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Doghouse Riley
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Anyone see this cartoon film over the holiday?
Absolutely brilliant.
As someone else pointed out to me, the old fella reminded us of Spencer Tracy.
Absolutely brilliant.
As someone else pointed out to me, the old fella reminded us of Spencer Tracy.
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I didn't like the other bits much - maybe because everyone I knew had such high praise for it that my expectations were way too inflated.
Yes, that bit was quite a thought provoking scene.
But much of the middle bit I still found amusing. Particularly the dogs and where....."Squirrel!"
Fantastic film.
Carl is loosely based on Asner's Lou Grant character. Carl is meant to look like Spencer Tracey in his his final appearance on film - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
MrsBK says Carl reminds her of me.
The wife and I took our daughter to see this at the cinema (in 3D no less) and we all loved it (and at least two of us cried on more than one occassion...although I can't seem to recall which two now of course...ahem).
We also have the DVD, and watched it again the other day when it was on TV. One of Pixar's best and frankly I feel it should have won the Best Picture Oscar it was nominated for.
No it shouldn't, as it was shown on TV, so counts as a TV programme.
If it were just shown at cinemas, you'd have a point.
You've actually added nothing to the thread, so let those who want to, either praise or criticism, continue to do so.
I agree however that UP was fantastic, my husband and I (Both big old grownups) loved it and it was so poignant and sad in places but hilarious in others.
Loved Russell the little lad and his affection for the bird. Great characters all around.
you are wrong it is a movie not a tv programme, movies should be discussed in the movie forum and as this is a MOVIE it should be in the Movie forum
by they way i didnt like the ''tv programme'' i saw it when it was released, i hope the don't make it into a series of ''tv programmes''
And it's a great visual metaphor for having to let go. The old guy is literally tied to his old house (and his past).
Loved this so much. Probs because I saw a lot of myself in Carl and a lot of an ex-girlfriend in bossy-but-kind Ellie.
It was heart-wrenching that Carl went around thinking he had let Ellie down by never taking her on 'an adventure', but then realised that for Ellie, it hadn't mattered, that married life had been the adventure and she'd been happy with that.
And Russell turned out to be the kid Carl and Ellie never had... to give him the Ellie Badge at the end... wahhhhhhh!