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apocalypsosAlso, I just got out of the theater after seeing Up.
I have never cried that much during a Pixar film. I mean, I've cried during them before -- when Jessie was remembering her former owner in Toy Story 2, when EVE couldn't get Wall-E to remember who he was -- but ... BUT.
The movie opens with the story of how Carl Fredericksen meets his wife Ellie when they're both kids (and fans of Charles Muntz, a famous explorer). It's ten minutes or so of them falling in love and swearing they'll go on adventures, and how life got in the way of that, and it's fucking heartbreaking. They already softened me up quite nicely with the short beforehand -- which, like all of Pixar's shorts, is amazing and funny and heartwarming all at once, and I almost teared up at the end -- and then they gave me this love story that kicked me in the gut and kept doing so intermittently over the next two hours.
The whole movie just ... I loved it, I loved it SO MUCH. I know what the posters give you, the story of Carl and Russell going on a grand adventure and becoming allies and friends along the way, and that's wonderful as well. But I almost want to run back to the theater, buy another ticket, and go see it again, just for Carl Fredericksen and his Ellie.
Freaking phenomenal.
I have never cried that much during a Pixar film. I mean, I've cried during them before -- when Jessie was remembering her former owner in Toy Story 2, when EVE couldn't get Wall-E to remember who he was -- but ... BUT.
The movie opens with the story of how Carl Fredericksen meets his wife Ellie when they're both kids (and fans of Charles Muntz, a famous explorer). It's ten minutes or so of them falling in love and swearing they'll go on adventures, and how life got in the way of that, and it's fucking heartbreaking. They already softened me up quite nicely with the short beforehand -- which, like all of Pixar's shorts, is amazing and funny and heartwarming all at once, and I almost teared up at the end -- and then they gave me this love story that kicked me in the gut and kept doing so intermittently over the next two hours.
The whole movie just ... I loved it, I loved it SO MUCH. I know what the posters give you, the story of Carl and Russell going on a grand adventure and becoming allies and friends along the way, and that's wonderful as well. But I almost want to run back to the theater, buy another ticket, and go see it again, just for Carl Fredericksen and his Ellie.
Freaking phenomenal.
