Kevin's Watch

Syl wrote: Only bad part about it was the grown woman behind me who said "Awww" at every cute or sentimental part and "Oh no" at every sad part. Literally every time.

Y'know...over-enthusiastic theater goers are maybe more annoying to me than just plain run-of-the-mill obnoxious ones. At least the obnoxious ones realize that they are being obnoxious, and often will quiet down when you tell them to shut the F up. When I saw Juno with several friends, some lady behind us laughed AT EVERYTHING, even the stuff that wasn't so funny, and repeated back every funny line that they just said on the screen. She was enjoying herself, but none of us around her was. If there were any other seats, we would have moved. I wanted her dead by the end.

I have told my fair share of people to shut up at the theater. And while it's sweet victory to hear their silence, it's also quite awkward afterward. The last time we needed a group of teenagers to be quiet, we just got an usher. He threatened to throw them out, and they didn't have a clue who complained. Worked like a charm, except for missing a minute or two of the film. Well worth it, in my opinion.

Saw it last week; very emotional beginning and the rest of the film was pretty good.

Talk about an emotional story:

www.nbclosangeles.com/news/entertainmen ... rs-Up.html

9 out of 10

Wow. Saw this in 3D (which is no longer just a gimmik, it really is quite wonderful), and enjoyed everything I saw. Tugs at the heart and then ands joy with its humout and humanity.
And the images! great!
I read once that the big problem with Pixar is that it makes the other animated movies look pale by comparison.
LOL.

Grandma came in town this week and we were able to get out. So we went and saw Up. Wow, what a tearjerker. I love the majority of it, but had two minor quibbles:

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1. I don't quite get why the "bad guy" had to die.
2. I know it is an animated movie and something of a fantasy, but I felt it cheated several times with it's own rules established. For instance, the old man's back starts to give lifting his cane, yet he can do the equivalent of navigating the monkey bars just fine on the dirigable. I know I am supposed to suspend my belief, and did for most of the movie, but for some reason, I felt the rules ran a little sloppy. I think I was just being needlessly picky, but for some reason, it occasionally bothered me where these things never tend to.

I had mixed feelings after seeing this one, and overall was disappointed. Pixar makes great films, Bug's Life, Toy Story, Incredibles, etc. I'm a huge fan, so I had high hopes, though the preview just didn't grab me the way the other films had...

The initial reviews went like those in this thread...and the first half hour was awesome, heartfelt, funny, interesting...but then plot issues started to get to me...
- why did we just 'flash' to South America?
- why

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dogs? why talking? and though funny, isn't it a little far to have them flying planes? why all these little characters like the dog and bird that really have little emotional or philisophical connection to our 'tagonists? what do they really have to do with the plot?

- when he finally achieves his personal journey, it didn't feel right to me, I wasn't convinced that he had really taken that huge and deep of an emotional step (yes it's a kids movie, but that journey wasn't something a seven year old is going to relate too much)
- the middle act had almost nothing to do with the plot/journey or our 'tagonist and almost seemed like it was part of a different film

On the positive side...
- This is Pixar's funniest film, I was laughing hard every couple minutes throughout the first two acts
- The animation is stylishly unique, yet plain - picture perfect for the story told here
- the characters are each interesting in their own right.
- The greatest thing I believe Pixar achieved with this one is

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much like Tom Hanks achieved with Cast Away, and Pixar did with WallE (though to a lesser depth) - this is a film about one man's journey in life, that while having other characters, really is about him and spends most of it's screen time with him as the center of a funny film with a very serious and touching story - one character, a digital one, an animated one, without too much dialogue, his emotions beautifully conveyed in that first act.

Overall the plot and character issues were too much for me...I ended up feeling like Pixar had lost it's way by the end of the film, not ever really returning to the emotional depth of the first act, though I laughed a lot.

**1/2 out of **** for me.

Just saw this on DVD with my 4 and 6 year old kids. They loved it and so did I, so I agree with all the positive feedback and disagree with all the negative feedback

there were a couple of scenes which had my 4 year old a bit scared, but I explained what was happening, and she wanted to see it again by the time it finished.

I'm sorry jRsT, I disagree with almost everything you posted (but I can't be bothered going through it all coz I'm a shallow person )

Except:

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I hated Cast away!

"SQUIRREL!"