Flushed Away

Post by **Dacey** » November 3rd, 2006, 5:51 pm

Glad to hear you enjoyed it.

At this point, I think the five nominations for the Best Animated Feature Oscar are:

"Cars"
"Over the Hedge"
"Monster House"
"Open Season"
"Flushed Away"

Winner will be "Flushed Away" or "Cars".

Post by **Josh** » November 3rd, 2006, 7:06 pm

I wouldn't count out Happy Feet.

Post by **Daniel** » November 4th, 2006, 2:55 am

Nope I won't

For all we know it might become a favorite amongst critics

So far it looks ok

Nothing new or original...

Post by **Meg** » November 4th, 2006, 10:45 am

It looks fun, but I don't think it will fare THAT well with critics. But hey, I've been wrong before (I know, hard to believe, right?)

Post by **Daniel** » November 4th, 2006, 4:53 pm

Meg wrote:It looks fun, but I don't think it will fare THAT well with critics.

That's what I think as well

Meg wrote: But hey, I've been wrong before (I know, hard to believe, right?)

You have

it is hard to believe.

Post by **Meg** » November 5th, 2006, 12:28 pm

Hasn't anyone seen this yet? I wanna hear what people thought!

Post by **Dacey** » November 5th, 2006, 12:55 pm

I hope to catch it sometime soon. If I'm lucky, I'll be able to see this AND "Santa Clause 3" on Tuesday. If I'm lucky...

Post by **ShyViolet** » November 6th, 2006, 12:07 am

Still have to see this......AHHHH can't wait.....

I so hope it gets nominated along with OTH.

Post by **ShyViolet** » November 6th, 2006, 1:57 am

This might be newsworthy, so...

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111795 ... 1&nid=2562

Post by **Josh** » November 6th, 2006, 5:45 am

ShyViolet wrote:This might be newsworthy, so...

...Animated News covered it on November 1st.

Post by **ShyViolet** » November 6th, 2006, 7:05 am

Yikes! Scratch that one.

Post by **Josh** » November 6th, 2006, 7:24 am

No problem, Vi.

Post by **James** » November 6th, 2006, 8:02 am

Meg wrote:Hasn't anyone seen this yet? I wanna hear what people thought!

I saw it:

James wrote:Posted: 03 Nov 2006 05:43 pm

Just got back! It's a very funny film, and easily one of the top three animated films of the year (with Cars and Over the Hedge). It's no classic, but very welcome after a lot of the films we've had to endure this year! I'll write more later - gotta go!

How about I write more now!

I was a little leery of the melding of DreamWorks and Aardman sensibilities, but it came off good - though you can definitely tell who wrote which bits!

Voice acting was VERY good!

Fun and funny movie - though I didn't like the slugs as much as the critics seemed to.

Potty humor is kept to a bare minimum - a welcome surprise!

The major downside is that you never seemed to get to a point that you really cared about the characters. Yes you want to find out what happens to them in the story but they didn't make a strong connection with the audience.

While fun and enjoyable, not a classic.

Post by **James** » November 6th, 2006, 8:10 am

Three last things, very minor spoilers:

Post by **ShyViolet** » November 6th, 2006, 5:31 pm

Hey, has anyone heard about this book?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/produc ... 55&s=books

More media know-it-all smugness...as if there wasn't a DWA around still making movies. He pins it all on their "hubris". (Of course he overlooks the fact that the stakes were uneven from the begining for all three of them, and that two of them had nothing to lose in the venture and generally didn't much care if it sank, and that the only reason it's STILL around today in some form is because one guy worked like crazy to keep it going.)

Is this guy even literate?

It's all about "writers" making money folks. This book looks even worse than Disney War.

Probably it'll get good reviews....because the ones reviewing it as usual have no background or context on the info and believe every exaggerated/twisted/misinformed story the writer dishes out.