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Speaking as someone who's recently had to watch Pixar's entire oeuvre 17,985 times, Cars is fine. There's no real bad guy, there's no shooting, and it's mild enough for me to tolerate umpity-thousand times. Also, I love Steve Purcell, so I dig on all the car stuff going on in the landscape.
And I really don't like Finding Nemo. It's a mess, saved by good performances. But still a mess. There are three too many endings, and three too many "Nemo's-dead-no-he's-not!" moments.
The reason a Cars 2 is not so much because of box-office performance, but rather because it made BEEELIONS of dollars in merchandising.
but rather because it made BEEELIONS of dollars in merchandising.
I guess we should expect many new characters in this one then.
lots of sidekicks.
About time! Crition releases Anthony Mann's western The Furies
This is a great movie and it hasn't been in print, or on cable for the last several years.
Walter Huston is incredibly good in this, as is Dame Judith Anderson. Barbara Stanwyck is less nuanced and in more of a Force Of Nature mode. Great supporting performances all around.
As the review notes, this is more like Mann's shot at King Lear than your average Western. The melodrama is a little big in places but it's got tremendous force.
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I guess we should expect many new characters in this one then.
Well, since Fillmore just passed away (RIP George Carlin), we'll need new.
Good list, Glam. You're no Brad Bird fan. You should see Toy STory 2, though. I think it's better than the first.
I'd put The Incredibles and Ratatouille at the top of my Pixar list and Cars at the bottom. My general animation list would include lots of Miyazaki and Bird at the top, but I'm too lazy to go through the whole list.
OT: Watched Altman's Kansas City last night, which was appallingly bad. Even the great jam sessions couldn't redeem all the bad will in that one. Maybe Bob had run out of weed when he made it.