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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 21, 2015 15:22:42 GMT -5
I don't even see anything in that article that could even be remotely considered a "rumor" of a third "Monsters" movie. It mentioned that there had been "recent rumors", but did not go into any detail as to what they were or who had brought it up. The only things it mentioned was that A)Mary Gibbs is now too old to speak like a toddler, and B)Billy Crystal was making a new series with fellow comedian Josh Gad, even though it has absolutely NOTHING to do with MI, as though that's the only thing that Crystal has ever acted in, and states that a fan-made video "mash-up" of MI and some Ridley Scott movies has gone viral, which again, means nothing with regards to any official news on a sequel. Fan-made stuff has always been around for MI since it was first released. This article was also written back in April, and there hasn't been a peep since then, so it seems to me that the writer of the article was trying to generate a rumor, rather than substantiate any that were already circulating. Pixar has already released all their expected titles through 2019, and they do not include any "Monsters" movies or even any that are currently untitled and unknown. They have "Finding Dory", "Toy Story 4", "Cars 3" and "The Incredbles 2" on tap which means that if they ARE working on any MI sequel, it's going to be 2020 or later.
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Post by pitbulllady on Jun 1, 2015 14:49:16 GMT -5
This is interesting, but looks like Randall could've been eaten... eww, that's disgusting. Unless those people noticed that Randall wasn't an alligator, and wasn't a known species at all, and feared to eat him. They could then pass him to authorities or, more likely, just throw him away, and if he managed to survive the attack, there is a chance he could stay alive. He sure needed help, and I hope there were sympathetic people nearby... Update: I really found similar landscapes in Louisiana with google street view. I actually found a spot in Louisiana on Google Earth between South Baton Rouge and Gonzales that even had an old FEMA trailer like the one in the movie sitting on it, right next to a bayou. The only thing missing was an old yellow Toyota pickup truck. I think at the time that MI was made, director Peter Docter DID want people to think that Randall had been killed and eaten by Cajuns, but hopefully there will be a third movie in my lifetime that will show he survived, and give him a second chance. pitbulllady
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Post by pitbulllady on May 20, 2015 12:43:54 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with the US' nations and local peculiarities. Could anybody please explain why this place is considered to be in Louisiana? In the American/English language version of the movie, the two people in the trailer both have distinctive accents that are endemic to southern Louisiana, especially the kid, who has a definite Cajun accent(Cajuns are an ethnic group found in Louisiana). The people mistook Randall for an alligator, and the kid specifically said, "'NOTHER gator got in the house", so they obviously live where this is an actual problem. Alligators are VERY common in Louisiana, and do wind up in people's homes fairly often. Alligators are also a very popular FOOD item in Louisiana and are hunted for their hides and meat, so having an alligator in your home would not necessarily be considered a bad thing, especially for people who live "off the grid", as many do in Louisiana, getting their food from nature, from what they can catch, kill, gather up or pick. Then, there is the backdrop of the trailer itself. You can see cypress trees draped in Spanish moss, as well as cattails, which indicates this is a swamp on either the Atlantic or Gulf Coastal Plains of the US, since cypress trees do not grow just anywhere. This is a very, very common scene in Louisiana. The only other possibility, taking all those things into consideration, would be the coastal region known as the "Low Country" along the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, where there are people who are also descended from the French-Canadian refugees who were driven out of what's now Nova Scotia(then known as "Acadia") by the British in the 1750's. Here in SC these people don't call themselves Cajuns(a variant of "Acadian") but are referred to as "Geechees", after the Ogeechee River. pitbulllady
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Post by pitbulllady on May 9, 2015 13:55:54 GMT -5
I, TOO, think that Randall used his abilities to escape the trailer. Pitbulllady doesn't seem to agree on this, because she places a lot of emphasis on the shovel being used as a deadly weapon, but still, killing Randall would be too cruel for a family movie. Keep in mind that both Disney and Pixar have killed off a LOT of characters, even a protagonist character(Ellie), so they have no qualms against doing that, family movie or not. As for as the shovel being made of tin, good luck finding one of those in the South, and Louisiana is definitely in the South. No one there would have much need of a snow shovel. Shovels are used for digging holes through thick mud and tree roots and for dispatching unwanted animals...or people. pitbulllady
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Post by pitbulllady on May 4, 2015 18:05:35 GMT -5
