BEST ANIMATED FILM 2016

Coraline was extremely overrated. I think it gets love only because it was a story done by Gaiman.

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Its "Another puppet movie flops, while cheap 3D animation films with fart jokes clean house" episode

I have to wait another two weeks before it comes out in my country.

>>85628700
Paranorman>Kubo>Coraline>Boxtrolls

>>85628859
I have to wait til late October
fuck y'all

>>85628724
Well you're wrong. Cause I loved it and had no idea who Neil Gaiman was until last year.

>>85629038
Move out of Botswana dude.

Because I'm watching The Deer Hunter

>>85628700
Are you kidding? The Illuminati will ensure Dory wins every goddamn honor there is.

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>>85628700

I'm sure it's great and all, but it can't hope to have the same ground-breaking appeal of Sausage Party.

>>85628700
because it is not out here jet.

There's no way this movie won't be successful in Japan, which is good news.

Also, what is it about antagonists going insane that really makes a scene ten times more intense?

>>85632050
Because scenes are really only tense when you can't predict what is going to happen.

>>85631995

did a february movie ever got nominated?

>>85631995
Why the ever loving hell do people think Sausage Party will even get a nomination for anything?
>rated R
>animated
>comedy
ANY one of those is poison to the Academy.

>>85634783
They reshuffled the Academy membership to include more hip young people after the whole "no blacks" thing at the last Oscars. All those hip young people appreciate the work of Seth Rogen.

>>85628700
I agree

I'm not watching it right now because I already saw it Thursday night, but I may go again before it's run is over in theaters

I disagree on it being better than Coraline. Or Paranorman. Better than Boxtrolls though and Laika has yet to make a film that isn't great.

>>85631995
What is top right?

>>85636461
>hip young people
>the same ones who think Sausage Party is witty and daring

I'm glad the European-only animation awards will be next year so I don't have to suffer through good movies being shafted

>>85628700
IT'S NOT OUT IN MY COUNTRY
FUCK

>>85628700
Sausage party

>>85628700
Just saw it with some friends. Pretty spectacular.

Saw the reveals about the beetle and monkey coming a mile away but part of that is due to the good, but subtle, foreshadowing beforehand. It was funnier than I expected, a bit darker than expected, and I was really surprised with how they ended the conflict.

I don't know if I'd say better than Coraline, but easily just as good. The animation is incredible - Laika really outdid themselves.

>>85628700

My theater only gives 5 dollar tickets on Tuesday. I am so hyped to see this!

>>85628700
'cause it isn't out in my country yet,anon. I'm so hyped I'm gonna burst.

paid a hooker so that I could get into the only theatre in town which is a couples only threatre and I liked it. Mercedes said it was alright

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>>85631995
no Bilal?

>>85632050
>There's no way this movie won't be successful in Japan, which is good news.
Except, I checked IMDB and . . . Kubo isn't even scheduled for release in Japan, actually.

>>85636568
The Red Turtle, studio ghibli helping out some french studio

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>>85637060

The plot feels a little bit off and Moon King is just anti-climatic. Other than that it's a great animated film.

>>85637713
pretty much my thoughts on it. the two strings reveal was great though

>>85637683
It's just stupid /tv/ meme shit, the no singles thing. Don't pay attention to him.

Good to finally have a shotafu to add to my harem of /co/ husbandos with missing body parts.

>>85638137
Now imagine Guillermo del Toro dropping the cash on this and putting it in Bleak House.

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>Kubo will never send a flying piece of paper up your butthole.

>>85638180
>Your mom would never save you with a bad ass shamisen solo and send you on a great journey to find your dad's useless equipment

>>85638248
this was real? fug

>>85637525
Japan's release schedule is really bizarre. Deadpool just got released there about a month ago.

So how much of this was CGI? Because at this point I can't tell.

im gonna watch it tomorrow, since the last showing was at 6:50pm for some reason

So which Disney movie you think will end up getting all the awards instead of Kubo?
I'm guessing Zootopia

>>85638466
It kinda makes me sad to think about it, but Kubo won't stand a chance against Zootopia.

>>85638466
They'll throw their marketing machine behind Moana for awards season. Zootopia was the throwaway they weren't expecting to do as well as it did.

>>85638540
I wonder if Moana will be the well-marketed flop like Pocahontas was.

