I heavily disliked Pixar’s Soul.
Yes, I’m a black man, a musician, and I hate seeing us dead all the time. it’s boring and I don’t relate! I’m alive and enjoying every second of my life—it’s the little things etc—, so the entire movie didn’t do anything to me besides being annoying and making me anxious.
Yes, beautifully rendered but that’s when it is so expected, it’s not even a feature anymore. Very nice sound design as well. As usual.
The Last Dinosaur was weird pace and consistency wise, and Onward’s main characters are quite insufferable. But Soul, due to hitting close and being so lovely when it starts, really made me do a weird face for the rest of the movie.
I also think we’re hitting a “too realistic environment with cartoon characters in it” vibes and it’s on the edge of uncanny valley. Some of the skin in Coco had given me the creeps already.
Now that 3D is perfect, man, I want much more coherent and interesting scenarios and stories, aimed at a curious and grown population. Some not-possible-before shots of romantic escapades, some ultra funny and irreverent weed-related joint (smoke effects y’all!!), I don’t know but, I think we’re all super ready for that.
Maybe I’ll go see LightYear next week.