he meant "going Turbo", I was under the impression that he meant losing the villain role because he lost that to Akuma... but then that didn't happen in SF2T!

WordAssassin said:
No, obviously MvA was going to have kaiju references in it to work, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking Stephen Colbert as the president doing the scene from Close Encounters and then rocking out to the Beverly Hills Cop theme. That kind of pop culture schlock that permeated -early- Dreamworks films. They have absolutely stepped up their game since KFP. Even Puss in Boots was mostly devoid of it and enjoyable.
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That actually seems fine - if anything I thought it was a nice touch for an insane president.
 
Don't all of WDAS's films since Meet the Robinsons have that segment from Steamboat Willie with the words Walt Disney Animation Studios displayed prominently?

Sorry if I seemed a little hostile.
 
qindarka said:
Don't all of WDAS's films since Meet the Robinsons have that segment from Steamboat Willie with the words Walt Disney Animation Studios displayed prominently?

Sorry if I seemed a little hostile.
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Well, last time I went to the cinema to see a film like this was for ratatouille, and finding nemo before that. I thought it Pixar was doing all these movies while the Disney brand was used for television, games and parks.

Are Pixar and Disney two separate studios then? Didn't Disney buy Pixar for 7.3 thousand million dollars? What differentiates Disney projects from Pixar's?
 
Fewr said:
Well, last time I went to the cinema to see a film like this was for ratatouille, and finding nemo before that. I thought it Pixar was doing all these movies while the Disney brand was used for television, games and parks.

Are Pixar and Disney two separate studios then? Didn't Disney buy Pixar for 7.3 thousand million dollars? What differentiates Disney projects from Pixar's?
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There are two main studios used for theatrical animated movies.

The first is Walt Disney Animation Studios which used to be the bedrock of the entire company and is responsible for such classics as Pinocchio, Dumbo and the ones in the 90s such as The Lion King and Aladdin. Recent films made by this studio other than Wreck-It-Ralph include Tangled and Bolt.

The second is of course, Pixar. Both are separate entities though John Lasseter, the main man at Pixar, has been the Chief Creative Officer of WDAs as well since the 2006 acquisition of Pixar by Disney.

Regarding the differences, WDAS has traditionally dealt with adaptations, most popularly that of fairy tales. Though they haven't actually adapted that many fairy tales, 6 only by my count, they've more often drawn on other literature. Also WDAS are famous for their films being musicals or at least having a good amount of songs, though there are exceptions, especially in the last decade or so.

Pixar has always produced original properties, excluding pre/sequels and their films are exclusively in CG. While there are often songs, they are not presented in a traditional musical format. Their films are also for the most part, set in contemporary times rather than Disney's fantasy settings.

The lines have been blurred recently, with Disney striving to break their usual formula after the Disney Renaissance, to mixed effect. Also Disney have also started producing Cg features since 2005. Films like Tangled and The Princess and the Frog are distinctly WDAS products though I concede that other recent ones such as Bolt and Meet the Robinsons could easily be mistaken for Pixar efforts. I suspect that the same goes for Wreck-It-Ralph though I haven't watched it yet.

And of course, there can be confusion when the word Disney is used. Sometimes its used to refer to the entire company and other times, its used to refer only to WDAS.
 
qindarka said:
Don't all of WDAS's films since Meet the Robinsons have that segment from Steamboat Willie with the words Walt Disney Animation Studios displayed prominently?

Sorry if I seemed a little hostile.
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First I saw it was on Bolt. It appeared in other Disney animated films since then.
 
I've checked and that logo did indeed appear first for Meet The Robinsons. I always took it and parts of the film, especially the quote by Walt Disney at the end, to be an apology for shitting on their own legacy in Chicken Little's opening.
 
qindarka said:
I've checked and that logo did indeed appear first for Meet The Robinsons. I always took it and parts of the film, especially the quote by Walt Disney at the end, to be an apology for shitting on their own legacy in Chicken Little's opening.
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I never saw Chicken Little, what happened in the opening that shat on their legacy?
 
The attention to detail was unbelievable. All sorts of characters walking through the background, believable made-up games, and characters to match. Plus,
Sonic making public service announcements, the kill screen at the end of the credits, and game code that looked like a reasonable visual model of object-oriented game code being executed.

I was very, very impressed. It was a great movie. Far better than I'd expected.
 
qindarka said:
Also Disney have also started producing Cg features since 2005.
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It should be noted that while not full CG Disney has been experimenting with and including CG Elements in its film going all the way back to The Black Cauldron. They also did Dinosaur in 2000 that was a mix of live action environments (for some things) and full CG characters.
 
