Flushed drains DreamWorks

[ENL]

That's too bad. Personally I liked the movie. It was no "Incredibles" or even "the ant bully" but it was an original idea that worked for me. Although after getting into animation, I find myself focusing more on the animation, lip sincs, lighting etc etc more than I do the story these days...lol

[victor throe]

for me the conecpt stank right from the beginning

aardman said they had to do it cg because the content of the film didnt allow them to do it in their familiar medium

well you shouldnt have done it then



were-rabbit was awesome....even though their working practice of not having an ending written until they came to shoot it was not ideal, it was pure entertainment with spot on characterisations

they do what they do very well

[mattmos]

I don't believe for one second all the media excuses/hype about the reasons for going cg... It all smelled like too much executive interference from Katzenberg which surprise surprise resulted in a film which didn't hold up to previous aardman efforts. I think Aardman were forced into moving production to dreamworks because of their contractual obligations - if it had been their choice they would have kept it stop-motion, they had even built the sets as models initially before switching...

This is all personal opinion and hearsay of course :)

[inguatu]

just because a few movies came out in 3D with talking creatures doesn't mean that we need to get overloaded with them. It's becoming oversaturated just like any other genre of movies. They only have themselves to blame for their now cookie-cutter approach to making these 3D animated features.

[gavin_hughes]

just because a few movies came out in 3D with talking creatures doesn't mean that we need to get overloaded with them. It's becoming oversaturated just like any other genre of movies. They only have themselves to blame for their now cookie-cutter approach to making these 3D animated features.

its so over saturated that ppl are calling "animation" a movie genre.
i hope every 3d animated film, fail miserably from here on out; until studios stop hiring the same one guy thats been writting the plots and stories ever since Antz.

[Slurry]

Sniff...Sniff...I smell a goat. I think one must have 'scaped.

[padib]

Personally I enjoyed the film. It still retained the Aardman humor and was a fun ride. I'm sure that in the long run the film will turn a proffit from DVD sales and rentals.

[xynaria]

Although the figure of $140m has always been bandied about as the estimated cost, no one seems to have offered any explanation as to why this is so comparatively high.
Anyone?

[elysianalartist]

It was my understanding that they did it in 3d because their studio burned down. They lost everything they had done in stop motion so far. I think they were a good deal into shooting. It was pretty devastating. Apparently they went into 3d since thats all they could afford to get the movie done. But maybe their is something I don't know.

[mattmos]

The warehouse that burned down stored all the sets, props and assorted bits and bobs for old productions, and was not based on either of the aardman sites where actual productions were being made. It was a crying shame though as I would have loved to see an exhibition and I'm sure Bristol would have benefited from a permanent display somewhere.

[DorkmanScott]

Can someone explain to me how doing stop motion instead of CG would have made the writing any better?

I didn't see Flushed Away, but the comments here seem to be in the vein of "The story sucked. That's what they get for going CG."

There's an intermediate step here that I'm not following.

[mattmos]

Maybe I should clarify - I'm talking from an aesthetic point of view - I prefer the look and feel of the animation, the aardman style, when its stop-motion. Something about replicating those qualities in cg doesn't feel quite as honest or true to the medium. Though it was an interesting experiment and I have to say that I saw the film and enjoyed it, there were some very nicely done sections.

[Kai01W]

I didn't see Flushed Away, but the comments here seem to be in the vein of "The story sucked. That's what they get for going CG."

I think it was much better storywise than "happy feet". Rather harmless, sure, but entertaining and not such a braindead ridiculous crap like happy feet, which was beautiful to look at but I wanted to cover my ears to miss most of what was actually going on. I mean, give me a break! Dancing pinguins saving the world, changing humans and declaring peace through love in front of the UN flag? WTF?


-k

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