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Paddington
2014 · Film · 95 min
Part of Paddington Collection
Directed by Paul King
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.
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A good live action people with CGI dragons could certainly be done now. The technology is there. The 2014 "Paddington" and the 2016 "The Jungle Book" certainly showed that live action and CGI characters can interact really well.
On the other hand animators seem to have found that sweet spot for animated human characters where they are human enough that as long as you are somewhat interested in the story you can easily forget they are animated, but still different enough to avoid the uncanny valley.
Same with animated sets.
If someone were to do a Dragonriders of Pern movie I think I'd prefer fully animated, because Pern really needs at least a trilogy and I think it would have a better shot of getting second and third movies if the first were fully animated.
That's because a fully animated version could have a short at winning the Best Animated Feature Academy Award (at least if they ever change the rules to make the voting for Best Animated Feature sane [1]). A big award win would boost the sequel chances.
If it was live action with animated dragons it would not be eligible for Best Animated Feature.
[1] For Best Animated there are two voting differences from most of the other specialized categories. (1) Every member of the Academy can vote, as opposed to only members in the branches of the Academy related to the category, and (2) voters are not required to have seen all the nominees.
I've seen interviews asking members why those voted for the movies they did and with Best Animated Feature you see a lot of answers like "I haven't watched cartoons since I was 6, but my grandkids wanted to see <Some_Disney_Movie> so I took them. I waited in the lobby doing work on my phone while they watched. When they came out they seemed happy, so I voted for <Some_Disney_Movie", or "My kids streamed <Some_Disney_Movie> 10 times a day for 6 months so I voted for it".
Here's is recent video that goes over in great detail the problems with the Best Animated Feature award [2].
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S8zsRWst7U
It's fascinating to see the number of Bluey fans. My kids love it too. Making it American would just ruin it.
I grew up reading Paddington books, and about 90% of what I know about British money came from those books. Re-interpreting it to American dollars would have ruined the immersion into the story, IMO. I was very glad when the Paddington movies were unapologetically British.
I'm just saying that things flying out of the screen rarely add value to the movie. I had 3d tv and my only shows for it were some documentaries, Avatar, Paddington bear, and 3d adventure of tintin.
2 kids movies
1 animated movie
some short but interesting documentaries.
(horror movies runner up (mostly resident evil lol)
Not exactly market crushing content.
My kids know about three channels
"Bbc" (watching "do they know" at the moment) "Amazon" "Netflix"
We went to the cinema to watch Paddington last month. They had barely any idea what the adverts before the film were.
The Zenefits CEO said ADP was like Dirty Harry. He should say that, because Clint Eastwood was dirty, but he only killed the "punks." I came up with a better movie analogy: Paddington Bear: https://www.blogmutt.com/blog/zenefits-adp