>design a cool antagonist >instead of killing him off, or totally redeeming him, have him exit the picture dragging away the villain to brutally murder him
probably my favorite animated movie of the decade, honestly
When he came forward and asked about Beans’ claims of water being dumped the mayor thought he was on to him. Although drowning him seemed a little counterproductive.
Somehow manages to look ageless even though it was made over 10 years ago. Also, the scene where Rattlesnake Jake tells Beans "Look into my eyes, I wanna see you die" made me feel funny.
When I was younger our school had a raffle to students who get to see one film during class. I was selected somehow and I invited my mom to watch it with me like the other kids. I had a bag of chips that were dry and no drink. So throughout the film I felt thirsty just like the characters in the film.
The city that the Mayor builds is what the characters in Over the Hedge go into.
Consumerism, commercialism, Amusing Ourselves to Death, similar themes.
I think you should reflect on why you post on the internet if it confuses and upsets you to see someone attempt to discuss something that isn't currently being marketed.
I guess it was more the fact that we has this exact. same. thread. last week, and, as the movie is 12 years old, it’s unlikely any new info or talking points may have been generated.
And, yes, my first response was overly cynical, I DO love every bit of the movie.
>we has this exact. same. thread. last week
Yes, two Rango threads in a week is the problem, not the 10+ Spiderman threads active at any given time, or the virtual general to mock Elemental
Rattlesnake Jake turns the movie from a 9/10 to a 10/10, and it's weird how well the CG in the movie aged overall, minus some minor hiccups.
On my list of movies to rewatch again for sure.
The one big flaw that keeps me from loving it is the cliche that an aspiring artist with so-called talent but otherwise no redeeming qualities lies their way into success and the universe goes out of the way to make things work out for them until everybody finds out and shuns him, but their artist skills are precisely what's needed to save the day and they're loved by everybody. It's a fairly common Hollywood trope although the only other example that comes to mind at the moment is Mitchells vs the Machines.
>all this pseud horeshit
You failed to understand the one fricking message of the movie. Rango was happy just lying his way out of troubles, but at one point he really felt at home, and when they needed him most he broke, and then this happened:
From the Spirit of the West scene:
Rango: I'm a fake... a phony. My friends were counting on me. They were looking for some sort of hero.
Spirit of the West : [emphatic] Then be a hero!
Rango : [disbelief] Oh, no! No, no. I'm not even supposed to be out here.
Spirit of the West : That's right. You came out here looking for something that didn't exist. But don't you see?
[pause]
Spirit of the West : It's not about you... it's about them.
Rango : But I can't go back.
Spirit of the West : Don't think you have a choice, son.
[draws rectangle on windshield]
Spirit of the West : No man can walk out of his own story.
And then he went to be a real hero, because his friends needed him, ready to die if it was needed, and ready to kill.
Is why Rattlesnake was shit scared when he looked into his eyes again, he knew he was real now.
Yes, the aspiring artist takes it too far and hurts those he got attached to. After a rebound their love for the medium is what saves the day. Rango used theatrics to beat Jake. I don't know what you're trying to prove by pointing out the obvious that he stepped up after realizing how he hurt people with his self-absorption, it's all part of the cliche too.
>the aspiring artist takes it too far
this never happens, rango BECOMES the real thing, that's the point you are missing, stop forcing your shit views onto the movie.
You are trash.
so you've never seen a movie where a liar plays up how big of a hero he is until he gets outed and rejected by his former friends during the 2nd act only to pull it all together at the end?
>rejected by his former friends
at this point i'm convinced you haven't even seen the movie.
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HE LITERALLY GETS EXILED FROM THE TOWN WTF
10 months ago
Anonymous
>HE LITERALLY GETS EXILED FROM THE TOWN WTF
Not by his friends you cretin, the fricking snake chases him out
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yeah but the townsfolk didn't look like they would want him back anyway, at least until he saves the day later. Beans even says Rango's nothing more than a stranger to her
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BECAUSE ACTING OTHERWISE WOULD DRAW THE SNAKES IRE
HOLY SHIT YOU ARE moronic
I don't really see the flaw here. That he has performance skills isn't his character flaw, it's that he's isolated and uses his skills to manipulate the people into townspeople lifting him up rather than helping them as a white hat should.
