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post #61 of 179
10/11/10 at 3:24pm
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Originally Posted by sb1 View Post

This movie is about as good as it gets for me. It's not like they gave it a bad review, though. Still, I really couldn't care less if they gave it one star. I'm looking more forward to this one than I am TS3. Lovin' those a/v reviews, though.

This will make a great home presentation for the parents, kids and HT equipment. Nice to be able to count on that when you cannot always rely on the live action adult themed movies. (why does it always sound bad like that?)
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post #62 of 179
10/11/10 at 4:19pm
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Originally Posted by GoCaboNow View Post

when you cannot always rely on the live action adult themed movies. (why does it always sound bad like that?)

I don't know....sounds fine to me.
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post #63 of 179
10/12/10 at 12:14am
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Originally Posted by GoCaboNow View Post

Bluray.com has their review up.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/How-to.../10819/#Review

Very good review for them. 5 stars for AV and 4.5 for story. Pixars usually get 5's all the way across. They even belittle this movie a bit compared to Pixar in the review. I see very few 4.5 star rated movies on their site and even when HTTYD gets one it is a back handed compliment compared to Pixar. Funny. Oh well, love the Pixars AND this movie.

REALLY cheeses me off that there's banding, though. For me that would drop it from a 5-star review. Still can't wait for it, but even hearing the word "banding" makes me cringe like crazy...
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post #64 of 179
10/12/10 at 12:46am
What's banding??
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post #65 of 179
10/12/10 at 8:53am
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What's banding??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_banding
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post #66 of 179
10/12/10 at 10:07am
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There's not many animated movies that make it on par with some of the Pixar movies but IMO this one and Kung Fu Panda make it in. They aren't quite as good as the Toy Story movies or the Incredibles but still this is a very good movie IMO. And it doesn't have a lot of the adolescent humor in it that some of the other Dreamworks animated movies have.
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post #67 of 179
10/12/10 at 10:16am
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REALLY cheeses me off that there's banding, though. For me that would drop it from a 5-star review. Still can't wait for it, but even hearing the word "banding" makes me cringe like crazy...

Usually, minor banding will still drop the score. Thus I am assuming the banding is very small and the over all video awesomness is very large.
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post #68 of 179
10/13/10 at 5:16am
Never saw it and I generally don't have high replay value for lots of movies in this genre so a rental to start.

Maybe it will surprise me but I don't feel it will be amongst the top guns whereby I'd watch it alot so I'm being safe regardless of good quality scoring.
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post #69 of 179
10/13/10 at 10:20am
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There's not many animated movies that make it on par with some of the Pixar movies but IMO this one and Kung Fu Panda make it in. They aren't quite as good as the Toy Story movies or the Incredibles but still this is a very good movie IMO. And it doesn't have a lot of the adolescent humor in it that some of the other Dreamworks animated movies have.

I put KFP up there as well. The AV is spectacular and the story is well done. Skidoosh.
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post #70 of 179
10/13/10 at 11:39am
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I put KFP up there as well. The AV is spectacular and the story is well done. Skidoosh.

I wasn't a big fan of KFP. I like it, but it's definitely not one of my favorite animated films...except for the a/v.
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post #71 of 179
10/13/10 at 3:29pm
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Originally Posted by robertc88 View Post

Never saw it and I generally don't have high replay value for lots of movies in this genre so a rental to start.

Not me. It's a definite blind buy. Arrives this Friday from Amazon. And this is the only movie worth buying for all of October.
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post #72 of 179
10/13/10 at 4:55pm
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I wasn't a big fan of KFP. I like it, but it's definitely not one of my favorite animated films...except for the a/v.

It was just ok for me in the theater - not a huge Jack Black fan - but when we got it on bluray, and my then 3 year old watched it over and over, I liked it more and more. I enjoyed the banter between the other characters and was even touched at the scene when Po decides he does want to buy in to the training in the mountains. And the AV doesn't hurt...

Curious to see how HTTYD holds up on repeat viewings. I picked up The Waterhorse bluray on a impulse buy for $8.99 and my 5 year old has played it almost every day for the last two weeks. Didn't see that coming...
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post #73 of 179
10/13/10 at 5:03pm
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Originally Posted by GoCaboNow View Post

It was just ok for me in the theater - not a huge Jack Black fan - but when we got it on bluray, and my then 3 year old watched it over and over, I liked it more and more. I enjoyed the banter between the other characters and was even touched at the scene when Po decides he does want to buy in to the training in the mountains. And the AV doesn't hurt...

Curious to see how HTTYD holds up on repeat viewings. I picked up The Waterhorse bluray on a impulse buy for $8.99 and my 5 year old has played it almost every day for the last two weeks. Didn't see that coming...

One thing KFP has going against it (at my house) is that my daughter is indifferent about it and my wife absolutely hates it. I've watched it several times after they've gone to bed, just for the a/v presentation.

They both like The Water Horse, but it's not one we watch a lot of. We did for a while, but it died off pretty quickly. We'll just have to see how Dragon holds up. I figure it will be like the decent Pixar movies, which is to say we'll love it, but probably won't watch it a ton like we do other live action films.
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post #74 of 179
10/13/10 at 8:02pm
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KFP was a blind buy for me and I can't stand Jack Black but I loved this movie. I watched it 3 times and liked it just much as the time before.
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post #75 of 179
10/14/10 at 1:04am
"Don't tell Monkey!". I love that bit.

