My partner and I are going to see The Incredibles 2 in the next few days. He has never seen the original, and I haven't seen it in at least ten years, maybe more, so we sat down to watch it last night to get caught up. I was immediately taken aback by how poorly the movie's look has aged. There were moments that looked downright awful, with simple geometry, stiff animation, and lack of environmental detail. Beyond that, the lighting and color palette was just very flat, other than a couple really pretty sunset shots that added some much needed vibrancy to the film.
It was so baffling that I had to question my memory of Finding Nemo, which came out a year earlier and is a movie I've seen multiple times. Sure enough, I popped that in and it looks much better. I suppose it's a case of the art direction in the movie just lending itself better to aging, because it looked like it could have come out three eyars after The Incredibles.
But now I'm all wary to rewatch older Pixar films. As much as I'd like to pretend I could push it aside and just watch the movie, the animation in The Incredibles was a consistent distration to me, like I was watching a video game cutscene. I haven't seen Up or Wall-E in a good number of years either, I wonder if they might have a similar effect on me.
Did anyone else notice this when recently rewatching The Incredibles?
It was so baffling that I had to question my memory of Finding Nemo, which came out a year earlier and is a movie I've seen multiple times. Sure enough, I popped that in and it looks much better. I suppose it's a case of the art direction in the movie just lending itself better to aging, because it looked like it could have come out three eyars after The Incredibles.
But now I'm all wary to rewatch older Pixar films. As much as I'd like to pretend I could push it aside and just watch the movie, the animation in The Incredibles was a consistent distration to me, like I was watching a video game cutscene. I haven't seen Up or Wall-E in a good number of years either, I wonder if they might have a similar effect on me.
Did anyone else notice this when recently rewatching The Incredibles?