A pg-13 stop motion portal fantasy that’s 2.5 hours is having a hard time finding an audience? Imagine that.
>>223694483Tbh I've always been disappointed leaving theaters for a Laika movie. They tend to have a 3rd act problem and 2.5 hours isn't a good sign for this movie
>>223694483there’s not enough 13 year old fantasy white girls for this anymore try again in 2003
the plot looks pretty generic too. “oh no the evil queen took my brother we have to save him and the magic forest” seen it a hundred times
>>223694483Why do they have eye bags?
>>223694593Takes place in Portland
>>223694601What’s Portland?
>>223694483Who cares? Laika's films are never profitable. This film isn't even being released by a major distributor.It looks awesome.>>223694568It's not what a movie is about it's how it is about it.
>>223694568It's based on a novel that I would not call particularly generic. It certainly has its inspirations and trops, but if they stick to the source material it could be pretty damn good.
>>223694483>2.5 hoursYeah ain't nobody got time fo datThat's literally like 5 video essays at 1.23-1.5 speed AND I can also work while listening to those
>>223694722>Who cares? Laika's films are never profitable. ThisIDK senpai but it looks like all of their previous films but one were profitable
>>223694619The gayest place on earth
>>223694483>We want characters that look like they are one bad day away from suicide>Say no more
>>223694803According to that list only Coraline made a profit.
>>223694483>millennialtroons: WE WANT MORE STOP MOTION AND TRADITIONALLY ANIMATED FILMS, NOT CGI AND AI SLOP!!!>also millennialtroons when they get what they want:
>>223694740It will be pretty damn woke.>>223694619The fact it takes place here is all I need to know. I will not watch it.
>>223694483they should have made the girl sexy. they did it for paranorman
>>223694483I liked it. Sucks that it's not doing well.Sad too see so many miserable anons in this thread.
>>223694601Coraline also took place in Oregon.
This is honestly my most anticipated movie of the year. I have tickets for Saturday opening weekend. Taking my mom. I really hope it's good. I've only seen Kubo otherwise and was not super impressed desu. Nice visuals, very arbitrary story.
>>223694919Good morning fellow Brahman!
>>223694923You lost, tranny.Gonna cry?
>>223694923>Sad too see so many miserable anons in this thread.
>>223694803You need to make 2.5 times your budget before you actually start making profit.
>>223694949I hope you manage to find happiness one day.
Apologise
I'm going to watch it with my wife. My kids are too young and it's too long. Their target demographic doesn't exist or is millenial who like Laika movies.
>>223694944>homosexual calling anyone else a jeetGOOD MORNING SAAAAR!!!!
>>223695007god she looks like fucking shit
>>223695007So it’s about insomnia?
>>223695027Saar is not gay that you and I poke each others bums with our pengaru. Vishnu approve of this you know this!
>>223695007I don't trust paid advertisements. I do want to watch this though.
>>223694483They need to stop leaning into cgi.PEOPLE WHO WANT STOP MOTION WANT STOP MOTION,the trailer looks all cgi. It’s the worst of both worlds, not cgi enough for cartoon phyicsmbut doesn’t have that realistic real-life-prop stop motion feel.Also the plot is so over baked, it has no center hero or antagonist is it the girl or the boy in the trailer that is the hero? The villian is “the forest”?
>>223694593>>223694847>>223694919>>223695037This board is so fucked.
>>223694483>the decemberists filmOf course.
>>223695095You are either ESL or genuinely retarded.
>>223694803Coraline is literally thier only good film.Kubo and the two strings is when they started sucking on the cgi cock and whatever was left of the magic was gone, that’s why it made less than half of Coraline
>>223694483the eyebags are freaking me outworks on the older woman but not the mc
>>223695015I'm going to watch it with your wife too
>>223695078ok maybe you are a jeet>>223695101cope, homo
>>223695117Well I am not esl
>>223694847Kek
>>223695125I've only seen Coraline and Boxtrolls.I really liked Coraline, I don't remember anything of the other one.