>>85638580
they have a demigod in their cast, The Rock sells tickets on his name alone

>>85638180
tfw you'll never get clawed by a QT vengeful sister spirit.

>>85638732
I wish they had more screen time.

>>85638575
>Thousands of faces
>Probably dozens of each figure
>Every small worker on this prolly got to keep a few faces as souvenirs
>Every big person in production prolly got to keep a figure or two

>Somewhere in Hollywood mathew mcconaughey is drunk playing with a figure souvenir of Monkey and Beetle, putting them is sexual positions and laughing the night away.

Some people have all the luck.

>>85638825
Who keeps the skeleton?

>>85638838
The skeleton gets sold at auction for a gorillion dollars.

>figures look so good most people will assume it was all CG

kind of a catch 22

>>85638888
>Del Toro buys it
>He puts it in his backyard to scare the children.

>>85638838
Maybe to one of the main guys to keep or make into a Halloween prop.

>>85638963
>They put it into the Nike office building for Halloween.

I swear if it doesn't at least get a spot in the "Best Animated Film" feature I will kidnap the people who pick the oscars, tie them up in a shed, and force them to watch Foodfight nonstop.

>>85638925
Laika has had bigger problems

Like when Coralline was coming out.
Advertised as "from the director of Nightmare Before Christmas" or something. And since every idiot was like "well everyone knows that was Tim Burton"

>>85639068
Burton did produce it though.

You know, while they explained the three pieces, they never explained the chip Kubo used to strum his instrument, it seemed way more important than the three pieces.

>>85640257
I assumed it was just Kubo's mother channeling her magical energy into the chip. After she gave Kubo wings and sent him away, she ran in to 1v1 the sisters with glowing hands.

But yeah, I'm not entirely sure what purpose the armor was supposed to serve, outside of giving Monkey a sword that she easily could have borrowed from Beetle's hideout.

Sorry, OP, but it just doesn't interest me at all.

>>85638395
To some extent, it's almost pointless to ask. They use CG to cover up the seams in almost every shot.

>>85628700
I would but I'm broke and It looks too good to pirate. Hopefully I'll be able to watch it in theaters later this month.

Story structure was 100% garbage

Everything else was fine

>>85640908
prove it

>First the Fannings star as protagonists.
>Now 2 of the Starks do it as well
What a weird coincidence.

>>85637756
I think it should have been called Kubo and the 3 strings though.

I get why with the reveal but he also used his own hair, so in the end he had 3 strings

>>85641750
But anon, the title still makes sense
He is the third string, so its still Kubo and the 2 Strings

>>85628724
But I don't care for Gaiman at all and I love Coraline.

>>85636568
Some chinese fuckin' thing, who cares.

>>85641889
Oh shit, you are right.

>>85628904
I'm flip flopping on Kubo and Coraline, but I agree Paranorman is at the top and Boxtrolls is at the bottom.

>>85638085
Chart?

>>85641889
>mind blown.

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>originally projected to make about $17 million this weekend
>after Saturday, looking like it will only make $11-12 mil
>lowest opening for a Laika film, including Coraline which was playing in about half as many theaters http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4216&p=.htm

We couldn't do it /co/.

>>85642957
I saw it tonight at a busy theater.
It was only like half full if that.
Pretty sad

>>85642957
I mean, while it saddens me that it might not make too much money, Laika will never have any financial trouble.

>>85642957
That bad? Yikes. I knew it wouldn't do amazing, but fuck, Laika deserves better.

>>85628700
>called 2 Strings
>his sitar has 3

>>85643663
see>>85641889

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What other, non Wonderwall, songs does he play?

>>85641889
>>85643783
Uh no? Kubo is a person not a string.

>>85643874
Through the Fire and the Flames on Expert

>>85631995
Zootopia is going to win 100%.

pack up and go home, Laikafags.

>>85643963
Well I think Laika should win.
But I'd be happy if Zootopia won.

I don't see sausage party winning, but I could see Moana or Finding Dory winning because the former is another disney princess movie and the latter is pixar.

>>85643963
I'm fine with that, I liked Zootopia.

I liked Kubo more, but that's the way it goes with these things.

>>85643906
Kubo adds 2 strings in the climax, one being his mother, her hair and the other his father, his bowstring. Then he adds his own hair, making him the third string.

>>85643663
Here you go buddy >>85641889

>>85640612
>But yeah, I'm not entirely sure what purpose the armor was supposed to serve
That Kubo's greatest power didn't come from brute force, but from his family bonds and humanity, or something.