He improves his ability to function as the sheriff and cowboy hero throughout the movie, but the final barrier keeps it a performance is his selfish priorities. It's not untill he's called out on it by the real deal black hat that he's forced to revaluate what he wants; not to be identified by the townspeople as a hero, but to actually become the hero so he can save the townspeople. The former mentality has saving the people be in service to his identity, while the latter has his identity be in service to saving the people. The first is the mindset of an actor convincing the audience that he's a cowboy hero, while the latter IS the minset of a cowboy hero.
That bit
It's not a new story by any means but it's a solid execution of it that uses performance theory and an awareness of western tropes to tell an old story about the relationship between the individual's sense of self and the people around them.
It's a good Western and like all good Westerns, it's also a bit of an anti-Western. Cinemaphile praises it too much, though. It's really not anything more than a good Western.
It's not anti-western as in, it is against westerns, it's an anti-western like you would have an anti-hero.
It's a tad archaic of a usage of the word, but anti can mean 'non traditional' or 'subversion' instead of a rebuke or mockery
I love that movie.
Johnny Deep's great in it, I love the western setting because I'm from the American west, it has a nice resonant message which is easily understood but hard to pin down.
I think it's cool how the crew basically made an entire live action movie first and then used the footage for reference when doing the animation (Johnny Depp calls it "emotion capture"). morons like guy would probably say it's not TRVE animation but I really like the end result since it provides a sense of realism to the characters's movements that's not really found in other productions.
I appreciate the opening scene that starts in a primitive cube filled with basic plastic objects and then it explodes into the hyperrealistic world with insanely high detail textures and liquid simulations and all that shit.
Top tier film. Unlike other "liar revealed" plots the fact that he lied is part of the film's central thesis and not some tacked-on drama. And by the end, he really did become a hero and it felt earned.
I miss Jabberwockychamber. She was prolific as hell but jumps from fandom to fandom after long phases. She even made a cringey OC to have a poly relationship between her self insert, Rango and Beans.
One of the best animated movies I've ever seen. Fantastic all the way through, and the animation technology holds up exceedingly well for a movie as old as it is.
The owl narrator being the dude who narrates a lot of kid movie trailers throws me every time I hear him come up in the movie, though.
>You said you's gonna bring the water back >It's just, we got no hope without that water >(Spoons) We've got nothing left to believe in >You see that sign up there? As long as that sign says "Sheriff", you can believe that there is law and order in this town. But without law and order, ruminate on that. Oh, yeah. Starts out slow, like a fungus. Somebody says a cross word, accusations start flying, neighbor turns on neighbor. Pretty soon we’re eatin’ our children, and then dogs and cats are gettin’ together to create all sorts of mutant aberrations!... So you want somethin’ to believe in, Spoons? Believe in me. Believe in that there sign. For as long as it hangs there, we got hope.
>Uh... so, what’s your name? >Beans >That’s a funny kinda name >What can i say, my daddy plum loved baked beans >Well, you’re lucky he didn’t plum love asparagus >What... what are you sayin’? >I mean, I enjoy a hearty puttanesca myself, but I’m not sure that a child would appreciate the moniker >My daddy was a great man. Even if he did exhibit a proclivity for lagoons and he... >Mmmmm. Spicy >You are eatin’ his ashes! >Uh! You carry his remains? >No. His ashes. He loved to smoke. They never found the body >Oh! Well, I’m sure he had his reasons >What are you implyin’? >Nothing. I... >My daddy was never near that mine shaft. He had been sober for over a month! And for you to insinuate that he would abandon his parental responsibilities at a delicate time in my personal development is an upfront to my...
>You were frozen >No, I wasn’t >Yes, you were. You stopped talking >Well, uh... it’s a defense mechanism. Actually, lots of lizards have it >You’re making that up! >So, you’re gonna die out here or you wanna a ride into town? >No, no, no. Uh... yeah! No! Yes, please. Thank you >Today’s Wednesday. Wednesday’s when we all get to it... So who are you really? >Well, I’m a man of many epithets. There’s my stage name, my pen name, my avatar. Had a pseudonym once...