>>223695125>>223695170These images just prove you're a disturbed creepo fuck.
>>223695188Yeah, you need your story written by a gross sex pest who later gets canceled for keeping BDSM slaves.Only sexual perverts have enough edge to write good stories, I don’t know why, but it seems to do with flying to close to the sun
>>223695232Turist please go.You are just mad you can’t afford $900 japanese BJDs. Why are you even in a stop motion thread if you don’t film your own CNC lesbian doll videos.Get on my level
If you want to put asses in seats, you do at least two or more of the following:- aggressively market the movie (moreso if it's not from a major studio / not starring an A-Lister)- have it be femslop (not FEMINIST slop, I mean movies that females ACTUALLY want to watch such as Amy Schumer-tier romcoms or stuff like 50 Shades of Grey where a woman gets her ass beat and her cunt fucked by Chad Thundercock)- have it star exclusively A-Listers or be directed by someone like Nolan- appeal to men (hot babes, not woke, violent if it's an action movie, etc.)- be from a major studio- appeal to children (actually funny, not woke garbage, etc.)- from a mainstream or widely known IPSome overly long, obscure shit starring what appears to be 2 female characters, from literal whos (Coraline was made what like 20 years ago now?) is going to be DOA any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
>>223694981I found a lot of happiness making woketards like you cry like little faggots when Trump won.You lost. :D
>>223695101>getting mad about people lusting after cartoon women>on 4chanlol
>>223694923quick assessment, non-cynical-anon?i saw the trailer and i'm up for some fantasy stop motion, even if it's just pretty average.picrel is a solid claymation i recommend to all my /tv/ frens.
>>223694483Laika Studios is a Nepo Bitch Baby passion project made possible from sweatshop slavery labor to make overpriced shoes for mental midget consoooooomers
>>223695483Thanks, I will check it out
>>223695007She looks ugly. That alone is why it might bomb
>>223694483is that gayman's creepy english rape manor?
Oh nononono.Flop incoming https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wildwood
>>223694483It's not out yet. Also I'm planning on seeing it
>>223694483I’ve already seen Labyrinth
>>223695297they're ugly as fuck and crusty
>>223694568>seen it a hundred timesname 10. or even any that aren't Narnia
>>223694483From the trailer, this shit just looks like a Narnia derivative lmao
>>223694740>>223696737NTA but this is a whole fucking genre. granted it's a cliche that exists in fairytales, nowadays people call it 'isekai', but there's stuff like picrel and Three Hearts and Three Lions.
>narnia created kid's fantasy
>>223696781no. > “oh no the evil queen took my brother we have to save him and the magic forest” there's no brother or even other family to save in your two examples. this is not about Isekai specifically.
>/tv/ hates a film before it's even outTale as old as time. Let me guess, you're gonna say something about eating poop now.
>>223696839things weren't invented until *i* noticed them.anyway picrel has some great, simple fairy stories. some original, some classics. untapped potential for a film or anthology series.
>>223696953...read a plot synopsis of King of Elfland's Daughter, it's LITERALLY that (man goes to Fairyland to bring the Fairy King's daughter into Christendom and marry her, evil Fairy King steals her back, son goes back for her in Fairy Land).granted, in Three Hearts and Three Lions, it's not a lost family member, it's an aeroplane.
>>223694483Some producer needs to tell these people ...90 minutes is good enough
>>223694483
>>223695352>I found a lot of happiness making woketards like you cry like little faggots when Trump won.Nice anon, I hope it lasts!>>223695483Maybe its still the honeymoon phase for me I would say it's my 3rd favorite Laika movie behind Coraline and Kuba. And yes Mary and Max is kino.
