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jufonuk
not tag worthy
Inside out in quality.
It will suit kids watching this and any adults as it works on many levels.
macfoshizzle
Member
Just finished watching it. The visuals keep getting better and better. But agree with everything what above said. It’s really about who we are spiritually. Overall I really enjoyed it but it’s not up to the level of the Pixar’s big hitters IMO
German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
I don't watch cartoons anymore
GeorgPrime
Banned
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
the way you behave on here i'm surprised you don't.
German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
Good point.
bitbydeath
Member
Hard to say anything without spoilers.
It’s like Coco but set in America and focused on souls.
Didn’t like it. They should have just stuck to the ‘real world’ setting and look and leave out the cartoony purgatory hijinks as well as the cat sidekick. It’s an adult movie after all; no need to cater to kids. They could have also had a more profound and poignant ending to the movie if they had had the courage, however they didn’t, caving at the final minute of the movie.
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Barnabot
Member
It's about finding a purpose in life. With some kind of homage to Spirited Away. It's a good movie. I've watched it with my wife and son.
VulcanRaven
Member
I just watching this and it was great. I haven't watched other Pixar movies than Toy Story 4 in a long time but this looked interesting.
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GAMETA
Banned
I liked it, it's not on par with Ratatouille and Finding Nemo, though.
For whatever reason, some of Pixar movies feel very "contained", and not necessarily because they are focused on an inner journey or because there's no exploration, I don't know what it is, it's like there's not enough variety or growth or freshness or I don't know... I felt that in Brave, in Finding Dory, in Onward, the Good Dinossaur... and a little in Inside Out.. I felt a little bit of that in this one too.
For whatever reason, some of Pixar movies feel very "contained", and not necessarily because they are focused on an inner journey or because there's no exploration, I don't know what it is, it's like there's not enough variety or growth or freshness or I don't know... I felt that in Brave, in Finding Dory, in Onward, the Good Dinossaur... and a little in Inside Out.. I felt a little bit of that in this one too.
ManaByte
Member
Soul is great, but if you look at what WDAS has done since Tangled, to Princess in the Frog, to both Frozens, Moana, and now Raya; they seem to be doing a better job than Pixar has in a long time.
Wait Moana wasn't Pixar??
ManaByte
Member
Nope.
Liu Kang filing his 1040
Banned
PROS
-the visuals were insane
-the style of the gods was really great, especially Terry
-all of the stuff on Earth with Joe hit perfectly. It was captivating
CONS
-inside out go on a journey through a CG landscape plot bored me
-freaky friday sense 8 body swap nonsense bored me
6/10
It really is like Pixar forgot how to do anything but the "go on a zany journey with many stops" storyline
I thought this was going to be more Ratatouille and it ended up being Onward. Do the thing to get to the place to get the thing rinse repeat.
Bonus points for Terry in the real world. It made the "real" world look even more real to me.
-the visuals were insane
-the style of the gods was really great, especially Terry
-all of the stuff on Earth with Joe hit perfectly. It was captivating
CONS
-inside out go on a journey through a CG landscape plot bored me
-freaky friday sense 8 body swap nonsense bored me
6/10
It really is like Pixar forgot how to do anything but the "go on a zany journey with many stops" storyline
I thought this was going to be more Ratatouille and it ended up being Onward. Do the thing to get to the place to get the thing rinse repeat.
Bonus points for Terry in the real world. It made the "real" world look even more real to me.
TDiddyLive
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Barrage
Member
I thought it was very good. The toughest thing to balance in something like this is having the Fantasy world not outshine the real world, and they accomplish that- the New York here is really vibrant and wonderful. I'm excited to see more Co-Director collaborations, and glad that this doesn't have to live up to Monster's Inc or Toy Story in theatre box office-there's room for more movies like this.
That scene where he gets the gig of his life, and then has to figure out what's next? Him standing in his dream suit in the subway? I felt that shit.
I do think the ending was a little...tidy. Don't want to commit to showing if he goes for the band or the school life (with a pretty massive leaning in one direction)? Sure. But having him come back to life takes a lot of the punch out of his "sacrifice". So you can bring this dude back, but not all the historical greats you show? Not Abraham Lincoln?
All i'm saying is, All Dogs Go To Heaven had more trust that kids could handle the concept of death, and that was in the 80's.
I do think the ending was a little...tidy. Don't want to commit to showing if he goes for the band or the school life (with a pretty massive leaning in one direction)? Sure. But having him come back to life takes a lot of the punch out of his "sacrifice". So you can bring this dude back, but not all the historical greats you show? Not Abraham Lincoln?
All i'm saying is, All Dogs Go To Heaven had more trust that kids could handle the concept of death, and that was in the 80's.
Lupin the Third
Member
I imagine Disney has some general guidelines for their productions re: including some merchandisable characters in each film. Toy Story stars merchandise, for example. I guarantee that's part of the reason why almost every Disney Animation feature has a Cute Animal Sidekick, like Moana's chicken (and the ship of small raiders) and Vanellope in Wreck-it Ralph.
