This picture is destined to be a blockbuster. It's got bankable stars, incredible media coverage, and a very unique look.
From what I can see, I'm impressed. I can't believe this thing is being made in Atlanta--but who cares. I'm delighted that someone FINALLY has the guts to create an original animated feature that's not another comedy with talking animals. I can't wait to see this one with the kids.
Can you please tell me what you know about this movie?
-I need Japanese steel!
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BTW, the director/storywriter (Jason Maurer) is my nephew.
screw that, i wanna know what this guys smoking, cuz hes obviously incredibly out of it... the animation from the trailer looks like the stuff they were doing back in the late 90s, an extreme budget title, which while i have nothing against low cost cgi films IF THEY ARE INTERESTING, this doesn't seem good at all...the japanese do films that look 4x as good, with only 50% of the budget, so even though i love animated films, and am (have always been) a huge supporter of cgi films, im really not looking forward to this, because it just doesn't have anything going for it... sure it'll be fun to watch when it comes out on dvd, but thats about it....
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If you want original movies, why not look to the east!
Japan animation(anime) is far superior when it comes to
original stories and plots. When you look inte west all
you see is kid frendly movies that is allways funny,
the same thing over and over again. In Japan there
is no limit to categories, there is drama, action,
thrillers you name it.
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yeah thats all good but here is my question, why the fu## would you watch a cgi when most of the time you will spend reading subs.
This is like going for football game and taking pictures of game rather than watching it.
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In countries where people are used to reading subs, you never hear this complaint. Probably because they can read well enough to do it while watching a movie. It takes practice, don't give up too soon.
Besides, Anime usually lends itself to a second viewing. And seeing japanese characters do japanese things and speak american-english is just weird and distracts from the story a lot more than a few lines of text at the bottom of the screen could, in my opinion.
On topic though: this turned out to be a crappy movie, that was far from "absoultely revolutionary".
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Besides, Anime usually lends itself to a second viewing. And seeing japanese characters do japanese things and speak american-english is just weird and distracts from the story a lot more than a few lines of text at the bottom of the screen could, in my opinion.
Congratulations on making a very stupid comment.
I don't know what you've been looking at but there is nothing unique or revolutionary about this movie. The characters look like escapees from the "Oddworld" pc games, or maybe 3d renderings of characters from the 1973 french cartoon "La Planete sauvage" and the story is as old as they come (see "Music Land" a 1935 Disney Silly Symphony for an animated variation of the same story, which in turn is just another variation of "Romeo and Juliet") Media coverage???? I had never heard of this until I happened across it on the an upcoming movies site. I asked my cgi and anime crazy ids about it and neither one of them had never heard of it. Maybe its an east coast thing which just hasn't made it out here to the west.
shareDefinetly an East coast thing. It's based smack-dab in the center of Atlanta.
You are right though that it's story does borrow lots of elements from Romeo & Juliet, but it ISN'T Romeo & Juliet.
As for you reference to the French cartoon, I have no clue. And the Oddworld characters may have a resemblance, but don't match it at all. They are an original idea.
Ha ha. Wow.
shareROLF hindsight is 20/20, never heard of this movie until today simply because I heard it was one of the biggest flops of all time.
share"This picture is destined to be a blockbuster. It's got bankable stars, incredible media coverage, and a very unique look.
From what I can see, I'm impressed. I can't believe this thing is being made in Atlanta--but who cares. I'm delighted that someone FINALLY has the guts to create an original animated feature that's not another comedy with talking animals. I can't wait to see this one with the kids."
result; Biggest Box Office Bomb of all-time
40,000,000 (budget)
511,900 gross (1.2%)
Even worse then... Adventures in Pluto Nash
100,000,000 (budget)
4,400,000 gross (4.4%)
Thus ends the experiment of making a semi-serious animated feature film. Goofy, stupid, and wacky CGI, thats non-threatening and not at all remotely profound will be made for decades to come.
Delgo had the misfortune of being a fairly nice attempt at animation in a very flawed age for animated film.
I long for the days of Akira, Secret of Nimh, Plague Dogs and Valley of the Wind.
Thus ends the experiment of making a semi-serious animated feature film. Goofy, stupid, and wacky CGI, thats non-threatening and not all remotely profound will be made for decades to come.
Uh, WALL-E?
as good a film as "Wall-E" was, it is not one of Pixar's most bankable ideas, at least as far as box office numbers go. It didn't even edge out what is arguably their weakest film - "Cars".
in any case, this is a great bump.
Wait, a profitable world-wide success, grossing more than halfa *billion* dollars, critically praised as one of the greatest movies of all time, and oh yea, making more than "Cars", is not one of Pixar's most bankable ideas?
And this pile of crap is the supposed to be revolutionary and its failure the end of serious animation?
No, this movie bombing was a mercy kill. We don't need more generic fantasy crap pretending to be movies. And seriously, to the guy before - I'd like to remind you that Studio Ghibli is still making serious movies and has been well past 1984, when Nausicaa came out.
Some people will defend *anything*, won't they?
Goofy, stupid, and wacky CGI, thats non-threatening and not all remotely profound
Took me a while to realize you weren't talking about Delgo here.
"Positive Portrayal of a Cockroach" Award Recipient: WALL-E. The cockroach is a noble beast.
"This picture is destined to be a blockbuster."
Scuba Steve, will there be an official retraction of this comment now?
Just kidding.
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Ouch. I wonder what he felt when the movie grossed like $500,000...AS A WIDELY RELEASED MOVIE!!
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Or, maybe he eventually forgot about it because he hasn't logged in in almost four years.
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holy lord, its been 6 years since the op. imdb record?
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Super epic failure by someone obviously associated with the film. Especially considering the OP made only 2 posts: both about this gamble that sadly did not pay off. Its a tragedy when almost any independent film fails, apart from porn and exploitation and ripoffs.
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Obviously a planted post by somebody involved in this turkey. Having seen the trailer (never heard of it outside IMDb), it deserved its embarrasing fate and record for biggest BO failure. When cheap-looking, unoriginal crap like this bombs, it shows that sometimes the movie gods are just. This should have gone straight to DVD for $5.00 per copy at K-Mart.
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