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[Disposable Ninja]

I watched Despicable Me yesterday. Decent enough movie, whatever you've heard about it is probably true. Nevertheless, they ended it in the most disgusting, most unimaginative way imaginable: Wacky CG Cartoon Character Dance Party!™ It's a way to show that everybody has overcome those mountains that weren't high enough while also showing off how focus tested-approved suave-yet-comical everybody is. And the Cabbage Patch Dance will never, ever get old.

[Shinra]

did they have a karaoke segment where the main villain sung a song by the temptations

[Ziiro]

Obnoxious and Overdone TV and Movie Tropes

Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever

[Brentai]

This isn't so much a trope as it is an ingredient of the Dreamworks formula.

[Royal☭]

And then Toy Story 3 had dancing Buzz!

[Büge]

And they all make this face:

[Frocto]

Toy Story 3 Buzz Lightyear Spanish Dance Scene

Pixar would never have a cliche in their films.

[teg]

Trailers that look like they're for a serious movie and then pull a fake-out.
Remember seeing this?
Alvin and the Chipmunks [ Trailer 2007 ] [ ENG ] - 1080p

It's been done a million times, and it was after seeing this trailer that I started unconsciously doubting every single trailer I watched.


Also, as a visual design nut:
Please...
Please, for the love of god, stop using fucking Trajan font to every goddamned movie.

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Trajan is not a ubiquitous font. You can't just use it for anything, much less everything. Sometimes at the video store I like to see how many times I can find Trajan on one shelf in the drama section (I do the same thing in the comedy section, only I see how many of them have the big dumb red fonts)

I also hate floating head syndrome, while I'm at it.






(and yes I am aware that nothing in this movie is a trope used within a movie, but they're still dumb annoying advertising tropes)

[Büge]

[Thad]

I watched Despicable Me yesterday. Decent enough movie, whatever you've heard about it is probably true. Nevertheless, they ended it in the most disgusting, most unimaginative way imaginable: Wacky CG Cartoon Character Dance Party!™ It's a way to show that everybody has overcome those mountains that weren't high enough while also showing off how focus tested-approved suave-yet-comical everybody is. And the Cabbage Patch Dance will never, ever get old.

And pretty much it just totally abused the 3D, too.

[Lottel]

ORANGE/BLUE IMAGES

See, this one pisses me off. Because it makes obnoxious douchebags point it out all the time "Dude, I saw this image on 4chan. Orange and blue dude, how weird is that? Fucking Hollywood, man." They are using it because purple and yellow don't work as well with skin tones and red and green make for christmas. Orange can be fire or highlights or whatever. The colors are flexible and work well with skin as well as easily making the majority of the thing cool, using the warmer orange for highlights.  And it's less obvious as the other complimentary colors. It just works well. That's why you see it a lot.
I know YOU guys know this, but I'm tired of ever douchebag making the comment "It's orange and blue. Aren't I clever?" every time someone uses the color scheme.

[teg]

Also:

I watched Despicable Me yesterday. Decent enough movie, whatever you've heard about it is probably true. Nevertheless, they ended it in the most disgusting, most unimaginative way imaginable: Wacky CG Cartoon Character Dance Party!™ It's a way to show that everybody has overcome those mountains that weren't high enough while also showing off how focus tested-approved suave-yet-comical everybody is. And the Cabbage Patch Dance will never, ever get old.

This is pretty disappointing, but I should have expected it! I was interested in Despicable Me because early trailers made it look like nothing but good old "two guys beat the shit out of each other" cartoons and everyone seems to have liked it! But on the other hand, Monsters Vs. Aliens was another one that people liked and I got pretty bored and annoyed by the time Steven Colbert as the President Steven Colbert pulled out a keyboard and played Axel F for a good two minutes for no reason.

[JDigital]

Trajan is the Movie Font

[Disposable Ninja]

See, this one pisses me off. Because it makes obnoxious douchebags point it out all the time "Dude, I saw this image on 4chan. Orange and blue dude, how weird is that? Fucking Hollywood, man." They are using it because purple and yellow don't work as well with skin tones and red and green make for christmas. Orange can be fire or highlights or whatever. The colors are flexible and work well with skin as well as easily making the majority of the thing cool, using the warmer orange for highlights.  And it's less obvious as the other complimentary colors. It just works well. That's why you see it a lot.
I know YOU guys know this, but I'm tired of ever douchebag making the comment "It's orange and blue. Aren't I clever?" every time someone uses the color scheme.

There are better ways to use complementary colors than just slapping them together side-by-side, man. When you mix complementary colors together, they become muddy; trace shades of orange/purple/green would dull the shadows of an otherwise monochromatic blue/yellow/red subject and cause the brighter spaces to stand out, and even glow.

[McDohl]

Why is it that you people always start talking about the shit I learned (or in this case, re-learned) in college?  ARE YOU STALKING ME?!

[Lobst]

But on the other hand, Monsters Vs. Aliens was another one that people liked and I got pretty bored and annoyed by the time Steven Colbert as the President Steven Colbert pulled out a keyboard and played Axel F for a good two minutes for no reason.

People actually liked Monsters Vs. Aliens? Man, that one is so full of these it's hard to settle on one.

Hey, here's a thing: Stunt-casting. Especially in animated productions and video games. Just because a name-actor is famous doesn't necessarily mean s/he's good at voicework. In addition to Colbert (shameless), MvA did this with Hugh Laurie (the reason I was treated to this in the first place; he was good), Seth Rogen (passable), Keifer Sutherland (didn't know it was him), and Reese Witherspoon (awful). Dreamworks has a habit of doing this to obscene levels in more than a few of their films; you could argue that anyone who went to Kung Fu Panda to see the two lines of dialogue Jackie Chan had as "Monkey" deserved to be fleeced out of $10.75 each, but it doesn't improve the experience for anyone who doesn't delight in the hilarious hijinks of hypothetical idiots.

A lot of people talk up Psychonauts for a lot of overblown reasons, but this one is important: it told a convincing story with a cast of cartoon voiceover artists and near-unknowns. THE BAR HAS BEEN SET.

[LaserBeing]

Which is the reason it was such a big deal when the Transformers movie actually had Peter Cullen as the voice for Optimus Prime. The fans basically threatened to set Michael Bay on fire if he slapped some random A-list celebrity in there.

Of course we still got pointlessly stuck with Hugo Weaving as Megatron for all of, what, two maybe three lines in the entire film?

[Brentai]

A lot of people talk up Psychonauts for a lot of overblown reasons, but this one is important: it told a convincing story with a cast of cartoon voiceover artists and near-unknowns. THE BAR HAS BEEN SET.

I don't think Double Fine had the kind of budget at the time to stuff their game full of celebrity voices.

Then they did, and oh look they built the entire fucking game around their celebrity voice actor.

[Büge]

There are better ways to use complementary colors than just slapping them together side-by-side, man. When you mix complementary colors together, they become muddy; trace shades of orange/purple/green would dull the shadows of an otherwise monochromatic blue/yellow/red subject and cause the brighter spaces to stand out, and even glow.

Yeah, but Warm Highlights = Cool Shadows is one of those things you learn on the first day of a painting class. The douchebag Lottel is talking about skipped that class.

[Büge]

Of course we still got pointlessly stuck with Hugo Weaving as Megatron for all of, what, two maybe three lines in the entire film?

Why didn't Frank Welker want to do that role again? Or Leonard Nimoy, for that matter.