Escape to the Movies: Ice Age: Continental Drift

[Dak_N_Jaxter]

Wow. That's a note by note description of how I feel about the Ice Age movies.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Who else did not understand the two cubes and the "fingers crossed" thingy?

Movie Bob is referring to this. [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console] I'm in wait-and-see mode myself.

$4.6 million. They should do a charity. Do they really need all that money?

There are charities. They exist. This isn't one, nor should it be. They are trying to create and market a product. Don't like that? Don't give them money. I didn't, but that's because I'm not an early adopter, not because I have something against people trying to accomplish something.

 

[=y]

I remember the first Ice Age pretty well actually. I vaguely recall some things from the second. I do not remember the third at all.

 

[saintdane05]

Man, this, along with Shrek and Toy Story, were some of my favorite movies back when I was younger! Ah, the nostalgia.

Question: Is this movie better than Shrek 3 or Shrek 4? I know that's easy to do, but still...

 

[Something Amyss]

Huh, short episode this week.

To be fair, I hear the movie's only about 15 minutes longer.

Short movie, short review short on criticism, short comment.

Short lol.

]I KNOW!
I thought Movie Bob was a Nintendo die-hard.

To be fair, Angry Birds is about as substantive as many first party Wii titles.

*runs liek hell*

 

[BrotherRool]

Sounds like a hard one to even fill out 3 and 1/2 minutes of review with. What can you say about it other than its okay and it's not going to do more than entertain for 90 minute?

 

[Something Amyss]

$4.6 million. They should do a charity. Do they really need all that money?

To build a console? Nah. They could totally do it with pocket change.

 

[Starik20X6]

I think it says something about the forgettable-ness of this movie that I was lying in bed wondering how I managed to forget to watch Escape to the Movies this week... only to realise I had watched it and just forgot about it.

 

[rbstewart7263]

fingers indeed crossed sir!

 

[Sherlock/]

Not normally one to join the chorus, but: Iron Sky! I'm on the fence about several aspects of it and would be very interested in the Moviebob perspective. If not in video format than at least a written review. I looked for it on the web, but not found it; assuming it is not there yet. (links welcome if i'm wrong there ofc (links to the review, not the movie, nimrods...))

 

[Mullahgrrl]

Still no iron sky?

There's not enough content in Iron Sky to fill an entire five minute review.

Yes there is, with plenty to spare and a heap of tangents.

 

[Reptiloid]

Fingers crossed, what? A box with a thing on top? Two boxes? Cubes? Another Cube sequel? A movie named The Box? BOXES!

 

[The Funslinger]

Contrary to popular belief this is not the sequel to Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift.
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Yes. But it would be an..... interesting watch.

Personally i think all CGI sequels (barring the inevitable exception of Pixar) tend to fall into the "We just want to make an OK fun movie with these characters" trap. Shrek a noteable example of this.

It seems like they just don't plan for a sequel, or if they do they plan for a cash-in. Maybe if someone with a bit more vision and a studio that didn't mince all its properties down to the most easily digestible mass market pulp perhaps we could see a nice series of CGI films that have a consistent tone and story arc ala Toy Story.

Yeah, but Pixar is to animated movies what Nintendo was to gaming in the 80's and 90s. With Dreamworks filling in the slightly less glamorous, but still quite impressive Sega role.

 

[Mullahgrrl]

Still no iron sky?

There's not enough content in Iron Sky to fill an entire five minute review.

Yes there is, with plenty to spare and a heap of tangents.

Let's try.

The writing is awful, the jokes are dated, the stereotypes cheap and the special effects are nothing special. It would work as a half hour short, but not a feature and the only reason it's even out is because the Internet thinks that everything involving something semi-obscure is worth making a movie about


Nope, not even five minutes worth of material.

Writing is awesome and the jokes timeless, and even if it was a bad movie, witch it is not, that would just make for more material the way I see it. And then there is the fact that it exists mainly thanks to crowdfunding wich is noteworthy enough to warrant at least 3 minutes all by itself.

Also, it would be the first finnish movie to be reviewed by Bob, he could feature a small Star Wreck retrospective.

 

[Mullahgrrl]

Still no iron sky?

There's not enough content in Iron Sky to fill an entire five minute review.

Yes there is, with plenty to spare and a heap of tangents.

Let's try.

The writing is awful, the jokes are dated, the stereotypes cheap and the special effects are nothing special. It would work as a half hour short, but not a feature and the only reason it's even out is because the Internet thinks that everything involving something semi-obscure is worth making a movie about


Nope, not even five minutes worth of material.

Writing is awesome and the jokes timeless, and even if it was a bad movie, witch it is not, that would just make for more material the way I see it. And then there is the fact that it exists mainly thanks to crowdfunding wich is noteworthy enough to warrant at least 3 minutes all by itself.

Also, it would be the first finnish movie to be reviewed by Bob, he could feature a small Star Wreck retrospective.

And it's not mainly thanks to crowdfunding. Despite what the creators want you to think, the majority of the budget came from investors and production companies, crowdfunding (while extensive) was still a fraction in the end.

But would they have gotten that money if the investor didn't know that there was a wide support for the movie, as manifested bythe crowd funders? I think not.

 

[Pebblig]

The first film I enjoyed, after seeing the 4th one last weekend, I felt it was significantly better than the 3rd...but still nowhere near as good as the 1st.