Great script
>Water, Mr. Rango. Water. Without it, there’s nothing but dust and decay. But with water, there’s life (drops a droplet of water into his aquarium and suddenly the insects surround the droplet) Look at them. So desperate to live, that they’ll follow it anywhere. That’s the immutable law in the desert. You control the water and you control everything. This is from my private stock. Vintage rain water, from the great deluge. Oh, not Noah’s deluge. Goodness, I’m not that old >(Rango does a loud fake laugh) I guess power has its privileges >You make a good point, son. But, with privilege comes responsibility. Hell, I was mayor here before there was a dirt. And I maybe just a sentimental old turtle, but I think there’s a future for this town. And I hope you’ll be part of it (raises his glass) To dirt! >To dirt >(Mayor and Rango watch the people of the town from his balcony) You see them, Mr. Rango? All my friends and neighbors. It’s a hard life here. Very hard. Do you know how they make it through each and every day? They believe. They believe it’s going to be better. They believe that the water will come. They believe against all odds and evidence that tomorrow will be better than today (opens a wooden box which contains Sheriff badges) People have to believe in something. Right now, they believe in you (pushes a badge towards him) Pick it up, Mr. Rango. Your destiny awaits... People have to believe in something
It's Kino
One of my all time favorite films
Twelve years now and nothing else has been as good.
I enjoyed it, I thought it was good if not a bit obvious.
Pretty gud
One of my favorite animated movies, the type of comedy in the movie always makes me lose my shit for some reason + kino western plot
Was Rango the high water mark of CGI cartoons?
It's the last great one I've seen
Love it. Great movie.
>design a cool antagonist
>instead of killing him off, or totally redeeming him, have him exit the picture dragging away the villain to brutally murder him
probably my favorite animated movie of the decade, honestly
I love the look of those bullet trails.
Pure unfiltered kino.
ALL DAY I'VE FACED THE BARREN WASTE
WITHOUT THE TASTE OF WATER
COOOOOOOOOOOL WATER
Why did Mayor have Merrimack killed?
When he came forward and asked about Beans’ claims of water being dumped the mayor thought he was on to him. Although drowning him seemed a little counterproductive.
To make a Chinatown reference.
Absolute kino
Amazing movie
Best Nickelodeon animated film.
Somehow manages to look ageless even though it was made over 10 years ago. Also, the scene where Rattlesnake Jake tells Beans "Look into my eyes, I wanna see you die" made me feel funny.
this, the decision to use just barely photorealistic rendering ended up aging great.
Really glad I gave it a shot, normally not one for CGI films but this one won me over.
When I was younger our school had a raffle to students who get to see one film during class. I was selected somehow and I invited my mom to watch it with me like the other kids. I had a bag of chips that were dry and no drink. So throughout the film I felt thirsty just like the characters in the film.
that's called immersion
I thought it was the prequel to Over the Hedge.
How?
The city that the Mayor builds is what the characters in Over the Hedge go into.
Consumerism, commercialism, Amusing Ourselves to Death, similar themes.
https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/57271143/
Loved it, said the same in the thread, what, last week?
Who is gaining from shilling this at this point?
>Who is gaining from shilling this at this point?
I think you should reflect on why you post on the internet if it confuses and upsets you to see someone attempt to discuss something that isn't currently being marketed.
I guess it was more the fact that we has this exact. same. thread. last week, and, as the movie is 12 years old, it’s unlikely any new info or talking points may have been generated.
And, yes, my first response was overly cynical, I DO love every bit of the movie.
>we has this exact. same. thread. last week
Yes, two Rango threads in a week is the problem, not the 10+ Spiderman threads active at any given time, or the virtual general to mock Elemental
NTA but you're an idiot. What they find weird is that it's the exact same OP as
.
fantastic
Truly Great Movie
One of the few great modern westerns
Rattlesnake Jake turns the movie from a 9/10 to a 10/10, and it's weird how well the CG in the movie aged overall, minus some minor hiccups.
