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Anonymous Tue 19 Apr 20:46:42 2016 No.82008020 View Reply Original Report

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Is this movie good or does /co/ just like it because of skeleton waifus?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Apr 2016 20:47:43 No.82008058 Report

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It's a good flick. I'd watch a sequel.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Apr 2016 20:48:18 No.82008077 Report

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yeh it's good and pretty

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Apr 2016 20:48:37 No.82008090 Report

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>>82008020
There's a lot of good stuff, the fact that there's a love triangle without a douchebag, the whole set up of the universe, the animation... there's a lot of the worst kids movie tropes in there too, though, like feminism being dumbed down to a series of catch phrases and some really, really stupid jokes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Apr 2016 20:52:06 No.82008209 Report

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It's alright. It's gorgeous to look at and all of the Mexican culture stuff is cool but it has one of the most cliched plots I've ever seen. It's worth a watch once for the visuals but it's not a movie you'll want to come back to.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Apr 2016 21:25:39 No.82009256 Report

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>>82008020
Worth watching, but not special in any way other than the visuals
I thought it was going to be a really cool "different" story than most kids movies, since it was based off Mexican culture and the most mexican kids movies get is Beverly Hills Chihuahua, but honestly its kinda boring.
and only like two of the songs are good

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Apr 2016 22:05:17 No.82010510 Report

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Beautiful visuals. Dogshit story.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Apr 2016 22:16:04 No.82010846 Report

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>>82008020
Visually lovely but the story-telling was pretty flat and the pacing was all over the place. Not to the mention the 80's style 'I'm not a prize to be won' from miss love interest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Apr 2016 23:49:17 No.82013496 Report

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>>82009256

One of those better be Ecstasy of motherfucking gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq9HOH-gKcY

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Apr 2016 23:51:13 No.82013562 Report

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>>82008020

I think it's an enjoyable enough movie, and I like the characters and the triangle.

But the pacing is weird as shit, particularly because of the use of the framing device, which interrupts the movie unnecesarily.

Even if those segments have cute redheaded human Catrina, it's not worthy to keep them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 00:04:04 No.82014061 Report

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It's not very good. Overuse of pop culture references, not enough time in the land of the dead. Also, Ice Cube was terrible and jarring

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 00:55:54 No.82016482 Report

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>>82008020
It's decent, but nothing remarkble.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 00:57:32 No.82016572 Report

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I always thought it was just too full. Too full of plot threads and character arcs.
There was barely any breathing space. As a result we don't get to really explore the setting and don't get much of a feeling for it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 01:01:55 No.82016794 Report

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>>82008020
Skeleton waifus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 01:06:14 No.82017012 Report

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>>82008020
Of all movies i've ever watch it would probably be the most visually appealing animated movie i've ever seen. Things like the land of the remembered and the design of the gods just oozes with style and color. It's goddamn beautiful in every frame. Except for the land of the forgotten but of course that place is literally hell so no one cares.

For story tho it's gets low points. It's pretty much two gods doing a world changing bet on the out come of a love triangle. All main characters for me were likable. Really like the skeleton family, thought they were funny.

I recommend a watch, maybe two. If you are more for visuals over story then watch how many times you want.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 01:11:00 No.82017246 Report

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>>82014061
>Also, Ice Cube was terrible and jarring

Fucking this. Holy shit talk about tonal clash.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 01:12:25 No.82017314 Report

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This movie is so pretty I think my eyes went into shock.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 01:29:11 No.82018057 Report

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>>82017012
>but of course that place is literally hell so no one cares.
Nah, it's purgatory. Hell is the Land of the Cursed. We didn't see it this flick.

Dustin

Dustin Wed 20 Apr 2016 01:44:23 No.82018745 Report

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It's flawed but I like it a lot anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 02:21:22 No.82020001 Report

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Needed more of La Muerte.

Also the parts with the kids were pointless and uneeded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 02:55:08 No.82020921 Report

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>>82020001
>back story and context to their love/friendship
>unnecesery

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 02:55:57 No.82020949 Report

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>Guy doesn't kill the bull for the sole reason of getting with the woman.
>Is the good guy that everyone miss understands.

>Brother saves town constantly by himself for years and asks for nothing in return.
>The one time he does ask though is if it's ok for him to travel and find love.
>Everyone calls him an asshole.
>They then try to force him to marry the girl in which the whole time he says that it's wrong.
>Still the asshole.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 04:19:49 No.82023371 Report

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>>82020949
>Joaquin
>asshole
when was this ever established? Joaquin was a total bro through and through

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 04:28:41 No.82023628 Report

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>>82008020

Literally no excuse not to at least redbox it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 04:45:48 No.82024113 Report

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>>82020921
Probably referring to the students.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 04:47:22 No.82024150 Report

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>>82023371
The story made it pretty clear he was meant to be the arrogant jackass. The dinner scene pretty much spelt it out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 08:01:18 No.82028860 Report

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>>82008020
I mean skeleton waifus are legit.

That said, I love the visuals but the jokes in this movie were much more trite than I expected them to be. One of the gags involves cholesterol for cryin' out loud.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 08:12:25 No.82029054 Report

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incorporating pop songs in this was cringey
should've made their oc donut songs instead

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 09:21:58 No.82029876 Report

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>>82008020
great movie, watch it now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 09:27:40 No.82029954 Report

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>>82008020
I just watched it. It felt very authentically Mexican, captured the vibe of a folktale well and was a fucking visual treat

But it's also a little lame at parts and too silly for it's own good. Still worth a watch though

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 09:28:06 No.82029958 Report

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>>82024150
He's not meant to be an asshole, just kinda oblivious.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 09:32:54 No.82030005 Report

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>>82008020
honestly, theres only two complaints that could be made
Grill power (and they were all incredibly talented and competent at what they did, not just maria)
and the pacing, which is absolute shit, specifically in the last third

the entire movie is paced wrong, and they dont spend nearly enough time on certain things they should

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 09:34:48 No.82030020 Report

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>>82020921

The students Catrina is telling the movie to. The part with Joaquin, Manolo and Maria as kids was great.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 09:35:45 No.82030030 Report

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Nothing bad about it, great character design and art, but the story is meh at best.

The best thing is the apology song.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 09:36:36 No.82030036 Report

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It summarizes my thoughts on Jorge Gutierrez's works as a whole, I adore his artstyle but his writing overall leaves a lot to be desired

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 09:36:40 No.82030038 Report

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>>82024150

Arrogant and full of himself doesn't make him an asshole.

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Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 12:05:47 No.82031534 Report

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It has a terrible pacing between when to be serious and when to throw in jokes. Every scene fall so flat becuse of it. Especially the final which is supposed to be a big awesome showdown but is just a garbled mess of slapstick jokes.

Compare it with Kung fu Panda 2 which knew when to joke and when to have a, sorry, "epic" moment. Book of Life tries to joke all the time throughout the entire movie which ruins the movie it tries to be.

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Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 12:09:31 No.82031575 Report

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It is a good movie. too bad i couldnt watch on the cinema.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 12:20:15 No.82031690 Report

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Why do people want to fuck skeletons? BACK IN MY DAYS, WE WANTED TO FUCK THE ANTHRO ANIMALS

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 12:50:46 No.82032078 Report

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I think the "toro i'm sorry" scene would have been better if Manolo actually killed the bull at the beginning of the movie

Then again, while it had beautiful visuals the movie was very paper thin plot and writing speaking

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Anonymous Wed 20 Apr 2016 12:56:36 No.82032156 Report

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>>82031534
>Any joke with the pig

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