This is desperation. None of their millennial writers can come up with an original idea that doesn't suck donkey balls, so they're scraping the bottom of the barrel and making a sequel to an adaptation of a picture book, by a studio that shut down after a film of theirs flopped. >Verification not required.
The first movie barely has a plot, there isnt enough material for a sequel.
Who asked for this?
who are they pandering to?
there are no Polar Express "fans"
You all seriously underestimate how well Polar Express merchandise does even after all these years. The sales of the Lionel train replicas alone could finance a sequel, and all the shit you can find in a Hallmark store every Christmas could pay for the advertising budget.
So what? Now theres going to be racist undertones and frick it they might as well shit on santa and pretend its kwanzaa day. Which a liberal israelite made up anyway! It's all fricking lies!
>20 years later >whatshisface has a kid or two now >shows them the magic of the bell or whatever >they don't believe him since they are ipad zoomers >train barrels down the street at the middle of night >the kids get on the train and somehow whatshisface is able to get on too >turns out nerdy homosexual is now the conductor >he worked his shit out and is now only slightly annoying >rest of the movie is basically whatshisface trying to understand his kids and the kids learning what christmas means or whatever >have the loner kid, conductor and the ghost guy show up as cameo appearances for nostalgiabait >movie ends with his wife revealed to be the black chick from the first movie
there's your plot WB, i'll be expecting a check in the mail
I watch it each Christmas, but its characters and their arcs are baby tier: boy doesn't believe -> boy believes / black girl lacks confidence in her decisions -> black girl is confident in decisions / loner kid has trust issues -> loner kid has friends and trusts people
It might just be because I suffer from terminal Train Autism, but I genuinely love this movie.
The atmosphere is comfy as frick (Even with the uncanny valley character models), the shots that are 1-for-1 from the book are great, and the movie sounds great in 5.1 surround with how the Polar Express booms through the country side. The worst part of the movie is the solid 20-30 minute chunk right after they arrive at the North Pole where the 3 kids are just wandering through Santa's Workshop. It's a modern-day Christmas story that doesn't emphasize the commercialization of Christmas like other movies from around the same period like Elf, and its just a nice heart-felt movie. It's nothing groundbreaking in terms of Christmas movies, but it's a Christmas movie, it doesn't need to be a masterpiece in writing.
I liked it as a kid well enough, watched it as an adult with younger relatives and it doesn't hold up that much. Zemeckis is overly saccharine and has a weird hard-on for floaty, flashy setpieces and that's all on top of the animation aging like milk.
had a feeling. it was being shilled on social media during Christmas a bit too much for my tastes that it reeked of a marketing stunt to get it back into the American consciousness.
I heard this too. I entertained the idea that the sequel would in fact be a prequel/origin story for the conductor. Whether or not this is the case, it will most likely follow the trend of all of it's kind and earn back it's worth after a couple of years. It's my favorite Christmas movie too, so I hope it doesn't suck.
Did the young lad chase after his jungle fever? Find out next time on Polar Express Z. inb4 they show her and the glasses kid ended up together instead kek
>More unnecessary pandering sequels
Lovely.
Can't wait for Wall-E 2, Rattatouile 2 and Toy Story 10, you guys.
they'll probably keep it going with ai tom hanks and tim allen in the future, toy story 5 is already in the works
I think I might actually shut down if I ever hear that Wall-E 2 is in production
Same... I'd still pirate it and watch it just to see how bad things really get. With a bottle of Everclear on hand of course.
oh dont worry Jesus will have returned by the time the teaser for Toy Story 5 drops.
who are they pandering to?
there are no Polar Express "fans"
On one hand soulless sequels
On the other hand California garbage
You mean “Rata-2-ie”
Mandark returns
Uh, about that...
https://people.com/movies/grease-actor-eddie-deezen-arrested-on-charges-of-burglary-trespassing-after-incident-at-nursing-home/
>DEE DEE YOU RAVISHING ANGEL THOSE EYELASHES ARE SO SEXY
Wait, i thought the Robert Zemeckis animation company was gone
>'Soulless Nostalgiabait Garbage' is in the works.
Typical day at Disney then, got it.
This is Wanner Bros you dingus
Typical day at WB then, got it.
>this is (one of 6 megacorp media companies), not the other (one of 6 megacorp media companies)
how dare you compare disney's mindnumbing slop with WB's mindnumbing slop. You don't know anything about cartoons and belong on reddit!
They're both owned by mega conglomerates they own the news too. It literally doesnt matter.
It does.
I know it does I'm saying his moronic take doesnt matter its owned by the same side.
Why's he laughing at him 🙁
;_:
This is desperation. None of their millennial writers can come up with an original idea that doesn't suck donkey balls, so they're scraping the bottom of the barrel and making a sequel to an adaptation of a picture book, by a studio that shut down after a film of theirs flopped.