On my list of movies to rewatch again for sure.
Kino, when are they releasing the 4K HDR?
>No hellish red eyes
Into the trash it goes
Is there any Beans feet art?
The one big flaw that keeps me from loving it is the cliche that an aspiring artist with so-called talent but otherwise no redeeming qualities lies their way into success and the universe goes out of the way to make things work out for them until everybody finds out and shuns him, but their artist skills are precisely what's needed to save the day and they're loved by everybody. It's a fairly common Hollywood trope although the only other example that comes to mind at the moment is Mitchells vs the Machines.
>all this pseud horeshit
You failed to understand the one fricking message of the movie. Rango was happy just lying his way out of troubles, but at one point he really felt at home, and when they needed him most he broke, and then this happened:
From the Spirit of the West scene:
Rango: I'm a fake... a phony. My friends were counting on me. They were looking for some sort of hero.
Spirit of the West : [emphatic] Then be a hero!
Rango : [disbelief] Oh, no! No, no. I'm not even supposed to be out here.
Spirit of the West : That's right. You came out here looking for something that didn't exist. But don't you see?
[pause]
Spirit of the West : It's not about you... it's about them.
Rango : But I can't go back.
Spirit of the West : Don't think you have a choice, son.
[draws rectangle on windshield]
Spirit of the West : No man can walk out of his own story.
And then he went to be a real hero, because his friends needed him, ready to die if it was needed, and ready to kill.
Is why Rattlesnake was shit scared when he looked into his eyes again, he knew he was real now.
God fricking damn it.
Yes, the aspiring artist takes it too far and hurts those he got attached to. After a rebound their love for the medium is what saves the day. Rango used theatrics to beat Jake. I don't know what you're trying to prove by pointing out the obvious that he stepped up after realizing how he hurt people with his self-absorption, it's all part of the cliche too.
>the aspiring artist takes it too far
this never happens, rango BECOMES the real thing, that's the point you are missing, stop forcing your shit views onto the movie.
You are trash.
so you've never seen a movie where a liar plays up how big of a hero he is until he gets outed and rejected by his former friends during the 2nd act only to pull it all together at the end?
>rejected by his former friends
at this point i'm convinced you haven't even seen the movie.
HE LITERALLY GETS EXILED FROM THE TOWN WTF
>HE LITERALLY GETS EXILED FROM THE TOWN WTF
Not by his friends you cretin, the fricking snake chases him out
yeah but the townsfolk didn't look like they would want him back anyway, at least until he saves the day later. Beans even says Rango's nothing more than a stranger to her
BECAUSE ACTING OTHERWISE WOULD DRAW THE SNAKES IRE
HOLY SHIT YOU ARE moronic
I don't really see the flaw here. That he has performance skills isn't his character flaw, it's that he's isolated and uses his skills to manipulate the people into townspeople lifting him up rather than helping them as a white hat should.
He improves his ability to function as the sheriff and cowboy hero throughout the movie, but the final barrier keeps it a performance is his selfish priorities. It's not untill he's called out on it by the real deal black hat that he's forced to revaluate what he wants; not to be identified by the townspeople as a hero, but to actually become the hero so he can save the townspeople. The former mentality has saving the people be in service to his identity, while the latter has his identity be in service to saving the people. The first is the mindset of an actor convincing the audience that he's a cowboy hero, while the latter IS the minset of a cowboy hero.
That bit
It's not a new story by any means but it's a solid execution of it that uses performance theory and an awareness of western tropes to tell an old story about the relationship between the individual's sense of self and the people around them.
Takes a while to get going but once it does, what a ride.
Also based Joaquín Cosío in the LatAm Spanish dub.
depp + nighy = guaranteed kino
Green lizzer.
THE BEST ANIMATED FILM OF ALL TIME UNIRONICALLY. I LOVE IT. ITS SO FRICKING GOOD. BETTER THAN EVERY OTHER SLOP THAT DISNEY EVER FRICKING MADE.
