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26. It's Such a Beautiful Day

Johnbobb: 1
Evillord: 1
Inviso: 28
Red: 38
Karo: 39
Ermine: 39

Total: 146

Johnbobb: I absolutely adore everything about this. Easily one of my favorite animated films of all time. Dark, incredibly written, unique and imaginative.

Evillord: The most moving film I've ever seen, animated or not.

Inviso: Thank goodness this film was as short as it was, because it really toed the line hard in terms of making me want to hate every aspect of it. The firstI want to say third to half was going to rank this right down at the bottom of my list, because it felt like the kind of wannabe edgey bullshit you might find in a mid-2000s flash video from Newgrounds. But then, while the movie doesnt completely change its tone, it seems to find its focus. Rather than a random collection of bullshit, the movie turns into a character study into a character with deteriorating health (both mental and physical), and it just became a little more interesting in some of the stylistic choices it made. I think it portrayed memory loss in a solid way, and even though the main character is kind of an asshole, I still felt sympathetic towards him as the film progressed. Now, the movie still wasnt anywhere near the best thing Ive ever seen, but it was semi-decent.

Red: Ugly stick figures have horrible life stacked on horrible life. If there is one thing pretty clear from these lists it is that movies that are indescribably bleak are not my thing. This is really not my thing, you never grow any real attachment to anything in this movie and it is just bad thing happening after bad thing and when it tries to tease you that something good may happen you already know from everything else that it is just trying to fake you out. When it hits that point, which it does very early, it is very hard to care about anything.

Karo: A series of three short films made by this one guy and linked together to form a sort of full length movie.
The story centers on a badly drawn mentally ill man named Bill, and his daily life as he struggles to function in the world. These are usually expressed in scenes so poorly animated they are often little more than GIFs, and filled with so much non sequitur nonsense that it would make even the writers of Family Guy cringe. Thuh piype is leeeking! Thuh piype is leeeking!
But the real problem lies in just how extremely unpleasant it is to watch. Not just because the story is sad or depressing (which it very is), but rather because there are an inordinate amount of flashing seizure lights, screen shaking effects, and random distorted noises that can even be loud enough to drown out the narration. Some scenes are even horrible enough to cause real physical illness.
Like maybe they were trying to make the viewers' brains explode so they could have more empathy for Bill's plight, but the narrative is difficult enough to watch as is without adding headaches in the mix.
Towards the end, the movie takes a thoughtful turn regarding life, the universe and everything, but it is a bit too late by now and I am just left wondering why the hell we needed a whole 50 minutes of mental agony just to get the story to this point.
It just ends up as another one of those experimental art films that is a little too much experiment and a lot too much LSD.

Ermine: There are some people I can imagine really enjoying a film like this. I am not one of them.

The humor rarely hits with me, and when it's firing off so many within such a short time span, it really gets old quick. And then you have scenes that go on FAR too long and make this film seem a lot longer than its hour run time.

"But it's so much more than that! It's sad and makes you think!"

Nah.

I get it. I just don't care. I don't care for the style of storytelling, nor the way they are trying to get their message across.

This was a huge miss and I'm surprised by all the raving reviews. I'm guessing because it's so vastly different from everything else we get in animation and the fact it has immense darker undertones. Different doesn't mean good. It feels like it's trying WAY too hard.

Meh.