Looking forward to HTTYD too.
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post #76 of 179
10/14/10 at 1:09am
This is most definitely a blind buy. I think I'm more excited than my kids. I already told the family come Friday night, we be training dragons. Oh yeah!
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post #77 of 179
10/14/10 at 10:23am
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This is most definitely a blind buy. I think I'm more excited than my kids. I already told the family come Friday night, we be training dragons. Oh yeah!

Ha! Having kids gives us parents a great excuse/alibi to be excited about the movie - you know for the kids to enjoy.
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post #78 of 179
10/14/10 at 11:36am
Gosh, my wife and I are 28 and we purchase almost every animation movie and re-watch them over and over (ok...every good animation movie). Love the stories, love the picture, love the sound. Most movies nowadays have trouble meeting just one of these aspects, let alone all three. No one needs an excuse to enjoy a great movie experience.

I know you were being facetious, though.
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post #79 of 179
10/14/10 at 2:21pm
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Originally Posted by tfoltz View Post

Gosh, my wife and I are 28 and we purchase almost every animation movie and re-watch them over and over (ok...every good animation movie). Love the stories, love the picture, love the sound. Most movies nowadays have trouble meeting just one of these aspects, let alone all three. No one needs an excuse to enjoy a great movie experience.

Absolutely. Not to mention that the animated films these days seem to have a better chance of being good than most live action offerings.
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post #80 of 179
10/14/10 at 2:25pm
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Originally Posted by sb1 View Post

Absolutely. Not to mention that the animated films these days seem to have a better chance of being good than most live action offerings.

Point taken. Most of what I saw in the theater lately I should have chosen films in this genre instead!

I know it isn't just a kid's movie and with the A/V quality besides, I'm really looking forward to it.
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post #81 of 179
10/14/10 at 2:52pm
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Absolutely. Not to mention that the animated films these days seem to have a better chance of being good than most live action offerings.

Box office does not mean everything but the live action movies are a little weak this year for top 10 box office. Amazing to me that Clash of the Titans is still top 10.

1 Toy Story 3 $412,031,733
2 Alice in Wonderland (2010) $334,191,110
3 Iron Man 2 $312,128,345
4 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse $300,489,847
5 Inception $289,350,076
6 Despicable Me $246,672,180
7 Shrek Forever After $238,395,990
8 How to Train Your Dragon $217,581,231
9 The Karate Kid $176,591,618
10 Clash of the Titans (2010) $163,214,888
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post #82 of 179
10/14/10 at 2:54pm
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Originally Posted by robertc88 View Post

Most of what I saw in the theater lately I should have chosen films in this genre instead!

No kidding. I try not to let reviews determine what I go see, but with so much crap being pumped out (and costing too much to go see) you need every little bit of help you can get when trying to make a decision.
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post #83 of 179
10/14/10 at 2:58pm
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Originally Posted by GoCaboNow View Post

Amazing to me that Clash of the Titans is still top 10.

Amazing to me that Clash of the Titans was allowed to be released.
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post #84 of 179
10/14/10 at 3:39pm
LOL! Stephen you kill me. (comment made funnier because it's true)
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post #85 of 179
10/14/10 at 3:51pm
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Amazing to me that Clash of the Titans was allowed to be released.

What's more amazing is that there was a worst movie this year. Resident Evil
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post #86 of 179
10/14/10 at 6:30pm
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Originally Posted by ivanpino View Post

What's more amazing is that there was a worst movie this year. Resident Evil

You know, there's really not much else that someone could say and get the point across better. Just hearing that RE is worse than CoTT (form one person) is enough to make me stay far, far away.
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post #87 of 179
10/14/10 at 6:43pm
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Originally Posted by sb1 View Post

You know, there's really not much else that someone could say and get the point across better. Just hearing that RE is worse than CoTT (form one person) is enough to make me stay far, far away.

Now you're hearing it from two people. Stay twice as far away.

I caught bits of How to Train Your Dragon on an airline flight, but the screen was far away and was a miserably pathetic old CRT so I didn't bother watching much of it. However the bits that I did catch made me want to see the whole thing. I'll likely rent it soon.
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post #88 of 179
10/14/10 at 6:52pm
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Originally Posted by ivanpino View Post


What's more amazing is that there was a worst movie this year. Resident Evil

I like the RE movies. Though I haven't seen the latest one yet. It can't be that bad. A hot chick running around killing zombies. It has Wabo written all over it.
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post #89 of 179
10/14/10 at 6:55pm
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Originally Posted by Waboman View Post


I like the RE movies. Though I haven't seen the latest one yet. It can't be that bad. A hot chick running around killing zombies. It has Wabo written all over it.

I love the first 2 I haven't seen the new one either
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post #90 of 179
10/14/10 at 6:56pm
I wanted to watch this movie in the theater and I just didn't get around to it. It looks pretty good though and I think I will blind buy it tomorrow. I don't think I'm going to be disappointed.
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