My thoughts? Oh, here we go. *cracks knuckles*
From what I've seen, it doesn't look brilliant and whilst I do trust pixar to make a good film I don't trust them enough to ignore my first impression.
What I would suggest is, don't trust the trailer. I can't say I'm too impressed with it myself, but I feel as though what I've glimpsed of it still has the potential to be great. It's mostly a matter of whether Pixar will do it right, and they at least have a good history when it comes to that. Back before
Finding Nemo came out, I remember hearing about it and thinking
"meh, it's about a fish? Sounds boring." Then of course I actually watched the movie, and found its charm completely upturning my initial impression of it. Not saying this is guaranteed to be the case with
Brave, but a trailer can significantly crop up a movie and market it in a way that at times can be very misleading.
Or as Axle already summed up,
Yup.
Seems like it'll be a cute movie. I love how most of the comments on youtube are like "Katniss Gingerdeen" or "Katniss has met her match" or "Did anyone else think of the hunger games?"
Just because two female archers come along at about the same time doesn't mean they copied each other (though, everyone in the comments thinks "Brave" is copying the Hunger Games. But if you look at the facts, Hunger Games book came out about 06-08 range, Brave's production started in 2008) I never heard of this movie until now, thanks for sharing, Zanzibar. c:
Yeah, I saw those comments on youtube too, and I have to say the comparison seems completely nonsensical to me. The only similarity I can see is that they've both got a female protagonist that can wield a bow. Meantime, Princess Zelda's been shooting Light Arrows for how many years?
Girls With Bows (they could name a show that...) is not some kind of new concept just invented in
The Hunger Games. The accusations of Brave's likeness to it makes about as much sense to me as would a claim that
Abraham Lincoln ripped off
The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland on account of his large top hat, and there are so many things fundamentally wrong with that statement that it's not even worth discussing. The movies don't even seem to be remotely in the same genre to begin with. That's not suggesting one is better than the other per se, just that I think they're about as similar as a
raven would be to a
writing desk.
An
actual unusual phenomenon of movies with similar subject matter coming out around the same time would be
Snow White and the Huntsman closely following the release of
Mirror Mirror, and even that case I believe is an honest coincidence....but I'll save that for another thread.
Tangled was a good movie, but it lacked the polish of most Pixar movies, I thought. I guess I can see some similarity in the clothing styles and the fact that it's a female protagonist, but I'm not sure I see what similarities there are aside from that.
Tangled was not done by
Disney Pixar though, it was done by
Disney (Walt Disney Animation Studios), and that might be why you felt it didn't have the same "Pixar Polish." I personally loved Tangled though, so while I agree that it didn't give off the same vibe as Pixar's movies, I don't necessarily view that as a bad thing since I actually enjoyed Tangled more than any of Pixar's own movies, meaning that what they nailed in Tangled outshone whatever polish it might have lacked in my opinion.
Meh I mean Tangled was ok... But this is Pixar were talkin! If I get disappointed I won't be happy, but the trailers look great! soo the chances of that are like 1.15% chance. lol!
Just goes to show how different people's opinions can be. =P
Tangled was about a young girl breaking free of the rule of her Mother. Brave (from what I've seen) looks like a young girl breaking free from her culture.
I see the similarity now that you mention it, but I don't see it as particularly striking.
Ratatouille and
Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off are both movies about male protagonists that want to follow their dreams to cook and have to overcome obstacles to do so, including the disapproval of both their father figures. But the differences actually drown out the similarities to a point that comparisons seem almost irrelevant to point out. That's basically how I feel comparing
Tangled and
Brave, which I see as very individual of one other.
I liked the Hunger Games BEFORE it was popular xD. Anyways it does look like a decent movie and I am not saying I'm overly excited, sure now just seeing I'd like to see it, I just think it'll be good. I won't hold my expectations very high. I did that with the Hunger Games. c:
Heh, sounds like what happened to me with Twilight, except that I went through a complete revulsion phase with it once it spiked in popularity before making peace with it again, and still haven't bothered watching the movie. ^ ^; Total lack of interest now.
Huh weird I have't seen any previews yet. Man I want to see previews now.
Abracadabra. =P
[video=youtube;TEHWDA_6e3M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEHWDA_6e3M[/video]
And since I saw it, this is not really a trailer, but more an actual clip from the movie for anyone interested.
[video=youtube;Y4EZULqhP2E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4EZULqhP2E[/video]
I've seen the whole "arrow-through-the-arrow" thing done before though (multiple times, I think one of them was in
Robin Hood) so I have to admit the unoriginality of that had me so unimpressed that I facepalmed. Nevertheless, I'm still hopeful enough to give this movie a go in theaters.