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reds8n — GMT

huh, didn't even know it was coming.

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mega_bassist — GMT

Neat! After growing up with those movies/comics (likes tons of other people), I really hope it comes out well. I can't wait for more info on it.

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curran12 — GMT

Time to be the bad guy here...

But this is going to be miserable. Let's just look at history, what was the last timeless children's cartoon that got this kind of style and treatment? The Smurfs. Yeah.

Not to mention the fact that I am almost certain this is going to be a soulless, heartless mining of the Peanuts name for the sake of a movie. Does anyone sincerely believe that it will have any of the charm, soul or message that its progenitor had? It will be the peanuts characters with almost certainly some new modern twist added in to make it seem more 'approachable'.

While I wish it weren't so...this one is going to hurt.

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cincydooley — GMT

I looooooove the animation style here. Seems like something very unique and new while really keeping that comic strip feel of Peanuts.

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Chongara — GMT

curran12 wrote:
Time to be the bad guy here...

But this is going to be miserable. Let's just look at history, what was the last timeless children's cartoon that got this kind of style and treatment? The Smurfs. Yeah.

Not to mention the fact that I am almost certain this is going to be a soulless, heartless mining of the Peanuts name for the sake of a movie. Does anyone sincerely believe that it will have any of the charm, soul or message that its progenitor had? It will be the peanuts characters with almost certainly some new modern twist added in to make it seem more 'approachable'.

While I wish it weren't so...this one is going to hurt.

The Smurfs really isn't a relevant comparison here, as it was never anything but a shallow merch-pusher in the first place. Garbage in, garbage out as they say. This might be something just a bit different.

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gorgon — GMT

curran12 wrote:
Time to be the bad guy here...

But this is going to be miserable. Let's just look at history, what was the last timeless children's cartoon that got this kind of style and treatment? The Smurfs. Yeah.

Not to mention the fact that I am almost certain this is going to be a soulless, heartless mining of the Peanuts name for the sake of a movie. Does anyone sincerely believe that it will have any of the charm, soul or message that its progenitor had? It will be the peanuts characters with almost certainly some new modern twist added in to make it seem more 'approachable'.

While I wish it weren't so...this one is going to hurt.

Well, that's the spirit.

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mega_bassist — GMT

cincydooley wrote:
I looooooove the animation style here. Seems like something very unique and new while really keeping that comic strip feel of Peanuts.

Totally agree! That's probably the main reason why I'm excited for it.

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curran12 — GMT

gorgon wrote:

Well, that's the spirit.

I know. I am terrible, right? And heck, I would be so incredibly happy if my pessimism was proven completely wrong. Trust me, I am not just hating on this just to be contradictory. I want this movie to be good, I want this movie to do justice to the whole Peanuts thing. I want this movie to be something I see again and again and get all the feels from it.

But I don't trust the movie industry to give me that.

I just don't.

99% of the time when Hollywood gets a hold of what you might call a 'nostalgic' property, they turn out garbage. They bank on nostalgia doing all of the heavy lifting to sell tickets, and do not do anything to create a quality product. Just look at Transformers, Smurfs, the Bay TMNT and plenty others to see this disturbing trend. I don't believe they decided to make a Peanuts movie based on a sincere love for the series, but for the far more bitter and cynical 'that'll sell tickets'. This Peanuts movie will be marketed to hell and back, and you'll see it everywhere for months before it hits theaters. And when it does hit, you'll be treated to the drab, soulless Hollywood nostalgia machine chewing up another memory to keep itself going.

Do I want this to happen? No. But that is what I believe will happen.

Chongara wrote:

The Smurfs really isn't a relevant comparison here, as it was never anything but a shallow merch-pusher in the first place. Garbage in, garbage out as they say. This might be something just a bit different.

And why is Peanuts immune to this? Remember, it is not just garbage in. It is a garbage-making industry.

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Chongara — GMT

curran12 wrote:

And why is Peanuts immune to this? Remember, it is not just garbage in. It is a garbage-making industry.

Certainly, it's not "Immune" by any stretch of the imagination. However it's certainly starting from a far better place. It's not like the film industry doesn't produce anything with meirt and the worst of the garbage is usually Nth-sequel, or an adaption of some property that was swill to begin with. Smurfs? Transformers? TMNT? Look I get the nostalgic attachment to some of these things, but they were never anything but bottom-of-the-barrel cheap-as-possible vehicles for selling toys. You might as well see them do a movie about the Keebler Elf, Lucky the Leprechaun or that spinning kid in the leather jack from "Crossfire" commercials and complain when it sucks.

This is neither. This is a fresh attempt at the property and there is a lot of heart in the source material, which is a big advantage.

Even if you want to cynically cast that aside, the IP is still at least partially owned by the Charles M Schultz foundation. There are almost certainly folks with a strong attachment to his legacy in positions of power with regards to the production.

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curran12 — GMT

You mean the same folks who sold Peanuts to an insurance company for advertisements?

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Platuan4th — GMT

Chongara, I'm going to assume you've never read the original Smurfs comic strips if you think they were only made to sell merchandise.

