tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post2202328760611811378..comments2024-03-17T10:11:46.952-04:00Comments on Film Experience Blog: Directors of the Decade: Andrew StantonNATHANIEL Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-72164399412711200462009-12-05T15:16:28.658-05:002009-12-05T15:16:28.658-05:00The part of Finding Nemo that always stood out for...The part of Finding Nemo that always stood out for me was not the father/son bond but the growing bond between the father (forget his name, sorry) and Dory as voiced by Ellen Degeneris. That one speech "when I'm with you I'm home" makes me cry buckets every time, and it's amazing to me that an animated film can hit me so hard emotionally.Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08049113750769117163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-16773882603834762582009-12-04T21:00:43.461-05:002009-12-04T21:00:43.461-05:00I think Pete Doctor is a great rising talent and I...I think Pete Doctor is a great rising talent and I considered doing one for him, but there are only so many more weeks that I can do this series (and I'll already be going well past the new year) and there are a lot of great directors to feature, so I'm going to move beyond Pixar.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178975866741187681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-38612346751239363342009-12-04T20:44:42.715-05:002009-12-04T20:44:42.715-05:00Does this means you won't do one for Pete Doct...Does this means you won't do one for Pete Docter? I guess that makes sense.<br /><br />As for Stanton, I may be one of the few that prefer Nemo considerably to Wall-E.kinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-12345995583783415852009-12-04T12:04:20.728-05:002009-12-04T12:04:20.728-05:00Wall-E has a beautiful first half, and, in its inc...Wall-E has a beautiful first half, and, in its incorporation of live action, feels like an important transitional work for the studio (and Stanton in particular). But the second half is just generic kids adventure fluff, in the style of - but less accomplished at it than - the Toy Story movies and Monsters Inc. Also, it has always riled me that Stanton went out of his way to insist that the depiction of humans in the film was not intended in any way as satire. The love story is nice, but hardly groundbreaking. In short (ha), I guess I never really got the love for this movie. It's a good film, don't get me wrong. It's not that I dislike it. But among Pixar films, I would probably rank it toward the bottom.Floshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-39155824278150588402009-12-04T11:57:21.528-05:002009-12-04T11:57:21.528-05:00I thought the first half of Wall-E was so amazing....I thought the first half of Wall-E was so amazing. They put so much trust in their audience, which was, presumably, mostly children, and children loved it. So why couldn't they stay with that feel? Added the humans almost added a completely different film, one that looked and felt more like Dreamworks than Pixar.whitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06048153758556096552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-12287647203545237102009-12-04T09:48:13.609-05:002009-12-04T09:48:13.609-05:00For me Finding Nemo is one of the best films of th...For me Finding Nemo is one of the best films of the decade!Jim Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-23757402409672467332009-12-04T08:39:51.396-05:002009-12-04T08:39:51.396-05:00I'm relatively cool on the merits of Finding N...I'm relatively cool on the merits of Finding Nemo which I found a bit rote / easy emotionally (though it's definitely nice to *look* at). Maybe it was the turtles? Veering too close to cheap direct correlation anthropomorphic stereotype for me? Maybe it was Shark Tale ... so hideously bad that it cast a pall on all fish- as -humans films.<br /><br />But I love WALL-E 4evahNATHANIEL Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-12371615937326525212009-12-04T01:02:58.242-05:002009-12-04T01:02:58.242-05:00Man, you're a sucker for animation. I liked Fi...Man, you're a sucker for animation. I liked Finding Nemo much better than WALL-E. Not sure if I'd consider either "masterpieces," but Finding Nemo comes closer.Danny Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09156845190808578435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-44798893425844684922009-12-04T00:22:26.728-05:002009-12-04T00:22:26.728-05:00A friend and I had a lengthy, not terribly sober c...A friend and I had a lengthy, not terribly sober conversation about the key characteristics of each Pixar director shortly before <i>Up</i> came out. Similar to your comment that "can manipulate his films' action to incorporate fantastic sequences", one of the things we came up with was his ability to depict the interaction of characters with a specific environment in a manner that both described character and was also beautiful as abstract visual poetry.<br /><br />AKA "the fish swimming are pretty" for the stoned, I guess. But I do think that the dancing scene in <i>WALL-E</i> is probably the most important one in the movie, not least because of how much it is about absolute movement.<br /><br />(We'll have to agree to disagree on <i>Finding Nemo</i> being better than <i>Monsters, Inc.</i> though).Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09491952893581644049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-70337900272358199332009-12-03T22:42:41.425-05:002009-12-03T22:42:41.425-05:00Thank for comparing Finding Nemo with Bycicle Thie...Thank for comparing Finding Nemo with Bycicle Thieves and especially for so eloquently write about the complexity of Wall-E.Cristhiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-7523769369341460702009-12-03T20:33:41.356-05:002009-12-03T20:33:41.356-05:00I liked Finding Nemo... the first half of Wall-E w...I liked Finding Nemo... the first half of Wall-E was brilliant... the rest, not as much.MrJefferyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657422824565425948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-9711742249713009622009-12-03T20:06:37.866-05:002009-12-03T20:06:37.866-05:00amenamenCarl Joseph Papahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07729435607951985890noreply@blogger.com