Weekend Thread | Official Estimates: Moana - 55.5/81.1M; Fantastic Beasts - 45.1M; Doctor Strange - 13.4M; Allied - 13/18M; Arrival - 11.3M; Trolls - 10.3M; Bad Santa 2 - 6.1/9M

[Eric the Minion]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

Big Hero 6?

That came out early November, not Thanksgiving.

[yjs]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

Big Hero 6?

that came out in first week of Nov. 

[MovieMan89]

Just now, ThePanda A Star Wars Story said:

 

Im still going by the opinion that TFA sucked the hype out of everything once the pre-sales started.  Nothing broke out since then until TFA was released.

Er, but weren't you just arguing competition is negligible at the box office? 

[Jake Gittes]

14 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

I honestly think 2016 could stand the test of time as the greatest year in animated feature film history. 

 

I think 2009 will remain the high watermark for a very long time. Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Mary and Max, The Secret of Kells, Coraline, Ponyo, Cloudy, and The Princess and the Frog - a huge variety of animation styles and all really good to fantastic movies. Don't think this year can go up against that at all.

[AniNate]

Star Wars probably did affect the competition, but it wasn't like anything else could argue being the same kind of must-see experience, personal opinions excepted

[cannastop]

13 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

 

Hmmm.

 

Looks like the princess movies break out and the male centric stuff flops.

They could put that to the test by releasing a Zootopia sequel during Thanksgiving.

[terrestrial]

 

[Mojoguy]

A movie that makes $900m DOM is definitely going to hurt all the movies around it!

[Mojoguy]

They could put that to the test by releasing a Zootopia sequel during Thanksgiving.

In order to qualify to be a Disney Princess, Judy has to actually wear a dress in the Zootopia sequel.

[MovieMan89]

11 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

I think 2009 will remain the high watermark for a very long time. Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Mary and Max, The Secret of Kells, Coraline, Ponyo, Cloudy, and The Princess and the Frog - a huge variety of animation styles and all really good to fantastic movies. Don't think this year can go up against that at all.

For me Zootopia, Kubo, and Moana beat all of those, most with ease. Dory beats all but Up and Coraline. Verdict is still out on Sing, but some early reception seems to suggest a new quality benchmark for Illumination. Ponyo remains the only Miyazaki film I don't care for and I thought Kells was just ok, so I'm guessing I will like The Red Turtle and Your Name more as far as anime/foreign goes. In terms of critical reception, both are pretty evenly matched though if Sing gets raves then this year has the edge.

[cannastop]

2 minutes ago, Mojoguy said:

In order to qualify to be a Disney Princess, Judy has to actually wear a dress in the Zootopia sequel.

Exactly. If it does well and it's not a Princess movie, it would Grey Ghost's suggestion wrong.

[filmlover]

Billboards for Sing are already popping up along the highway this week. Universal ain't fuckin' around.

[cannastop]

14 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

I think 2009 will remain the high watermark for a very long time. Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Mary and Max, The Secret of Kells, Coraline, Ponyo, Cloudy, and The Princess and the Frog - a huge variety of animation styles and all really good to fantastic movies. Don't think this year can go up against that at all.

I've seen 3 of those.

 

Up: Pretty good, but much too sentimental for my taste.

Coraline: Actually a great movie that I should rewatch sometime.

 

Princess and the Frog: Dull as shit, and a wasted opportunity for 2D animation's return.

 

2016's animated features measure up well, in my opinion.

[Mojoguy]

Billboards for Sing are already popping up along the highway this week. Universal ain't fuckin' around.

Let's hope there aren't too many "Where are the reviews?" posts in the Sing topic.

[Jason]

3 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

I think 2009 will remain the high watermark for a very long time. Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Mary and Max, The Secret of Kells, Coraline, Ponyo, Cloudy, and The Princess and the Frog - a huge variety of animation styles and all really good to fantastic movies. Don't think this year can go up against that at all.

 

I'd have to take a closer look regarding the question of diversity of animation style. But this year has six films with very strong critical reception: Zootopia, Moana, Kubo, The Red Turtle, Your Name (so far), and My Life as a Zucchini (so far). From 2009 only two films have a similar level of critical reception: Up and Mary and Max.

 

If we relax the criteria for 2009 slightly to allow the inclusion of the rest of the films you mentioned, then this year would also have April, Finding Dory, Miss Hokusai, and The Little Prince. So a total of ten well-received films compared to eight.

 

It may be that you prefer the films from 2009, but if the question is what is generally considered to be the high watermark, I'd give 2016 the edge. Could very well be the clear winner, pending further reviews for Your Name and My Life as a Zucchini.

[TalismanRing]

5 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Billboards for Sing are already popping up along the highway this week. Universal ain't fuckin' around.

 

What they don't spend on quality in animation they make up 2 fold in marketing.   That's their playbook.

 

 

[AniNate]

Considering that Coco is the closest thing to resembling a quality animated film next year, I suspect that will work to its advantage when it opens even if it isn't about princesses

[Ethan Hunt]

Up is so damn overrated

[cannastop]

5 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Billboards for Sing are already popping up along the highway this week. Universal ain't fuckin' around.

You can also tell from this:

 

http://www.singsaturday.com/

[Eric the Minion]

1 minute ago, tribefan695 said:

Considering that Coco is the closest thing to resembling a quality animated film next year, I suspect that will work to its advantage when it opens even if it isn't about princesses