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FORMAT: 35mm
CONDITION: ★★★★★
DATE: August 15th 2019
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
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Saw this in 35mm at a ridiculously stylish cinema where the best view was at the very top, and if you can’t sit at the top then you have to look straight up at a relatively small screen. There is even a restaurant installed for dinner and a show, regardless of the view. Rick Dalton’s filmography is more versatile than ridiculous action films and westerners, including old-timey comedies and even Disney animation. A beautifully hand-drawn but heavily anachronistic Disney logo was created for his movie, with the current logo drawn above an old map and surrounded by characters like Mickey and Pinocchio, but also Cogsworth.
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Thurop Van Orman would later direct a sequel to Early Man. Despite still being produced at Aardman, it looked more practical and cheap than the studio in their current years, almost like their days before Wrong Trousers - Dug’s mouth at one point whistles and it looks rough and pasted on. There is very little dialogue in this sequel, like Shaun the Sheep, though there is still at least one line of (faintly) intelligible English every minute, ringing these characters closer to actual cavemen. However, as much like Thurop’s work as it felt, the humour doesn’t work nearly as well as Van Orman’s work beforehand.
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The story is basically what we were promised and Thor has lost just a bit of weight, but it all takes place in murky English grassland and is a little less silly than Ragnarok. Despite having my phone switched off, the projection would keep halting and/or syncing up with it - an issue that would only get worse when I sat myself closer to the screen because this auditorium is kind of like Prince Charles meets Rich Mix - leaving everyone mocking me and me getting booted out. I broke into a fit of childish rage about this, being the autistic manchild I am.
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Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Cinema’s longest post-marketing movie delays list
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Trailer debut: April 4th 2019
Original release: August 23rd 2019
New release: April 17th 2020
Difference: 239 days
Between trailer and release: 380 days
Reasons: Delayed to January 10th to avoid being released in such a close proximity following more familiar family fare releasing in August, including STX's Playmobil: The Movie, or attracting comparisons to the Bautista vehicle Stuber or the machismo of Hobbs & Shaw, and to attempt to one-up their marketing game after the failure of UglyDolls. Later delayed to March 13th, and then April 17th (over a year after its first trailer premiered) just a week before release and when it had already screened to critics, presumably in response to the sudden delay of No Time to Die and the subsequent release change for Trolls: World Tour.
Benefits: This studio has not been a particularly successful one lately, so this decision is understandable, even if constantly pushing this film is not exactly as loving a treatment as they think it is.
Flaws: Weeks later, STX would delay Playmobil to December, having not marketed the film in any shape or form, leaving August devoid of releases from the studio. This does not spell a promising outcome for STX or for the young audience who was anticipating it, especially given that Playmobil was a massive flop and that a Blu-Ray rip surfaced the week of its US release did not help whatsoever. Delaying the film so suddenly and so repetitively just adds to the problem, and will just alienate audiences who have seen the trailer constantly not to mention fall under the same piracy conundrum as Playmobil, given that the film already kept its Australian release in January without any further hassle.
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