I was scared for a good two minutes they were gonna bullshit something more explicit than the most-likely-symbolic ending.

>>85644931
Symbolic? The ghosts were real, he did get to see his parents again. But its not like hes getting to live with them. Presumably they will go on like all the other ghosts did.

>>85644994
There's a jump cut to it instead of the "relieving" action of seeing the ghosts like most movies would do. Even though ghosts are explicit in other parts of the movie, the shot is ambiguously more symbolic than anything.

Which is to say, whether ghost magic happened or not, the movie didn't pander to the audience's sensibilities and try to make you feel better about it. Whether they actually were perceptibly there or it's meant for the audience's convenience, the tone stays intact.

>>85645127
Fair enough

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>>85641931
maybe it's time you do..

>>85644125
Wow, I didn't notice that at all, I was focused on what they were saying.

Now I need to see the whole movie again.

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I want to protect his smile.

>>85628700
I just watched it today. And as a Japanese person, I say this : "Hory Shitto" that was good. Usually all y'all white folks don't do justice to oriental themed Hollywood crap, mixing Japan and Korea and China out badly. But this? This was AMAZING. The least "white people's view of Japan" I've seen in a very long time. Most favorite from Laika.

Kubo>Coralie=Paranormal>Box Trolls

>>85645482
Knowing stuff about Japanese culture actually influenced my opinion on the movie a fair bit, because I got what they were going for in certain places.

>>85643663
>Sitar
Please call it Shamisen, baka gaijin

>>85642957
wake me up senpai

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>>85645482
Yeah, we sure are terrible. Japs, on the other hand, have every aspect of American culture down perfectly in all the animes I've seen.

>>85642957
It has Asians in it, and Asians are gross.
No, seriously, prove me fucking wrong. It's doing worse because it's about Asians instead of ambiguously American people or fantasy creatures. The Hollywood execs are fucking right.

>>85645555
Here's a funny thing I noticed. All of them were japanese themed, except the sisters and grandaddy. He was Chinese, and the other had Korean style hats. I don't know if it's their play at the fact that China is Japan's ancestor and Korea being an equivalent of siblings with Japan. But it was nice to see them distinguishing the differences well.

>>85645707
And yet Moon King is the legendary fish who swallowed the moon, which is a distinctly Japanese fable whose name I always forget.

I don't fucking know.

>>85645641
Right. It's not like a good number of American people actually put their flag as design on their clothing or vehicles and have guns 'cause muh rights' , right?

to be honest, I hate Japanese bias of the world, not just towards America. Japan is very... blind to non stereotypical facts. My apologies for my countrymen

>>85645641
>Implying you've never seen a man who basically looks just like that.
Bullshit.

>>85645780
And I loved it. I was expecting they put another shitty asian dragon in the end. Nope. It's fish like. Beautiful. I believe oriental beliefs about the heavenly body saw he cosmos and the milky ways as a river or a sea, and divine creatures are typically piscine or fish like, as if to swim in the cosmos. Eastern dragons may be depicted to breathe fire too, but they are celestial/water creatures as well. Brilliant choice of design, what they did.

>>85632050
Man, Grandpa was underused, but he had some great mannerisms and a most excellent insane breakdown in his monologue.

DESU I thought it was immensely boring and cliche.

I didn't like any characters at all. Setting was great, especially the big set-pieces for attaining the sword (skeleton) and the armor (the underwater eyes).

>>85632050
I feel like it could easily flop there.

>>85646013
I thought it was cliche too, but backstabbing the daddy scene made me jump a bit. I expected he would die, but not so sudden. It was almost mid conversation. It would have shocked me more if they did a mid conversation kill

>>85646107
I didn't understand why his dad was a beetle in life but a normal human ghost otherwise.

>>85646142
They EXPLICITLY tell you why.
Were you paying attention at all?
He wasn't a Beetle until he stood up against the Moon King.

>>85646142
Probably same as why Anakin was human in Luke's eyes an not Darth Vader in the end of Return of the Jedi.

>>85646142
The same reason his mom's ghost isn't a monkey or a pile of smouldering ash.

>>85631995
Maybe April and the Extraordinary world and Ghost Boy will get in there too.

>>85643874
https://youtu.be/w34fSnJNP-4

Just imagine him acting this out with his paper puppets.