Saying flop ruined it.
what?
Inexplicably good.
...
...
...
Beans
What kind of beans sir?
cool beans
HOT Beans
She is hot. Shame about that broken switch and everything.
>2011
what
Damn I hate to admit it but that vixen does things to me.
>"..where are your friends now, amigo?"
An amazing movie that I watch only twice and will never watch again because I will never be in the mood to watch it again.
I find it funny that Raoul Duke made a cameo in it.
It's fantastic. Especially if you love westerns
Wish I could experience this on a theater screen again.
I wish I could've experienced Rango on a theater screen at all.
It's a good Western and like all good Westerns, it's also a bit of an anti-Western. Cinemaphile praises it too much, though. It's really not anything more than a good Western.
How is it anti-Western? It's all about romanticizing the roles sheriffs and outlaws.
>Pretty soon no one will believe you even existed
It's not anti-western as in, it is against westerns, it's an anti-western like you would have an anti-hero.
It's a tad archaic of a usage of the word, but anti can mean 'non traditional' or 'subversion' instead of a rebuke or mockery
lol why he dressed like johnny depp
Cause
Best american animation film of 2011. Not that it had any real competition.
Idk I’m a pretty big fan of Cars 2
No you're not
I am because I've actually seen films like The Man Who Knew too Little..
I wish I could see Beans' CG model naked
Anon, she's a lizard.
Out of 10
Here you go, you sick frick
Ohh BABY
Actually a great Western movie
ahead of its time with the animation
yeah buddy
Yeah buddy!
Looks pretty frickin good for 2010. Sure, it premiered on march 2011, but the animation was finished by the last day of 2010.
Overrated
I love that movie.
Johnny Deep's great in it, I love the western setting because I'm from the American west, it has a nice resonant message which is easily understood but hard to pin down.
It's funny, and charming, and unique, and I liked it.
“Liked it?” Why, I LOVED it!
I think it's cool how the crew basically made an entire live action movie first and then used the footage for reference when doing the animation (Johnny Depp calls it "emotion capture"). morons like guy would probably say it's not TRVE animation but I really like the end result since it provides a sense of realism to the characters's movements that's not really found in other productions.
Holy shit that effort. Think how much better Animated films could be like that.
That is why you hire actual actors. Instead of the shit reason of just because they are famous.
no thoughts, head empty
I appreciate the ending where Jake isn't killed off but gains a respect for Rango
But that's the real ending anon
the official New Vegas movie
What else could it be? Sing 2? Looney Tunes: Back in Action?
unironically a good movie
It was a blessing, especially since it came out in the same year that gave us the equally regrettable Cars 2 and Kung Fu Panda 2.
>the equally regrettable Kung Fu Panda 2.
homosexual
Not him, but the sequel is shit
Panda 2 has one of the most half hearted Dreamworks scripts ever.
No.
It was a mediocre sequel. Stop defending mediocrity.
>has one of the best villains
>mediocre
3 is the actual worst.
1 > 3 >>> 2
> 3 above anything
How can anyone have taste this shit 3 is easily one of Dreamworks worst movies
I appreciate the opening scene that starts in a primitive cube filled with basic plastic objects and then it explodes into the hyperrealistic world with insanely high detail textures and liquid simulations and all that shit.
How the frick does Nickelodeon does any shit in their channel but once in a while they just release a goated movie and just leave
I saw it with my sister years back then and it instantly became our favorite
Did you two frick afterwards
Top tier film. Unlike other "liar revealed" plots the fact that he lied is part of the film's central thesis and not some tacked-on drama. And by the end, he really did become a hero and it felt earned.
I feel like watching POTC again. It's a lot of the same people.
Don't forget the Hunter S. Thompson collection.
>POTC
What's that?
why would you post salazar of all things
You take the bad with the good.
>YAG SBARRO
The last good movie Johnny Depp ever did.
Also one of the last movies he did before him and Amber Heard started dating.
well this thread made me decide to rewatch it
frick you op
I-I… that’s a GOOD “frick you op” right?
