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It’s gotta be Nimona. Local boy made it big. Gotta favorite it.
Just for something different, The Summit of the Gods https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7014378/ was a really underrated one. Beautiful animation and pure cinematic storytelling.
Another French feature, Mars Express https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26915336 was really great. Didn’t quite stick the landing on the ending IMO but loved everything else.
I was also super impressed by the Rise of the TMNT movie. Just such joy in the animation and story from all aspects of the production and it really shows. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9784708/
I know my tastes aren’t great, but two I enjoyed were:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem
- Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Its weird, I hated the choppy animation style in Spiderverse, but I liked it fine in Mutant Mayhem even though it was simular. Maybe because it looked a bit more claymation-ish?
I felt the exact same way about Kpop Demon Hunters. It just felt choppy and weird to me but I was fine with Spiderverse. It’s interesting how different each movie still feels
I think the “choppy” low-framerate animation style works well in Spiderverse and Puss in Boots, but I agree that it felt much worse watching K-pop demon hunters.
I think it’s because they are mixing high and low framerate content a lot more aggressively and that makes the frequent transitions just jarring. While for instance in Puss in Boots it’s clear cuts where the framerate is changed in actions scenes, and IIRC Spiderverse is also mostly low but consistent framerate animation throughout the movie(?)
Yeah, that only seems to work if it’s not a gimmick. 😅
We already forgot about K-Pop Demon Hunters?
Can’t happen soon enough. 🤷🏼♂️
I liked it, it’s just not in my favorite as I was making this image.
Top 5 in order:
- Spiderverse
- Wolfwalkers
- Kubo and the 2 Strings
- Big Hero 6
- Secret of Kells or Onward
I’m now also second guessing, were all those the past decade? Eh, close enough
Secret of Kells was 2009 and Big Hero 6 was 12 years ago but it’s fine. Close enough.
I’m gonna blame COVID screwing up my sense of time. It also doesn’t help I usually don’t see animated movies until a couple years after they come out for some reason.
Still mad that Kubo got snubbed at the Oscars. That movie is great.
Eh, most awards ceremonies are garbage politics and not actually based on quality. The only awards ceremony I even remotely pay attention to is The Vitos now
Kpop demon hunters or spiderverse for me. Both have so much charm and style.
Never thought I’d see the day Pixar was dethroned like that, tbh. They’ve fallen so far from days of wall-e and up.
The Spiderverse movies were really great. They managed to make an animated movie with multiple different looks, like an animated comics. I don’t think I have ever seen such a thing before.
Haven’t seen enough of them, but I do know that Nimona is the single most annoying movie I have seen the past decade.
Into the Spiderverse was a pleasant surprise both visually, writingwise and the music too. Total feelgood film.
Liked the Wild Robot and thought the Puss in Boots movie was okay as well.
The Boy and the Heron is a bit of a mess, but if you watch it as a companion piece to Tales of Earthsea, then it’s kind of a neat meta-story about an extremely accomplished father and his son who wants nothing more than to carve his own path in life and not suffer in his father’s shadow forever.
I have heard great things about Flow and Wolfwalkers, but haven’t had the chance to watch either of them. As for the rest of these films in the picture, I haven’t seen them, so I can’t comment on them.
I also really liked Del Toro’s Pinocchio. I know it’s stop motion, but its still animation and it’s criminal that it was dumped on Netflix and didn’t get enough promotion and a theatrical release. Criminal!
Klaus also deserves a mention! Fun and cute Christmas movie with amazing animation and a fun plot too! If I remember correctly, the movie was mainly crowd funded and I remember following the production on/off in the mid 2010s while the funds were being raised. I’m so happy it got made because it is a gem.
Dunno if shows are allowed as well, but I thoroughly enjoyed Pluto (2023) which is a fan fiction by Naoki Urasawa based on Tezuka’s Astroboy-universe. Urasawa is one of the only worthwhile voices in Manga and anime in modern times and I am very happy he made this brilliant show. Very, very respectful and loving to the source material, but with the Urasawa spin.
Sticking with Japanese themes, the Blue Eyed Samurai did a lot of cool stuff that I appreciate. Storywise, it sometimes felt a bit disjointed and there were some realism that fell apart the further the show went on, but it had a lot of good stuff going for it and I would like to see more stuff like it in the future. Original animated shows or movies, that dares to create new stories and characters and experiment with new art art styles and color palettes.
And Primal was also a pretty sick show. Kinda cool to have a whole show and outside of one episode, it’s all silent. No dialogue anywhere. The color palette is fantastic as well.
There are probably other movies and shows, that deserve a mention, but my brain has entered weekend mode, so eh.
Flow, i will highly recommend watching it. I know I’m yet another stranger recommending it, but it’s an absolute masterclass of visual storyrelling, because movie has no dialogues.
Yeah, that’s what I have heard from most people! The silly thing is that my town has an annual animation festival and some months before Flow was released, it got a special showing for free in my town and I completely missed it because I was busy at the time. I also thought it was an animated short for the longest time while people talked about it. Wasn’t until it was officially released that I realized that it was kind of a big deal and I was a bit annoyed with myself that I missed a free showing in my local cinema when I had the chance.
The doubly dummy thing is that there was a second free showing around the release that I could have signed up for, but that was when I still thought it was an animated short and I was super busy at the time, so I missed it. So, I guess I misspoke when I said I didn’t have a chance to see Flow, because I did. I just didn’t realize how big of a deal it was until the window of opportunity had long passed, lol.
I’ll probably just get it on DVD or bluray if it’s possible. Too many people have praised it for me to not just get it for my movie collection.
Thank you for being yet another voice trying to kick me in Flow’s direction.🤗
I’ll put it on the list and see if I can grab it next time we have a DVD haul.
The Nimona book is great tho
I don’t get why the fandom is mostly about the film, the comic is different and arguably better. I have a Czech copy and I’d like to donate it to the library after I stop procrastinating and figure out how to sneakily un-deadname the author on the cover (probably involves a high-quality scan, glossy paper and color laser printer). The current printed name is Noelle Stevensonová, which is explicitly female with that suffix. The author’s chosen name is now ND Stevenson, which would probably go as N. D. Stevenson on a Czech book cover so I’ll use that.
Yeah, I heard great things about it back in the day, but never read it myself. It was a webcomic originally, no?
I am kinda curious about how the comic is compared to the movie, because I only watched the movie because I remember people loving the comic and got curious.
Instead I was assaulted with all the worst traits of my millennial generation’s online quirks and I regret that I kept watchingbn it with the hope that it would pull itself together by the end. But no. Full on, unbearable, awful millennial cringe from start to finish. The “I watched Shane Dawson and played the ukulele” crowd must love this movie. Yuck.
Yes, it used to be a webcomic but it’s available as a book now so it’s not online anymore AFAIK.
Yeah, I think you’re right about that because I remember when it was published and some people in my social sphere were annoyed that the comic was removed from timblr(?? I think??). They all wanted to buy the book anyway, but were sad that it was removed from the internet which I understand.
I pirated the book in English but also bought a Czech copy for my younger sister who couldn’t speak good enough English yet. The Czech translation is not available on the scene AFAIK.
