Well I just read in another thread that Sinbad flopped. I don`t know why? I just got back from seeing Sinbad and I have to say I was VERY impressed I loved it! 
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Sinbad!
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theonlytigger
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Hmm..I don't know if I'll be seeing that movie...Its gotten pretty bad reviews so far...However I might like it, but I'll probably rent it if I ever see it.
MouseMadness
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Are you sure you're kidding? :slurp: (I wouldn't have been. :lookaroun )
CTXRover
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End of Traditonal Animation???
With the undeniable flop for Dreamwork's Sinbad, it really hurts the traditional animation genre. Sinbad made around 10 million in FIVE days, that is even less than Disney's Treasure Planet's 12 million that it made in its first THREE days in release, and TP was considered a major flop. I hate to read articles that say movies like Sinbad and TP did bad because they were traditional animation. Its the fact that people don't want traditional animated ACTION/ADVENTURE films. How easy critics forget the hit success Lilo and Stitich from LAST year! However, with Finding Nemo now becoming the number one grosser at the box office this year (surpassing the Matrix! ) the idea that CGI films are far superior to traditional animated films will only get worse! It upsets me to see an art form made famous by Disney get slowly washed away as Disney and Dreamworks continue to put out animated films that target the male/teen demographic. Let's hope Brother Bear can help save traditional animation!
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy Nemo is such a success with Disney being a part of it. Also, I don't really care for Jeffrey Katzenburg's belief he is the "animation king" and that Dreamworks is some amazing animation studio (they've only had one hit, Shrek, all others have performed very poorly or fair) and would rather Disney always be considered number 1 in animation. However, I hope traditional animation isn't lost as an "art form". Disney itself seems to be falling into that misconception with most of its next films being developed all in CGI!
With the undeniable flop for Dreamwork's Sinbad, it really hurts the traditional animation genre. Sinbad made around 10 million in FIVE days, that is even less than Disney's Treasure Planet's 12 million that it made in its first THREE days in release, and TP was considered a major flop. I hate to read articles that say movies like Sinbad and TP did bad because they were traditional animation. Its the fact that people don't want traditional animated ACTION/ADVENTURE films. How easy critics forget the hit success Lilo and Stitich from LAST year! However, with Finding Nemo now becoming the number one grosser at the box office this year (surpassing the Matrix! ) the idea that CGI films are far superior to traditional animated films will only get worse! It upsets me to see an art form made famous by Disney get slowly washed away as Disney and Dreamworks continue to put out animated films that target the male/teen demographic. Let's hope Brother Bear can help save traditional animation!
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy Nemo is such a success with Disney being a part of it. Also, I don't really care for Jeffrey Katzenburg's belief he is the "animation king" and that Dreamworks is some amazing animation studio (they've only had one hit, Shrek, all others have performed very poorly or fair) and would rather Disney always be considered number 1 in animation. However, I hope traditional animation isn't lost as an "art form". Disney itself seems to be falling into that misconception with most of its next films being developed all in CGI!
mickey04
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Re: End of Traditonal Animation???
I agree completely. It is very distressing to me that the world of animation seems to be moving away from the "traditional" approach. I loved the Pixxar films and I think computer animation is very interesting and far more realistic. But it lacks a warmth that the hand drawn animation has. I think both can coexist and a movi should not be dismissed because it is done this way. I dont think I'd be any more interested in Sinbad if it had been computerized- and I'm not sure all that many others would. It seems silly to judge a movie just on how it was animated.
I agree completely. It is very distressing to me that the world of animation seems to be moving away from the "traditional" approach. I loved the Pixxar films and I think computer animation is very interesting and far more realistic. But it lacks a warmth that the hand drawn animation has. I think both can coexist and a movi should not be dismissed because it is done this way. I dont think I'd be any more interested in Sinbad if it had been computerized- and I'm not sure all that many others would. It seems silly to judge a movie just on how it was animated.
MrPromey
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Originally posted by darthdarrel
Sorry but I agree with Dan on this one. The movie had some good qualities but it honestly didn’t deliver the total package… Without nit-picking and tearing things that I found wrong with it apart I can say one thing that summed up my opinion of it. In the screening I saw there were a lot of children talking through nearly the entire movie. Since they were actually trying to market this to children around and below the age of 7 this is clearly not a good sign.
We had representatives there from Dreamworks at the time I saw it (about two weeks ago) to monitor guest reactions. I think they already knew they had a dud on their hands… What is funny is that the whole Shrek cd-rom thing was supposed to help boost the ticket sales for this movie but I took some people to go see Finding Nemo again tonight and they gave each of us one of the Shrek disks with our ticket purchase… I don’t know, maybe after last week they figured they would never get rid of them all if they only gave them out for that one movie.
MrPromey
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Actually, you shouldn’t be kidding. He isn’t really a character actor at all. What makes him special is his star power. It is sort of like John Wayne but not to such a degree… In any event, using the voice of this type of actor for animation doesn’t really add anything special to the character, it just helps in commercials when they show the shot of him in the studio talking into a microphone.
That is why for years many of the people doing the voices for Disney movies were relative unknowns in Hollywood having mainly done Broadway and other off Hollywood stuff.
CTXRover
Well-Known Member
Originally posted by MrPromey
We had representatives there from Dreamworks at the time to monitor guest reactions. I think they already knew they had a dud on their hands… What is funny is that the whole Shrek cd-rom was supposed to help boost the ticket sales for this movie but I too some people to go see Finding Nemo again tonight and they gave each of us one of the Shrek disks with our ticket purchase… I don’t know, maybe after last week they figured they would never get rid of them all if they only gave them out for that one movie.
You're theater is not the only place that has lots of Shrek disks left over. When I went to see Pirates tonight, my theater had a HUGE pile of disks sitting on the refreshment counter that they were trying to give away, no matter what movie you were seeing. I guess, like you said, theaters are realizing they will never get rid of these Shrek disks if they only give them out for children's tickets to Sinbad. Kind of sad.
Well it may be a flop,but I still liked it! :lol: