I just watched CARS with my kid yesterday. I got misty for Paul Newman, got a few jokes I missed the first 4 times, and actually appreciated Owen Wilson for the first time since Rushmore. I keep waiting for Pixar to fail, or at least disappoint. Not yet.
@BookishLookish: hehe, the joke I got this time around was when LMcQ tells everyone in Radiator Springs that Doc was a famous race car and has 3 Piston Cups! and TowMater spits out his oil and says "He what in his WHAT?" oh, snort!
I would like someone to remake Spies Like Us -- maybe switch up the bad guys, have only one lead -- into an animated film about dogs and it should be named Mutts Like Me.
@Midwesterner in NYC: As long as he doesn't ask Ringo Peace&LoveFuckOffPeace&Love Starr to join him, yeah! And I had no idea about that being his last top 40 song. But this soundtrack could really turn things around for him -- I know he's hurting for money.
That's exactly what I was going to say. I think the key word is that Pixar had to "rework" it after reuniting with Walt Disney... but that is a Disney movie through and through.
@GirlyWhirl: It sounds like more than a typical reworking:
"Once Lasseter and Catmull were installed, the new bosses quickly ordered a complete makeover of "Bolt."
They fired the film's director, Chris Sanders, who had resisted story changes Lasseter wanted. Booted too were a cat with an eye patch and a giant radioactive rabbit. Even the title and dog changed. Originally called "American Dog" and starring a cuddly brown hound named Henry, it morphed into a story featuring a super-charged canine named Bolt, who sports a black lightning bolt emblazoned on his white fur."
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I would like to respectfully second your request for a sequel.
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That's exactly what I was going to say. I think the key word is that Pixar had to "rework" it after reuniting with Walt Disney... but that is a Disney movie through and through.
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Exactly.
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"Once Lasseter and Catmull were installed, the new bosses quickly ordered a complete makeover of "Bolt."
They fired the film's director, Chris Sanders, who had resisted story changes Lasseter wanted. Booted too were a cat with an eye patch and a giant radioactive rabbit. Even the title and dog changed. Originally called "American Dog" and starring a cuddly brown hound named Henry, it morphed into a story featuring a super-charged canine named Bolt, who sports a black lightning bolt emblazoned on his white fur."
[www.latimes.com]
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