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whoopiecat	Iron Giant	Lead	[-]
Apr 2 06 5:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I just picked this up from deepdiscountdvd. I found it to be extremely enjoyable. Great story, ditto for the animation and the voice acting as well. Thank the Gods there were no musical numbers. Most folks that know me were amazed I had never seen it before, now I'm glad I did. W. BTW, I can now say there is a movie Vin Diesel did that I liked!
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Doc Savage	Re: Iron Giant	#1	[-]
Apr 4 06 8:35 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A wonderful film. Not surprised it didn't do well at the box office... most really good films under perform.
BijouBob8mm	Re: Iron Giant	#2	[-]
Apr 4 06 8:37 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I recall, when ads for this first showed up, being very pumped up to see it. The theatre was not as full as I would have expected, but I've seen worse. The film went over BIG with the audience, and you could feel the fun among the viewers. Chances are, you've got the second/latest DVD of the film. If so, play around with those arrow keys, as there are a number of Easter Eggs on the various menu screens.
Bill Warren	Re: Iron Giant	#3	[-]
Apr 4 06 12:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* The film went over BIG with the audience, and you could feel the fun among the viewers. Yes, with the tiny audiences that saw it, anyway. THE IRON GIANT was a boxoffice disaster, causing the Warner Bros. animation division to shut its doors. The director's next movie did rather better: THE INCREDIBLES.
Jimchig	Re: Iron Giant	#4	[-]
Apr 5 06 6:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tiny Audiences - what a shame. That was definitely a film which benefited from the big screen. The opening scene with Hogarth bicycling his way through town blew me away. Certainly a delight, especially since I didn't expect much, just another kid's movie I took my kid to. I probably enjoyed it as much or more than he did.
Wolfman Joe	Re: Iron Giant	#5	[-]
Apr 5 06 7:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A shame it didn't do better - this was the last film I can think of that moved me to tears, I'm unashamed to say.
BijouBob8mm	Re: Iron Giant	#6	[-]
Apr 5 06 8:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It was a wonderfully crafted film. I hope that it continues to find an audience, via home video, and is one day appreciated for how great it really is.
HalLane	Re: Iron Giant	#7	[-]
Apr 5 06 9:54 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Someone gave me the 18" toy for Christmas, years before I actually saw the film. When I finally caught it on Cartoon Network last year, I too cried. Sure glad I've got that toy. Even the kids have more respect now for daddy's robot toys. It even sounds like Vin Diesel. "Hogaaaarth...."
Bill Warren	Re: Iron Giant	#8	[-]
Apr 5 06 12:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If THE IRON GIANT had been a hit, Brad Bird would have done a cel animation movie of Eisner's THE SPIRIT--sticking precisely to Eisner's style.
John M Short	Re: Iron Giant	#9	[-]
Apr 5 06 5:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That sounds incredibly cool, Bill. Too bad it never came to be. We were talking in another folder about how animation (cel, natch) would be the best way to portray many of the older pulp characters. I haven't seen IRON GIANT, but being a big Who fan I've listened to Pete Townshend's album based on the book.
Bill Warren	Re: Iron Giant	#10	[-]
Apr 5 06 5:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I haven't seen IRON GIANT Wait no longer. It's every bit as good as people here are claiming. I was assigned by Starlog to see the movie (in a screening room all by myself) then interview Brad Bird on the phone afterward. I was very reluctant; I knew little about Bird--I knew he'd worked on THE SIMPSONS and KING OF THE HILL, and I'd liked his short FAMILY DOG. I thought IRON GIANT would be a mawkish, sentimental story about a boy and his robot pal. I've rarely been so surprised (and pleased) in my life, and wished I'd had someone come with me to this afternoon screening. And yet it IS about a boy and his robot pal. When I talked to Bird, the movie had yet to be released. He did mention THE SPIRIT project and a couple of others, which I forget now. I see he's doing RATATOUILLE, about a Parisian rat who lives in a restaurant run by an eccentric chef. That doesn't sound all that promising either, but I've learned not to underestimate Brad Bird. Just before THE INCREDIBLES was released, I saw it at a press screening. I was worried that it was going to be a spoof of superheroes, showing them as dim bulbs who didn't fit into the real world. Instead, it's an absolutely straight superhero story played as a comedy--there's no sense of spoofing at all. I was talking to a comic book fan friend at a party, highly recommending THE INCREDIBLES. He expressed the same misgivings I'd had before I saw it. Then I asked what he thought of THE IRON GIANT. It was his favorite movie. Same writer, same director, same sensibility, I said. He saw INCREDIBLES and loved it.