Shin Johnpv said:
It should be noted that while not full CG Disney has been experimenting with and including CG Elements in its film going all the way back to The Black Cauldron. They also did Dinosaur in 2000 that was a mix of live action environments (for some things) and full CG characters.
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The Great Mouse Detective was the first animation which had a whole scene (the Big Ben fight) that was generated entirely by computer except for the characters which were 2D. Pretty impressive for a 1986 movie.
 
qindarka said:
Don't all of WDAS's films since Meet the Robinsons have that segment from Steamboat Willie with the words Walt Disney Animation Studios displayed prominently?

Sorry if I seemed a little hostile.
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Yup, Meet the Robinsons was the first animated feature released under the Walt Disney Animation Studios banner.

Prior to that, the studio was known as Walt Disney Feature Animation.
 
GCX said:
The Great Mouse Detective was the first animation which had a whole scene (the Big Ben fight) that was generated entirely by computer except for the characters which were 2D. Pretty impressive for a 1986 movie.
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It certainly is very impressive. Had another watch of that scene on Youtube and the CG fits in seamlessly.

However, this will forever be the best use of CGI in a 2d animated movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKWJuMyw8E
 
Watched it again (this time with family and in 2D).

Yeah those two were not
Peach, Daisy and Rosalina
, and yeah Cammy was wearing pants.
 
GCX said:
The Great Mouse Detective was the first animation which had a whole scene (the Big Ben fight) that was generated entirely by computer except for the characters which were 2D. Pretty impressive for a 1986 movie.
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There was also some use of CG in the Black Cauldron I just don't remember what it was, I do believe it was just one element for one sequence or shot I think, so not as much as Great Mouse but it was there! (Black Cauldron came before Great Mouse)
 
I finally got to see it for a second time yesterday. Such a great film. My buddy and I both agree they need to make a solid hi-def version of Sugar Rush for 360/PS3.

This line got a lot of laughs from the audience:
"Unless you've got another kart hidden within the fat-folds of your neck..."
.

Also, I noticed that Sonic shows up 3 times during the movie, all briefly.
On the video screen in Game Central Station, at Felix's party for a split second, and he gets hit in Game Central Station by the runaway shuttle, knocking rings out of him.

The climactic scene had more of an emotional punch this time for me. That music kicks in and Ralph says that line.
 
I just saw this movie, i saw the spanish (latin american) version and couldn't believe that they got la chilindrina for Vanellopes voice, at first i hated it, she sounds so old and raspy, but she nailed the emotions on the important scenes.

I felt the first 30 minutes of the movie was full of easter eggs, and then Ralph meets Vanellope and the story really kicks in, it was really an enjoyable movie, better than i expected, and with some kind of message to the audience, it also helps that the theather was literally empty, there was only me and my gf in the room, then when the movie was about to start, a group of girls and guys came in...

ckohler said:
I finally got to see it for a second time yesterday. Such a great film. My buddy and I both agree they need to make a solid hi-def version of Sugar Rush for 360/PS3.
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Wrong audience for such a game, maybe for the Wii-U, Ralph is already a nintendo exclusive.
 
Enjoyed the movie quite a bit. I really would have preferred them jumping between more games, rather than spending the second half of the movie making candy puns and jokes, but alas. Visually amazing and some really fun cameos.
 
I saw the movie last night and really enjoyed it. Sarah Silverman was surprisingly good. Totally believable as a child's voice. Then I watched Sarah Silverman on Conan where she looked pretty hot and felt conflicted.
 
Mr. Robot said:
I just saw this movie, i saw the spanish (latin american) version and couldn't believe that they got la chilindrina for Vanellopes voice, at first i hated it, she sounds so old and raspy, but she nailed the emotions on the important scenes.

I felt the first 30 minutes of the movie was full of easter eggs, and then Ralph meets Vanellope and the story really kicks in, it was really an enjoyable movie, better than i expected, and with some kind of message to the audience, it also helps that the theather was literally empty, there was only me and my gf in the room, then when the movie was about to start, a group of girls and guys came in...



Wrong audience for such a game, maybe for the Wii-U, Ralph is already a nintendo exclusive.
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Oh, Mr. Robot, I had to tell you, your avatar is adorable and cracks me up!! So cute!!

And I gotta say, I do like empty or empty-ish theaters, but I love when a theater is full and everyone is into the movie and enjoying it. I just hope I wasn't too loud when I kept laughing :( Oh well, gotta go see it again anyway! <3 <3
 
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