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>>85638268
The dad looked a lot like Mifune when he was a human.

>>85645398
To do that you would have needed to stop The Moon King and Kubo's aunts from fucking up his father's palace and chasing his mother away. Kid was pretty clearly troubled from start to finish.

Why didn't they show the aunts' faces?

>>85643963
id be alright with that, as long as its not moana
but ideally, kubo would win

>>85646728
They look just like his mother, they are triplets.

>>85646728
For the creepy factor.

>>85646750
why do you have a beef with an unaired movie? moana seems alright from the trailers so far

>>85646772
where was this mentioned?

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>>85646495
He seemed pretty well adjusted, all things considered.

So wait, is the reason Kubo's mom turned herself into a monkey is so that she would have a body that wouldn't go catatonic during the day?

>>85628700
I saw it opening day and paid extra for the vip fancy theatre. Isn't that enough?

>>85646914
im sure it'll be great, im going to see it and probably love it, but i personally think this is more original and deserving of an award than another disney princess movie for sheer creativity and effort alone

>>85646914
It wasn't mentioned, but they have the exact same body type, the same hair, and the mask looks extremely like her face. It's the kind of detail that they wouldn't need to mention.

>>85628700
Well, I got spoiled by people who forgot to spoiler. Guess I'll just watch a stream in a few months.

>>85646959
If your hot aunt asks you "give aunty a kiss", would you kiss her with only platonic/familial thoughts?

>>85647424
one of the aunts should've gotten a redemption like grandpa

>>85628700
Yeah, but it's not as good as Paranorman.

>>85628700
Because it hasn't come out over here yet.

Beautiful film but I felt like most of Laika's films that the story was under cooked and the pace was a little strange.
They wanted it to be like a story book but it failed, especially when the only impression of that was the monologue by kubo at the beginning and end, and a few too-long fade to black.

>>85647566
Pfft, no it's not kid.

>>85647108
yeah, laika definitely needs the recognition more than the mouse, moana will likely do well regardless of quality, while kubo's flopping is all but assured at this point

>>85647342
alright, i kinda assumed the same, just wondering if i missed something

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>>85628700
I just got through seeing it, it was fantastic. Kubo wasn't kidding with that warning at the start, there were so many details that foreshadowed what was about to happen. There was so much symbolism in every part of the movie; it was like I was always one step ahead of the movie and knew what was about to happen up until the final battle, but it was clearly intentional. It's rare to see this much TLC in a single movie.

It's definitely one of the best movies that came out this year.

>>85647424
Bitch probably has smokers breath so that kills any potential hotness.

Out of all of the animated films that I've seen this year,Kubo is definitely at the top of the list

>1.Kubo
>2.Zootopia
>3.Sausage Party

Bar none,the absolute most impressive display of animation by a million fucking miles out of any animated film.Coupled with an impressive score featuring the Shamisen as proof that even the most retarded looking instrument was made to give joy,display beauty,and emit abstract thoughts and concepts that can only be harnessed through music.

Charismatic characters,lush and vibrant world,wondrous soundtrack

The worst part?
The story was definitely rushed,but for a children's movie that's to be expected

Solid 9.5/10

Also,went to a rather late screening,but there were still roughly 40 adults,and only a few kids.So the 9:10 showing did pretty well compared to shit like Suicide Squad which was still sold out

>>85648483
Man, this is animations biggest downfall; they can't be too long, because the kids will lose interest. If only that was different.

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im pissed i have to wait till december to watch this, it's going to be on dvd worldwdide by then

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Look at this cute famart

After watching Kubo last night, I decided to watch Coraline and Paranorman.
Wow, I didn't realize they all shared similarities, like Kubo and Coraline had the thing with the eyes, and Kubo and Paranorman about stories.
Overall I'd say Coraline > Kubo > Paranorman. Paranorman was kinda mediocre until the reveal, then the climax.

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>Hanzo

>>85649282
Also rewatched Coraline after gettin home from Kubo. Agree with your overall rankings for the movies (assuming Boxtrolls is last, though I still enjoyed it).

It's been years since I've seen Coraline, and it's actually better than I remembered. There are a lot of details I never picked up on, and the structure of how the story plays out is perfect. Other anons should rewatch that and Paranorman.

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>>85649417
Yea! I loved Coraline, her cast, everything. It must've been a bitch to animate all those mice when they were performing.
I also did like how even when she's beat the other mother, her story wasn't finished, and when she was crawling through the tunnel while it was closing. Basically, my favorite Laika movie.