Maybe.
yes, I enjoyed the film
I miss Jabberwockychamber. She was prolific as hell but jumps from fandom to fandom after long phases. She even made a cringey OC to have a poly relationship between her self insert, Rango and Beans.
This was drawn by a woman? I couldn't tell.
Of course she's a women. Beans' breasts aren't the size of her head.
One of the best animated movies I've ever seen. Fantastic all the way through, and the animation technology holds up exceedingly well for a movie as old as it is.
The owl narrator being the dude who narrates a lot of kid movie trailers throws me every time I hear him come up in the movie, though.
>You said you's gonna bring the water back
>It's just, we got no hope without that water
>(Spoons) We've got nothing left to believe in
>You see that sign up there? As long as that sign says "Sheriff", you can believe that there is law and order in this town. But without law and order, ruminate on that. Oh, yeah. Starts out slow, like a fungus. Somebody says a cross word, accusations start flying, neighbor turns on neighbor. Pretty soon we’re eatin’ our children, and then dogs and cats are gettin’ together to create all sorts of mutant aberrations!... So you want somethin’ to believe in, Spoons? Believe in me. Believe in that there sign. For as long as it hangs there, we got hope.
>sign still hangs there even though jack shot it to hell
>Uh... so, what’s your name?
>Beans
>That’s a funny kinda name
>What can i say, my daddy plum loved baked beans
>Well, you’re lucky he didn’t plum love asparagus
>What... what are you sayin’?
>I mean, I enjoy a hearty puttanesca myself, but I’m not sure that a child would appreciate the moniker
>My daddy was a great man. Even if he did exhibit a proclivity for lagoons and he...
>Mmmmm. Spicy
>You are eatin’ his ashes!
>Uh! You carry his remains?
>No. His ashes. He loved to smoke. They never found the body
>Oh! Well, I’m sure he had his reasons
>What are you implyin’?
>Nothing. I...
>My daddy was never near that mine shaft. He had been sober for over a month! And for you to insinuate that he would abandon his parental responsibilities at a delicate time in my personal development is an upfront to my...
>You were frozen
>No, I wasn’t
>Yes, you were. You stopped talking
>Well, uh... it’s a defense mechanism. Actually, lots of lizards have it
>You’re making that up!
>So, you’re gonna die out here or you wanna a ride into town?
>No, no, no. Uh... yeah! No! Yes, please. Thank you
>Today’s Wednesday. Wednesday’s when we all get to it... So who are you really?
>Well, I’m a man of many epithets. There’s my stage name, my pen name, my avatar. Had a pseudonym once...
Great script
>Water, Mr. Rango. Water. Without it, there’s nothing but dust and decay. But with water, there’s life (drops a droplet of water into his aquarium and suddenly the insects surround the droplet) Look at them. So desperate to live, that they’ll follow it anywhere. That’s the immutable law in the desert. You control the water and you control everything. This is from my private stock. Vintage rain water, from the great deluge. Oh, not Noah’s deluge. Goodness, I’m not that old
>(Rango does a loud fake laugh) I guess power has its privileges
>You make a good point, son. But, with privilege comes responsibility. Hell, I was mayor here before there was a dirt. And I maybe just a sentimental old turtle, but I think there’s a future for this town. And I hope you’ll be part of it (raises his glass) To dirt!
>To dirt
>(Mayor and Rango watch the people of the town from his balcony) You see them, Mr. Rango? All my friends and neighbors. It’s a hard life here. Very hard. Do you know how they make it through each and every day? They believe. They believe it’s going to be better. They believe that the water will come. They believe against all odds and evidence that tomorrow will be better than today (opens a wooden box which contains Sheriff badges) People have to believe in something. Right now, they believe in you (pushes a badge towards him) Pick it up, Mr. Rango. Your destiny awaits... People have to believe in something
I want to lick Beans' feet.
Just imagine her long curled up lizard toes crammed into those tight shit caked leather boots. Her dry shedding skin flaking off as she wiggles.
He's just like me fr
I find hard to believe Nickelodeon was involved on this so I'm gonna assume they just funded the project and another studio did the rest.
ILM did the animation