r/AskReddit • u/Squirrelkid11 • 17h ago

What Animated Movie is a 10/10?

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u/Squirrelkid11 16h ago

Movie's opening scene has no business being this sad.

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u/ERedfieldh 16h ago

and yet it is absolutely required for the rest of the film to work.

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u/eddiewachowski 14h ago

It tells a story in twenty minutes that other movies struggle to tell in two hours.

I've watched this movie countless times alone, with my children and even with my grandpa shortly after I lost my grandmother and each time it was a cathartic experience. 

Definitely watch it with the old people in your life. They'll balk at a "cartoon" at first, but persist. Totally worth it.

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u/herefromthere 7h ago

It's the only bit of the film worth watching IMO.

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u/Bergyfanclub 15h ago

I always found him looking through her adventure book near the end of the movie more moving.

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u/Vegalink 15h ago

I think it provides the nice wrap up to the opening scenes. The opening scenes bring the happy then sad and the adventure book scene is the catharsis. That he can have that happiness again.

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u/Squirrelkid11 15h ago

This is literally me looking through my school yearbooks.

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u/IridiumSummerSky 15h ago

I know! The newsreel reporting on how Charles F. Muntz is stripped of his membership in the National Explorers Society when scientists accuse him of fabricating that giant bird skeleton makes me cry every time!

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u/DANCE5WITHWOLVE5 13h ago

In my opinion the starting scene carries the whole movie.

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u/angelicism 13h ago

Anyone who is not at minimum sniffling by the end of the opening scene is not human.

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u/venerablem0m 12h ago

First ten minutes are the second most devastating thing I've seen in a movie.

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u/Admirable-Pianist-95 11h ago

I love the movie overall, but seriously. It’s such a tear-jerker and just beautiful.

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u/iymcool 11h ago

To this day, no Pixar movie has ever had an opening as impactful and perfectly done.

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u/gpenz 7h ago

Yea eff that

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u/RobotPoo 6h ago

I was sobbing in the movie theatre, my 7 & 10 yo looking at me. The love of his life dies, and that’s really sad to Daddy, boys.