Amanuensis ([info]amanuensis1) wrote,
@ 2009-06-24 20:03:00
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Current mood: whatevs
Current music:God, I love the summertime heat. YES.
Entry tags:up

*has the heart of a T-1000, apparently*
My unpopular reactions to Up.



1. I couldn't see what Ellie saw in him.

2. The opening sequence was lovely, but anyone who saw so much as the movie poster could figure out the wife wasn't going to stick around for the larger section of the movie. So I knew not to get too attached or too deep into that part.

3. I felt nothing for Russell. The kid was annoying.

4. I felt nothing for the bird.

5. I would have given the bird to the explorer in a heartbeat. (Hell, he wanted to take it back alive anyway.)

So, go ahead, tell me I'm a heartless unfeeling iceberg.


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[info]reddwarfer
2009-06-25 12:09 am UTC (link)
HAHAHAHAHA ILU. Heeee. You're so awesome. Yeah. I wasn't really moved by it. It was cute enough. But I wasn't broken up by it all. I liked the dog.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 12:10 am UTC (link)
The dog was GREAT. The animation was great. It's certainly acceptable Pixar. But it didn't move me in the way Pixar usually can.

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(no subject) - [info]elethian, 2009-06-26 05:26 am UTC (Expand)

[info]elethian
2009-06-26 05:25 am UTC (link)
OMG I lurve your icon. WE BELIEVE IN GAMERA

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(no subject) - [info]amanuensis1, 2009-06-27 11:40 am UTC (Expand)

[info]crown_of_ice
2009-06-25 12:10 am UTC (link)
....and you are *not* alone.


Really, I would have tossed the little shit over the side of the porch and gone on with my day. Honestly, a man's *entire life's work* depended on bringing that bird back alive. The bird...was more important than someone's dream? The guy was actually an animal lover and probably would have * brought it back* once he said HAH IN YOUR FACE SCIENCE!

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 12:32 am UTC (link)
Honestly, a man's *entire life's work* depended on bringing that bird back alive.

So so so so so true. And this was Carl's IDOL! Migod!

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(no subject) - [info]crown_of_ice, 2009-06-25 02:33 am UTC (Expand)

[info]noveltynovelist
2009-06-25 12:14 am UTC (link)
What are you talking about? That movie was absolutely a puffed up turd.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 12:33 am UTC (link)
Hee, I didn't quite think it was dreadful, but...well, it's my least favorite of Pixar. Which means it's still better than a lot of films out there.

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(no subject) - [info]noveltynovelist, 2009-06-25 12:44 am UTC (Expand)

[info]son_of_darkness
2009-06-25 12:15 am UTC (link)
... which movie is this? o_0

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 12:33 am UTC (link)
Up. Most recent Pixar release.

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[info]lauriegilbert
2009-06-25 12:27 am UTC (link)
I love how many of my friends can't stand this movie -- it is totally justifying my decision that the preview was boring and I didn't want to see it! :D *went to Trek instead*

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 12:34 am UTC (link)
*cracks up over image the icon gives*

This is a weird phenomenon--every single time I see a Pixar preview I'm left staring at it thinking, "This looks utterly uninteresting." And then I go see it and I LOVE it. Except for this one. I thought the preview looked dull and it turned out to be dull, wow.

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(no subject) - [info]lauriegilbert, 2009-06-25 12:38 am UTC (Expand)

[info]gmth
2009-06-25 12:58 am UTC (link)
I haven't seen this one yet, but I fully support you in your going against the crowd-ness on it. That was me last summer after seeing Wall-E, which I didn't care for at all. You can't see it, but my fist is in the air in salute.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 01:11 am UTC (link)
I've enjoyed all the other Pixar films, and I enjoyed Wall-E as well but I had HUGE get-past issues regarding the concept of a trash robot with human emotions. Like wha?

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(no subject) - [info]fabularasa, 2009-06-25 02:44 am UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]amanuensis1, 2009-06-25 10:47 am UTC (Expand)

[info]bell_witch
2009-06-25 01:00 am UTC (link)
I have never heard of this movie and apparently am lucky for it.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 01:12 am UTC (link)
No, a lot of people liked it! It didn't connect with me, though.

