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03:03 - When Harry Met Sully
http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/02/1102/110204.html#112502
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Today's Bleat has some great stuff about pizza, but some even better stuff about Monsters, Inc.
He covers pretty much what I would have said about it, so there's not much point in my adding to it here; his reactions and mine seem to have been fairly close to identical. We clearly have very different attitudes regarding little kids, but this movie did the nigh-impossible: it starred one in a major role and managed to endear her to me. Quite an accomplishment. But, as with all things Pixar, pulled off in a way that makes it seem effortless.
Considering the amount of effort that does go into their movies, that in itself is no mean feat.
One thing to note regarding realism and facial expressions and the like: The tragicomical scene in which Sully watches what he thinks is Boo going through the trash compactor-- is that not the most unbelievable set of facial expressions you have ever seen on the big screen, bar none?
And that ending... far from being the unfortunate sappy-corny-fourth-wall-breaking lounge lizard crapstravaganza of Toy Story 2, or indeed from being the off-into-the-sunset truck-out or the happy-triumphant-together pomp of so many other movies of the genre, this one went into a class all its own. Possibly the most novel ending, in an emotional sense, that I've ever seen on an animated movie.
Fortunately they provided those "outtakes" during the credits, to make sure we roused ourselves from our thunderstruck hearts-wrenched-to-the-side reveries and were all laughing helplessly again before we headed out to the parking lot. I knew they wouldn't let us down.
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