>Verification not required.
You all seriously underestimate how well Polar Express merchandise does even after all these years. The sales of the Lionel train replicas alone could finance a sequel, and all the shit you can find in a Hallmark store every Christmas could pay for the advertising budget.
The first movie barely has a plot, there isnt enough material for a sequel.
It's going to be the same shit just race swapped.
There was already a black girl
So what? Now theres going to be racist undertones and frick it they might as well shit on santa and pretend its kwanzaa day. Which a liberal israelite made up anyway! It's all fricking lies!
The best thing about makin' old skool ghetto hot chocolate... is knowin wyte boys don't know how to.
>20 years later
>whatshisface has a kid or two now
>shows them the magic of the bell or whatever
>they don't believe him since they are ipad zoomers
>train barrels down the street at the middle of night
>the kids get on the train and somehow whatshisface is able to get on too
>turns out nerdy homosexual is now the conductor
>he worked his shit out and is now only slightly annoying
>rest of the movie is basically whatshisface trying to understand his kids and the kids learning what christmas means or whatever
>have the loner kid, conductor and the ghost guy show up as cameo appearances for nostalgiabait
>movie ends with his wife revealed to be the black chick from the first movie
there's your plot WB, i'll be expecting a check in the mail
Didn’t the guy who made the first one kill himself
HOT HOT HOT
HOT CHOCOLATE
HOT HOT HOT
HOT CHOCOLATE
In all honesty dose anyone realy like this film? I feel like WB Astroturfing this movie to be cosniderd a classic
yeah
I watch it each Christmas, but its characters and their arcs are baby tier: boy doesn't believe -> boy believes / black girl lacks confidence in her decisions -> black girl is confident in decisions / loner kid has trust issues -> loner kid has friends and trusts people
It's really only old people who think it's a classic. I remember teachers would play this shit for Christmas every year mostly because it's rated G.
It might just be because I suffer from terminal Train Autism, but I genuinely love this movie.
The atmosphere is comfy as frick (Even with the uncanny valley character models), the shots that are 1-for-1 from the book are great, and the movie sounds great in 5.1 surround with how the Polar Express booms through the country side. The worst part of the movie is the solid 20-30 minute chunk right after they arrive at the North Pole where the 3 kids are just wandering through Santa's Workshop. It's a modern-day Christmas story that doesn't emphasize the commercialization of Christmas like other movies from around the same period like Elf, and its just a nice heart-felt movie. It's nothing groundbreaking in terms of Christmas movies, but it's a Christmas movie, it doesn't need to be a masterpiece in writing.
I liked it as a kid well enough, watched it as an adult with younger relatives and it doesn't hold up that much. Zemeckis is overly saccharine and has a weird hard-on for floaty, flashy setpieces and that's all on top of the animation aging like milk.
My mum loves it. I caught her watching it in August for some reason the other year
Who asked for this?
will they actually reference the mo bamba or sicko mode chud kid
COLD COLD COLD
COLD CHOCOLATE
COLD COLD COLD
COLD CHOCOLATE
AWWWWWWW CMONNNNNNNNN
No train drift scene, no watch.
Hell, I'd just as soon see them reanimate the film as anything else and reuse the soundtrack/voice acting from the original.
Same for all of the other ImageMover films as well.
So when are we getting the Osmosis Jones sequel? After that hopefully there won't be anything left and I can die with regret, but peacefully.
You mean the TV show doesn't count as a sequel?
Don't mind me. I'm just posting the best character
I personally believe the hobo was just another form of Santa Claus, testing Chris to see if he was worthy of receiving the first gift of Christmas.
Do you still believe, Cinemaphile?
Disney, just give Mickey and co. their fricking movie.
>Even actual flops are getting sequels these days
Beowulf sequel when?
Flops used to be what remakes were meant for. It's how you get remakes that overshadow the originals.
Will they keep that uncanny valley look?
had a feeling. it was being shilled on social media during Christmas a bit too much for my tastes that it reeked of a marketing stunt to get it back into the American consciousness.
I heard this too. I entertained the idea that the sequel would in fact be a prequel/origin story for the conductor. Whether or not this is the case, it will most likely follow the trend of all of it's kind and earn back it's worth after a couple of years. It's my favorite Christmas movie too, so I hope it doesn't suck.
The game was awful
OVER HERE
NOOOOOOO
*floats in the air at you*
Need at least 5 train drifting scenes to even consider seeing this
Did the young lad chase after his jungle fever? Find out next time on Polar Express Z. inb4 they show her and the glasses kid ended up together instead kek
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
I glad it is back to sequel#
But we already have polar express 2
This movie isn't my favorite but I still remember it because of the soundtrack. Alan Silvestri nailed it with this.
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Why though
The first one was dumb who fricking liked it
Tom Hanks better play half the cast like the last one
Don't worry anon, this time they are going to Auschwitz