Anonymous
6/21/2025, 3:17:14 AM No.149088448
Those animated movies that flopped all those years ago.
who would have known how good we had it before it went to shit.
who would have known how good we had it before it went to shit.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 3:46:34 AM No.149088954
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 3:54:14 AM No.149089069
>>149088448 (OP)
I remember seeing a trailer for this movie and being incredibly optimistic for the future. I thought all cartoons were going to look this good from then on.
I remember seeing a trailer for this movie and being incredibly optimistic for the future. I thought all cartoons were going to look this good from then on.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 3:57:05 AM No.149089118
>>149088448 (OP)
I mean to be fair it only flopped because WB did an absolutely abysmal job promoting it. It's an incredible film from top to bottom, animated or otherwise. It's not like it was some B-tier movie that just so happened to be made then, you can feel the passion that was put into it practically oozing out of the frames. And then due to reruns on TV it ended up getting the long-run recognition it deserved.
The Iron Giant is more of a tale about how shit-tier promotion can make even a God-tier movie flop.
I mean to be fair it only flopped because WB did an absolutely abysmal job promoting it. It's an incredible film from top to bottom, animated or otherwise. It's not like it was some B-tier movie that just so happened to be made then, you can feel the passion that was put into it practically oozing out of the frames. And then due to reruns on TV it ended up getting the long-run recognition it deserved.
The Iron Giant is more of a tale about how shit-tier promotion can make even a God-tier movie flop.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 4:04:44 AM No.149089249
>>149089118
Didn't help that Toy Story 2 also came out the same year (albeit some months later, so they weren't directly competing). I think the sad fact is people and critics at that time just didn't care for (mostly) 2D animations anymore. Kind of like how vidya players and critics didn't care for 2D sprites in the mid to late 90s. Castlevania Symphony of the Night, which is a great game, got serious points deducted from it simply for being "2D". Thankfully it still sold well, and is considered a really fantastic game.
tl;dr, it truly was('nt) the style at the time.
Didn't help that Toy Story 2 also came out the same year (albeit some months later, so they weren't directly competing). I think the sad fact is people and critics at that time just didn't care for (mostly) 2D animations anymore. Kind of like how vidya players and critics didn't care for 2D sprites in the mid to late 90s. Castlevania Symphony of the Night, which is a great game, got serious points deducted from it simply for being "2D". Thankfully it still sold well, and is considered a really fantastic game.
tl;dr, it truly was('nt) the style at the time.
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Anonyrnous
6/21/2025, 5:56:12 AM No.149090873
>>149089069
Do you view Iron Giant as the peak of what the medium has to offer?
Do you view Iron Giant as the peak of what the medium has to offer?
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 6:13:02 AM No.149091077
It’s interesting all the good stuff is conservative/middle ground leaning, and all the trash is progressive/leftist nihilism garbage.
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Anonymous
6/21/2025, 6:54:01 AM No.149091505
>>149091077
how is iron giant conservative?!
how is iron giant conservative?!
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 9:22:07 AM No.149092601
>>149089249
>>149089118
>because WB did an absolutely abysmal job promoting it
This is a good point that many idiots on here ignore, whether they are denigrating a cartoon TV show or animated movie, or a /co-related live action show/movie. That said, all the promotion in the world isn't going to polish a turd (speaking generally and certainly not about The Iron Giant or any other specific film, cartoon, series, etc.) into something audiences want to pay to see.
This is why it's always also good, when we talk about older works, to see if they stood the test of time, or have people still appreciating them even when they may be dated, or have developed a cult or appreciated status post release, even in the absence of a genuine physical market now-a-days.
This is another thing that streaming is killing and that the destruction and loss of cable is going to hurt. Even if something like The Iron Giant only appeared on the weekly movie night on Adult Swim/CN, it was at least widely made available to a broader audience that might have missed it theatrically and even on it's physical release. This also helped other things, particularly /co genre live action, when some things were relentessly repeated, sometimes as daily airings, on TNT, TBS, USA, FX, etc.
With streaming, you have to have the right streamer or you have to have to make an effort to personally find episodes or movies, and many of these sites have poorly designed search functions, some of them not even having simple or logical searches for animation (or if they even have that, it's often full of top responses which are kiddie tier crap that no actual parent with taste would ever let their kid grow up on the slop that say Netflix tries to regularly pass off as family friendly (e.g. children's) animation.
>>149089118
>because WB did an absolutely abysmal job promoting it
This is a good point that many idiots on here ignore, whether they are denigrating a cartoon TV show or animated movie, or a /co-related live action show/movie. That said, all the promotion in the world isn't going to polish a turd (speaking generally and certainly not about The Iron Giant or any other specific film, cartoon, series, etc.) into something audiences want to pay to see.
This is why it's always also good, when we talk about older works, to see if they stood the test of time, or have people still appreciating them even when they may be dated, or have developed a cult or appreciated status post release, even in the absence of a genuine physical market now-a-days.
This is another thing that streaming is killing and that the destruction and loss of cable is going to hurt. Even if something like The Iron Giant only appeared on the weekly movie night on Adult Swim/CN, it was at least widely made available to a broader audience that might have missed it theatrically and even on it's physical release. This also helped other things, particularly /co genre live action, when some things were relentessly repeated, sometimes as daily airings, on TNT, TBS, USA, FX, etc.
With streaming, you have to have the right streamer or you have to have to make an effort to personally find episodes or movies, and many of these sites have poorly designed search functions, some of them not even having simple or logical searches for animation (or if they even have that, it's often full of top responses which are kiddie tier crap that no actual parent with taste would ever let their kid grow up on the slop that say Netflix tries to regularly pass off as family friendly (e.g. children's) animation.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 9:58:51 AM No.149092799
>>149091077
retard
retard