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[Auggie27]

Posted: 6/23/15 at 2:55pm

I can't defend "Lava's" emotional impact, but I know two sets of friends with younger children who said that's what they keep talking about from the afternoon at the movies.  One set came home and began to act it out. I think its simplicity and its stylized and very brief handling of huge (actually geological) themes in a mythological way speaks to younger children.  

[mattporter17]

Posted: 6/23/15 at 4:29pm

Best Picture contender? Thoughts?

[Kad]

Posted: 6/23/15 at 4:39pm

If the Academy is still doing their flexible number of nominated films, I would say so.

[South Florida]

Posted: 6/26/15 at 5:25pm

Thanks, tomorrow with my granddaughters.

 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 1:36am

It might have been record short amount of time into a movie before tears were flowing freely down my face and I wasn't even being made sad.  

 

[Kad]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 10:45am

What got you? The introduction of Joy when Riley was a baby?

[South Florida]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 12:35pm

Great time, great movie, the six year olds loved it.  My favorite since Nemo.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 12:42pm

That might have been it…  also, later on when Sadness helps somebody out and Joy asks her how she did it and Sadness says a line that Joy interrupts, something like, "I don't know, she seemed sad so I just list--".  It's a little line that seems like a throwaway but it just about slayed me.

[Fantod]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 1:52pm

This movie is just so damn good. I've seen it now 3 times and it's just as good on a second and third viewing. 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 2:11pm

I watched it with my eyes and ears and brain as open as possible and still feel like there's a lot more to catch on repeated viewings.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 3:27pm

Major Spoiler alert........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 words: Bing. Bong. That moment slayed me, because I didn't expect it.

Was I the only one who thought he'd end up being the villain, in the Lotso-esque way?

Updated On: 6/28/15 at 03:27 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 3:40pm

I don't even know who Lotso is but I had no idea where it was going before it ended up in a bucket of my tears.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 3:47pm

"I don't even know who Lotso is but I had no idea where it was going before it ended up in a bucket of my tears."

 Lotso Lovin' Bear was the villain from Toy Story 3, another brilliant Pixar film. 

[Tag]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 4:58pm

One of the best movies I've seen lately.  Very well done.  The only thing I felt was rushed and not as well written as the rest of the film was the *SPOILER* finale moment when Joy uses the stacked boyfriends and propels herself to Sadness on the cloud, and the fire to make a hole in the window.  Just didn't seem as well thought out and clever as the rest of the film.

Updated On: 6/28/15 at 04:58 PM

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 6/28/15 at 6:58pm

All the scenes with Bing Bong were really touching, but the moment that got me -SPOILER- was seeing Sadness finally take over, allowing Riley to cry. I just about lost it there.

[South Florida]

Posted: 6/29/15 at 9:04pm

I hope it gets best movie consideration.

 

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 6/29/15 at 9:06pm

Just got back from seeing this with the family, and I just have to say that after disappointments like Brave and Cars 2, I'm so glad that Pixar seems to be getting back into the groove of things. This one is truly Pixar at its best. (Kind of made me think of Toy Story With Feelings, especially since Toy Story is my favorite Pixar film.)

It also helps that I'm still finishing out my teenage years, so seeing Riley go through her tantrums and preteen emotional breakdown brought back memories that are still kind of fresh, lol.

All in all, I agree that this movie isn't necessarily geared towards kids, but there isn't really any reason why kids shouldn't be able to see it and enjoy what they're watching. (Unless they're deathly scared of clowns.)

[South Florida]

Posted: 6/29/15 at 9:10pm

It was so cool, an escape of love.

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Posted: 7/2/15 at 8:38am

I loved the movie . . so very touching in profound and though-provoking ways.  

I'm confused about something.

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

At the end, when Riley finally releases her emotions and invites her parents back into her heart, there is a moment right before the ice hockey game when mom (and all of mom's emotions) remark about dad's great idea.  What are they referring to?

 

 

 

 

[Kad]

Posted: 7/2/15 at 9:23am

Painting their faces the team colors.

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Posted: 7/2/15 at 11:47am

"Painting their faces the team colors."

Missed that entirely. Thanks. 

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/4/15 at 8:39am

Went to see INSIDE OUT -- loved the opening short, a delightful short called LAVA which was magical and charming and funny and moving and imaginative, just one of those magical short films that makes you fall to your knees and say, "Thank God there's a Pixar!"