>>223694523>2.5 hoursWhat the fuckGuess I'm not seeing it
>>223697271My jap friends call it ugly. I don't think it'll be very good or make much money. Shame as they love coraline
>>223694803I'm sure they want the film to be profitable of course, but at the end of the day, the Knight family is so wealthy that a $100 million dollar movie that doesn't even break even probably isn't a big deal (plus regardless of initial box office, I'd imagine that quality, family friendly animated movies have fairly long lifespans, not to mention merchandise sales).>>223694523The only Laika movie I've seen was Coraline. Been a while since I watched it, but I remember finding it odd how partway through the film it felt like it turned into a videogame-style fetch quest. Maybe that can be blamed on the book, which I haven't read.
>>223694483All the characters are ugly as fuck
Based on the trailer it looks extremely derivative and the main character looks like some homeless crack fiend.Not a good mix.
>>223694483The issue, as with everything, is that kids aren't naturally drawn to animated movies anymore, and parents simply bring them to keep them quite and doze off for a couple of hours. However, they will only choose the mainstream and easily recognisable flicks, and something like Wildwood seems unpalatable for a parent to babysit their annoying ipad toddler. Conversely, while many adults are fond of animation, the percentage is extremely low, and most people above 14 years of age automatically think all animated movies are just for children. Meaning, a way too large chunk of the non-parent demographic just dismiss all these movies on a whim.Hence, this project was doomed from the start
>>223694483I was genuinely excited. new lakia movie it’s fantasy about forest. the name sounds cool, it’s a bout a race of giant eagles? Ok….. then the real trailer comes out, it’s some narnia bullshit about evil queen and animal people. My desire to watch movie dropped like a stone. It’s actually based on a novel? That’s lame I thought it was a whole original universe invented by lakia. i shan’t
>>223694483Laika only makes movies to evade taxes from their gacha game or some shit
>>223697457I love the animation, but that art direction is brutal. Maybe it hits harder for kids.
>>223695101Not the board's fault they make the characters of their fantasy movie look so depressing, like holy moly, that girl looks like she works 16 hour shifts at the local business factory to make ends meet.
>portal fantasyis that like isekai?
>>223694803The reported boxoffice figures are before the theatres and distributors take their cut. Kubo did not generate $77 million for the studio. It sold $77 million worth of tickets across the entire planet. The budgets also do not account for promotional spending. Just the cost of making the film.Coraline is likely the only one on that list that made money theatrically.
>>223694483i'm not fallin again for anything from Laika, fuck off and shut down your shit company nepobaby
>>223695188Main villain of Boxtrolls was a tranny.
For a company that does such an excellent job at keeping stop-motion animation alive and they put so much effort into it they sure pick the dullest stories. Or rather not specifically dull, but each time after the initial premise of the story hits the rest of the movie just meanders around going through uninspired motions.
>>223694803oh you poor idiot
>>223694949Man shut the fuck up
>>223697428The Coraline book was so much better than the film adaption at least plot-wise. I agree the movies pacing did feel streamlined and weirdly gamey, along with the overall tone being more lighthearted and quirky. From what I remember the book was still eccentric but much more somber feeling. For instance the brown kid who befriends Coraline was completely created for the film adaption, in my opinion his inclusion greatly diminishes the solitary feeling of the story while also ruining the original final climax.
>>223694483it's out already?
I said it when Kubo came out but I they seriously need to show a cut of the behind the scenes when doing these trailers. I mean look at this shithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8q_hYcu-fQIf you have no fucking clue who Laika is and can barely remember Coraline, it just looks like fugly CGI with a girl that looks way too young to have eyebags. If they're going to do plain stories like >>223698497 said, then they really have to sell it on the premise of why it's a special kind of ugly.
>>223694483Should do a live action fantasy movie where the buff male hero has to have a sword fight with some wacky stop motion monster(or adapt some fantasy book...I really don't know any good ones to pick)add some 1980s electricity special effects too
I picked up the Wildwood book in the library once, looking for something for my kids to read. Couldn’t get past the first page. It’s girlboss feminism all the way down. Kind of hilarious they made the characters ugly, too. Wouldn’t want any “male gaze” ticket sales to prop this up!
>From the hands that made CoralineI would refuse to watch it based on this alone. Pretentious.
Grim fucking thread.
