Imma let you finish, but Kubo and the Two Strings is the best story on the whole damn planet

Imma let you finish, but Kubo and the Two Strings is the best story on the whole damn planet.

It was a good story but it wasn't that good

Name a better story than one that epitomizes the human condition so perfectly.

Off the top of my head?
Pinocchio?

How many humans have to struggle to become humans? Kubo is about the one thing that sets us apart from the rest of the matter in the universe, stories.

Pinocchio is about learning how to be human, something everyone has to do.

Style over substance: The film

Pretty much Rooney into a Sup Forums trip. I thought the animation was amazing and so beautiful.

>I didn't even watch the movie.
Okay, but why are you telling us?

Coco did it better. And I love the shit out of Kubo. Sorry.

>Praising the story which is the weakest element of the film

The "we're your parents" trope and the evil uncle shit was literally the thing that made me lose interest in re-watching this.
The visuals are gorgeus, the animation is passionate and the thematic and symbolism is good. But it all wraps up in the shitty generic story.
I love the origami concept and the monster of the final fight (altho the fight itself is very lackluster and just seeking the sword and helmet was more of a checklist drag rather than an actual call for adventure.)

>tries to berate the movie
>ignores the best part
It's what the entire movie is about. How could you have missed it that badly?

I watch Kubo on a plane flight and it did not leave an impression on me.

I ain't gonna continue your bait, amigo

Good, I was done taking it. Feed it to someone else.

I really loved this movie.
People on Sup Forums just becomes a super critic when it's not some adult swim tier thing.

Picture this. You are a story teller huddled around a fire 10,000 years in the future on post-apocalyptic Earth. Which story do you tell, Pinocchio or Kubo?

Hated this movie, mainly because the Immortals were pretty much objectively in the right and Kubo is a massive hypocrite who brainwashes the Moon King at the end.

Dude, what? How is the Moon King "objectively in the right"? He was violently inflicting his will on the world, murdering people, and Kubo and his family were just defending each other from him.

It was actually pretty basic as a story, it was just has an amazing execution of said basic story. Although honestly execution is the most important part when it comes to anything, technically "good" stories can get ruined by bad execution. Just look at the Watchmen movie.

this
i watched it, the story is mediocore, but not bad
even the advertising material involved a lot of 'making of', it really just felt like they were focused on a style and they just wanted some story to go with the styleporn

I was invested in this and paranorman's plots until they both decided to turn the villain's fight into a big pretentious speech that goes on for like 5 minutes.

Why did they do this?

>until they both decided to turn the villain's fight into a big pretentious speech that goes on for like 5 minutes.
You and I are no longer friends.

Dr Peterson why are you on co?

Neither.

If I'm in a post-apocalyptic death-world, any stories being told would either be tales of how great things used to be, or about a character personifying an unattainable ideal.

No one struggling for survival wants to hear stories about how important stories are.

Everyone's born human, Kubo is about dealing with the death of your parents when you're still a child. That's something everybody has to do.

Off the top of my head? Book of the New Sun. But that’s a series of 4 books written by Gene Wolfe, so comparing it to Kubo is a bit unfair.

In just animation? Pick just about any Miyazaki movie. Again a little unfair of a comparison.

So let’s go with Western animation. Star wars the Clone wars’ Umbara arc told a better story than Kubo. And it’s also a straight up kids cartoon.

Laika should have stuck to their guns and given Satiaru and the Aunts hips. It's practically their signature at this point. They did a good job on the lips though.

The story was all over the place

What if we gave Laika fired Pixar writers?

Delightly devilish, Seymour.

>struggling to survive
Struggling to survive has been the norm since forever. A story is a story. The setting isn't the point of the question.

>itt people who closed their eyes

Kubo had such a lack luster predictable story that ended in the most anticlimactic and honestly dumbass bullshit way

Its not even the fact that they redeemed the Moon King at the end, its just how they did it was honestly so pathetic and lazily done, like they ran out of time before they could figure out the ending so they just stapled in whatever they could

Just like every other Laika movie, its an average story being pulled along by amazing and creative visuals and mostly great voice acting

literally why would I tell either holy shit this is the dumbest argument i've ever seen in my life

"papa please, I'd like to hear another story, a new one this time"
'i'm sorry son the only two stories left are Kubo and Pinocchio'
"is it at least the disney version?"
'no its gotta be that creepy live action one from the 90s'

lol

not even the best Laika film, Paranorman is streets ahead.

...

One Piece

Maybe not the GOAT.
But still and EXCELENT story that was wonderful to watch.

I thought it was good, but Coraline's still my favorite Laika film.

It's been a while since I saw the film, but I honestly recall there being some sort of effort to make the story about dementia? That kind of thing would've been down to earth and interesting if handled with care.
Instead I mostly remember it all being about "HUGE PLOT-TWISTS" that weren't really twists in another wise generic and bland story.

>Just like every other Laika movie, its an average story being pulled along by amazing and creative visuals and mostly great voice acting

This! And it's so frustrating! I keep waiting for a Laika-film that will have the story and writing to match it's visuals but it never seems to happen.

...so who would you like to see direct/write a film animated by Laika?

I got fingered for the first time while I trying to watch this movie so I wouldn't know. All I remember is that the monkey was kind of hot.

Fun little movie
glad it's on Netflix