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John M Short	Re: Iron Giant	#11	[-]
Apr 5 06 7:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sold! I'll check it out soon.
BijouBob8mm	Re: Iron Giant	#12	[-]
Apr 6 06 12:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* If THE IRON GIANT had been a hit, Brad Bird would have done a cel animation movie of Eisner's THE SPIRIT--sticking precisely to Eisner's style. THAT would have been incredible! *Quote:* We were talking in another folder about how animation (cel, natch) would be the best way to portray many of the older pulp characters. Many here may already know that Bob Clampett wanted to do a series of animated films based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars novels, and even did some test footage and sketches. This material is among the bonus features of the Beany and Cecil DVD. The disk may be out of print, but I still see some on the racks with other cartoons in video stores, marked down to under $10 these days. In high school, a friend of mine and I were lucky enough to attend a 16mm showing of the Max Fleischer SUPERMAN cartoons, which we'd long heard about but had never seen. (Remember, this was pre-VCR and DVD.) When we got into college, we'd talked about how cool it would be to do Vampirella in that fashion, and I put together a treatment. (This would have been between the time Warren stopped publishing it and the time Harris revived it.) Unfortunately, the project got dropped when we found the college art department's 16mm camera was broken and so old that service was no longer available for it.
John M Short	Re: Iron Giant	#13	[-]
Apr 7 06 1:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bob, as a friend, I'm TELLIN' ya! It's never too late! I'd love to see that! Bill, didn't you write for Vampirella?
Bill Warren	Re: Iron Giant	#14	[-]
Apr 7 06 1:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Bill, didn't you write for Vampirella? Yep, and for Creepy and Eerie, too.
BijouBob8mm	Re: Iron Giant	#15	[-]
Apr 7 06 1:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I forgot he wrote for Warren's comic magazines, as well as for FM. Too bad Harris didn't grab him up to do scripting chores for their current Vampi series!!! They've had some interesting stories and art, but I think they've given at least two alternate origins for our gal over the years. (It's like doing a new Superman series, and saying he doesn't really come from Krypton, after all.) Ever think about doing more fiction, Bill?
Bill Warren	Re: Iron Giant	#16	[-]
Apr 7 06 6:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Ever think about doing more fiction, Bill? I've found my mind doesn't work very well in that area. Plots are easy to come up with, but then I stall--or overdo it the other way. I tried writing a novel some years ago, and after a thousand pages, the two protagonists were eleven....
n0s4a2	Re: Iron Giant	#17	[-]
Apr 10 06 11:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I animated on Iron Giant, and I found Brad Bird to be a very energetic and clear-thinking director who could really tell you what the scene called for. I had just finished animating on Hercules for Disney, and the directors there didn't care about letting an animator know what the meaning of his scene was. Brad Bird really "sees the movie in his head" and it's easy to get wrapped up in his vision. Not so with Disney in the late '90s.
BijouBob8mm	Re: Iron Giant	#18	[-]
Apr 11 06 9:09 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Then it sounds like those of us here who found so much to enjoy in IRON GIANT owe you a word of thanks! (And maybe even a beer.)
drmedula	Re: Iron Giant	#19	[-]
Jun 25 06 3:13 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I LOVE IRON GIANT! I feel about this movie the way other people feel about E.T. and THE WIZARD OF OZ (neither of which do much for me). It's strange: as a kid, the films I loved were all aimed at adults; as I get older, I've grown to appreciate just how good a well-crafted piece of children's entertainment can be...
HalLane	Re: Iron Giant	#20	[-]
Jun 25 06 6:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	n0s4a2 writes: *Quote:* I animated on Iron Giant, and I found Brad Bird to be a very energetic and clear-thinking director who could really tell you what the scene called for. Wow, I just spotted this comment. Didn't know you were an animator, n0s4a2. Got any comments about particular scenes you worked on?
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