Also I want to add, Kubo seemed shorted than the rest of the movies, are there any reasons why?

>>85649563
It's all in your head, every Laika movie hits 1h 40m almost exactly.

>>85649563
Kubo needed to move very fast to cover everything and I think the other films had more time to breath, so that may be it.

>>85649596
>>85649600
Oh alright. It just seemed weird comparing it with other movies because Paranorman dragged into the climax while Kubo kinda ran full speed into it. But yea, a story about a journey based on finding things, that needs time to tell, and with just an hour and 40 minutes, I can see why it's kinda compressed.

>>85647933
>there were so many details that foreshadowed what was about to happen

This is a good movie to rewatch over again. I wish I could afford to go see it a couple of times while its still in theaters.

>>85645482
At the very end of the credits they thank a couple of Japanese culture societies they collaborated with.

>>85645780
Ah, I was wondering where that design came from. My friend and I actually didn't like it and weren't sure why it was chosen. I'm going to have to apologize for assuming it wasn't attached to an existing myth, I thought they just thought it looked cool.

>>85645482
If only the majority of Japan shared your sentiments.

>>85645482
>>85649787
It seems like Kubo lives in an earlier period of Japan than most are familiar with. I would venture to speculate it might be the Nara period.

>>85649413
>Hanzo and Kubo's mother REFUSE to let him live with his only living family; his uncle Genji, for fear of Kubo turning out like him and spending entire matches holding e

>>85646982
No, I think it's because her regular human body was destroyed fighting her sisters

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And that really is the least of it.

>>85644994
Dude no they're not.

He straight up made up a happier ending. He says "This ending is happy, I wish it were happier", and then he looks up.

It cuts to a completely different angle with no context, the lanterns turn into Herons, and he's there with his parents.

The entire movie is framed as him telling the story to us. It begins with him giving the same "If you must blink" monologue as he did the townspeople, and ended with him finally learning how to finish a story. He made the ending up for the audience.

>>85628724
i t has great music, hell it has better music than pixar

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Because the movie doesn't come out in my country until late september so I'll be waiting while you faggots discuss the movie

>>85628904
Paranorman is shit and its chicken little rehashed shit, at least chicken little tried to have some charm instead of just giving me attitude
I didn't connect with a single character in that movie, development and emotions are pushed so far back that yeah it resembles the kind of interaction that I have with my dad but you don't make a movie about me telling my dad he is a piece of shit and him drinking alone for hours until I move out and we never speak again.
I liked the zombies, I didn't care about the jock being gay, wathever the movie didn't try why should I?

>>85638137
>we want Kubo to fight huge monsters. What do?
>make a 16 foot skeleton puppet
BASED!

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>>85628713

>>85631156
According to red letter media (I think it was red letter media) Disney and pixar always win because they rent the big billboard near the studio so every old fuck sees it and it's the only one they can remember when it's time to vote

>>85642957
everyone I talk to never heard of the movie, so I'm spreading the word as much as possible. Hopefully some of those people go and see it. I mean, I won't add up to much but if everyone does it the movie may have legs, right? ....right?

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>>85650011

Fuck, man, that really makes sense

>>85650082
The funniest shit about this image is, no one is scared of Japan, but other Asian countries.

>>85650139

Took a friend who was reluctant to see it, now she's recommending it to her friends too

Fucking spread the word, people

>>85650022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hUOKjy-9-o

this song is one of the best covers of My Guitar Gently Wheeps, a song that has dozens of amazing covers to it's name. That is an accomplishment

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>yfw an American studio has done a better job showcasing Japanese culture than anime ever did.

>>85650172
This. Word of mouth is a powerful thing. If it can stop people from watching garbage movies like SS and Sausage Party, maybe it can have the opposite effect here.

serious question, does Travis have an Oedipus complex? every interview is him talking about his mom and how that relates to this movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGBi9HjUBZs

regardless, the man is fucking brilliant when it comes to the craft of animation. I love how he shoots down this interviewer on a lot of his leading questions and talks about animation as an artist. Nike money was put to good use under this man.

>>85650323

good he brings some variety after disney, pixar and dreamworks.


What's their next big project?

A 2D movie, perhaps?

Saw the movie today. I thought it was sort of underwhelming.
The actions scenes were good, but the story was really predictable.