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[info]trolleys
2009-06-25 01:06 am UTC (link)
Heh, I just saw it today and yeah, I was a tad underwhelmed? It was enjoyable and cute enough but didn't really grab me like the other Pixar films.

I really loved the accompanying Pixar short, though. :D

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 01:14 am UTC (link)
Oh, GOD, I have to mention this--I didn't see the short. We got there late and got in just as the short was finishing, and I was breathing, "Oh, GOOD," because I have uniformly HATED every short before a Pixar film. I don't know why, but I'm writhing in my seat every time at how unfunny they are.

I'm sure I'll catch this one sometime and see if it fits the pattern for me.

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(no subject) - [info]trolleys, 2009-06-25 01:33 am UTC (Expand)

[info]laughingacademy
2009-06-25 01:23 am UTC (link)
3. I felt nothing for Russell. The kid was annoying. — I started warming to Russell when they made it clear that he wanted to earn the Assisting the Elderly badge because he hoped his divorced dad would show up for the ceremony. Plus, I give him points for figuring out the balloon-and-leaf-blower transport, and the payoff to the "SQUIRREL!" gag.

5. I would have given the bird to the explorer in a heartbeat. (Hell, he wanted to take it back alive anyway.) — I think the problem there was that Muntz was willing to separate Kevin from her young. Granted, he probably didn’t know she was nesting, and if informed of that might have been satisfied with tagging her for retrieval once her young were mature...but given the number of shallow graves he’d apparently dug, I’m not sure he’d’ve been that reasonable.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 01:27 am UTC (link)
I think the problem there was that Muntz was willing to separate Kevin from her young. Granted, he probably didn’t know she was nesting, and if informed of that might have been satisfied with tagging her for retrieval once her young were mature...but given the number of shallow graves he’d apparently dug, I’m not sure he’d’ve been that reasonable.

*rejects all coherent arguments in favor of:* Dude. It's a BIRD.

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[info]atdelphi
2009-06-25 01:24 am UTC (link)
I just kept thinking: why couldn't this movie have been about a widowed Ellie?

It really, really bothers me that Pixar is putting out some of the most influential kids' movies of the day - and that they actually write some pretty good female characters - but out of ten movies only one can even marginally claim to have a female protagonist, and she shares top billing with her husband.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 01:29 am UTC (link)
I'd like some female protagonists too. It's a pity that the formula is that girls will go see films about a boy, but boys won't see films about a girl. At least that's the party line that gets spouted.

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(no subject) - [info]atdelphi, 2009-06-25 01:48 am UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]dacro, 2009-06-25 06:59 am UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]amanuensis1, 2009-06-25 08:04 pm UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]dacro, 2009-06-25 08:08 pm UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]salty_catfish, 2009-07-14 01:56 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]heinous_bitca
2009-06-25 01:32 am UTC (link)
You're a heartless unfeeling iceberg.

Happy now? :D

I saw it, I enjoyed it, but I also found it to be the most emotionally draining movie I've ever seen. I guess part of it was that I didn't have any preconceived notions going in, so I wasn't expecting Ellie and the death and all.

My biggest pet peeve was ... okay, so they can't have kids of their own. What about ADOPTION??? Why couldn't they have ADOPTED!!??!!?? It's not like it wasn't done back in those days or anything.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 02:03 am UTC (link)
I thought it projected its plot everywhere, though that may have because I couldn't miss the mini-trailers that popped up all over television. But the bird was a total McGuffen, and I couldn't develop any affection for it.

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Adoption! - [info]dacro, 2009-06-25 06:57 am UTC (Expand)
Re: Adoption! - [info]amanuensis1, 2009-06-25 08:04 pm UTC (Expand)
Re: Adoption! - [info]dacro, 2009-06-25 08:10 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]snegurochka_lee
2009-06-25 01:58 am UTC (link)
Agreed. Moreover? The really unpopular opinion I have of it, that no one in my RL except the S.O. will agree with, is that there are virtually no women in it. It's this weird rewriting of 'family' with an old man and a little boy. Which is cool, actually, to redefine family, and actually detach women from their usual 'family' roles in pop culture, but also, besides Ellie who is not really in it? No women.

Not even the dogs, which - what? How did they keep breeding?

