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The Incredibles Trailer Online
Ant writes "The Incredibles movie trailers are posted online.
Here are the Big (20 MB) and Full-screen (30 MB) Quicktime Files."
something tells me yahoo can outrun coral...
Elastigirl, who appears in this movie, was also the name of a superheroine (but with a hyphen: Elasti-Girl) in the DC Comics published Doom Patrol, an old comic from the 1960s. Her superpower: altering her size, not stretching parts of her body,
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OK, yes, I'm old. At least I'm not overweight and eating a rapidly congealing breakfast burrito
Akamai (which is what Yahoo uses) moves around 15% of the web's traffic. A couple thousand /.'ers downloading a 30 megabyte file isn't even going to show up as a bleep to them, as terrible as that may sound.
You're probably right, but I still think /. should start making a habbit of using caching technologies like FreeCache or Coral when linking to media.
Slashdotting and the ensuing "/. KILLED MY SERVER!1" comments are, erm... funny and all, but it kind of defeats the purpose of a news web-site when links are posted in the full knowledge that they won't be available for very long simply because of the popularity of the news-site.
The Walt Disney Company has shut down its cel animation studios. Pixar will probably leave Disney after The Incredibles and Cars have completed their runs. There's trouble in Miramaxland. Now I know why Michael Eisner decided to get out in 24 months: there won't be a Disney left. What does survive of the company will assume a role similar to that of Cedar Fair, which runs a few amusement parks.
Am I the only one who finds a superhero by the name of "Elastigirl" more than a little bit sexually provocative? I mean, honestly, there are just too many jokes that you could make about that.
Oh I'm not saying I find the idea sexually attractive, I'm just saying that I think the idea is implicitly sexually incendiary, although I suppose the same is true for a male elastic superhero.
On second thought, maybe this isn't a great road for discussion.
... Shark's Tale crashes and burns, and the Incredibles triumphs in their wake. With the exception of Shrek, Dreamworks has been playing copy cat to Pixar. Pixar develops a Bugs Life, and -- what a coincidence -- Dreamworks releases Antz a few months before Pixar. Pixar develops Finding Nemo, and Dreamworks comes out with a Shark's Tale.
They did so well with their only original idea -- Shrek. Given how lame ST looks in previews, I hope it spanks them into forced creativity.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm over 21, and I'm certainly going to see the SpongeBob movie.
If I ever get too old for quality absurdist children's entertainment, then well...
Ah, I don't know what, but it isn't going to happen.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
For the first time an animation company has come along that can create new and interesting characters and movies, without have to rehash old characters or make sequels. Eisner is hoping to lord over Pixar all the characters from Toy Story, Monsters Inc, etc. in the hope that Pixar will come back to Disney. It must drive Eisner nuts that Pixar doesn't need their old characters or movies!
(BTW, I noticed Disney released another Lion King movie this past week.... It's time to stop beating a dead horse (or lion) and make some new stuff!)
What, me worry?
Check out The Iron Giant, Family Dog (if you can find it!), or even the early seasons of The Simpsons (on which he was a consultant) to see just how good this guy's work is.
Here's a better link.
This is terrible slow, here's a mirror. http://kcore.ath.cx/mirror/7038600.mov Bandwidth provided by Admin-Networks.org
F.Y.I. The trailer is the second Incredibles Trailer. It's completely different from the first one and much more interesting..
Is this news for nerds now? New movie trailers?
New CGI superhero sci-fi movie trailers.
Lets see, its new, so its news, and its CGI superhero sci-fi stuff, so its for nerds.
Yup, meets the criteria of "news" "for nerds".
Now go to the settings page and make some kind of arrangement that leads to you not having to see movie news on the front page and us not having to see your post complaining about them. Everyone wins.
You can't take the sky from me...
I saw a lot of folks mentioning that they could care less about this sort of thing. I agree, but to clear up some confusion...
The trailer appears to NOT be available either on QuickTime or the movie website. There is a not-yet-activated third trailer link in the Flash animation on the movie website. I believe that the links provided earlier are that trailer.
Honestly, the movie looks rather funny. I remember watching a documentary about how Pixar tackles CGI challenges in each of its movies. In Nemo, it was the realism of the water. Making it look like seawater with plankton and dirt and silt and stuff. Making water look realistic on the fish scales. Stuff like that. Monsters Inc. was all about getting the fur on the blue monster to look like...well...real fur.
They mentioned, in the documentary, that the next film (I would assume that The Incredibles is the one in question) would deal with animating people and more realistic human environments. From what I can see, the characters are cartoony, but they do have much more expressiveness and character than the human characters from movies like Toy Story and Monsters Inc.
Oddly enough, if you think about it, that CGI-based Final Fantasy movie from a few years ago seemed to really capture some human-like realism, and Lucas has done it a little with his prequels. The comment from the documentary made me wonder what Pixar was really getting at with their technology development goals.
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