LAVA was as delightful as the full length film was not.

INSIDE OUT is an oddly unimaginative and unengaging film from Pixar, about what goes on in a little girl's head. Borrowing a notion used to wittier effect in Woody Allen's EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX, Pixar shows us a control console managed by anthropomorphized emotions Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Anger and Fear who struggle to keep the little girl on an even keel during some frankly low level trauma: her family relocates from Minnesota to San Francisco and she's kind of bummed about it. There's the occasional bit of Pixar magic, no doubt (side-trips into other heads are funny and revealing), but all too often it settles for easy on the nose characterizations and situations (the little red Anger character gets a Hot Head, I mean really, and there's an actual Train Of Thought, with wheels and an engine) and dated unfunny jokes: a slice of vegetarian pizza is blamed on San Francisco in a joke that might have been amusing in 1979, and a reference to bears/gay men falls really spectacularly flat. The story, most unforgivably, is just shocking predictable -- there's never any doubt where the film is going to go and it goes exactly and only there. If only those Pixar standbys Surprise, Wit and Intelligence had gotten to the console in this movie's head, we might have gotten something really interesting, instead of the soggy kiddie-chick movie we're stuck with here.

Boy am I in the minority on this one.  But I'm not alone:

Pixar Depression

 

[Fantod]

Posted: 7/4/15 at 10:41am

Actually I think a lot of people agree with you Roscoe, but on the internet people go crazy for Pixar. While I think it is an exceptional movie, I'm not immune to the movie's flaws. It has almost the exact same story as every pixar movie (Character A is determined to be in charge, but an event happens where Character A has to go far away usually to get something and for whatever reason has to bring Character B, much to Character A's chagrin. Character A tries to do whatever he is trying to do without character B's help, and they end up separated, but then Character A realizes the value of Character B and they meet back up and they accomplish their goal together). Most Pixar movies riff on that plot somehow, but this movie follows it to a t. However, it has some of the best world building I've ever seen for a movie and the way that everything pieces together to create Riley as an incredibly naturalistic character. And then there's the humor and pathos. Most humor in animated movies I find funny that I wouldn't find funny in a live action movie, but I laughed quite a bit in the movie. And Pixar makes you cry like nobody else, and while an emotional response does not a good movie make (I'm looking at you The Fault in Our Stars), of course I cried with the rest of the audience. Seeing it a second time has made me able to see where the movie wouldn't appeal to a lot of people, but I also still feel that the movie is pretty great. 

Of course, you aren't being crazy negative like some people on the internet, like the always crazy but occasionally intelligent Grace Randolph, and of course Alex Johnston, who nitpicks the movie to death, which is very uncharacteristic of him, who is usually the most intelligent movie reviewer out there today.

 

Though I think anybody who didn't like the beautiful and poetic Lava is idiotic :)

Updated On: 7/4/15 at 10:41 AM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/4/15 at 11:11am

I just couldn't feel too bad about little Riley's little problems.  I have very intimate knowledge of the issues surrounding a relocation for children (I lived in nine different cities before I turned 19), the horror of the first day in a new school, all of that, and I'm sure that a lot of folks do.  It wasn't long before I started thinking that little Riley's issues were very temporary indeed, a good pepperoni pizza and a good night's sleep would cure most of her ills, I mean, come on kid, your parents are happily married and devoted to your happiness, you're living in SAN FRANCISCO for ****'s sake.  Maybe if the stakes had been a bit higher -- what if Riley's parents were divorcing, or Riley's parents had relocated to the small town of Fecal Smear, Alabama and she had to deal with something less easily resolved by a good cry and a group hug?

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/4/15 at 11:26am

You couldn't have told this story, if you wanted to tell THAT story. The important thing was that Riley's problems only seemed so huge and insurmountable when looked at through a single emotional lens. Things like divorce or a major socioeconomic change would have lasting damage/repercussions.

In order to illustrate the film's climax- the first movement of a young person's life from simple to complex emotional processing- the central struggle had to be something that couldn't be dealt with easily by one emotion alone, but could be dealt with and ultimately "conquered" by two or more. If the stakes were any higher, it would be a different movie with a different end game/outcome.