I saw this film yesterday and I enjoyed it waaay more than inside out. Sorry to the people who enjoyed inside out but I liked the good dinosaur much more. I found the characters at least Arlo and spot more likeable.
shareInside Out has become my second favorite Pixar film and deserves every bit of praise it's gotten. The Good Dinosaur's first 15,20 minutes were so stock and cliche I almost wanted to walk out. Thankfully I don't do walk outs and the film got better, but it was still a rather mediocre effort.
"If life is getting you down and needs uplifting, then please come dance with me!"
You know, this might actually be worse than if it was spectacularly awful. It made most seem just not care, which is indifference. And in my opinion there is nothing worse. Better to be hated than to just be ignored. At least hating would mean they have a feeling for it.
TGD is nothing. It's meaningless. It's...eh...
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I feel the reason Inside Out is better, is because it's different. Every Pixar movie is characters getting separated from their home and having to get back, but TGD just copies and pastes stuff from every pixar movie and it's so unoriginal, but if it worked for you that's great.
shareinside out is meant for intelligent humans, tgd is meant for critters like you.
shareThe Good Dinosaur >>> Inside Out
shareDefinitely not with critics, audiences or the box office.
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I don't care. They're all wrong.
shareWell, since you made such a convincing argument.....
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Since pretty much the entire movie is on YouTube in clip form I can now just link to all the scenes I really loved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-dnlJw_jnA - Love the animation here. When Arlo slips and falls trying to get up I felt his pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr0LkencwjA - Masterful exercise in tearjerking. Unfortunately the clip cuts off the buildup to the howling at the end and I can't find anything unedited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eztNx3MKFE4 - Highly enjoyable "campfire" scene. The aborted "bull----" never fails to get a laugh out of me no matter how many times I watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtMe32gs3uU - Sort of this movie's "Define Dancing". Really felt Arlo and Spot's pure happiness here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w47YxVFhYnc - Really cool visuals here. Liked that they didn't just have them come up and shock Arlo; they slowly make their presence known beforehand but still feel inescapable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL3T3-naw7o - A scene like this risks coming off as cheap, but it works here because it's Arlo coming to a realization about himself, not anyone else doing it for him. He's coming to peace both with the passing of his father and his love for Spot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIZoLqrzyfM - Beautiful how Arlo blows on Spot at the end like the fireflies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdy6VuybmMA - Teared up here, too. Arlo and Spot part ways without any words being said. Just wonderfully staged.
Not an exhaustive list. All in all I just really loved the atmosphere this film went for, and whatever flaws there might be just don't matter that much. There were maybe only 3-4 scenes in Inside Out near the beginning and ending that I'd say I could watch over and over like these
Ah, but you make the case for the broader issue. No cohesive well-wrought and properly broken storyline to knit a bunch of random scenes and pretty CGI together. The very fact that you think of it in separate scenes proves it doesn't work as a whole. It doesn't have "some flaws", it IS highly flawed, thus not a good movie.
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That's the lamest retort I've ever heard. So because I've watched the movie so much that I remember a bunch of scenes that means it's not a good movie?
shareUm, what? What you seem to be missing is that I agree with your assessment for the most part, I just took it to the next logical evolution following the path that you yourself laid out. Wasn't that your goal, to get your position across? If so, mission accomplished, but please allow others free will.
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Every classic movie ever has been a "collection of scenes". When you think of Godfather you think of the dead horse and the baptism montage. When you think Star Wars you think of lightsaber duels and "I am your father".
I've gone over the reasons I love the movie as a whole numerous times. Loved the atmosphere and the score, found Arlo a more relatable character than Riley, and the movie somehow manages balancing an intimate story with grand World building.
If I come off as a jerk defending this film, so be it. I'm legitimately angry that it's bombing and have real contempt for anyone who contributed to its negative word of mouth and likely killed Peter Sohn's future directing prospects with Pixar
You really come across as genuine here and I sympathize with your bad feelings over how this ended up. Really, we are both arguing a very similar position here, just coming at it from different ways, IMO.
As I see it what's done is definitely done with TGD and using this forum to voice my issues with the film can't make it any worse at this point. I dunno, I just wanted it to be so much more....
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you must be a china man
shareIt's YOUR OPINION that they're "wrong".
shareAPPLAUSE!!!!
OP AGREE 100000000000%. The Good Dinosaur was much more enjoyable.
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Inside Out is one of the best animated films of the decade and Good Dinosaur was merely decent, so...yeah, it's not even close.
shareI enjoyed them both pretty equally. Both are excellent movies full of emotion.
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