Heart_Attack
Member
The Human Characters are ugly as fuck. I mean, black people have ugly noses, but they could at least had tried to make them appealing to look at in an animated film for kids.
Amazing! It was pretty deep and the movie to watch this month next to Jingle Jangle! Skip WW84!
Thanks for letting us know that we are ugly lol!
Without going into spoilers I'm glad they managed to have black people up front and center for most of the movie, when it wasn't looking like that would be the case based on the trailers.
I loved it. I would put it up there in the top 5 from Pixar, probably closer to 5 than 1 but I dunno. I did a rewatch of all the Pixar movies back in March when shit went down and I feel like my rankings are fresh enough to say it's up there at least.
I loved it. I would put it up there in the top 5 from Pixar, probably closer to 5 than 1 but I dunno. I did a rewatch of all the Pixar movies back in March when shit went down and I feel like my rankings are fresh enough to say it's up there at least.
kondorBonk
Member
The Terrys stole the show. I would love for Pixar to explore more experimental art styles. The mostly realistic with cartoony proportions has been their go to look for the majority of their catalog.
With that said, the human character designs for Soul were definitely their best at that direction so far.
With that said, the human character designs for Soul were definitely their best at that direction so far.
Nymphae
Banned
Why not?
ThatStupidLion
Member
meh
wife chose it for family movie night. she was the only one left still watching it by 1/2 way mark, and i think she eventually started second screening it too.....
wife chose it for family movie night. she was the only one left still watching it by 1/2 way mark, and i think she eventually started second screening it too.....
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German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
I don't have a family, basically.
Is this sarcasm, or do you not like the non family cartoons too?
German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
D
Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
"Subverts"
I'm good... I'm kind of done with subversion at this point.
I think we need some subverting of the subversion approach pretty soon here.
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Nymphae
Banned
Neither do I but occasionally I'll throw on Batman Animated Series or Animaniacs or Looney Toons to mix it up. Nothing wrong with simple entertainment with good artistry now and then
Phunkydiabetic
Banned
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
I liked it as well. I felt the messaging in the movie was good and illustrated well. I feel that the movie happened to use Black characters primarily as main characters, but not to drive a point about being Black. People will take from that what they want and feel about it what they do. I think the characters were well developed as people and I liked the art style.
Overall, it's a good movie in a time where quality movies are hard to come by. I'm happy to have been able to see it. I would watch it again. It is not up there with some of Pixar's best movies. This story likely could have been told in a Pixar Short nearly as easily. A story like Ratatouille, Toy Story, Cars..etc... those likely could not be told as a short.
Scotty W
Member
From the sound of it, it sounds like souls preexist in this film. I wonder how that is going to harmonize with abortion? Might be subversive.
VulcanRaven
Member
It was very good. It was on Disney+ so I decided to watch it. I really liked the soundtrack too.
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DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Thanks for letting us know we have ugly noses, little man!
*Pats you on the head*
AJUMP23
Member
Soul- there is some depth here.
may initial thought was it was bold of Disney to make such a pro life movie. Showing the very soul is unique and personal prior to their birth shows every life has value.
I really didn’t find it much of a kids movie. It is a movie that the basic message to me was, life is worth living no matter what type of life it is.
Also I loved the open ended ending. I feel like he chose to teaching over what he thought he wanted.
may initial thought was it was bold of Disney to make such a pro life movie. Showing the very soul is unique and personal prior to their birth shows every life has value.
I really didn’t find it much of a kids movie. It is a movie that the basic message to me was, life is worth living no matter what type of life it is.
Also I loved the open ended ending. I feel like he chose to teaching over what he thought he wanted.
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cormack12
Gold Member
The souls waiting to be assigned reminded me of the guff
I thought it was ok, but it felt hollow. It felt like pixar now have a checklist to make poignant movies and they hit the notes consistently, but there's a lack of heart or 'soul' in the films.
Then I saw everyone has been attacking Tina Fey as a black actress should have played 22.....wtf.
It was good but I'd put it on par with the likes of Cars 3. Solid, good entertainment but just didn't really have the strength of emotional attachment things like Dory, Nemo, Coco, Toy Story 3, Cars, Up.
Is the concept of the guff biblical? What is the guff?
Is the concept of the guff biblical? What is the guff?
www.compellingtruth.org
I thought it was ok, but it felt hollow. It felt like pixar now have a checklist to make poignant movies and they hit the notes consistently, but there's a lack of heart or 'soul' in the films.
Then I saw everyone has been attacking Tina Fey as a black actress should have played 22.....wtf.
It was good but I'd put it on par with the likes of Cars 3. Solid, good entertainment but just didn't really have the strength of emotional attachment things like Dory, Nemo, Coco, Toy Story 3, Cars, Up.