Back in 2013, right before MU was released, Dan Scanlon strongly hinted in an interview that MU would be the second film "in a long line of 'Monsters' films" for Pixar. That, however, has never been confirmed by Disney-Pixar, nor have they denied it(oops...sounding like the nefarious CDA there). If there IS a third movie in the works, it hasn't been posted on any of the upcoming releases for Disney-Pixar through the year 2018. I'm with you, though, and most of us Randall fans would agree-MU really left the door wide open for further character development for Randall, since we clearly see that he is NOT someone who was just inherently evil and mean. MU establishes a pattern, probably life-long, of him being overlooked and ignored and learning to think of himself as a "nobody", someone who was NOT "cool", always on the outside looking in, desperate for acceptance and as a result, very easily manipulated by someone who recognized those hang-ups, like Waternoose or Johnny Worthington. By the way, I assume that you have not also seen the MU short film, "Party Central", which was ONLY released in theaters ahead of "The Muppets Most Wanted". That takes place the following year after the events of MU; Mike and Sulley are now working at MI and come back to their old OK frat house to host a party during the Rush Week, which is at the beginning of the college term each year for students to check out and pledge to a fraternity or sorority. Mike and Sulley literally have STOLEN an active door station from the factory, a very serious crime, so it cements in my mind that those two are far from the perfect angels most people think them to be! To make a long story short, though, Randall is not in "Party Central", at all. All of the other characters, including Johnny(who was a senior in MU, so I'm guessing he decided to pursue a graduate degree after all)are back, but no Randall, not even lurking around in the background without speaking. He's not there. We know that he got kicked out of ROR for the "hearst" incident. Either he left MU altogether following that and transferred to another college, or just dropped out and worked his way up to Scarer the way that Mike and Sulley did, or, if he remained at MU, he just became isolated and reclusive and shunned the company of others, probably fearing ridicule and harassment, poor guy.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 3, 2015 21:02:34 GMT -5
The guys at Pixar knew that they wanted to make a sequel to MI, but there was a HUGE problem standing in the way: Walt Disney Co., and its then-CEO, Michael Eisner. You see, when Pixar was first starting out, they were a Nobody, and they needed a big film company with a big name in the animation world to market and distribute their films. Enter the Walt Disney Feature Animation. As part of the deal with Disney, Pixar had to sign away ALL of the ownership and marketing rights to their characters and movies, as well as the right to decide on any sequels. Disney literally owned all of Pixar's characters, the MI characters included, and Disney called the shots as to how those characters were marketed. That worked out fine, at first, but as Pixar became more and more successful, and Disney's animation fell into a horrible decline due in no small part to Eisner's idiotic decisions, which included "killing off" traditional 2-D animation, and churning out thousands of usually-bad direct-to-video/DVD "cheap-quels" to well-known Disney animated classics(aimed at what Eisner insisted was the only audience for Disney animation, children aged 4-10) , Pixar CEO Steve Jobs thought it was time to assert himself and re-negotiate a better deal with Disney. What resulted was a long and very bitter rivalry between Pixar and Disney, in which Disney wanted to maintain all ownership and control of the Pixar movies and characters. It finally wound up with the two companies parting ways completely in 2004, with Pixar leaving behind its beloved characters as property of Walt Disney Corporation, to do with as they pleased. Immediately-and in no small part to rile Jobs-Eisner created his own Disney off-shoot studio, called "Circle 7 Productions", for the sole purpose of making direct-to-video/DVD CGI sequels to Pixar's movies. However, things weren't so rosy at Disney for Eisner, and he wound up being fired, and replaced by Bob Iger, the current CEO, in 2006. Iger was on much friendlier terms with Jobs and Pixar and knew that he could not let such success and talent escape, so he and Pixar entered into a new deal, in which Disney and Pixar would merge to form Disney-Pixar, Pixar would regain control of their own characters and movies and would have the right to make sequels when they felt like they had the right material. So, all in all, it was mostly business politics that kept a sequel to MI from being made for 12 years. The other issue, was of course the "right material". Pixar knew that they didn't want to rush things, and if a story didn't sound right, it wouldn't get made. They needed to find the right script, and right director, etc., and I do believe that Dan Scanlon was the right one for that job, who didn't want to go with that cliche' "everyone is either a good guy or a bad guy" thing. Scanlon showed how complex personalities can be, how an individual's circumstances shape their attitude and later actions.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 3, 2015 11:39:48 GMT -5
hi, Randylizard, and welcome aboard. Have you seen "Monsters University", by any chance? Director Dan Scanlon actually does a pretty good job of explaining Randall's motives in that movie, and showing why he is the way he is in "Monsters, Inc.". His rivalry with Sulley goes all the way back to their freshman year in college, and Randall was left with a very good reason to believe that Sulley was a cheater, and someone who got away with wrong-doing because of his famous family name, that Sulley was privileged and someone that everyone "worshiped" and adored simply because he was a Sullivan. I have always STRONGLY gotten the impression, and now very strongly believe, that Randall himself rose from total obscurity, no more than a Midwestern country farm boy, through very hard work and personal sacrifice to get where he was in MI, only to still be bested by someone who, in his reasoning, has never had to really work at all, and just sits around waiting for success to be handed to him, and has probably done something completely unethical to keep the No. 1 position for such an unrealistic period of time(11 months). Randall is apparently the only one who can see this, or at least, admits to it. Everyone else has conveniently forgotten that Sulley wasn't always such a "Mr. Nice Guy" and that he definitely has some problems with personal ethics in the past himself. To work your butt off and still see someone like that adored and recognized for his "accomplishments" while you are ignored and shoved to the side is enough to push anyone over that emotional edge, eventually. Randall simply got the point where he was either going to turn that anger, pain and frustration inward, and continue to damage himself to the point of possibly even becoming suicidal, OR he could channel that negativity towards someone else, and that someone was James P. Sullivan.
