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buckshotbarlow
08-10-2013, 10:15
Anybody else getting suckered into seeing this movie with the kids?I just spent half of my life savings buying these frig'n tickets...Convience fee...WTF? No wonder I quit going to the movies, i'll let you all know if i survived!
ill be going to see it the 14th cars was pretty good
buckshotbarlow
08-10-2013, 14:26
Ok...its a decent flick
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/planes/
Planes has enough bright colors, goofy voices, and slick animation to distract some young viewers for 92 minutes -- and probably sell plenty of toys in the bargain -- but on nearly every other level, it's a Disney disappointment.
missionxo
08-10-2013, 16:30
Well anything Dane Cook is is is bound to be a instant classic
Were going next weekend for my sons first movie. We haven't been to a movie for probably a couple years. just not worth the money
Went today, kid loved it but cried at the end because he couldn't meet Dusty the star character after it was over. It was his first movie ever, just turned 3. I will say this, don't take a kid to the 3D version or you will spend half the time trying to help them get their glasses back on after you reassemble them in the dark. Fun movie though, and most of the aviation stuff was fairly accurate although when a left engine fails you don't typically roll to the right... Other than that it was great for a kids movie!
I hope this one does well, wouldn't mind seeing them do a sequel to see where they can take this new airplane world like they did with the Cars version.
Planes was first slated to go direct to DVD. It looks like they should have stuck with that.
Cars - Budget $70MM - opening weekend 2006 - $60MM - US Gross $244MM
Planes - Budget $50MM - Opening weekend 2013 - $22.5MM
Don't count on a sequel anywhere but direct to disc.
ETA: Weekend box office is in for Planes.
Yeah, I took the kids to see it too. Even they thought it was "off" a bit and not as good as the other Pixar movies. Hearing about direct-to-DVD makes sense. Still, if you can stomach the price of movies these days, it's not a bad movie, and was a nice break with the kids. Just don't expect the "next big Pixar movie" or anything.
I was making up for the fact we couldn't go camping this weekend, due to all the weather. I guess it worked.
strm_trpr
08-11-2013, 07:00
It was my son's first movie too (2.5 yrs old). It was not bad, it was very predictable and safe so a good little kids movie. Not deep like WallE or finding Nemo but I thought it was better than Brave. We went to a morning movie so price was not too bad at $6 a piece.
buckshotbarlow
08-11-2013, 07:48
One thing about the movie, good old skipper was at least an F-4U...my favorite plane of ww2. I just wish there were cases where they(f-4u's) tangled it up with a 109 or 190....
One thing about the movie, good old skipper was at least an F-4U...my favorite plane of ww2. I just wish there were cases where they(f-4u's) tangled it up with a 109 or 190....
http://celticowboy.com/raf-base-kalpitiya.jpg
there were a bunch of british corsairs i think we deliverd them in '43
mostly in a ground attack role
This was a Disney animated film and not to be confused with Pixar. Pixar has a near perfect record of providing winners.
This was a Disney animated film and not to be confused with Pixar. Pixar has a near perfect record of providing winners.
Unfortunately, I think that Disney now owns them, so expecting the good movies from the past out of them is wishful thinking, like Cars, in comparrison to Cars 2. Planes was still alright though for the most part.
Disney has owned Pixar since 2006. Their products are still distinctly different. ;-)
Finally got to watch it (marleigh grandma sent it)
I thought it was way better then cars I loved all the airplane terminology my daughter has watched it like 200 times in the last week
My son and I both liked cars better. He asked to leve the theater during planes.
rockhound
01-04-2014, 12:37
waited for the DVD, glad i did, it was just a cars ripoff,
all the same characters, same basic plot, boring, boring, boring
the kids loved cars, they loved cars 2, they loved the toy story series, they have not even asked to watch planes a second time
My kid loves it. It's not a bad movie. I think all these animated movies follow the same plot.
beast556
01-04-2014, 16:42
Grandpa just got my kids the DVD of planes they wached it once, wasent a big hit. Now wreck it Ralph on the other hand that has been going non stop all week.
One thing about the movie, good old skipper was at least an F-4U...my favorite plane of ww2. I just wish there were cases where they(f-4u's) tangled it up with a 109 or 190....
