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Lava screened before Inside Out, found it boring.


I saw an advanced screening of Inside Out today, and before it was the short, Lava. I found it boring as hell, and didn't fit as a companion to Inside Out really.

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To each his own, I guess. I thought it was beautiful and it actually made me teary-eyed.

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Same for me... Inside Out was the one that bored me. One of the extremely rare occasions I don't agree with IMDb ratings.

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Same here!

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It was better than Inside Out.

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You're delusional if you believe that...

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Not delusional... it was better than Inside Out. I liked it far more.

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You must be the only one who did then...

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You must be the only one who did then...


Maybe.

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I didn't love Lava, but it wasn't bad. But Inside Out is one of the best animated movies ever.

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Agree. I normally really like Pixar shorts, but this one was awful! The song was so annoying and the fact that they had to repeat it multiple times just made it worse! Inside Out was great, but this short film was terrible.

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I lavad this short!

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It's called the chorus.

Even basic knowledge of music from Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back" will teach you that.

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^if there was a like option for this website, I'd like your comment a million times

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Short and sweet. If you like Hawaiian culture and music, then you may enjoy it more than most.

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With a rating of 7/10, you seem to be far in the minority. If this is the one of the most boring movies you have ever seen, must not have seen very many movies at all.

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I didn't find it boring so much as sappy and outdated. It's the kind of story that Disney would have done in the 1960s.

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Agreed. I am going to skip this for life.

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I absolutely loved both Lava and Inside Out in different ways. Lava was completely enchanting. And Inside Out was brilliant and very funny. Although I agree they are very different it was an interesting and surprising cinematic experience to see this short film that I didn't expect. Which was magical.

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How was it boring?

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Generally the shorts for pixar films were there to showcase how the technology had advanced since their latest film (in hair, water, smoke, and light effects) and offered an interesting virtue for kids to learn, or at least brought some clever gags or slapstick to get them pumped up for the feature film. Lava's cgi was subpar, and the animation was little to none because of the nature of the story. The male volcano looked creepy as hell, and the female volcano's voice was nails on a chalkboard. The story offered zero complexity, and could have easily been about one building waiting for another building to get made next to it and called it "Bricks". The song was textbook generic, and was only good for making kids in the audience scream for the movie to start. Overall it was a shallow snore of a narrative built around subpar visuals that made me regret not taking my piss break right then.

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It wasn't too bad at all. Total over reaction from many on here.

My confusion lay with I had known nothing of it (and very little of Inside Out) before going to see it so I wasn't sure whether it was actually going to be a part of the film initially.

The one criticism I had of it was that it maybe had one verse too many but I guess that was required to be part of the story and explain the male and female volcanoes coming and going.

It was a nice wee story. Nothing to get too upset about and the song was catch enough.

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