>>223702025It's funny because stop motion
>>223694892that only happened in your mostly empty head, little zoom zoom
>>223694483I want Laika to succeed but, man, I don't want to watch any of these movies they're putting out.
>>223694483Lord of Mysteries mogs it.
Why the fuck do all cartoons flop unless they're furfaggot bait (The Bad Guys, Zootopia) or a sequel to some ancient shit. Toy Story 5 made like a billion. How many modern kids actually know about fucking Toy Story? It's ancient history by now. But it still makes money. I thought it's mostly soulennials and older zoomers who make that bank, but you'd think they would also pay for this kind of hipster movie but apparently not, they only care about sequel slop. Despite the fact that everyone seemingly shits on sequels and remakes and whatever. There's an entire fucking world we don't know about. This movie was all over social media with people saying how kino it looks but apparently it was not a signifier of anything. Why the fuck are so many psyops ran online there if everything here is fake and actual normalfags are actually somewhere IRL outside the internet?
>>223695007>nasolabial folds
>>223694483>makes 1 good film 20 years ago
>>223695007>bibi
>>223695007Is that character supposed to be 40 years old? Is this a movie for children, about old women? Why?
Laika did 1 good movie followed by a consistent stream of mediocrity. If the founder wasn't a Nike nepo-baby they'd have shut down years ago.
>>223694483Just watched the trailer.Looks awfully convoluted and complicated.
>>223695007i find hard to believe this mogs del taco pinnochio
>>223694483why does it feel like completely random things in the entertainment industry are wildly successful whilst others which should perform well utterly flop?like no one would've predicted resident evil requiem and obsession would be the biggest selling video game / film this year
Hold on, the Wildwood trailer opens with a shot of a moving van. Wasn't that the opening of Coraline too?
>>223694483how the fuck is it 2.5 hours
>>223694803Kubo was pretty good! I'm planning on seeing this new one.
>>223704150>no one could predict movie based on a best selling video game franchise with its biggest selling game out THIS YEAR and the popslop chick flick horror film would do well at the box office. you couldn't predict it anon.
>>223694483>from the hands that made CoralineWhoopity doo
>>223694483Yeah, good movies that tell a good story typically bomb in a country that is rife with illiteracy.
>>223702277The people yearn for 2D
>>223695493True, Laika is a Nepo Baby Bitch passion project.Not True, all animation is done in house in Oregon. It is not outsourced to some animation studio in some developing nation.Fun Fact: Phil Knight's kids first Nepo Baby Bitch passion project was, he tried being a rapper. and daddy paid for all the studio time and CD production.Also,Laika was originally, Will Vinton Studios and through some fuckery, Phil Knight acquired that company and it morphed into Laika. Now, to be fair, Phil Knights kid did start at the bottom at Will Vinton Studios, but he sure got prompted pretty quick.Another Fun Fact:All air bags that go into Nike Air shoes are manufactured in Oregon. Every Single One. They are then shipped overseas to factories and the rest of the shoe is produced there, then shipped back to the USA and the rest of the world.The other soles on Nike shoes, that are not Nike Air, are manufactured in Vietnam.
>>223694483>LaikaI will now watch your slop.
>>223695297This is an embarrassing post even for here. You should feel ashamed
Travis Knight is the best kind of nepobabyUsing all his Nike equity to fund his passion projects and having a blast while doing so
>>223695125>>223695170>>223695297what the flying fuck is this?
>>223694483Wait its 2 and a half hours long?Pass. Fucking hell, stop with the 2 hour + movies already
>>223695493>the process is the pointwhat a load of steaming shit. the outcome is the point.
>>223694483All the characters look like they haven't slept in month.I also don't buy into LAIKA's "stop motion mastery"as there is way to much cg augmentation going on. As a result it just feels forgettable and soulless. Dishonest too.
>>223694483>From the hands that made CoralineBut Henry Selick made Coraline, and this is made by some other asshole. Maybe if you didn't LIE your shitty movie would've garnered more interest, LIAR.
>>223694847Kek. This!
>>223696663With a much more attractive lead to boot!
