[POLL] Make Jello Watch Bad Animated Movies
Added 2024-07-28 03:41:20 +0000 UTCEDIT 8/6/24 - I've watched all the Scooby-Doo films as well as Amy's Pick, which was bird movies (Storks + Guardians). Not sure if I'll review everything here as a big single post or what. Probably gonna be at least two this batch.
People at the signings said they really liked my audio reviews where I talk about movies. Which is nice to hear!
Unfortunately, to review animated movies, I have to watch them. So here's a list of some animated movies I have not watched yet that might make... some kind of interesting review.
You can vote for as many as you think would be interesting.
I'll put asterisks after to the ones that I guess I'm interested in. Heavy quotes.
Comments
Agreed. I think the trick with art that is designed to be open to interpretation is that it DOES actually need an intention behind it in the first place, whether or not that intention is the one the viewer figures out. I took an acting workshop with J. Michael Tatum once where he described acting choices this way: If your character is written to be angry in a scene, the instinct is usually to project that rage through shouting. But you don't have to. You can project that anger through a quiet laugh or an icy stare. Even a smile. Sometimes, the audience resonates more with those interesting choices than the standard ones. The actor might have intended the smile to mean "I don't think my character would be THAT angry, so they're playing it off like it's no big deal". However, a viewer might interpret that same smile as "Oh, they are about to SNAP they're so mad." The point is that intention and choices made with intention can be read by an audience in more interesting ways, even if those ways aren't necessarily "correct" or the way the actor intended. In my experience, a *lot* of work that is touted or defended as "open to interpretation" fails to have actual thought behind its choices. It's obviously not universal, but certain artists use ambiguity as a crutch. They pick evocative set pieces, props, and visuals not because they think they mean anything or there's a theme they're trying to convey, but because they like the thing's vibes. This can create shallow work that isn't fun to interpret. You get more out of deep interpretation the more an author puts in, even if their work is EXTREMELY esoteric. Also, frankly, a lot of people are just terrible at media literacy. The average viewer assumes competence on the part of the creator as a default, so any mistakes or gaps in the storytelling are filled in by the audience's mind because "Certainly the storyteller must have a plan." This is why soap operas and things like CW shows that are written week to week with no plan in mind whatsoever are still popular. If everyone recognized that they were seat-of-their-pants garbage where nothing mattered, they'd lose most of their audience.
JelloApocalypse
2024-08-08 05:41:37 +0000 UTCI’m of the opinion that narrative builds themes; themes are based on what happens in a story. Stories meant to be heavily interpretable (to me) often fall flat because so little actually happens, or they're too vague, or the stuff that does happen has no rhyme or reason behind it, that the story doesn’t end up saying anything? Just my thoughts.
Folkloric
2024-08-02 16:22:51 +0000 UTCYou talked a little about it in the encanto review
PurpleIsDebeste
2024-07-31 01:34:20 +0000 UTCI remember really liking monster house when I was the age demo for monster house but I’m not sure how much I want to make you suffer…
PurpleIsDebeste
2024-07-31 01:31:38 +0000 UTCFrankly, I like Jello, but I don't think he's the best person at analyzing symbolism and very heavily interpretable art. He's really good at understanding and criticizing narrative but in terms of stories largely driven by themes and surreal situations I don't think it's his area of expertise.
Legend Account
2024-07-30 12:17:53 +0000 UTCAlso, having seen Earwig and the witch--its very much not a good movie, BUT if you think of it as part one of a series its passable enough imo....too bad its part one of a series that is never happening
Chandler B
2024-07-29 03:21:15 +0000 UTCPlz watch The Boy and The Heron and explain it to me, because I don't fucking get it even a little bit lmao. Could not tell you what it was about, even if you paid me money.
Eremiss
2024-07-28 22:23:48 +0000 UTCOut of curiosity Jello, have you or would you ever watch Bojack Horseman?
DragonRageLee
2024-07-28 21:30:59 +0000 UTCWhile I do think you should see Watership Down, I don't think there's much to talk about regarding it. It's a pretty decent movie which does a good job telling the story it wants to tell. The only reason it has a reputation is because the cover has cute cartoon rabbits so moms in 1978 didn't notice it was for adults, causing kids to watch a mature film about the brutality of nature. But the film's never been about the gore and it's relatively tame to modern standards, so its reputation as a bad gore-flick is misplaced.
Finn Underwood
2024-07-28 20:39:42 +0000 UTCThis horrible thought slinked through my brain and I went "no. Open Season is on there. I have offered enough."
JelloApocalypse
2024-07-28 20:23:56 +0000 UTCBest of luck with the animation trenches. Would love to hear your thoughts on Mamoru Hosoda's body of work one day! hopefully it goes down better than makoto Shinkai's stuff
Sivvak
2024-07-28 11:34:28 +0000 UTCI'm eager to hear your thoughts on the Scooby-Doo and Courage the Cowardly Dog movie!
