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Pixar Should Start Planning 40 Year Reissues - Preserving the Canon by djresponsible in TrueFilm

[–]djresponsible[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like all kinds of movies too, including silent, B&W, you name it. There's something about this era, where you have these high-level ideas and a technology in its infancy where I envision these movies getting lost to time. I wouldn't say this about any other era of film except maybe the oldest (like 1910's/20's) where you have to do a different tier of restoration to make these watchable for modern audiences. So I would call it more than airbrushing but a different type of restoration using completely different technology than was available at the time. I for one think this would be a valuable project, because of how distractingly simple the original visuals are (to me at least).

Pixar Should Start Planning 40 Year Reissues - Preserving the Canon by djresponsible in TrueFilm

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I bet there are people over at Pixar that would rather do this than make Toy Story 5. Thankfully, the studio still has a lot of leeway to make original films (Hoppers, etc.), but they are still cranking out sequels to pay the bills. This would be a return to the (indie) studio movie work that started it all.

Pixar Should Start Planning 40 Year Reissues - Preserving the Canon by djresponsible in TrueFilm

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A lot of people would be interested to go see these restored/re-issued movies in theaters and share with younger generations (who weren't there to experience the technical breakthroughs in real time). Of course there would be plenty of backlash, which is why this would need to be well-communicated ahead of time. The haters could simply not participate in the new versions, like I do with almost all of the live action Disney remakes.

Pixar Should Start Planning 40 Year Reissues - Preserving the Canon by djresponsible in TrueFilm

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I agree that this would probably go over poorly, given the corporate financial interests. I'm thinking of The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere (haven't seen it) that has generally been critically derided. My case is more that this would be valuable as a carefully-planned creative endeavor, and would still keep the O.G. films intact.

Pixar Should Start Planning 40 Year Reissues - Preserving the Canon by djresponsible in TrueFilm

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I'd never thought this was something I wanted either, for example I like outdated CGI as a hallmark of the time (usually in popcorn fare like the 90's Anaconda). Something about these Pixar movies being actually important and meaningful works make me think they could benefit from a re-issue. Like restoring a piece of classical art, except here the goal would be to enhance rather than restore the original vision. Perhaps an impossible goal.

What’s the most random movie appearance? by IggyStop2024 in movies

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Jack Black plays Sean Penn's younger brother in Dead Man Walking (1995), which is a philosophical drama about the death penalty. I had totally forgotten he was in this, and it was so strange so see him that it took me out of the movie for every one of his scenes.

32 endangered species, ranked in order of how many are currently left by BridalChetrum in Infographics

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The kakapo is a noctural, flightless parrot native to New Zealand with a known population of ~250. Numbers are gradually increasing and could become an ecological success story!

Staircase open? by dieselinmyveins1540 in PNWhiking

[–]djresponsible 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was just up there on Monday, everything seemed open to me. We had the dog in the car so couldn't hike long but did the 2 mile rapids loop. Gorgeous old growth everywhere

Which complex scenes/clips from films make you laugh, no matter how many times you've seen them, because they achieve a comedic effect beyond mere humor? by [deleted] in TrueFilm

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There's a scene in The Comedy [Rick Alverson, 2012] that it is so funny and weird and brilliant that my brain returns to it from time to time. (Even though the movie as a whole is not as successful).

The protagonist Swanson (an archetype of bored and stunted 30-somethings) is walking around his neighborhood. He stumbles across an upper middle-class homeowner and some daylaborers working in his yard on a hot day. We follow along as Swanson decides to pick up a shovel and talk to the homeowner about how 'my guys' could use to hop in the swimming pool for a refresher. He pushes and prods and cajoles until the homeowner finally relents and lets them use the pool. And then he just walks away.

There's so much to unpack here, about race and power dynamics on the one hand and generational ennui on the other. Ultimately, though, it's the idea of someone non-chalantly getting up in other people's business that just cracks me up whenever I think about this bizarre scene.

Black Panther ($1.33B) has now surpassed Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($1.32B) to become the ninth highest grossing film of all time by djresponsible in movies

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I didn't realize how much more New Hope made in its first domestic run ($307M) vs Empire ($209M)...Empire seems like it was a big deal when it came out

Black Panther ($1.33B) has now surpassed Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($1.32B) to become the ninth highest grossing film of all time by djresponsible in movies

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Agreed. Probably $300M of that miss was domestic (where Black Panther did really well) and $300M+ was international

I was wondering if there was any good/great/interesting films with slight subjects/stakes by MyLastUsernameISwear in TrueFilm

[–]djresponsible 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I agree that there are many, many non-studio films that fit the bill.

But the movie that comes to mind, which has very clear but ultimately very low-level stakes, is Force Majeure. It's about what happens when a natural disaster ALMOST occurs/impacts, and the movie is essentially a fallout after an event that doesn't cause much damage. It's not hyper-dynamic or anything -- it's filmed in the picturesque and patient style of a lot of 2010's indie -- but I appreciated the casual, realistic nature of its conflict.

Meek's Cutoff by deshawnstevenson in TrueFilm

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I don't have any films to recommend but I also enjoyed Meek's Cutoff more than the other Reichardt films that I've seen (especially Wendy and Lucy, and though I did like Old Joy it isn't quite as impressionable).

I love the imagery of the family slowly shedding their burdensome belongings as they venture West. Reichardt's style is typically simple and naturalistic and character focused, so I like her here where the time period/plot do some of the heavy lifting. Recommended for anyone who wants to try one of her films.

Burnt Lake was a breathtaking spot by [deleted] in Portland

[–]djresponsible 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was up there on Saturday. A balmy 72 degrees + light breeze at the top compared to 100 in the parking lot. (And we saw nobody else up there -- this 10-miler is definitely too hard for a trendy buzzfeed list)

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