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re: The Polar Express is a terrible movie
Posted on 12/10/23 at 7:46 pm to chinese58
Posted on 12/10/23 at 7:46 pm to chinese58
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He's the Peggy Hill, Janice Soprano type character for Christmas movies. Would have regularly gotten butt whippings in my neighborhood growing up. It sucks that he looks so much like Corey Feldman as Teddy Duchamp. Teddy was f'ed up, but he wasn't an annoying brat
He’s literally voice brothers with this fricker
Posted on 12/10/23 at 8:10 pm to CBandits82
I tried watching it and couldn't get past the first 15 minutes of it. I'll never watch it again
Posted on 12/10/23 at 8:15 pm to CBandits82
The music, the pace, the characters, the story itself is awesome
don’t invest too much into the crappy CGI or average dialogue….if that’s what you’re looking for then there are a lot of movies you might find awful
don’t invest too much into the crappy CGI or average dialogue….if that’s what you’re looking for then there are a lot of movies you might find awful
Posted on 12/10/23 at 8:29 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Posted on 12/10/23 at 8:32 pm to CBandits82
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The Polar Express is a terrible movie
It's just.... weirdly animated, at least in my opinion. It's just an odd movie that I honestly cannot watch.
Posted on 12/10/23 at 10:00 pm to CBandits82
Watching something as a kid is totally different than watching the same thing as an adult. Try watching He-Man or The Smurfs today and see how quickly you change it to something else.
Posted on 12/10/23 at 10:05 pm to CBandits82
I agree
Straight manure of a “Christmas” movie.
From animation to voice overs
Just a pile of dog shite… or Manure
But shite nonetheless
Straight manure of a “Christmas” movie.
From animation to voice overs
Just a pile of dog shite… or Manure
But shite nonetheless
This post was edited on 12/10/23 at 10:06 pm
Posted on 12/10/23 at 11:22 pm to Byrdybyrd05
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I hate it
I saw this on my honeymoon in IMAX (I was a poor college kid when I got married.) And I hated it then and had no idea why people gushed over it.
My wife and kids watch it every year and I check out because I find it genuinely, offensively bad.
I’d sooner watch 4 Christmases or Jingle All the Way than PE ever again.
Posted on 12/10/23 at 11:27 pm to shutterspeed
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It's a weird, cold, empty movie.
I like this take.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 1:10 am to CBandits82
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The Polar Express
Uncanny Valley: The Movie
Posted on 12/11/23 at 6:28 am to shutterspeed
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It's a weird, cold, empty movie.
My wife wanted to disown me a few years back when I said this same thing almost word for word.
Movie gives me the creeps and is just empty. Nothing.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 7:56 am to CBandits82
Never liked it growing up. Didn’t even give it a chance to be honest. There were much better classic Christmas movies when I was growing up. Tried to give it another shot last night but gave up halfway through. Great post OP.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 8:00 am to meeple
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Uncanny valley effect
This. I've always wondered why they went with the style that they did. My only guess is that it is meant to look more illustrative.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 8:28 am to Zap Rowsdower
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It’s just hard to make a 5-10 minute read book into a feature film.
They turned Jumanji into three movies.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 8:41 am to 3nOut
quote:This one is awesome!
Jingle All the Way
Posted on 12/11/23 at 9:24 am to 3nOut
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I’d sooner watch 4 Christmases
That’s a legit good Christmas movie.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 9:26 am to LanierSpots
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Movie gives me the creeps and is just empty. Nothing.
Maybe I just like the “emptiness”. It does feel cold and a little haunting. But I sort of figured that was the point. The kid is supposed to feel relatively alone on his journey I thought. And comes together at the end.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 9:50 am to CBandits82
It wouldn't say it's terrible. But the graphics are like watching a video game cutscene from the same time period.
Zemeckis did a much better job with the motion capture Jim Carrey Christmas Carrol movie a few years later.
Zemeckis did a much better job with the motion capture Jim Carrey Christmas Carrol movie a few years later.
This post was edited on 12/11/23 at 9:52 am
Posted on 12/11/23 at 9:52 am to CBandits82
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I try to give this thing a shot every year and every year it kicks me in the nuts.
I'm with you on this. I gave up after about three tries. Always heard a lot of people talk about how magical it is and how it's on their annual watch list. I never could finish it.
Posted on 12/11/23 at 9:54 am to 3nOut
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I’d sooner watch 4 Christmases or Jingle All the Way than PE ever again.
4 Christmases is OK, but Jingle All the Way is awesome.
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