These are my questions. I admit I am unusually sensitive to stuff like gender portrayal in film, since it's my job to study such things, but even for me, this one hit me hard. Like, none, really? :/

Okay, yay, I've got that off my chest. Heh.

edit: Ahaha, posted before reading other comments, sorry. :) Agreeing with Delphi also that srsly, Ellie would have made a more interesting hero than the dude.

Edited at 2009-06-25 01:59 am UTC

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 02:01 am UTC (link)
No, I'm really glad you said it, because I thought it at times as well! Not even the dogs. Sigh!

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[info]filkertom
2009-06-25 01:58 am UTC (link)
Dunno about that, but Leo and Kate are approaching after making out in the back seat of a Renault.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 02:00 am UTC (link)
Hey, why'd you delete your subject line? I totally got it and it cracked me up!

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(no subject) - [info]filkertom, 2009-06-25 02:03 am UTC (Expand)

[info]jamoche
2009-06-25 03:12 am UTC (link)
Disney channel had a cute segment where they went to a park with the voice actor for the dog and a real golden retriever, put a speaker on the dog, and had the dog "talk" to the kids in the park.

I'm sure it's on youtube, but "up" sucks as a keyword.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 10:40 am UTC (link)
I'm sure it's on youtube, but "up" sucks as a keyword. *snickers like crazy*

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While I enjoyed the film...
[info]persephone_blue
2009-06-25 04:29 am UTC (link)
Ellie definitely had the unfortunate manic pixie dream girl vibe to her. She functioned as a tool to open up Carl emotionally and motivate him after his death. I didn't like that part of the film very much, no.

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Re: While I enjoyed the film...
[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 08:02 pm UTC (link)
Ooh, cripes, I hate manic pixie dream girls. I want to get away from them. (But I liked Ellie.)

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Re: While I enjoyed the film... - [info]persephone_blue, 2009-06-25 08:47 pm UTC (Expand)
Re: While I enjoyed the film... - [info]amanuensis1, 2009-06-25 08:52 pm UTC (Expand)
Re: While I enjoyed the film... - [info]persephone_blue, 2009-06-25 08:50 pm UTC (Expand)
I hid under your porch - because I love you.
[info]dacro
2009-06-25 06:55 am UTC (link)
But you loved Doug, right? :D

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Re: I hid under your porch - because I love you.
[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 08:03 pm UTC (link)
I loved Doug. He hit all the right notes. :D

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Please, will you be my prisoner? - [info]dacro, 2009-06-25 08:12 pm UTC (Expand)
Re: I hid under your porch - because I love you. - [info]persephone_blue, 2009-06-25 08:48 pm UTC (Expand)
Re: I hid under your porch - because I love you. - [info]dacro, 2009-06-25 11:36 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]eskimosatan
2009-06-25 01:41 pm UTC (link)
You're not heartless, you're realistic. Heartless is a five-year-old laughing when Gurgy in the Black Cauldron commits suicide because he has no friends.

My Husband really wants to see Up and I'm trying to keep my game-face on for him, but I'm really not that interested.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 08:06 pm UTC (link)
I remember laughing like mad at a scene in a family-friendly movie because I didn't understand it; I was probably about 5. When I was old enough to understand the sick horrible danger the characters had been in I was so chilled it was enough to give me nightmares.

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[info]emila_wan
2009-06-25 07:58 pm UTC (link)
I loved it, but it was difficult to watch. There's something that resonates with me regarding the theme of life's dreams deferred.

But the lack of females? Yeah. Bogus.

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-06-25 08:08 pm UTC (link)
We'll walk up to Pixar's door and yell, "WE DEMAND CHICKS."

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(no subject) - [info]persephone_blue, 2009-06-25 08:57 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]salty_catfish
2009-07-14 02:04 pm UTC (link)
despite the annoying ongoing trend of females being dead or nonexistant, was I the only one who totally thought they'd fly around in the awesome balloonhouse FOREVER and dicover LOTS of cool and different places and then was really disappointed when it was like 5 minutes flying and 5 hours of *dragging the house along*? D:

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[info]amanuensis1
2009-07-15 05:30 pm UTC (link)
That happens to me frequently! The movie they make is not BAD, but it's not the movie I thought I was signing up to see. Happened to me in Children of Men, I remember that.

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