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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 18:18:13 GMT -5
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Post by tim on Mar 25, 2021 18:22:37 GMT -5
I. LOVED. THIS! I seriously got a little bit teary-eyed the first time I saw it and ended up having to rewatch it a few more times. The more I watched it the more I fell in love with it lol.
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 18:35:11 GMT -5
Kicking off the top 10, we say goodbye to "La Luna", a short which is apparently waaaaay better received than the movie that it was associated with! This short is beautiful. Just as with Wall-E and Lifted before this one, the animation of outer space and the night sky continues to be one of Pixar's most creative avenues, imo. The coolest thing about this one to me is that it manages to create a whole new portrayal of outer space that is entirely different from Wall-E, and is yet still equally beautiful! The fact that they could have an entire movie about outer space, and still have enough creative vision to create an entirely different version of the same setting, is exactly why the creative minds at Pixar are so incredible. tim becomes the 3rd person to lose a #1 here, and everybody except for one person put this in their top 15.
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 18:38:41 GMT -5
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Post by CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker on Mar 25, 2021 18:42:40 GMT -5
.......A 20?!?
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Post by tim on Mar 25, 2021 18:43:11 GMT -5
I remember liking Geri's Game a lot more back in the day than I did this time around. I don't know, something about it just didn't really click with me when revisiting it after all of these years. I knew it would still remain as a likely top ten contender though as it has always seemed to be quite well-liked.
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 18:46:11 GMT -5
A Pixar CLASSIC bows out at #9! Good ol' Geri! Geri is a sweet old man who famously plays a game of chess with himself in the park. This short debuted alongside A Bug's Life, and has gone on to be perhaps even more iconic in Pixar's canon than the movie itself. After the poor animation quality of all the shorts that came before this, Pixar had finally perfected their craft by the time this one came along. Pixar ended up revolutionizing the Short Film medium in ways that we have frankly never seen before, and I consider this short to be the start of that.
Not everybody loves Geri's Game though! This was our most polarizing film in this rankdown, with ranks ranging all the way from #2 to #20... @jadenlefranks finally loses his #20!
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 18:50:56 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2021 18:51:13 GMT -5
9. Geri's Game @jadenlefranks - 20
{Shorts Remaining}Bao Day & Night For The Birds Lava Lou Partly Cloudy Piper The Blue Umbrella
Geez, did the man painting over Woody’s boot get to you?
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Post by CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker on Mar 25, 2021 18:53:00 GMT -5
This must've been some stiff competition with these numbers at the end
4-5-6-7-8
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Post by tim on Mar 25, 2021 18:54:51 GMT -5
The Blue Umbrella was one that I hadn't ever seen before and it's not that I didn't enjoy it because I did. It certainly had its charm and tender moment at the end, but overall it felt a bit long to me and somewhere during that time I got a tad bored with it.
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 18:59:52 GMT -5
The thing that I love most about "The Blue Umbrella" is the dark hyper-realism of this setting The animation quality is absolutely mesmerizing! This is exactly the same dark hyper-realism that made that Cars 3 trailer about Lightning McQueen's crash so spine-chilling to me, and also made the mudslide scenes in The Good Dinosaur so terrifying. This type of animation makes it feel like the stakes are higher, and when this short came out, it was pretty much the first time we had ever seen that level of realism from Pixar. To this day, out of all of their shorts, this one continues to blow me away the most in terms of overall animation quality. This one was actually a very consistent top 5 contender early on. It even made it up to #2! However, once it hit #2, it pretty much fell by one position with every single submission that came, until it finally landed at #8 due to my own #9 rank being enough to knock it back by one position because of how close the results were in this top 10 :'(
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Post by tim on Mar 25, 2021 19:01:51 GMT -5
I'm lava hoping my last place leaves before the top 5!
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 19:03:00 GMT -5
Alright, I am going to go have pizza with my sister. I hope everybody doesn't go to bed while I'm eating dinner (That's been a consistent problem on Pulse ever since daylight savings hit last weekend). I'll be back to continue this as soon as I'm done!!
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 19:04:04 GMT -5
I'm lava hoping my last place leaves before the top 5! Putting "Lava" in last place is NOT the sort of thing you should admit to in a room full of Pixar lovers
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 25, 2021 21:17:02 GMT -5
I prefer my umbrellas in a different color.
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 21:27:55 GMT -5
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Post by CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker on Mar 25, 2021 21:29:30 GMT -5
Alexa play ARGH by Charlie Brown
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 25, 2021 21:31:02 GMT -5
Partly Cloud is fucking CUTE. It is so heartwarming and precious.
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Post by tim on Mar 25, 2021 21:33:24 GMT -5
I definitely should've bumped up Partly Cloudy a few spots. It's certainly one of their shorts that leaves a lasting impression and is quite memorable.
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 21:38:52 GMT -5
Yeah, "Partly Cloudy" is so cute, and right up there with Pixar's best imo. Everybody knows the idea of storks delivering babies, but Pixar still managed to take that trope that everybody knows and put a whole new brilliant twist on it. The emotions are believable and palpable, and it is also funny at the same time. It's so moving, and pretty much represents all aspects of why Pixar is so great. The competition at this point was just too stiff for it to do any better!
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Post by CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker on Mar 25, 2021 21:40:17 GMT -5
Out of the 6
What should miss: Lou (Sorry Y'all) What probably will miss: For the Birds (I swear to god...)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2021 21:41:20 GMT -5
Okay Bao and Piper FTW
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Post by tim on Mar 25, 2021 21:42:01 GMT -5
For the lava god c'mon!
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 21:42:27 GMT -5
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Post by CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker on Mar 25, 2021 21:44:36 GMT -5
NO
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
FUCK NO
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 21:47:35 GMT -5
"Day & Night" is so unique, but again, so brilliant! The 2-dimensional appearance of the main characters is very new for Pixar, and yet the 3-dimensional animation within each of their bodies is as amazing as ever. The fact that they mixed 2-d and 3-d animation like that, all while creating emotional characters that are completely abstract, is once again why Pixar is the best animation company in the business. It missed the top 5 by only 5 points, and yet was never really a top 5 contender, because everything in this region of the rankdown was just so competitive!
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 25, 2021 21:51:37 GMT -5
Here is the top 5!!!
Bao For The Birds Lava Lou Piper
Should I keep going, or are y'all done for the night? ;)
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 25, 2021 21:52:29 GMT -5
Why is Lava still in? Bruh, that singing annoyed the shit out of me. bboat11 let's just finish it off!
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Post by CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker on Mar 25, 2021 21:53:16 GMT -5
To quote Mortal Kombat: FINISH IT
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