>Kubo made a ton of dumb decisions just to drag out the movie.
>All the fights were won with luck or arbitrary magic instead of skill or planning (with the exception of the fight with the first sister).
>Kubo never used his ability to control paper for anything useful.
>The sword and armor didn't really do anything.

And why was the instrument magical? Did they ever explain that?

I will admit I liked some parts of the movie. There were funny moments and I liked the ending well enough, but I wouldn't consider it better than average.
The whole thing just seems like a missed opportunity to do something more imaginative with the premise.

>>85649787
I always forget that Laika's based in Portland and less than an hour's drive from where I live, so it was really weird seeing the Portland Japanese Gardens in the credits.

Just saw it and I liked it a lot, but I felt the first half was much stronger than the second. The ending felt cheesy and unnatural compared to the rest of the film. What prompted the villagers to behave like that? And why was it so important to collect all the pieces of armor when they didn't play any part in actually defeating his grandfather?

Before seeing this I saw reviewers talking about how they walked away feeling like they had just watched a Miyazaki movie, but I barely say any of his influence at all. Is Miyazaki's name just short hand for anime that isn't terrible?

>>85650504
>and why was the instrument magical?
It wasn't, and it never was. His mom does plenty of magic without it, Kubo didn't actually need it. It's just how he learned to use his magic and the best way he knows how to focus it.

>>85628700
I did, I watched it alone, didn't get why that other anon got the social anxieties over it. Oh my it was good, very good. I was really enjoying every bit of it from the visual storytelling to the technical aspects of the animated from animatronics to green screen miniatures and alot more. Sorry I'm just glad to, after having the last half dozen films be of Adam Sandler and other z grade drivel, and suffer through so many cringe worthy kids cartoons, this movie made it all worth it.

>>85650269
Samisens sound fucking magical.

>>85638137
Reminder that not only did they have to build it, and ensure it doesn't get broken, they also had to animated it painstakingly to ensure it doesn't look like shite.

>>85650290
Look, /co/, I know you only watch mainstream garbage, but try not to assume that covers all of anime.

>>85638791
Yeah I wished that too, on one hand I understand they are horror monsters like the terminator, so using them often will lessen their threat. On the other hand I'd like to see alot more straight up fights and cat and mouse chases.

>>85650561
It's sentimentally Japanesey and reviewers are stupid

>>85648483
I thought that since Jared Leto got the shaft for being the prime example of why you get restraining orders, people would feel ripped off for basically 95% less Joker.

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>>85650290
You're an idiot.

>>85648604
Which corner of the planet are you in?

>>85628724
I really loved the movie and have no idea who Gaiman is. Did he do something with The nightmare before christmas?

>>85650805

Poland.

>>85650318
Didn't Suicide Squad do really well though?

>>85650995
It had the exact same drop BvsS had, which was from the awful word of mouth it had during opening weekend. WoM in general has made recent DC movies front-loaded as fuck.

>>85651026
SS got to stay at no. 1 for its third week unlike BvS.

>>85650504
>Kubo made a ton of dumb decisions just to drag out the movie.

Wait, what exactly did he do wrong?

>All the fights were won with luck or arbitrary magic instead of skill or planning (with the exception of the fight with the first sister).

Not really, none of the sister fights had anything to do with luck. The boat fight was all skill, while nobody except Kubo even survived the last sister fight

>Kubo never used his ability to control paper for anything useful.

He used it to build the boat.

>The sword and armor didn't really do anything

That was kind of the point. The armor was never the answer, if it was then Hanzo would've destroyed the Moon King beforehand. The Moon King just needed to see the light of humanity. He's a creature that exclusively sees the dark side of humans, and became cynical and jaded because of it. Maybe now he can see that humans are also good, and he'll see that even when he returns as the Moon King when he dies.

>>85651040
That is not saying much considering the competition. SS had literally nothing to compete with the whole month, the summer is over. But it still dropped heavily after the first week even despite that.

>>85650269
I actually found out that the shamisen player for the soundtrack is actually from the US, and a couple years ago I had actually seen him perform live at a convention. His whole channel pretty neat and has some of his Kubo performances. https://youtube.com/user/shamikami

>>85646013
I didn't find it boring but wow was it cliche

>>85640612
don't forget that moment before she strummed the guitar with her bare, glowy hands.

I can't, there's no sign of it coming out in my country