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Apple TV+ Animated Film 'Luck' Now Streaming, Takes Over Apple's Homepage
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An article I read said some 50 Pixar employees joined Lasseter at SkyDance, including Brad Bird.
I already saw Deadpool2. No movie about "luck" will ever do a better job!
Hot Fuzz, masterpiece. Scotty, go •••• yourself.I love Simon Pegg.
Watched it yesterday with my kid. It was ok. It felt like a cheap amazon prime video kids style cartoon. The animation was colourful but simplistic. No attention to detail such as what you see in Disney/Pixar.
The vague references to Irishness / Irish culture in the dress/look/music and how that must = luck felt quite cringeworthy, but I guess this is typical whenever Americans write to portray _their view_ on what being Irish is.
Leprechauns, green outfits, fiddle music.
In all it felt like a throwaway cartoon. A mid-priced forgettable cheeseburger of animation.
The vague references to Irishness / Irish culture in the dress/look/music and how that must = luck felt quite cringeworthy, but I guess this is typical whenever Americans write to portray _their view_ on what being Irish is.
Leprechauns, green outfits, fiddle music.
In all it felt like a throwaway cartoon. A mid-priced forgettable cheeseburger of animation.
It's easier to show emotion that way -- that's why anime usually has eyes drawn even larger.
Well, I watched it last night. While it doesn't have the impact of Soul or Up, it was well worth watching.
So tell me why we saw the main character is using an iPhone and MacBook Air within the first 10 minutes of the film. No animated film uses products that specific. It’s seems like they purchased more than just distribution rights.
Saw the movie with the family the other night and it was actually better than I expected. It was no Inside Out or Frozen, but it was entertaining, and definitely refreshing to see a kids movie without having an agenda snuck in and shoved in your face.
Distribution companies almost always include various advertising rights in their contracts now. The latest James Bond film even had different product placements in the film depending on the distribution region. That is different countries are seeing different versions of the film.
Anyway, SkyDance was founded in 2006 and works closely with Paramount. Work on the film Luck began in 2017 and it was supposed to have a theatrical release.
When the theatrical release got cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, Apple purchased the distribution rights to Luck in Dec 2020. Apple in no way owns SkyDance or was involved in the production of Luck (other than possible product placement rights obviously).
Reminds me of the brilliant "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads where the characters would pop up on The NY Times and other websites.
Sure…. I loved the ”Teen Wold” episodes that dealt with Scott McCall’s anxiety about puberty and getting his first period while dealing with an over controlling mother. 😜
As a host of “The View” she sometimes takes political stances that trigger some people. 😳
I’m somewhat skeptical of Rotten Tomatoes because I’ve seen too many bad films get good reviews. But so far Luck is in the splat territory there.
Did Apple get to screen this film before buying it? Unless it is some sleeper hit, or they got it for a steal, I just don’t get why they would have leaned into this one.
Did Apple get to screen this film before buying it? Unless it is some sleeper hit, or they got it for a steal, I just don’t get why they would have leaned into this one.
John Lassetter aside, it's getting bad reviews because it's a rather low effort, high concept, list-ticking plotted, overly expose laden dialogued, middling animated movie. It's a bit disappointing really.
I thought it was cute, funny, and enjoyable, but the second half really dragged on. The first half was very endearing and sweet, but it seems like they lost that as the movie went on. It started to become very ridged and generic. It was still a decent movie, though. Also, Whoopi Goldberg should not do voice acting. She has the voice acting chops of a potato.
I watched the first 20 min and juts couldn't finish. It's so basic… some clever stuff but just overall not good enough to actually watch all the way.
I notice with every Sony movie, the characters alway use Sony phones, laptops, etc. I know of NO ONE who has a Sony phone.