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Last edited by paulou (2014-11-12 19:56:31)

I'd like to apologize to Paul on behalf of everyone else on the panel, for we had no idea how fucking unexaggerated he was being in his depiction of the Iron Giant marketing.

Jesus.

My parents took me to see Cats Don't Dance and The Iron Giant in theaters. I'm surprised WB hasn't sent us a "thanks for trying" letter.

I love this movie.

I don't remember a time I didn't have the VHS for this (along with Mulan and Toy Story). I've seen this about a billion times and love it to death. I even had a foot tall action figure of the Giant whose arms could come off and its eyes glowed.

I remember Cartoon Network playing it on loop for all of Thanksgiving one year (back when Cartoon Network was consistently good).

Ahh, good times :)

Atta Drew.

Great Choice.....Can't wait to listen....

Yeah! And the Laputa robots are the same as the ones in that episode of Lupin Miyazaki directed riffing on the Fliescher Superman short where that inventor trains robots to rob banks and steal jewels.

Dizzying full circle.

Farewell My Beloved Lupin, 1980

Never got in to Lupin, my fake-knowledge here comes from three minutes of clicking around and 10 watching that superman short.

Huh, I never realized it til now, but apparently I'm a huge fan of the WB feature animation thing.

Quest for Camelot-loved it, haven't seen it in a while, but the pit scene stills sends chills down my spine
Osmosis Jones- Love everything to do with it
Space Jam- Pinnacle of my childhood still watch it every 6 months or so
And I even liked most of Back in Action.

The Iron Giant is actually the least among them, I remember we went to go see it in theaters, but I would have only been 7 or 8 at the time, so I don't remember anything about the movie. But I do distinctly remember the giant Iron Giant poster that was in the lobby of theater when we went, (childhood memories are weird). And then I think I only ever watched it once or twice since then.

It's also similar to The Avengers 

"Duck and Cover" has come up in several conversations I've had over the last few weeks. Everyone seems to think it was some senseless thing, but it was and is sound science. We did a LONG unit in sophomore english class on the book "Hiroshima," which goes into some gruesome detail of the injuries sustained by those not killed instantly by the nuclear blast.

Wiki says:

Of course there are those who feel that surviving a WWIII level nuclear attack would be worse than dying in one, to which I have no solid counterpoint.

Last edited by drewjmore (2014-11-14 16:46:15)

The storyboards were done in the US, and a few different studios did the animation. TMS was the main one, doing the best work, but they'd sometimes farm episodes out. You can tell the difference. TMS did the storyboards for one Batman episode, because they begged to, making that the one "anime" BTAS episode by my definition.