Thoughts on Big Hero 6?
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ty for that insightful contribution to this thread, wow
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the tadashi is here always gets me
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it definitely has a different vibe to it than other disney films, thats for sure
a really good vibe
im glad my mom bought the blue-ray pack so now i can watch it at school huehue
Nerd House
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Watched it last night via Redbox, loved it.
Waaaaay better than Frozen, imo.
Waaaaay better than Frozen, imo.
InfinityFlames
rainbowcherry is a slug.
Theres something we can all agree on.
infinikitten
big old brat tbh
Meh it was okay, a bit cliche for my taste but Baymax and Go-Go Tamago were my faves
Me too! I loved them ♥ And Tadashi, but uh. He wasn't exactly around very long. :c Still, you're able to get a good sense of the kind of person (or character technically, whatevs) he is before he goes. I have a soft spot for siblings with good relationships, or older siblings that are kind to and look out for their younger siblings, so it's natural that I have a soft spot for Tadashi.
Gogo was badass, plain and simple. And Baymax is one of the most adorable things, I just... my brain kinda short-circuits haha, every time I see a BH6 commercial I remember all the little endearing moments with him and I melt.
Watchingthetreetops
*~Rude intolerance here~*
It's a very beautiful movie. But I wasn't really....in love with anything but the look and feel of it. I wanted to love it, but it just...it felt like a watered down version of Wreck it Ralph. The characters didn't have enough time for me to feel a whole lot and the villain felt....flimsy. I just think that Disney can do better. And...well, we already have a movie with an adorable robot. It's called Wall-e. And I find, when I think about it, that I feel a lot more connected to Wall-e while watching, then with Baymax at all. I didn't feel the kind of connection I wanted to feel for him. If they gave him a little more, like maybe he was trying to convince himself that Tadashi was still alive or something when he said 'Tadashi is here', or if Baymax acted like he felt something, I would have connected and felt more for him. But he just....wasn't really that great of character. And for a thing that takes up as much screen time as Baymax did, he /needed/ character and had none. Disney could have easily spent some time building Baymax as a sentient being, but instead just sort of...didn't. There were too many characters to focus too heavily on anyone, and because of that I felt the movie really suffered. And, I'm sorry, but the movie would have been so much stronger if Baymax had more of a personality. He was treated like he had was sentient in the movie by the characters, but he at the same time, never really...had emotion until the end. And let's talk about the ending, (spoilers). So Baymax risks his life for Hiro. Okay, that's a big thing. But here's the problem: he acts like a robot with no real external emotions or movites, until that point. So instead of feeling sad, I found myself thinking: why? Why would this robot, who acted like a robot without feelings, suddenly want to die for Hiro? And when I come to an answer, it's this: he was programmed to help doctors and thought it would aid in Hiro's care. Okay, so that's still pretty deep, but it doesn't furthur any connection with Baymax, because you can replace Hiro with anyone else who Baymax cared for, and the outcome would be the same. Baymax, despite this big act, still had no sentience; he was still 'just a robot'. We needed more scenes of Baymax interacting with the world, or with other people, to show him learn how to care for things, instead of just following his programming. With all of the characters and still having to thwart the villain towards the end of the movie, things got rushed and it isn't just Baymax's character that got cast aside. I didn't connect to any of the college kids. They were certainly interesting, but they were just sort of one sided characters with no real development throughout the movie, and honestly, their outfits and powers were cool, but that's about it. I didn't really care for them.
When I take off my critic lenses, I enjoyed myself while watching the movie. It was pretty and despite not really liking/connecting to the main characters, the one person I /did/ feel for was Hiro; this makes a big difference to me on whether or not I like the movie, because he's the main character. If I hadn't connected to him, I wouldn't have liked the movie for anything other then its atmosphere and animation. So, let's keep my train of thought here, and say that Baymax didn't have a personality and was just sort of following what he was programmed to do. It's still understandable that Hiro would really want this thing to stick around and be attached to it, because he loved his big brother, even though Baymax wasn't really a sentient thing. If there were more scenes where maybe Baymax and Hiro had time together, eating ice cream or something, or having Baymax understand what death means and understand that it hurts Hiro, and probably will for a long time, I might have connected more to the robot, but that's not my point in this portion of my thought...process. Every time Disney wanted us to feel for Hiro, it came across really well. And again, the main problem of this movie is that there are so many characters that it /wants/ us to feel for, but all I really connected to was Hiro. It's sort of the one good thing the movie had going for it, other then it's kick-ass animation.
