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Edgy MD
Dec 29 2020 09:20 PM

A music teacher dreams of a life as a jazz performer, but when he dies on the way to his first gig, he tries to convince a fellow disembodied soul to join him as he attempts to return to earth.



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seawolf17
Dec 30 2020 06:52 AM
Re: Soul (2020)

I thought this was fantastic. A top-5 Pixar movie for me.

Edgy MD
Dec 30 2020 12:30 PM
Re: Soul (2020)

Gosh, terrific. We haven't sampled yet.



Ranking is over-rated, and I guess rating is over-ranked, but I tried to think of what I would consider my top-five Pixar films, and that's some pretty hard-to penetrate territory.

Edgy MD
Dec 30 2020 12:36 PM
Re: Soul (2020)

Pixar films I have never seen:
[list]

  • [*]A Bug's Life

  • [*]Cars (I think I bailed at about the half-hour mark on this.)

  • [*]Cars 2

  • [*]Monsters University

  • [*]Cars 3

  • [*]The Good Dinosaur

  • [*]Coco

  • [*]Onward
    • [/list]

    whippoorwill
    Dec 30 2020 02:33 PM
    Re: Soul (2020)

    Cars is really quite good

    TransMonk
    Dec 30 2020 03:03 PM
    Re: Soul (2020)

    I also liked it. It has a great soundtrack that alternates between Trent Reznor synths and Jon Batiste jazz.

    LWFS
    Dec 30 2020 09:42 PM
    Re: Soul (2020)

    Yeah, that soundtrack.



    This felt like Inside Out for grown-ups, which I mean as a high compliment.


    Edgy MD wrote:

    Pixar films I have never seen:
    [list]
  • [*]A Bug's Life

  • [*]Cars (I think I bailed at about the half-hour mark on this.)

  • [*]Cars 2

  • [*]Monsters University

  • [*]Cars 3

  • [*]The Good Dinosaur

  • [*]Coco

  • [*]Onward
    • [/list]


    I feel like Cars was where they started doing the movie-star "one for you, one for me" thing, only as a studio. (Thankfully, our little spawn never really had a vehicles-and-nothing-but phase, so we only watched this once, and didn't have to see any of the sequels.)



    Of those, the only one I think you'd miss if you didn't see it is our south-of-the-border entry. Coco is pretty delightful, with marvelously filigreed story and animation, and earwormy Mexi-folk-showtune pastiche music (courtesy of the "Frozen" team). And-- be warned-- it has a 97-98% chance of making you ugly-cry.

    Edgy MD
    Dec 31 2020 07:44 AM
    Re: Soul (2020)

    Yeah, Coco is totally the one I'd go out of my way for.



    Man, you just used the word "filligreed." I feel like that's a forum first.

    Edgy MD
    Jan 01 2021 08:21 PM
    Re: Soul (2020)

    I was less overwhelmed than you, I think. I liked the real-world NYC they created more than the cosmic world.



    Also, and this may speak to my comprehension, some of the epiphanies, while rendered inspiringly, were ambiguous in meaning. I would have liked a little epilogue to find out how the stories of the two main characters continued.