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Post by lizardgirl on Mar 12, 2005 9:50:50 GMT -5
Anyone here remember the pure brilliance of the Pixar short that was shown before The Incredibles, Boundin'? With the Jackalope and the Sheep? ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 12, 2005 13:08:11 GMT -5
I have NO idea WHAT Pixar was thinking.
It was good animation and story but......wha?
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Post by Ranger Parsec on Mar 12, 2005 14:08:28 GMT -5
Anyone here remember the pure brilliance of the Pixar short that was shown before The Incredibles, Boundin'? With the Jackalope and the Sheep? ;D It was cute, but kinda freaky at the same time. LOL. I had to laugh. It sounded like Pixar crashed into Dr. Seuss and made an animated short.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 12, 2005 14:10:48 GMT -5
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Post by Mirage on Mar 12, 2005 16:20:13 GMT -5
Boundin' is one of my favorite shorts. Next to Knick Knack. ;D
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Post by Mirage on Mar 12, 2005 16:22:14 GMT -5
Speaking of which...I got the Incredibles DVD today!!! A Sears store put it out on sale early. ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 12, 2005 16:24:49 GMT -5
WHA?!
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Post by fairlyoddnewyorker on Mar 12, 2005 16:31:42 GMT -5
You're lucky- I was hoping Costco would do the same ^__^;
Can't wait till Tuesday =)
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Post by Mirage on Mar 13, 2005 8:57:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I was driving to the mall and all of a sudden my grandma calls me on the phone: "Sears has that Incredibles movie, do you want widescreen or fullscreen?" ;D ;D I was cheering. "Widescreen! WOO HOO! Thanks Sears!"
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 13, 2005 10:46:15 GMT -5
Widescreen...ick.... Fullscreen...
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Post by Mirage on Mar 13, 2005 12:26:53 GMT -5
I prefer widescreen because with fullscreen, you miss some of what's around the edges...
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 13, 2005 12:32:16 GMT -5
Yeah but you also miss what you see up and below...
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Post by pitbulllady on Mar 13, 2005 12:38:38 GMT -5
lay some spoilers on us! I'm game. I'm gonna watch it over and over and enjoy it immensely just the same, so what else goes down in the "Jack-Jack Attack" short? What about the deleted scenes, especially the one about the vipers I've heard about? Let's hear it!
pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Mar 13, 2005 12:41:37 GMT -5
Vipers?
One thing I LOVE is what they said are included in the extra features.
They actually tell about the supers WHO WERE NOT in the movie. They actually GAVE LIFE to Characters who seemingly had little purpose. That's Pixar for ya ^_^
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Post by Mirage on Mar 13, 2005 16:29:34 GMT -5
^_^ Glad you asked for spoilers; I was afraid of spilling them out and ruining things for people too early! Well, I watched several hours of special features last night so thinking back to everything is a bit overwhelming--so I’m flipping through the little booklet with the Disc 2 outline! It says there are Easter egg surprises, but as usual I haven’t found them yet--I’ll need to go back later. Major spoilers ahead for special features/deleted scenes.
Anyways, I still do prefer widescreen. ^^ Just now I was screenshotting the HECK outta the movie & features, so…I’ve got a huge folder full of pics from them now. : ) Jack Jack Attack is hilarious: it starts with Kari talking on the phone ,then preparing Jack Jack for some cognitive development. But he goes nuts on her: chews through the cage she puts him in, goes floating through walls, and destroys the house by imitating the campfire on the flash card and running around aflame. He shoots lasers at her but by that point, she’s so tired that all she does is lift the mirror on her lap to deflect the beams, and waits exhaustedly for someone to come. Then she mistakes Buddy for her replacement and he explains that his S is for sitter, why he couldn’t wear BS on his shirt, and takes over for Kari. Then it cuts back to the beginning, where she was speaking with Mr. richarder, and he sets this machine target on her head. After she says she wishes she could just forget the whole thing, it shoots a suction cup onto her forehead, and he tells her that she will. You guys already know about Boundin…Incrediblunders…the audio commentary with Brad Bird and John Walker is great. I haven’t gotten around to the one with the animators yet. Yes, the top-secret files on the Supers elaborates on these characters!! It has lots of little funny tidbits of info on each one and lets you hear their voices too; they’re mostly the Supers that you see being done in by their own capes, and the ones on Buddy’s computer who’ve been terminated by the Omnidroid when Bob logs into it. The character interviews are with Bob, Helen, Edna, and Frozone. I like the last two best; Edna goes, “This is a great honor---for you.” Be nice to be as confident as she is. And Frozone mentions that justice is spelled ‘just ice.’ Thought that was clever.
There are a couple of fun documentaries that are about 40 minutes apiece, talking about everything from original setting and character designs to lighting and music and extras and all of that fascinating stuff that goes into the animating process. ‘Vowellet’ is this cool feature on the voice of Violet, Sarah Vowell, and how she’s an author into American history, and she introduces her Violet action figures to her enormous collection of Abe Lincoln statuettes.
As for the deleted scenes! The Viper one is great; they actually animated a bit of it, where Violet is bald! But the giant Viper planes are flying over the water with Helen, Dash, and Vi hiding from them under the water’s surface. Brad explained that he wanted them to look like impersonal villains, almost like carrion birds surveying the scene and saying, “no survivors” casually. Then the 3 of them surfaced, and Violet asks whether Dad is working for the bad guys, and what’s going on, and Helen says very definitely, “We’re gonna find out.”<br> The alternate opening scene was going to have Helen and Bob at a neighborhood barbeque trying to fit in, but Helen starts arguing with a woman who puts down motherhood and accidentally gives away part of her past as a hero. Bob pretends to be in pain when he chops his hand with a knife, but the knife has really only bent in the shape of his fingers. The original entrance of Syndrome was going to be in the Parrs’ house, with him holding Bob and Helen in the air and backing down the hallway toward Jack Jack’s room. For another scene, they originally wanted Helen not the to be the pilot of the plane, but have her old friend Snug pilot it, and die in the crash. But there wasn’t enough time in the film to have Snug be built as a character that the audience would care about enough to feel the powerful effect of him dying, so he became an unseen character. Also, in the traffic coming home Bob was at first going to reach his arm out the window and stop a criminal getting away from the police, but instead of being thanked, he was told to get back in the car and drive, leaving it to the police.
There had been a scene that was more “adult” in nature in which Helen confronted Bob about the suspected affair; she actually came out and asked him if he was having an affair. They were also arguing over whether Mirage’s hair was platinum blonde or white; Bob said it was the white hair of an old lady and joked that he was having an affair with her. I found that bit amusing. And the last deleted scene was one Brad didn’t seem to mind losing from the movie because he felt it was a too cliché way to tell the audience about Helen’s fears; it was a dream sequence where the latent content of the dream is totally obvious: she’s worried that Bob is out having an affair and leaving her back home to do the housework. She wakes up out of it by sitting up, startled and horrified, which Brad felt was kind of overdone already in movies. I sort of agree; if that would’ve been the least-missed deleted scene.
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