Literally Bard Class: The Animated Movie

>Literally Bard Class: The Animated Movie

eggy

The witches need more porn.

Then what class is monkey and beetle?

>Edgy
>Poetic
Choose one and only one.

Why that needs for porn?

SPOILER INSIDE DON'T WATCH IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THIS MOVIE!!!
Monkey: Warlock/Fighter
Beetle: Samurai or Ronin
Paper Samurai: Comic Relief

Kubo was flamoyant?

You talk about the movie or the kid?

Movie was rad, kid was totally a sorc/bard multiclass

this movie is great

the plot is pretty transparent and the third act has some issues but everything else is just really good.

>Why that needs for porn?
They are my quest.

>cool origami shit
>lets only use it for the intro and a couple of short scenes
>end the movie with random strumming and "power of love"

just saw this today. i havent been in the Little Prince threads but i thought the thematic similarities were interesting. im glad i never had to learn about death as a kid

>im glad i never had to learn about death as a kid

really? never? how old were you when you discovered death as a concept?

>And Matthew McConaughey
Guess I need to watch this after all

>more
But there is no porn

ive known for a while that other people die but accepting that i am going to die is a trying experience still
what i meant though is, im glad kids movies i watched were escapism.

>Spoilered section.

I did, but coping with my own mortality still freezes me up with fear and I start running (literally) whenever I think about it.

>Movie is about a character who isn't good at coming up with endings to his stories.
>movie has a shitty ending
pottery

That sounds like a reason to need more.

Do you have any requests? No promises I'll do them, I dunno if I can actually draw them.

What if it's a metaphor about how no one want a story having an end?

>Literally Bard Class: The Animated Movie
so he fucks everything that moves?

Maybe playfully embracing one another? Hands reaching beneath clothing and such.

By "Bard Class: The Animated Movie" I wanted to mean this movie explains literally what is a bard: Someone who inspires people with great story that being inspired by stuff happened "IRL" and its narrative goal in a story.

>Great stories*

Then it's a Shitty metaphor

because it had an ending. just a bad one that had little to do with the setup storytelling established earlier in the film.

How the fuck did Kudo guess about the Armor being in the water?!?

it wasn't immediately obvious but the little paper samurai was pointing down at the water with his sword

So we can say I blinked.

As a storyteller, he was. Seemed like a pretty normal kid when he wasn't spinning tales.

Bumb for thread about very good movie.

The kid

How much of this is CGI? I know the "magic" effects and most of the water is, but what else?

It's not a Bard film unless the main character ends up in every female character's pants.

this movie didn't really work for me, it needed more villain exposition

maybe i just have to watch it again

Mostly green screening out the armatures that held the characters, that's about it

this was the dark souls of laika films

Doesn't really count as CGI, they do that for pretty much every stop motion film. I haven't seen the movie, but are there big crowds here that might be CGI? Or take the thousands of origami birds, I would assume those would be CGI.

The crowds are all individuals, at most they probably composited their run cycles together to make the crowd, but I don't remember seeing doubles, the birds are most likely a few birds that were composited, but the bird itself probably wasn't CGI, most of their shit is just composited, even in Coraline they filmed smoke and then added it into the shot

They do composite a lot of stuff, but also use a lot f CGI. Boxtrolls had CGI crowds and a lot of the city was CGI.

I watched it yesterday,and man, what a beautiful experience. The animation is superb,you basically forget you're watching a stop motion movie due to how fluid and carefully made is everything. The plot is quite good,too,but not even if it isn't complex itself the theme is.

Also the last 3 minutes or so left me wrecked. I want my grandfather back.I want to hear his stories again

It was pretty solid, but I got basically 3 nitpicks.

1) Weirdly avoiding any Japanese terms. I think origami was literally said once the entire movie, and the other word was Samurai. Why not refer to the sword as a katana now and then, or make a kabuto helmet/kabutomushi joke? Not a big deal, just kinda odd.

2) Why does Sariatu no longer suffer from amnesia after turning into monkey? It seems tied to not being a celestial spirit anymore (no more magic, functioning during the day), yet I don't think they really go over it.

3)When one of the Sisters is heavily implied to die or at least be severely injured, the other doesn't even mention her. I thought one of the reasons they were pissed at Sariatu is because she abandoned their sisterhood for Hanzo? Yet doesn't seem phased when her remaining sister got slashed.

That's all I got. Really good movie.