A lot of the heart and other things you attribute to Peanuts are there in the original French made strips.

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Ahtman — GMT

curran12 wrote:
You mean the same folks who sold Peanuts to an insurance company for advertisements?

The strips weren't written for charity either, so I guess Schultz was just a hack sell out trying to make a buck.

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curran12 — GMT

Ahtman wrote:
curran12 wrote:
You mean the same folks who sold Peanuts to an insurance company for advertisements?

The strips weren't written for charity either, so I guess Schultz was just a hack sell out trying to make a buck.

Nice making the logical leaps that I did not make.

I got no problem with people making money. But let's just be honest in that the holders of the IP aren't exactly these stalwart defenders of purity. All my point was.

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Chongara — GMT

Platuan4th wrote:
Chongara, I'm going to assume you've never read the original Smurfs comic strips if you think they were only made to sell merchandise.

A lot of the heart and other things you attribute to Peanuts are there in the original French made strips.

I'm also not talking about the original TMNT comics, which as I understand it were meant as ultra-dark parodies of the super hero comics of the time. I was perhaps making poor use of superlative statements. More accurately I should have said "These are all properties that experienced their largest exposure as cheap merch-pushers", or something roughly along those lines.

The Smurfs, Ninja Turtles, and the Transformers most relevant stint in the American public consciousness is mostly certain as bottom of the barrel, torture-the-parents toy vehicles. This was never really the case with the peanuts.

EDIT: Which hardly makes this project immune to sucking. It just means those particular adaptions probably aren't the best place to start expectations.

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hotsauceman1 — GMT

Peanuts always sucked, it was nothing but schmaltzy gobbity goo with morals not applicable to real life. The animation blew and was bland.

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Cheesecat — GMT

Something being schmaltzy doesn't necessarily make it bad like I felt the Lego Movie was pretty schmaltzy but it was still a great film.

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curran12 — GMT

I second Grey Templar.

And I'm stunned by hotsauceman...really?

The whole point of my worry is that Peanuts at its time was great. And this movie is not going to live up to that.

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KingCracker — GMT

Grey Templar wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Peanuts always sucked, it was nothing but schmaltzy gobbity goo with morals not applicable to real life. The animation blew and was bland.

My thoughts exactly

This will be awesome

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Cheesecat — GMT

I think it's bit premature to be calling this awesome.

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kronk — GMT

The animation looks interesting.

I'm neither a 7 year old nor a grand parent, so I don't know if I'm their target audience.

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Cheesecat — GMT

kronk wrote:
The animation looks interesting.

I'm neither a 7 year old nor a grand parent, so I don't know if I'm their target audience.

Well, if it's like the Lego Movie they'll throw in some concepts that only older audiences would get.

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cincydooley — GMT

curran12 wrote:

99% of the time when Hollywood gets a hold of what you might call a 'nostalgic' property, they turn out garbage. They bank on nostalgia doing all of the heavy lifting to sell tickets, and do not do anything to create a quality product. .

The Muppets - 96% Fresh
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - 87% Fresh
Horton Hears a Who - 79% Fresh
Peabody & Mr. Sherman - 78% Fresh
Adventures of TinTin - 75% Fresh
Where the Wild Things Are - 73% Fresh

I dunno man. Those are just the ones I could quickly think of, but.....Hollywood seems to be doing okay with nostalgia.

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BobtheInquisitor — GMT

hotsauceman1 wrote:
Peanuts always sucked, it was nothing but schmaltzy gobbity goo with morals not applicable to real life. The animation blew and was bland.

THANK YOU!

The only strip more annoying and schmaltzy than the Peanuts was Family Circus.

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Chongara — GMT

cincydooley wrote:
curran12 wrote:

99% of the time when Hollywood gets a hold of what you might call a 'nostalgic' property, they turn out garbage. They bank on nostalgia doing all of the heavy lifting to sell tickets, and do not do anything to create a quality product. .

The Muppets - 96% Fresh
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - 87% Fresh
Horton Hears a Who - 79% Fresh
Peabody & Mr. Sherman - 78% Fresh
Adventures of TinTin - 75% Fresh
Where the Wild Things Are - 73% Fresh

I dunno man. Those are just the ones I could quickly think of, but.....Hollywood seems to be doing okay with nostalgia.

The recent (2011) Winnie the Pooh film was delightful as well. Though Disney has been nurturing that property in animated form for so long, I'm not sure it counts.

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Cheesecat — GMT

BobtheInquisitor wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Peanuts always sucked, it was nothing but schmaltzy gobbity goo with morals not applicable to real life. The animation blew and was bland.

THANK YOU!

The only strip more annoying and schmaltzy than the Peanuts was Family Circus.

I can't really comment on the Peanuts (I loved the Christmas special as a kid but I don't know if it would hold up to my currently maturer sensibilities) as I barely remember anything about it but Family Circus is just dreadful in how bland it is.

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gorgon — GMT

cincydooley wrote:
curran12 wrote:

99% of the time when Hollywood gets a hold of what you might call a 'nostalgic' property, they turn out garbage. They bank on nostalgia doing all of the heavy lifting to sell tickets, and do not do anything to create a quality product. .

