I’ve finally come to the conclusion that this section will be devoted to all things that can be watched on your television albeit movies, television shows or documentaries. I would do porn as well but there’s too many damn porn movies out there and the prices they charge for a new DVD is insane and the main reason the biggest companies in porn have lost 20-30% business in the last full year.
YU-GI-OH! – THE MOVIE (Warner Bros. 2004)
“Mom! Mom! Take me to see Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie! Please, Mom! Please, please PLEASE!!!” This was a familiar plead from little boys across the U.S. when this movie was released here in the states before it was then released in Japan, uncut. Yep, American audiences can’t seem to handle certain PG rated cartoons. Yu-Gi-Oh! was a HUGE hit in the U.S. with little boys who fantasized about being various different characters from the Japanese cartoon. I really don’t understand this obsession with Japanese anime but I also don’t deny it’s magnitude among kids, boys especially.
Therefore, when this movie hit the box offices, it was a little disappointing to hear how much it sucked. Rotten Tomatoes website gave it a 5% on a scale of 1-100%. That’s terrible. U.S. movie critics destroyed it as well. Entertainment Weekly’s Scott Brown called Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie “a feature-length anime commercial”. OUCH! One thing I can’t stand is when a huge kids franchise such as this puts out a crappy movie because they think just the name will pull in the masses. With a worldwide box office gross of $29,170,410, the producers and creators of Yu-Gi-Oh! made a BIG mistake.
Unlike, our next movie.
WATCH THIS INSTEAD
WALL-E (Disney/Pixar 2009)
This animated movie was so good that I really believed it might be the first animated movie in history to take home the Oscar for Best Picture. Yes, it’s that good. That it won Best Animated Feature is great, but it really did deserve at least a nomination for Best Picture. I did not see Slumdog Millionaire yet so I can’t compare the two but Wall-E is definitely in the discussion of greatest animated movies of all time.
Why such high praise? Well, there really isn’t one flaw in this movie. None. The characters are incredible, every one of them. The animation and scenery are beyond what even your dreams could imagine and each scene keeps raising the stakes visually. On top of that, the story of this movie is something to be reckoned with, attached with a message ALL OF US can learn from.
I can see how some people may view the message as “anti-fat” but that’s far from the truth. The message is really “anti-get-off-your-lazy-ass-and-do-something-or-else…” and maybe some people (who are on the bigger side) got offended. Hey, I’m on the bigger side but I’m also able to dissect and get into the real intricacies of movies so my interpretation of the message is correct and that I know as fact.
Despite the message of the film, just watching it will blow you away. How Pixar achieved this thing is beyond me but then again, they are the most successful movie studio of all time (if you count how many incredibly good and prosperous movies they’ve made in a row) so they know what they’re up to. Wall-E is worth your time, maybe even twice, possibly three times over. When it arrives on DVD, I will buy a copy and it will be the first animated film I officially add to my collection.
Yep. It’s that good.
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