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This genre is box office poison


Let's face it, animated/childrens sci-fi is the least successful genre of movies. Titan A.E., Treasure Planet, and Final Fantasy were all at least mediocre and ruined their respective animated studios (look it up; Titan A.E. killed Warner Bros. Animation, Treasure Planet started the decline of Disney we now see, and Final Fantasy ENDED Squaresoft). Even The Iron Giant, now seen as a modern classic, was a huge box office disaster. Bottom Line: this is one of the more carelessly put-together ideas i've seen from a studio in a long time.

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I'm with you. this looks like it's going to be terrible. One of those you see in the bargan buckett. Why doesn't someone write something new for a change?

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Stop whining, will ya? Why don't YOU try to write something new, for a change???

I keep seeing people complaining about everything, but they won't move to make a change.

I agree that Hollywood needs new ideas for movies because they came to look all the same storywise. I think the movie scene needs NEW WRITERS, but will those have enough imagination to write a good script?

When you want something to change, you gotta make the first step and lead others the way you want them.

So you guys write something off your free-time and try to sell it. It can pay a lot for a really interesting script.

Are you up for the challenge?!?


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Animated sci-fi dosen't always fail,examples:
Fantastic Planet
Wizards
Heavy Metal

and by the way,Titan A.E. was PG-13,that's why it's in the sci-fi section of video stores and not in the family section

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You don't need to be a good musician to know shitty music, and you don't need to be a good scriptwriter to know a shitty script.

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People are going back for ideas that worked years ago in movies, like Alien v. Predator and the Exorcist, and they can't even get it right. Why don't Hollywood producers try pushing the boundaries? It's not always a direct route to box office failure; remember School of Rock and Moulin Rouge? They were simply modest variations on age-old tales. This, however, is a retelling of an already existing story.

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Titan A.E was PG not Pg-13, and it is true hollywood is running out of ideas, really there has not been an original movie in so long.

I'll sleep when I am dead.

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But the difference is he's a ROBOT!!!!!!!!!

The name on it's own is box office poison.

I haven't seen it, but the title and the poster image lead me to beleive that this deserves a place in the all time 100 worst movies of all time.

CGI movies have to be approached with utter dedication, artistic integrity and imagination to stand a even the faintest chance of being good.

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"I haven't seen it, but ... beleive that this deserves a place in the all time 100 worst movies of all time.
Yeah. Idiot. There are so many amazing movies that had a terrible title and poster.
So please ... just leave.

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I'm with you. Which is why I'm working on 4 brilliant ideas I've had. Instead of trying to sell them though, which is what everybody does and none are ever purchased, me and my brother are going to make one ourselves on the best budget we can fund raise, and shop it at festivals. Kevin Smith is our idol for how to do it; the Coen brothers are our idols for creativity , writing, and direction.

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Titan A.E was from Fox Animation Studios not from Warner Bros. Animation. Titan didn't kill FAS because FAS is doing quite well. For exemple Robots (2005), Ice Age 2 (2006).

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Ah, yes, but Robots and Ice Age 2 are actually being animated by Blue Sky Studios, not Fox Animation itself (which is what Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificant, and Titan A.E. were).

Fox and Blue Sky are kinda like Disney and Pixar... seperate companies who team together.

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Has at least one of you even looked at the names of the director and the scriptwriter? If you do, you'll see that they are not American and that this movie doesn't come out from Crapcity aka Hollywood. It's ok to bash a movie, but at least try to know what you're talking about.

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Final Fantasy did not end Squaresoft. Hurt it, but didn't end it. It ended Square Pictures, a subsidiary of Squaresoft started solely for the purpose of producing Spirits Within. A couple of years later, Squaresoft bought Enix and merged to form Square-Enix.

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Titan A.E. was not a Warner Brothers feature, it was (I believe) produced by Universal Studios.

The Iron Giant was the WB animated family feature from that year (or the 1-2 years around Titan's release).

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