So, to sum all that up, I thought it was a pretty movie and I /wanted/ to love it, but when it was over, I just sort of felt: meh.
That being said, the last Disney movie to star people of asian descent was Mulan. Can we all agree that this is a /far/ more accurate representation of their culture? And hey, we have a Disney movie that is not so white I might as well be blind, (I'm looking at you, Frozen). Can we all hope that maybe the next Disney movie stars a latino princess? Or maybe an African goddess? I mean, I might not have liked Big Hero 6 as much as other Disney movies, but kudos to them for getting out of their comfort zone. I'm actually pretty excited to see what they come out with next.
When I take off my critic lenses, I enjoyed myself while watching the movie. It was pretty and despite not really liking/connecting to the main characters, the one person I /did/ feel for was Hiro; this makes a big difference to me on whether or not I like the movie, because he's the main character. If I hadn't connected to him, I wouldn't have liked the movie for anything other then its atmosphere and animation. So, let's keep my train of thought here, and say that Baymax didn't have a personality and was just sort of following what he was programmed to do. It's still understandable that Hiro would really want this thing to stick around and be attached to it, because he loved his big brother, even though Baymax wasn't really a sentient thing. If there were more scenes where maybe Baymax and Hiro had time together, eating ice cream or something, or having Baymax understand what death means and understand that it hurts Hiro, and probably will for a long time, I might have connected more to the robot, but that's not my point in this portion of my thought...process. Every time Disney wanted us to feel for Hiro, it came across really well. And again, the main problem of this movie is that there are so many characters that it /wants/ us to feel for, but all I really connected to was Hiro. It's sort of the one good thing the movie had going for it, other then it's kick-ass animation.
So, to sum all that up, I thought it was a pretty movie and I /wanted/ to love it, but when it was over, I just sort of felt: meh.
That being said, the last Disney movie to star people of asian descent was Mulan. Can we all agree that this is a /far/ more accurate representation of their culture? And hey, we have a Disney movie that is not so white I might as well be blind, (I'm looking at you, Frozen). Can we all hope that maybe the next Disney movie stars a latino princess? Or maybe an African goddess? I mean, I might not have liked Big Hero 6 as much as other Disney movies, but kudos to them for getting out of their comfort zone. I'm actually pretty excited to see what they come out with next.
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Jaebeommie
Boba Enthusiast
Favorite animation movie I've ever seen, and it's hard for me to like animation let alone go to the theater of my own free will to watch it. Liked it so much I went and saw it four times in theaters, one of them being in San Francisco with the voice of Hiro himself. (Friend and I drove four hours just to go. We're dedicated to this movie haha.)
Well, considering the fact I thought I wouldn't care much for Frozen before I watched it, I can't really say much about Big Hero 6. I think it's unfair to keep comparing Frozen with other Disney films, and I do hope Big Hero 6 doesn't get bashed when whatever new masterpiece Disney comes out with gets released. Let's be honest here, Tangled still slays.
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infinikitten
big old brat tbh
I have the same hopes. Big Hero 6 was flawed in its own ways, like everything is, but it'll be sad to see people drag it through the mud to compare it to new movies; if that's what the future holds in store, I think I'd prefer the incessant comparisons to Frozen (which, dear god, am I tired of hearing about - how long has it been now? lawd)
Agreed. One of my biggest pet peeves is when I ask someone what they thought of something {be it a song, movie, whatever}, and they answer with, "Well, it wasn't as good as -x-." Not everything needs to be a comparison.
EDIT; That being said, I think it would hilarious if people talked about Zootopia {the next Disney film, which features a fox as the main character} like, "Well, it was good. However, it wasn't as good as Robin Hood or The Fox and the Hound."
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elliebeebee
Busy Bee
I thought it was really cute and sent out the right messages to kids (being a girl is NOT a bad thing, etc.)
InfinityFlames
rainbowcherry is a slug.
What can I say? Baymax is Baemax
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