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zwackerm
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Worst Animation Studio?
Which of the major animation studios is the worst? I think it's easy to agree that it's one of these three and not Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks, Laika, Aardman, Paramount or Warner Bros.
Sony Pictures Animation has had exactly one film that was good and did well. Cloudy 1. The Hotel Transylvania movies are alright, not horrible but not good either. Same with cloudy 2. They've made lots of awful films, like Open Season, The Smurfs 1, 2, and The Lost Village, and the Emoji Movie. But a strength in their films has always been incredibly inventive visuals and imagery despite awful scripts.
Blue Sky made the first Ice Age which was good. Then they made a couple of alright sequels, and two piss poor sequels. Rip was alright but the sequel was awful. Robots is awful. Horton Hears a Who is alright. Epic was eh. Peanuts was pretty decent. Their films aren't generally as poor as Sonys on a script level, but their Animation is pretty poor in comparison.
My pick for the worst Animation studio is Illumination. Because unlike the two studios above, people like Illumination movies and they makes trucks of money. The first two despicable mes are decent. Hop, The Lorax, Minions, Pets and Sing are all hot garbage, and DM3 is pretty meh as well. Every film they make feels like it came from a machine. The animation is uninteresting and looks cheap (cause it is), the stories are awful, the characters are annoying, their movies end up with so much fucking merchandise it's disgusting, and people see them en masse anyway.
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Groucho
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
Blue Sky.
The Ice Age films are terrible, in my opinion -- predictable, boring, and not funny (except for the Skrat parts). Rio was almost as bad. The only good film they made is the Peanuts movie.
Illumination is okay. The Despicable Me films are entertaining, and even rewatchable (although I have yet to see 3). Sing and the Secret Life of Pets were okay. Haven't seen Hop or Lorax or Minions.
Sony includes Aardman so that tilts them strongly to the lead -- Arthur Christmas and Pirates are excellent films. But if you discount those, the rest suck, placing them below Illumination. Surf's Up was clever, and parts of Hotel Translyvania were very funny, but the rest were pretty bad, some so bad I had no desire to see them, and I'm a big fan of animated films.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:00 pm |
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Algren
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
Why not include all options in the poll and let people choose for themselves? You're such a pussy, man. Don't be afraid if your favourite is chosen as the "worst".
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:44 pm |
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Rev
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Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:06 am Posts: 32104 Location: the last free city
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
Where's the option for Pixar n Dreamswork
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:22 pm |
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Jack Sparrow
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
Are we considering Aardman group in Sony Animation? Because otherwise they are clearly the worst.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:25 pm |
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Rev
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
Jack Sparrow wrote: Are we considering Aardman group in Sony Animation? Because otherwise they are clearly the worst. False
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:30 pm |
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zwackerm
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
Jack Sparrow wrote: Are we considering Aardman group in Sony Animation? Because otherwise they are clearly the worst. I was considering Aardman separate.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:47 pm |
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Algren
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
Aardman are not American.
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Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:49 pm |
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tree and a half
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
Looking down the three studios' filmographies, it's pretty much a wash. They're essentially just sausage factories pumping out generic product for undiscerning American parents to anesthetize their kids in the back of minivans. Illumination EntertainmentDespicable Me Hop Dr. Seuss' The Lorax Despicable Me 2 Minions The Secret Life of Pets Sing Despicable Me 3 Sony Pictures AnimationOpen Season Surf's Up Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs The Smurfs Arthur Christmas The Pirates! Band of Misfits[ Hotel Transylvania The Smurfs 2 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Hotel Transylvania 2 Goosebumps Smurfs: The Lost Village The Emoji Movie Blue Sky StudiosIce Age Robots Ice Age: The Meltdown Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Rio Ice Age: Continental Drift Epic Rio 2 The Peanuts Movie Ice Age: Collision Course (For the poll, I picked Blue Sky as the worst, based on their horrendous miscalculation to do Peanuts with 3D character art.)
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Jack Sparrow
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
Rev wrote: Jack Sparrow wrote: Are we considering Aardman group in Sony Animation? Because otherwise they are clearly the worst. False Its True
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Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:44 pm |
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Jack Sparrow
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
zwackerm wrote: Jack Sparrow wrote: Are we considering Aardman group in Sony Animation? Because otherwise they are clearly the worst. I was considering Aardman separate. Great then its Sony Animation for me Algren wrote: Aardman are not American. Cool. I thought they are still some American counterpart.
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Jack Sparrow
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Re: Worst Animation Studio?
tree and a half wrote: Looking down the three studios' filmographies, it's pretty much a wash. They're essentially just sausage factories pumping out generic product for undiscerning American parents to anesthetize their kids in the back of minivans. Illumination EntertainmentDespicable Me Hop Dr. Seuss' The Lorax Despicable Me 2 Minions The Secret Life of Pets Sing Despicable Me 3 Sony Pictures AnimationOpen Season Surf's Up Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs The Smurfs Arthur Christmas The Pirates! Band of Misfits[ Hotel Transylvania The Smurfs 2 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Hotel Transylvania 2 Goosebumps Smurfs: The Lost Village The Emoji Movie Blue Sky StudiosIce Age Robots Ice Age: The Meltdown Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Rio Ice Age: Continental Drift Epic Rio 2 The Peanuts Movie Ice Age: Collision Course (For the poll, I picked Blue Sky as the worst, based on their horrendous miscalculation to do Peanuts with 3D character art.) For Sony the two great ones Pirates and Arthur Christmas are from Aardman. Goosebumps is surely not animation movie. Rest of their movies are good but none of them great.
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