For number 2 The only reason she had amnesia was because of the bump on her head at the start of the movie. When she transferred her soul, she no longer had the brain damage. Or something like that, magic is weird. As for 3 they made it clear that the sisters were consumed by revenge and anger. I assume it was a Black Manta-esque situation to where they're obsessed to the point of no longer caring about anything but actually succeeding in destroying them.

Nah, I agree with you on that front. The witches and the Moon King get about 25 minutes of screen time altogether and most of that is taken up by the final fight. A few more scenes here and there of the witches trailing them (aside from that weirdly placed scene right before they find the breastplate) would make things feel more seamless.

Then there's the problem with their trek towards the helmet. Yeah, let's trust the random old blind man in my dreams who leads us somewhere. It feels like more dream sequences featuring his grandfather got cut which makes the one that made it until the final edit seem even more jarring.

Really fun film regardless.

>Every single aspect of the ending is foreshadowed.
>The transformation is the same power the mother used for Monkey, just on a grander scale.
>The story was consistently about Kubo as a storyteller and demigod, not an origami folder.

>BUH WHY DIDNT HE USE THE ORIGAMI?! THIS ENDING IS SHIT!

The dumbfuckery of Sup Forums astounds me at times. The movie has problems, but the ending isn't one of them.

I thought it was fine.

Give Kubo time, he's only 11.

I saw it the other day and I thought it was fantastic. The third act had some problems like other people said but I really was blown away overall. The characters were memorable & likable, the setpieces were insane, the fight scenes were great, and it had a nice message. End credits were cute too. I really digged that Regina Spektor cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

>Yeah, let's trust the random old blind man in my dreams who leads us somewhere. It feels like more dream sequences featuring his grandfather got cut which makes the one that made it until the final edit seem even more jarring.


Uh...it was his grandfather, who was tricking him to going where the other sister could easily find them. Kubo trusted him because he's still a kid and was easily entrapped.

So why are people so hard on the Boxtrolls?

Every Laika movie ranking I see has it solidly at the bottom but its a really good movie. Its only behind Kubo as far as animation quality goes, and it doesn have any of the structural problems that Paranorman or Kubo have.

>still no porn of Monkey

Feels bad, man.

>that moment when Monkey and Beetle wake up next to each other
D-did they do it?

Does Beetle even have a dick.

A terrifying one, probably.

>tentadick
They're Japanese, everything should be fine..

Kubo should of been a girl.

What do you have against adorable shota?

For me it was a bit too fluffy in tone. Too kid friendly. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. I still liked it of course, but it didn't have the same general audience appeal the other films seemed to.
Also, while hard for me to explain, I think some characters didn't get the right amount of focus for me to connect with them. The villain was the most interesting and relatable. And for a movie called "The Boxtrolls" the trolls didn't get much screen time, though I commend them for the restraint they were given in this age ravaged by over publicized minions.

I can't remember the last kids movie I've seen with this much sexual tension.

Did he fuck an assortment of women and get into hairy situations while he drags the other party members into problems?

>Kubo jumped to 3rd place in Box Office and already made more than half of it's budget.

checked

>while their son is sleeping in the same room

absolute madmen

I'm so annoyed at the way Beetle died. The trope where people get stabbed from behind because they didn't bother finishing off their enemies is the worst. I realize he had to die there, but what a shitty way to do it.

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Guys
someone explain the ending because I don't get it.
Was his Grandfather known to the towns people before all the bad times? Were they lying to make him feel better?

They were lying in the hopes that he would stop being an evil dickhead. They didn't do it to make him feel better.

It was a lie. Part of the whole deal with remembering and telling someone's story. They erased his story and wrote a more pleasant one for him.

they were telling stories about him being a good man, so that he would believe them to be true and act that way

The plot and characters just aren't that interesting compared to the other films. Really, the only memorable character in the movie was the villain but even he was the weakest of the 4 movies. The setting itself was a bit bland too.

I had a feeling that was the case, but it all happened so quickly I wasn't sure.

right now this movie is on track to being laika's worst performing film yet. It'll be lucky if it makes its 60mil budget back.

What happened? Why didn't this connect at all with audiences?

because the average theatre goer is a single celled amoeba that wants lowest common denominator garbage

that explains why Laika films don't make a ton of money in general but it doesn't explain why Kubo specifically should suffer the worst of it.

Do people hate asians?

I guess? God I hate normalfags so fucking much.

Maybe because of the relative dark tone of the movie; parents don't want their children thinking,because then they start making questions about why grandpa had to move so far away and if Mr.Whiskers went to Heaven.

Also,'cause most people with money still think animation movies are just silly things for kids,instead of serious art like live action movies.

It's a fucking shame.