The Muppets - 96% Fresh
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - 87% Fresh
Horton Hears a Who - 79% Fresh
Peabody & Mr. Sherman - 78% Fresh
Adventures of TinTin - 75% Fresh
Where the Wild Things Are - 73% Fresh

I dunno man. Those are just the ones I could quickly think of, but.....Hollywood seems to be doing okay with nostalgia.

Not if you walk in pre-programmed to hate.

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KingCracker — GMT

Cheesecat wrote:
I think it's bit premature to be calling this awesome.

You can quote me on it. Some things are just known, and this..... this is one of them

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Ahtman — GMT

Peanuts (a name Schultz hated) started out as wry and sarcastic but over the years sort of leveled out. If you look at the original strips and the later ones you wouldn't be remiss in thinking they were two completely different comics. It is hard to understand the influence it had because much of what was different at the time is status quo for us these days.

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mega_bassist — GMT

cincydooley wrote:

Where the Wild Things Are - 73% Fresh

I...really? That film was a mega disappointment for me, and everyone else I knew who loved the book. I can't believe it scored that high.

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KingCracker — GMT

Same, my son loved the book but the movie put him and his sister to sleep. Twice.

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Hlaine Larkin mk2 — GMT

cincydooley wrote:
curran12 wrote:

99% of the time when Hollywood gets a hold of what you might call a 'nostalgic' property, they turn out garbage. They bank on nostalgia doing all of the heavy lifting to sell tickets, and do not do anything to create a quality product. .

The Muppets - 96% Fresh
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - 87% Fresh
Horton Hears a Who - 79% Fresh
Peabody & Mr. Sherman - 78% Fresh
Adventures of TinTin - 75% Fresh
Where the Wild Things Are - 73% Fresh

I dunno man. Those are just the ones I could quickly think of, but.....Hollywood seems to be doing okay with nostalgia.

I enjoyed the Muppets but I really didn't like the Tintin movie: it just didn't do it for me

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Cheesecat — GMT

mega_bassist wrote:
cincydooley wrote:

Where the Wild Things Are - 73% Fresh

I...really? That film was a mega disappointment for me, and everyone else I knew who loved the book. I can't believe it scored that high.

Well, I generally find movies that score in the 70's on RT tend be decent films but have a few flaws that prevent them from being great.

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mega_bassist — GMT

Cheesecat wrote:
mega_bassist wrote:
cincydooley wrote:

Where the Wild Things Are - 73% Fresh

I...really? That film was a mega disappointment for me, and everyone else I knew who loved the book. I can't believe it scored that high.

Well, I generally find movies that score in the 70's on RT tend be decent films but have a few flaws that prevent them from being great.

I'm pretty sure the only good thing about that movie was the art. Everything else was down right depressing.

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Cheesecat — GMT

I haven't seen the movie and don't know much about it so I can't judge.

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cincydooley — GMT

Its hard to describe the movie. IMO, it captures everything wonderful about the book, and in many ways better.

Max's imagination.
Max's isolation.
The allegory of being a 'wild thing' as a youth and eventually transitioning into a very adult 'jungle' as we grow. Etc... Etc...

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Ahtman — GMT

The Where The Wild Things Are film is more for adults then kids. It is a very subtle meditation on the sad and melancholy nature of childhood, while also reveling in the chaotic freedoms, none of which makes a for a movie that kids tend to enjoy, and is fairly niche for adults.

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BobtheInquisitor — GMT

Cheesecat wrote:
BobtheInquisitor wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Peanuts always sucked, it was nothing but schmaltzy gobbity goo with morals not applicable to real life. The animation blew and was bland.

THANK YOU!

The only strip more annoying and schmaltzy than the Peanuts was Family Circus.

I can't really comment on the Peanuts (I loved the Christmas special as a kid but I don't know if it would hold up to my currently maturer sensibilities) as I barely remember anything about it but Family Circus is just dreadful in how bland it is.

It probably wouldn't hold up. I remembered really enjoying the peanuts cartoon where they went to France as a child, but when I saw it again in college I couldn't make it through.

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gorgon — GMT

Ahtman wrote:
Peanuts (a name Schultz hated) started out as wry and sarcastic but over the years sort of leveled out. If you look at the original strips and the later ones you wouldn't be remiss in thinking they were two completely different comics. It is hard to understand the influence it had because much of what was different at the time is status quo for us these days.

That strip evolved a lot. Even the art. Look at how clean the lines are in that strip...nothing like the shaky, sketchy lines in the later strips.

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Cheesecat wrote:
BobtheInquisitor wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Peanuts always sucked, it was nothing but schmaltzy gobbity goo with morals not applicable to real life. The animation blew and was bland.

THANK YOU!

The only strip more annoying and schmaltzy than the Peanuts was Family Circus.

I can't really comment on the Peanuts (I loved the Christmas special as a kid but I don't know if it would hold up to my currently maturer sensibilities) as I barely remember anything about it but Family Circus is just dreadful in how bland it is.

Oh, I dunno.