Those were damned big airplanes, for fighters! When I was a kid a local guy had one hangared at our airport, I used to ride my Honda out there to go gawk at that big sumbitch every chance I could. I'll never forget the stencilling on the cowl for the oil capacity "21 GALLONS". That always blew my mind, 21 freakin' gallons of motor oil!
That guy was Doug Champlin, heir to Champlin Petroleum. He went on to build a huge warbird collection, and founded Champlin Firearms, makers of extreme high-end custom rifles and shotguns.
waited for the DVD, glad i did, it was just a cars ripoff,
It wasn't a ripoff, it was a movie that was explicitly set in the same fictional world as Cars, and John Lassiter, the writer/director on Cars 1 & 2 was the Executive Producer on Planes.
I don't do movies anymore. No point in payin 12 bucks to take a nap. I think I'm borderline narcoleptic...I can't stay awake in a movie theater to save my life
Just the battle scene alone with skippers squadron and the Japanese fleet makes planes better then cars
Guns> no guns
:D
rockhound
01-05-2014, 10:46
It wasn't a ripoff, it was a movie that was explicitly set in the same fictional world as Cars, and John Lassiter, the writer/director on Cars 1 & 2 was the Executive Producer on Planes.
ripoff, as in a copycat as far as plot and characters,
ripoff, as in a copycat as far as plot and characters,
There were broad storyline differences between Cars and Planes (hotshot jerk learns the value of hard work and humility vs. young upstart perseveres to follow a dream and overcomes adversity), but in general all American kid's movies are going to deal in broad character archetypes and storytelling forms that have proven to be successful in the past. PIXAR has managed to generally buck that trend in most of their movies, but not in ways that people tend to notice.
While I'll agree that Planes wasn't a tremendously groundbreaking story (it was just a cartoon version of Rudy), I did find that it was executed competently at every level. That said, I think it was tremendously gutsy of the writers to insert a battle scene from the Pacific theater in WWII, complete with gunfire, death and suffering into the middle of a kids' movie.
That said, it goes without saying that if you wanted truly original children's storytelling, you probably shouldn't be watching anything from Disney in the first place.
Yep, if you want a truely original storyline, watch Avatar.
ChunkyMonkey
01-05-2014, 14:41
Yep, if you want a truely original storyline, watch Avatar.
YES.. or pocahantas!:D
Or for something completely different, Dances With Wolves.
Zundfolge
01-05-2014, 14:49
I don't do movies anymore. No point in payin 12 bucks to take a nap.
What is this "paying" of which you speak? Haven't paid cash money to watch a movie in ages ... just watched the latest Hobbit movie the other night and will probably watch Lone Survivor sometime this weekend as well.
We enjoyed Planes and thought it was significantly better than Cars 2 (of course a good bowel movement is better than sitting through Cars 2).
Yep, if you want a truely original storyline, watch Avatar.
Storyline?
I thought Avatar was just the best CGI demo reel I've ever seen.
We enjoyed Planes and thought it was significantly better than Cars 2 (of course a good bowel movement is better than sitting through Cars 2).
Cars 2 was just fan service for people who like Mater. It still had it's moments. (One of my favorite touches was the license plate on the American spy car...)
As for Planes, the attention to detail on a lot of the aircraft was pretty awesome. It turns out that the double prop setup that Ripslinger has is based on an actual racing plane called Precious Metal.
http://www.warbirdaeropress.com/articles/PMmods/PMmods.htm
What a crazy looking p51
http://www.warbirdaeropress.com/articles/PMmods/Lead1.jpg
I know! Isn't it just awesome?
Similar to the one that crashed a few years ago, killing like 12 people. :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_wpgQsXAiM
Similar to the one that crashed a few years ago, killing like 12 people. :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_wpgQsXAiMthat was sad :(
http://www.air-and-space.com/19910915%20Reno/911728%20F4U%20Super%20Corsair%20N31518%20left%20f ront%20taxiing%20l.jpg
This racing corsair is really cool with the chopped wings,canopy and different cowl
Is it me, or is the antagonist in Planes a Bf109?
Zundfolge
01-06-2014, 20:10
Similar to the one that crashed a few years ago, killing like 12 people. :(
Yeah, we should ban P51 Mustangs ... in fact lets ban Ford Mustangs just to be safe.
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