>>223695188I remember liking Boxtrolls a lot, probably more than Coraline, but I couldn't tell you the plot.
>>223704899>Not True, all animation is done in house in Oregon. It is not outsourced to some animation studio in some developing nation.He was talking about the fortune from Nike shoes that made it possible to create LAIKA.
>>223695095The sad part is that I know exactly what anon is trying to convey, he just completley fails at expressing his thoughts with cohesion.
>>223694483the baggy eyes look so werd, like its anti insomnia tv spotjust a terrible and nonsensical esthetic choice
>>223708446it does seem strange not a single person involved said>hey, this looks shit
>>223694483>100m budgetHow. Stop doing this
>>223697045>Bringing Christ to retarded heathen elves Holy shit are you memeing? I will read this shit immediately if that's the unironic plot
>>223708713See: >>223704899>all animation is done in house in Oregon. It is not outsourced to some animation studio in some developing nation.Laika has over 300 employees and this is their first movie since 2019.
>>223694601Maine?
>>223695007Looks like Zendaya
>>223708706toxic positivitytry saying anything is else than perfect and its literal rape
>>223694483They didn't make the girl goonable. They should have made her goonable like they did with Coraline. Sex sells.>>223708446This, it just looks ugly.
>>223708998That's a child, MIGAcel
Get woke, go broke. It needs $250 million to break-even with the budget of $100 million. >Awkwafina>Amandla StenbergLMFAO.
>>223709519/10
>>223694483>why don't they make white movies anymorebecause they flop hard
>>223694483The audience is literally me however, and all of /co/ and Laika/stop motion fans. Unfortunately our combined numbers and purchasing power are pretty limited.
>>223709681what exactly was unwoke about their previous films?
>>223694483They haven’t marketed it at all
>>223694483it's funny how Coraline became this big cult hit but nobody turns up to see any of their subsequent movies
>>223694483>portal fantasyStop using boomer words unc. We call them isekai these days.
>>223694483im pretty sure the name is due to the increasing popularity of wildwood, nj for rich people such as taylor & travis
>>223694523Coraline and Kubo are both kino but yeah the others are just okay despite the incredible animation. Missing Link is genuinely bad.
>>223704899SOVLI SHALL be watching>>223702271Only the web novel, the animation sucks if you haven't read it
>>223710006Sex. Appeal.
>>223710018If this was about NJ and not Oregon again it might’ve been good.
>>223694593Freaks don't understand that people go to the movies to look at attractive characters.
>>223709946If it wasn't for the Knight family's money, Laika would've been shutdown years ago. Coraline was their only real hit.
>>223710563Yeah I can see why, who the fuck wants to look at this eyebag shit? Why make things ugly on purpose?
>>223710563obviously but that doesnt answer the woke thing
>>223710600They’ll make characaters pug fugly then blame the nonexistent audience for their failure
Why was the budget so high
>>223710660Gotta pay the DEI VAs
>>223710660missing link was 100 mil as wellmovies are just getting retardedly expensive
>>223694483There’s a lot of problems with this, unfortunately.
>>223708808The masked man
>>223694523while I love paranorman, this is accurate. sometimes the movie overcomes this issue despite a weak 3rd act, often not so much.
Why would anyone watch a stop motion film when CGI does the same thing better
>>223712202you meme but there really is no appeal to stop motion for general audiences. its just cgi but choppier. most dont care about the actual artform used to make the movie
>>223694483Maybe they should've made the protagonist cute instead of looking like a post-wall hag on SSRIsEver notice how Coraline is their best selling movie?
>>223712246Hollywood abhors a cute white girl
>>223713025Do they hate money?
>>223712202Stop motion is "real"
>>223694803What the fuck increased the budget by 40 million between kubo and missing link?
>>223713927Technically yeah. They’re only making movies to avoid taxes on their gacha income.
>>223714623>gacha incomewat
>>223702277The market of adult animation fans who care about “the craft of animating” is autists with sensory issues. Like who is this movie for?
