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brushapocalypseso i just went and saw into the spider-verse, because i'd heard good things about it and it looked like my kinda movie.
short version: IT WAS ABSOLUTELY MY KINDA MOVIE. if you like animation, go watch it. unless you have photosensitive epilepsy, you should probably be careful then...? i mean, it's so good and you'd know your own thing better than me. but do exercise caution. it's got flashing lights right from literally as soon as it starts. not even the movie itself, the thing showing the people who made it.
but now for the long version, aka, disjointed thoughts on random things i noticed! spoilers!
so uhhhhhhhhhh, animation. animation. So Good. i am firmly of the opinion that more movies should be animated, just in general, and this movie is why. if they'd done this in live action, with cg special effects? it would not have looked good. maybe it would have looked good, but it wouldn't have looked this good. it wouldn't have worked. that whole fight at the end? with the collider? it would not have looked so cool in live action.
animation is an art that so few people use to its fullest. this movie, i think, is the closest anyone's ever come.
buuuut probably everyone's harping on that, the animation's good, everyone knows that. here's something i, personally, noticed, which maybe isn't as obvious. something very specific. which maybe doesn't matter that much, but it really hit me.
y'know the scene where miles finds out abt his uncle's secret identity and then the ensuing chase? especially the chase? the music. it was loud, overpowering, drowned out the sound effects with something that felt to my ears like the auditory manifestation of fear, confusion, and panic. i'm not gonna try and pretend i know what i'm talking about, and i'd have to watch the movie again to analyze any other scene for that similar sort of thing— but in that one particular scene. the music perfectly expressed to me how miles felt in that moment. it sounds the way i feel in a nightmare where i'm being chased by whatever monster my brain made up this time, heart pounding in my ears. i understood exactly how miles felt in that scene, because of the music.
so yeah uh. sound design? also good. i might be biased because i enjoy when movies get loud, especially when watching them on the big screen bc i can physically feel the vibrations and it's just. good. but yeah i loved it.
final verdict: into the spider-verse is so good. i'm not a movie critic, i can't analyze every beat of the story and tell you if you'll enjoy it, but i know i did, greatly. it was good. and even if the story had objectively sucked ass, the animation would've more than made up for it. hell, i could've gone and watched a two hour music video animated like this and come out satisfied. that's how good the animation is. go watch this movie.
also, completely off topic: on the way home, i discovered these two at the second hand store and felt spiritually compelled to adopt them. there wasn't a mario that i could see, but that's for the better honestly. let them go on their date :<
short version: IT WAS ABSOLUTELY MY KINDA MOVIE. if you like animation, go watch it. unless you have photosensitive epilepsy, you should probably be careful then...? i mean, it's so good and you'd know your own thing better than me. but do exercise caution. it's got flashing lights right from literally as soon as it starts. not even the movie itself, the thing showing the people who made it.
but now for the long version, aka, disjointed thoughts on random things i noticed! spoilers!
so uhhhhhhhhhh, animation. animation. So Good. i am firmly of the opinion that more movies should be animated, just in general, and this movie is why. if they'd done this in live action, with cg special effects? it would not have looked good. maybe it would have looked good, but it wouldn't have looked this good. it wouldn't have worked. that whole fight at the end? with the collider? it would not have looked so cool in live action.
animation is an art that so few people use to its fullest. this movie, i think, is the closest anyone's ever come.
buuuut probably everyone's harping on that, the animation's good, everyone knows that. here's something i, personally, noticed, which maybe isn't as obvious. something very specific. which maybe doesn't matter that much, but it really hit me.
y'know the scene where miles finds out abt his uncle's secret identity and then the ensuing chase? especially the chase? the music. it was loud, overpowering, drowned out the sound effects with something that felt to my ears like the auditory manifestation of fear, confusion, and panic. i'm not gonna try and pretend i know what i'm talking about, and i'd have to watch the movie again to analyze any other scene for that similar sort of thing— but in that one particular scene. the music perfectly expressed to me how miles felt in that moment. it sounds the way i feel in a nightmare where i'm being chased by whatever monster my brain made up this time, heart pounding in my ears. i understood exactly how miles felt in that scene, because of the music.
so yeah uh. sound design? also good. i might be biased because i enjoy when movies get loud, especially when watching them on the big screen bc i can physically feel the vibrations and it's just. good. but yeah i loved it.
final verdict: into the spider-verse is so good. i'm not a movie critic, i can't analyze every beat of the story and tell you if you'll enjoy it, but i know i did, greatly. it was good. and even if the story had objectively sucked ass, the animation would've more than made up for it. hell, i could've gone and watched a two hour music video animated like this and come out satisfied. that's how good the animation is. go watch this movie.
also, completely off topic: on the way home, i discovered these two at the second hand store and felt spiritually compelled to adopt them. there wasn't a mario that i could see, but that's for the better honestly. let them go on their date :<
