From the trailer it looks like it is a story about clashing weapons. Humans are attached to end of the weapons and grimace a lot. I don't know if it ever occurred to anyone that the cute "cars" universe has a major horror undercurrent. The human race is extinct. The earth is populated by adorable self-driving cars running around with their own civilization. I think the movie makers are planning a competing franchise "swords" where humanity has become extinct, and adorable animated swords float around clashing with each other. Dragonsword is the prequel to that, showing how the humans became extinct in that universe.
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'The Message'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Typo Boy - Jun 28, 2015 12:46:36 am PDT #29206 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2015 11:40:10 am PDT #29207 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Definitely see it, you won't regret it, unless you hate all things Pixar, in which case you have no soul.
I wouldn't say I regret seeing it, but I wasn't totally impressed. I cried at all the crypoints (which is to say, basically the entire movie), but thinking back I'm not sure I actually liked it. Because the entire movie is built on pretty high-level metaphors, the characters spend a LOT of time explaining the meaning of what they're doing instead of actually doing the things. And there were a couple of places where the metaphors were ignored in service of the plot, which I found annoying and lazy. (Like when the Train of Thought fell off the rails, it had no consequences in the real world. She *literally* lost her train of thought, but she didn't lose her train of thought? COME ON MOVIE. )
Three things in this movie which were sheer unequivocal brilliance: Lewis Black as Anger, the bit with the gum commercial, and the bit with the cat (stay through the credits!). And I do think the world would be a better place with Leslie Knope in charge of our brains.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2015 12:15:37 pm PDT #29208 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I will say, Dylan loved it and it's given him some really good tools for talking about emotions. So it's an overall good thing that this movie exists, in spite of my reservations.
Steph L. - Jun 28, 2015 3:43:03 pm PDT #29209 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I just read that there's going to be a second Top Gun movie (apparently with Tom Cruise). And I just have to say -- if it's as homoerotic as the first one, I am ALL IN.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 28, 2015 6:10:47 pm PDT #29210 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
No one Cruise's age would be flying in the Navy as a fighter pilot, would they?
Consuela - Jun 28, 2015 6:52:07 pm PDT #29211 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
No one Cruise's age would be flying in the Navy as a fighter pilot, would they?
Nah, but he could be a Colonel giving shit to all the young guys.
megan walker - Jun 28, 2015 7:06:30 pm PDT #29212 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I wouldn't say I regret seeing it, but I wasn't totally impressed. I cried at all the crypoints (which is to say, basically the entire movie), but thinking back I'm not sure I actually liked it.
Thank you! The more I think about it, the more problems I find. Especially after rewatching most of their other films.
Calli - Jun 29, 2015 1:49:21 am PDT #29213 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
No one Cruise's age would be flying in the Navy as a fighter pilot, would they?
Nah, but he could be a Colonel giving shit to all the young guys.
I'd love to see a scene where some young stud buzzes the tower, Col. Cruise give him/her hell, and someone who knew him back in the day is all, "Really?"
SailAweigh - Jun 29, 2015 7:20:33 am PDT #29214 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
he could be a Colonel giving shit to all the young guys
Nah, he wouldn't. Mainly because he's Navy and the Navy doesn't have Colonels. They do have Commanders, though, and it would be extremely possible he'd be one. And he'd still be flying.
Edited to add: I know from whence I speak; I was stationed with Topgun and transferred out the year before the movie was made.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 29, 2015 9:34:57 am PDT #29215 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Lewis Black as Anger
A rare case where being redundant is a great thing.