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Post by pitbulllady on Apr 21, 2015 13:16:30 GMT -5
Well, at least the last part is good news! I have a pretty good idea who the attacker is, though, and it's someone who used to be on this forum and left because of their belief that Randall is, and always was, evil, and was simply hiding it in MU. This individual LIKES evil, and thinks that anyone who would dare to claim that Randall wasn't the spawn of Satan from the get-go is nuts. They have made comments on Tumblr about your defending Randall and using this forum simply for that purpose, actually. This individual has several Tumblr blogs devoted to RP'ing Randall as a mean, hateful, perpetually angry character who secretly lusts after Sulley; I am not making that up.
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Post by pitbulllady on Mar 18, 2015 12:12:46 GMT -5
I don't know yet, probably some artwork. I gave up cakes for Lent, so that's out, lol.
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Post by pitbulllady on Feb 20, 2015 14:57:16 GMT -5
I saw it last night while watching "Nightwatch' on A&E; it's a parody of the "Brady Bunch" with Danny Trejo appearing as "Marsha" until eating a Snickers, and Steve on the staircase as "Jan", complaining, "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha"! I found it on YouTube to share, so enjoy!
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Post by pitbulllady on Dec 1, 2014 14:24:43 GMT -5
That was exactly what Randall would have been thinking-that Sulley was cheating to get where he was, and that was part of the reason why Randall was building the Scream Extractor. He knew he couldn't beat a cheater at the cheater's own game, so he'd just invent a new "game" and circumvent the competition for the All-time Scare Record altogether. Now that we've seen MU, Randall's reasoning makes sense. HE knows Sulley as a cheater from college, and there's no reason to think that that particular leopard has changed its spots. Randall has every reason to believe that Sulley cheated to beat him in the Scare Games, AND got away with it because of his family name, and surely it didn't take long for the news to get out that Sulley actually had admitted to cheating to help his team "win", and Randall would have no reason to believe that Sulley had changed, quite the opposite, in fact, since logically there's no way for any one individual to experience that level of success. Randall almost revealed to Mike the truth about what he was doing, rather than be labeled a cheater himself, something clearly abhorrent to him, but stops himself just in time and decides to go along with Mike's accusations, realizing that even the consequences of that, being labeled a cheater, would be lesser than revealing the truth about the Scream Extractor.
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Post by pitbulllady on Nov 13, 2014 16:42:05 GMT -5
It's a toss-up between "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" and another song, the title of which I'm not certain, which is basically a spoof of "The 12 Days of Christmas". The song-IF you can call it that-is basically a bunch of people griping and bee-atching about the 12 things of Christmas "that's such a pain to me", very negative and not funny at all.
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Post by pitbulllady on Oct 21, 2014 14:02:24 GMT -5
Nope, not a word, although that doesn't mean much, not with Pixar! They are famous for being very secretive about their upcoming projects. The last hint that there MIGHT be other movies in this franchise was a statement from Dan Scanlon made at the time of MU's release that MU was "the second in a long line of 'Monsters' movies", but things can and do change as far as studios' plans. We don't even know if there are plans to release "Party Central" or not, since it wasn't on the "Muppet's Most Wanted" DVD.
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Post by pitbulllady on Oct 18, 2014 21:10:04 GMT -5
If I understand correctly, MU is a university established by Monsters Inc. to train scarers. Are there actual universities like that? Started by corporations? Monsters University wasn't established by Monsters, Inc., and wasn't even in the same city. According to the university's "history", it was established back in the 1300's, long before monsters realized that they could harvest Scream to power their world. In the "student newspaper", there is an add for the newly-opened Harryhausen's restaurant in Monstropolis, home of Monsters, Inc., and it says that it's "just" a two-hour drive from the university campus. When Mike and the OK's leave on their field trip to the factory, it's daylight, but it's night by the time they arrive, so it was clearly a bit of a distance from the campus. pitbulllady
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Post by pitbulllady on Oct 15, 2014 22:10:57 GMT -5
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