>What happened? Why didn't this connect at all with audiences?
I seriously don't know why this one failed so hard. It had plenty of appeal to kids, plenty of appeal to adults, and everyone in between. It had plenty of marketing - I saw a lot of commercials - and yet there were still people who didn't know it existed.
I know it's because in the US people don't care about animated films that aren't Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, or typical kiddie animated film schlock. But why does it have to be this way? I'm sure Kubo is going to make back its budget in foreign markets.
Why don't normies care about actual pieces of art, god damnit. These people break their backs making these films and they don't get the money or recognition they deserve. I know they do it because it's what they love to do, not for the recognition, but it sure would be nice if they were appreciated more.

I should start preparing myself for the inevitability of it getting snubbed at the Oscars in favor of one of Disney/Pixar's three offerings this year.

I think the longer trailer was awful, but you're right: it had all the elements of a "good enough" animated movie, so why didn't it?

>Maybe because of the relative dark tone of the movie; parents don't want their children thinking,because then they start making questions about why grandpa had to move so far away and if Mr.Whiskers went to Heaven.
I don't think it's that parents don't want their kids to think about that stuff so much as it is that they want their special outing with children to the cinema to be happy and joyful because that's the point of special outings, as a treat to the children and a chance for you to relax.

1.) It doesn't have a Princess as the main character.
2.) It doesn't have a bunch of cute characters singing showtunes.
3.) It wasn't made by Disney or Pixar.
4.) The animation style may be offputting to some people because it doesn't look like something that the general public is familiar with (Disney, Pixar, etc.).
5.) It doesn't have a traditional happy ending.

Kubo needs more porn.

It's a shitty time for movies in general, flop after flop. The film is a little too mature for some younger kids but it's not sausage party "mature" that older kids trick their parents into letting them see

>4.) The animation style may be offputting to some people because it doesn't look like something that the general public is familiar with (Disney, Pixar, etc.).
I think this is one of the biggest reasons, to be honest. Laika dares to be different from Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, Illumination, all of those studios that deliver the same shiny, round, safe, generic visual style time and time again. So they create this standard of what animated films "should" look like, and as a result people will look at Kubo and decide it's not worth watching because they think it looks "weird". Even though it manages to outdo a majority of those studios visually. It's sad.

>It's a shitty time for movies in general, flop after flop.

Whatever happened to Ghostbusters? And how is Ben Hur doing?

>And how is Ben Hur doing?
Horribly.

>Whatever happened to Ghostbusters?
It just cleared $217m
>And how is Ben Hur doing?
in two weeks it's made $41m

For that to happen, it needs more viewers. Maybe some more fanart will be produced when it goes to Netflix and to DVD.

three choices:
1) people are xenophobic and tend to stick to tired and true formulas like Secret Life of Pets or Finding Dory
2) the general American public hates anything not
American so therefore fuck this Chinese/Japanese Asian Me-Ruv-U-Rong-Time shit
3) sausage party is also out and the lowest common denominator wants to see the funny hot dog movie with dick jokes instead of an art piece that makes you think

Really? That's good to hear.

I honestly think that's it. The average American is too much of a piece of shit to handle a movie about asians. Turns out Hollywood was right to give all their roles to white actors.

>Memory is a powerful thing, so let's mindwipe this guy into being a good person

wow Dr Light much

It's really funny, I had to give somebody a refund for sausage party the other day because their kids didn't tell them what it was. They were expecting the simpsons not what they got.

Yeah now thinking about it I'm disappointed where wasn't some cool fight scene with him using that power.
Honestly the ending felt rushed in general, and the memory wiped grandpa seemed so out of no where

>2) Why does Sariatu no longer suffer from amnesia after turning into monkey? It seems tied to not being a celestial spirit anymore (no more magic, functioning during the day), yet I don't think they really go over it.

It was cause she smashed her head in at the start of the movie.
As a monkey she didn't have a caved in skull

there's not enough Asian male leads in western medium, i'm glad he was a boy

>Do people hate asians?
honestly i think that's probably the case at this point
at least Asian males
they love the setting, but would never see a movie about Asia unless it features a white main character
a thing about weeaboos is they love Japan, they love things from Japan, they love women from Japan even, but they don't like seeing Japanese men

I think yall jumping to conclusions.

unless its something with huge hype like Marvel or Star Wars, or Disney animated films it won't sell
the movie theater is dead
even live action Disney films barely break even

Not sure why you're trying to pin the blame on weeaboos here when the problem is clearly normalfags.

People love Jackie Chan and they ate up any Asian martial arts movie back in the day.

It's just not "in fashion".