JoeJoeBinks97
2024-07-28 11:11:31 +0000 UTCOh, a whole bunch you wouldn’t believe it
Mayel Ruiz
2024-07-28 10:03:03 +0000 UTCI really want to hear you talk about Scooby because I like that stuff a lot, but also I want to hear you talk about Despicable Me 4, as I feel it has the most reason to exist than really any sequel has had for a while(from my own experience as an only occasional movie watcher)
Jurei
2024-07-28 09:49:27 +0000 UTCnot giving us the option to make you watch all the alpha & omega movies smh
BringBack1996
2024-07-28 09:44:01 +0000 UTCI'm voting for trolls because you've said on a few occasions that you like the trolls movies, at least more than most people, so I'm curious to hear why
Your Moist Toast
2024-07-28 09:11:47 +0000 UTCI didn't mind Legend of the Guardians, but I'm happy to have that middling review challenged
Darkflux
2024-07-28 08:33:30 +0000 UTCSurprised to see Boy and the Heron here. Not cause I love it, i havent seen it, but people seem to like it quite a bit
Daniel
2024-07-28 05:29:32 +0000 UTCYou talked about your issues with how the generational trauma aspect was handled in ur KCA video
Julia Yaniger
2024-07-28 05:18:44 +0000 UTCI MUST'VE talked about it somewhere on here.
JelloApocalypse
2024-07-28 05:17:33 +0000 UTCWait they made more than one Open Season movie?
Snack_Daddy
2024-07-28 04:59:25 +0000 UTCMan, I love animation and I have to say…I was very disinterested in Orion and the Dark; I got like 20 mins in and it wasn’t doing it for me. You should def watch it
Chandler B
2024-07-28 04:52:28 +0000 UTCTechnically you’ve already seen it/touched on it a bit but I’d be interested to hear your full thoughts on Turning Red (esp since you gave it a 9+almost gave it a 10)
Julia Yaniger
2024-07-28 04:44:50 +0000 UTCEARWIG and the witch AND OPEN SEASON films. Those are pretty awful animated films.
Meg Ryan
2024-07-28 04:28:47 +0000 UTCNo Don Bluth bombs?
Riley Simpson
2024-07-28 04:28:24 +0000 UTCWe gotta make him watch Peak Birds
194114
2024-07-28 04:23:07 +0000 UTCI saw The Bird and the Heron and it makes me very angry in a way where. have so much to say about it. I would love to hear your thoughts
Emereldmaster333
2024-07-28 04:13:15 +0000 UTCIt's also free on youtube
Drednot
2024-07-28 04:08:40 +0000 UTCIt's not animation, but if you want a bad live action movie with a weirdly high number of animated film VA's in it, look up slappy and the stinkers. A little rascals esq film with two of the rocket power VAs, the voice of Shang from Mulan, and Jennifer Coolidge. Weird little fever dream of a movie that I rewatched the other day
Drednot
2024-07-28 04:08:26 +0000 UTCDo we have to include the shitty go animate looking ass cartoon from 2023? The good people of bimbly shall make your tierlist
TiredOf Everything
2024-07-28 04:04:07 +0000 UTCVery, very little. Amy was just shy being in an actual booth so we had a false start, that's all. I sometimes step out to get a drink of water or something and I cut a long pause.
JelloApocalypse
2024-07-28 04:02:18 +0000 UTCAnd to be clear, I do not want to see this list until AFTER I'm done. I must form my own opinions.
JelloApocalypse
2024-07-28 04:01:27 +0000 UTCOkay Open Season just went from the bottom of my list to the top, but only if your discord can make a Tier List of the movies and I get to see it afterwards to see if I have wildly divergent OPEN SEASON OPINIONS
JelloApocalypse
2024-07-28 03:50:41 +0000 UTCWOOOO LETS GOOO also after hearing about it at the signing I kinda wanna hear all the stuff that gets cut in the edits
Charlie_is_Fine
2024-07-28 03:50:10 +0000 UTCI feel like watership down is the most interesting to experience, although maybe not as interesting to review.
Evan McKee
2024-07-28 03:49:58 +0000 UTCIt would mean the world to us if you even thought about open season we talk ab it so much
TiredOf Everything
2024-07-28 03:48:13 +0000 UTCI run an open season fan discord where we drink heavily and “boog out” we make custom open season gifs and even are trying to track down the og open season fursuit from the movies red carpet
TiredOf Everything
2024-07-28 03:47:00 +0000 UTCWhy would you do this to me...
JelloApocalypse
2024-07-28 03:45:34 +0000 UTCBoy and the Heron was a movie my family and I couldn't get into but everyone else seemed to love. I'm like, did you guys get what was happening in the movie?
Myths01
2024-07-28 03:45:06 +0000 UTCBring back the velma cosplay
tumbleweed🍂
2024-07-28 03:44:45 +0000 UTCOPEN SEASOM BLEASE 😭😭🥺
TiredOf Everything
2024-07-28 03:44:02 +0000 UTCI desperately want you to watch the DnD "Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight" animated movie one day. It's my go to bad movie to laugh at
Ryan Skellenger
2024-07-28 03:43:07 +0000 UTC
