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    Image of joetato joetato
    08/18/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell And Jonah Hill Join Supervillain Reversal Film Oobermind
    I'd like to know more about the upcoming film Despicable Me.
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    Image of ThaddeusTheia ThaddeusTheia
    08/17/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell And Jonah Hill Join Supervillain Reversal Film Oobermind
    I'm confused. Is it spelled oobermind or ooRbermind?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    08/17/09

    @ThaddeusTheia: Oober...It's a play on Übermensch, funny, see?
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    08/17/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell And Jonah Hill Join Supervillain Reversal Film Oobermind
    i keep trying to imagine ferrell's voice for the oobermind's character but my brain keeps screaming 'STEPHEN COLBERT WOULD BE PERFECT FOR THIS ROLE GET FERRELL THE FUCK OUT OF HERE.'
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    Image of Jaym3 Jaym3
    08/17/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell And Jonah Hill Join Supervillain Reversal Film Oobermind
    I hate how so much focus is put on the actors in this [dreamworks] movies. I'd rather have proper voice actors.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    08/17/09

    @Jaym3: Not so much as "proper" voice actors, but Dreamworks tends to hire A-list celebrities who are wayyyyy too distracting when you're watching the movie. The first Shrek was relatively toned down with lots of staff members voicing characters, but it went full blow with its sequel. And Kung Fu Panda, it was perfectly fine not knowing that it had Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman and such.

    Pixar does voice work so well. They never go out of their way to hire an on-screen actor. They find a voice that's perfect for the role, whether it be a movie star, an actual child, a secretary at Pixar, or even the sound editor himself. They just make sure it's the right voice for the role, not the right role for the voice.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/17/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell And Jonah Hill Join Supervillain Reversal Film Oobermind
    So the female reporter runs around chronicling the shenanigans of the all male super-persons? Even with Fey's involvement, I think I’ll pass. Plus I find she'll only ever really hilarious in the things she's written herself eg. 30 Rock, Mean Girls as opposed to stuff like Baby Mama.
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    Image of CaptainKaos CaptainKaos
    08/17/09

    In reply to Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell And Jonah Hill Join Supervillain Reversal Film Oobermind
    Well if we're never going to get an Incredibles 2, then this will have to do.

    But it does sound like a funny concept. And a great cast.
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    Roklimber promoted this comment CaptainKaos was starred CaptainKaos was unstarred
    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    08/17/09

    @CaptainKaos:

    I so much long for a second installment of The Incredibles. It's my favorite Pixar movie.

    Incidentally, one of my best friends works for Pixar, and has worked on every movie since Toy Story, with the exception of Wall-E.

    I keep asking him when Pixar is going to work on a sequel to The Incredibles, but he can't tell me. Grumble, grumble...
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    Image of CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton) CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
    08/17/09

    @Roklimber: Agreed.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    08/17/09

    @CaptainKaos: Yes, but I thought it was perfect where it left off.
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    Image of strangrnstranglnd strangrnstranglnd
    12/24/08

    In reply to Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death
    I think the reviewer is WAY too cynical - as are most movie-goers these days.


    We need to get rid of our "go to it or rent it" mindset. Go see movies. Let them take you somewhere. Let them open your mind. Stop watching "making of" shows. Stop critiquing movies like you have some authority on it - I hate to hear regular Joes use movie-making jargon like "plot" and "pacing." And please please please get over the special effects issues. I can sit through and enjoy the original Superman just like I can a modern special effects movie. You just have to suspend your disbelief.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/24/08

    @strangrnstranglnd: Fair enough... honestly I went to see this movie with an open mind, and didn't like it very much. I'm letting people know, which is the purpose of a review. Movie reviews have existed for as long as there have been movies, so it's not like you're discussing a new phenomenon. (And I was reviewing movies for print newspapers long before I started writing on here.)
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    Image of Plague Plague
    12/24/08

    In reply to Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death
    " I always think, when reviewing a non-genre film like Button for io9, it's important to focus on its genre elements and how they're functioning in the story"


    Uh, why?

    This seems like a rather pedantic or forced way to review any film- and whether or not it's true, it comes off as sounding like you had pre-conceived notions before even entering the theater.


    Whether a movie fits into any particular genre should be the last thing someone should think about when viewing a film.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/24/08

    @Plague: Well, as you'll see above, that idea didn't particularly dominate my review. Nor did I have it in the front of my mind when I watched the film. But I do think it's worthwhile to think about how non-genre films use genre elements.
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    Charlie Jane Anders was starred Charlie Jane Anders was unstarred
    Image of Plague Plague
    12/24/08

    @Charlie Jane Anders:

    To me saying that his "super power" is a metaphor for the entire film's viewpoint is pretty dominant.

    But maybe I'm just reading too much into it.
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    Plague was starred Plague was unstarred
    Image of Ed Grabianowski Ed Grabianowski
    12/24/08

    In reply to Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death
    Interesting. I've been pondering lately that I may be approaching the point when I am closer to dying than to being born (of course, I could get hit by a bus, get cancer or be eaten by zombies in the next year, meaning I'd have passed that point 15 years ago, but based on averages). So with that in mind, I'll not be spending three hours of my fading future with poor old/young Benjamin Button.
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    Image of zslane zslane
    12/24/08

    In reply to Brad Pitt Time Travels Between Love And Death
    The whole business of making Brad up as an old man, and superimposing his features onto various other people's bodies, is weirdly convincing.


    Charlie Jane, could you explain this process in a little more detail? What do you mean when you say "making Brad up as an old man"?

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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/24/08

    @zslane: google "Image Metrics", and there are other posts here about Benjamin Button.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/24/08

    @zslane: Yeah, as goldfarb says, we've covered it in detail elsewhere. I should probably add a link back to our previous coverage.
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    Image of cmg cmg
    11/06/08

    In reply to Brad Pitt And Battling Boy To Take On Monsters, Cinema
    ok, i'm in.
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