Shamus Kelley Feb 24, 2019
Digimon: The Movie should have run off with all the Oscars upon its release in 2000. No, seriously.
The year was 2000. Gladiator won Best Picture and Russell Crowe took home Best Actor. The first X-Men movie was released, which many point to as the genesis of modern superhero films. It was the year of Cast Away, Mission Impossible II, Meet the Parents, Charlie’s Angels, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and more. However, one film was released that year that changed the face of what cinema could be.
It was bold. Innovative. A comedy. A drama. A thrilling action adventure that was criminally snubbed for every award possible but to this day is a modern classic.
That film?
Digimon: The Movie.
I am here to finally give this movie its long overdue appreciation. It’s truly a work of art that should be studied in film programs across the country.
Digimon: The Movie should have run off with all the Oscars upon its release in 2000. No, seriously.
The year was 2000. Gladiator won Best Picture and Russell Crowe took home Best Actor. The first X-Men movie was released, which many point to as the genesis of modern superhero films. It was the year of Cast Away, Mission Impossible II, Meet the Parents, Charlie’s Angels, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and more. However, one film was released that year that changed the face of what cinema could be.
It was bold. Innovative. A comedy. A drama. A thrilling action adventure that was criminally snubbed for every award possible but to this day is a modern classic.
That film?
Digimon: The Movie.
I am here to finally give this movie its long overdue appreciation. It’s truly a work of art that should be studied in film programs across the country.
- 2/17/2015
- Den of Geek
Alex Robinson's particular brand of comics genius takes two forms, both of which show up in his terrific new stand-alone book Too Cool To Be Forgotten (Top Shelf). There's his talent for spare, believable characterization, which comes through in his characters' faces and voices rather than through clunky description. And there's the way he takes advantage of the medium, cleverly using visual repetition and variation in equal amounts to convey mental states. In Too Cool To Be Forgotten, middle-aged dad Robert Wicks enters a hypnosis session, trying to stop smoking for his family's sake. (Hence the book's cover, designed to resemble a battered pack of Kools.) Then he wakes up in his youthful, dorky body back at his old high school. A few brief moments of nostalgia later, he remembers why high school sucked so much—the unanswerably smug bullies, the confusion and cruelty and desperation, the combined nastiness of teachers.
- 8/1/2008
- by Tasha Robinson, Noel Murray, Keith Phipps
- avclub.com
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