PDA

View Full Version : Any Wallace and Gromit fans here?


Napoleon
10-02-05, 06:04 PM
I just heard of this today.


http://www.wandg.com/

http://v4.valkiria.net/skin/film/pic/misc_img/s_wallace_gromit.jpg
skaven
10-02-05, 08:23 PM
Wallace and Gromit are the bomb ! ! ! :thumbup:

Can't wait for the movie.
extramundane
10-02-05, 08:33 PM
Big fan of Wallace. Grommit, not so much...

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/202/389_GRANDAM-05.jpg
Kiwifan
10-03-05, 01:22 AM
"Any Wallace and Gromit fans here?" You get the wine, I'll get the Gorgonzola, :) and we'll talk about it.

Brilliant, simply brilliant although I have to say, I'll never trust penguins again. :)

Rusty.
Napoleon
10-03-05, 07:50 AM
I'll never trust penguins again. :)

I don't blame you.

http://www.colargol.tihlde.hist.no/~jonah/pix/Gromit3.jpeg
emjaya
10-03-05, 08:10 AM
It was released here in Australia a month ago,very very funny. :)
Ankf00
10-03-05, 02:36 PM
Penguins and cats. They're both the same. :mad:
dando
10-03-05, 02:53 PM
Penguins and cats. They're both the same. :mad:
Hmmm, I actually do have a cat named Opus. :D

-Kevin
eiregosod
10-04-05, 05:26 AM
cracking cheese gromit!
theunions
10-07-05, 04:46 AM
Just saw it at an advanced screening. Gene Shalit had no clue what he was talking about when he gave it a backhanded review on Today Wed (saying among other things the concept didn't seem to work as well as a feature vs. a short, without bothering to offer any evidence).

I have a smattering of free (if you can cover S&H) mini-posters available...anyone interested?
Napoleon
10-07-05, 08:04 AM
I have a smattering of free (if you can cover S&H) mini-posters available...anyone interested?

That would be yes.

Well I just read 3 seperate reviews and all of them were favorable. I take it you thought it was good?
Sean O'Gorman
10-07-05, 10:39 AM
I just heard of this today.


http://www.wandg.com/



What is ironic is that he only came across the site because of a typo. :D
theunions
10-07-05, 02:26 PM
That would be yes.

Well I just read 3 seperate reviews and all of them were favorable. I take it you thought it was good?

Absolutely...I thought it was reasonably on par with any of the shorts (exceptions noted below). And you should stay through the credits (not wiseacre "outtakes" a la Anchorman, etc., but still clever/charming).

I'd say 85% of the preview audience was elementary or intermediate school kids and their parents.

Shalit, of course, was being an idiot. There was nothing wrong with the film's length or his other primary unsubstantiated complaint, the (excessive) volume of the soundtrack (if anything it could've been louder in places). My only complaints are 1) that there wasn't enough character development (in other words, the film could've been LONGER) and assumed you already know all about how the lead characters behave and interact and what the different machines do - in that sense the shorts work better as stand-alone pieces; 2) there's one CGI special effect - a particularly important one - that looked absolutely cheesy (if they'd taken the time to painstakingly do it just in claymation as with everything else it would've been much more convincing).

There were also some gags which were noticably raunchy - don't recall any shorts having comparable gags - not "R" rated but probably over the heads of many of the elementary school kids.

PM me about the mini-poster. They were also giving away packets of "Giant Zucchini" seeds (whereas one lucky audience member with "Giant Carrot" instead got a big prize pack of mostly non-movie related stuff).
Napoleon
10-07-05, 03:02 PM
PM me about the mini-poster.

Your mailbox is full.
theunions
10-07-05, 03:35 PM
Your mailbox is full.

Sorry...should be OK now...it's been an unusually busy morning!
dando
10-11-05, 10:03 PM
Sad stuff:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/10/aardman.fire/index.html


"Today was supposed to be a day of celebration, with the news that 'Wallace and Gromit' had gone in at No. 1 at the U.S. box office, but instead our whole history has been wiped out," Aardman spokesman Arthur Sheriff said. "It's turned out to be a terrible day."

Sheriff said the warehouse contained sets, props and models from the company's productions, from the children's cartoon character "Morph" through the Oscar-winning, anthropomorphic "Creature Comforts" series to the Wallace and Gromit films.

:(

-Kevin