Wednesday Night is Movie Night

A celebration of movies. Good ones. Bad ones. Ones we've never seen and ones we've seen a million times...

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The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)

Aka: Messy Sobbing; The Movie.

Tonights Movie Was the Iron Giant, widely considered one of the all time favourite animated movies amongst people I asked. This declaration is usually followed by another of Brad Bird's films, The Incredibles.

It's a fantastically crafted movie. The Backgrounds are gorgeous, the acting is subtle and witty and clever, the writing and the pacing and AAAAGGGHGHAHGHH!!!  We at the studio also had the special privilege of having one of our colleagues who worked o the movie sit and and watch it with us. Joe was credited as 'Cleanup, Breakdown and In-between artist'. We were delighted to find out he was responsible for this moment right here!

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TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE (Trey Parker, Matt Stone 2004)

Freedom, Liberty, Marionettes. Enough said. Totally watching this tomorrow night :D

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Hook (Steven Spielberg, 1991)

[link to trailer]

RU-FI-O! RU-FI-O! RUUU... FIII.... OOOOOOOOOH!!!

The Original plan was to alternate between Live action and animated movies, but I'm still waiting on a cable from the internet to plug my laptop into the singular co-axle plug in the back for the studio TV. So for now, we're rocking the VHS library! This wednesday we'll be watching HOOK. Starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman. And I'd completely forgotten Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins were in this movie!  (That reminds me, we'll have to do a screening of the Super Mario Movie and Wizard People,Dear Reader at some point...)

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Cats Don't Dance (1997, Turner Animation)

Buried behind a plastic tub of party supplies, under a seldom used gamecube in the lunchroom at work, there was a still working VHS copy of Cats Don't Dance. I thought it'd be the perfect choice for the inaugural Wednesday Movie Night.

I love this movie. Not just because it's a musical. Not just because it's animated. But because if its villain .

Darla is fantastic in her motivations, her acting, and how straight up terrifying she can be. Representing the conservative/majority/status quo as a manipulative toddler is just perfect.

Also, her expressions are just the best! 

[Cats Don't Dance IMDB]

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Our wonderful boss, Ron, brought in a great big bag of DVDs and VHS tapes in from home to help with the cause! Ron runs a blog over at Flooby Nooby, an excellent source of animation reference and excellent trailers and shorts alike. Also check out his awesome 3 part Cinematography of the Incredibles posts.

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Movie Night

I love movies.  But funnily enough, for someone who works in animation I don't get to see many new ones as I feel I should. I always find my self saying

"Sorry, I haven't seen Pulp Fiction."

"I keep meaning to see Amélie, I hear it's good."

"I want to know how terrible the Star Wars prequels are first hand."

So I decided to start a movie night at work. Because watching movie with people as obsessed with film and television as you are is one of the great joys in life. 

My plan for this tumblr is do a post for every movie we watch. Maybe some fan-art or gif-sets. I dunno, something.

So from here on out, Wednesday night is movie night! A celebration of movies. Good ones. Bad ones. Ones we've never seen and ones we've seen a million times...