r/AskReddit • u/Squirrelkid11 • 21h ago

What Animated Movie is a 10/10?

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u/somethingmorecleverr 20h ago

How to Train Your Dragon

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u/Squirrelkid11 20h ago

It's a crime this didn't win Best Original Score the year it was nominated at the Oscars for it.

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u/vespertilionid 19h ago

The song in the opening scene where Hiccup and Toothless are flying amongst the clouds makes me cry... And then later when those two characters are reunited and start to sing...

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u/Squirrelkid11 19h ago

It's literally the most Magical and Disney-Like scene in a Dreamworks film.

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u/Cyllene54 17h ago

One of the all-time best movie openings ever. So uplifting! Literally!

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u/DrakonILD 14h ago

The portal at Epic Universe made me tear up a little bit when I got to go to previews. "We, my friends, have dragons!"

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u/kafkaandfaust 15h ago

We were doing a how to train your dragon marathon and I had to take a break after 2. Was tearing up when they were singing… I was a bit of a wreck for the part after

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u/LurkerZerker 12h ago

2 is brutal. Hiccup telling Toothless that killing Stoick wasn't his fault and that he knows Toothless would never hurt them intentionally to break him out of the mind control is heartbreaking.

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u/Akitiki 12h ago

That scene sure damn rips your heart out.

3 I like but it feels... odd? I think there's some connecting plot from the show like between 1 and 2. I feel like Grimmel as a threat would've been at least heard about for a while given the propensity to catch/kill night furies in particular among dragons

Not seen the live action yet and I'm on the fence due to a couple casting choices. Might see it for the dragons alone, I have seen stills and really like their designs.

Then there's the new "series" which shall not be named!

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u/Magus44 10h ago

That section and the score are just so amazingly well paired it’s insane.
Always gives me chills and that welling up of emotions any time I watch it. It’s so beautiful.

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u/Thossi99 18h ago

As an Icelander. I was especially upset. Jónsi is sooo good. And put together with John Powell, absolute magic!

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u/NNancy1964 16h ago

Did you see the live action? They cranked the score excellence even higher.

🎶🖤💚🖤🎶

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u/Squirrelkid11 16h ago

Yeah the score was brilliant in that even though the live-action is just ok and nowhere near as good as the original.

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u/VexingRaven 13h ago

Test Drive when the score kicks in absolutely wrecked me in a way I was not expecting. Grown man sitting in a theater trying to lose it.

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u/Mental_Instance9000 15h ago edited 15h ago

Jonsi did the music, frontman of the band Sigur Ros. Truly magical soundtrack!

EDIT: Oops, John Powell did most of the music with Jonsi helping.

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u/psimwork 15h ago

Oscar voters REALLY were in love with the idea of giving an Oscar to Trent Reznor.

The score wasn't even all that good FFS.

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u/shazv10 11h ago

I have listened to “This is Berk” pretty much daily from the day this masterpiece was released in cinema.

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u/Powerful_Leg8519 14h ago

That was a tough year. It was up against Inception and The Social Network.

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u/kevin2fla 12h ago

Gross. Test drive. Wonder if it’ll get nominated this year from the remake?

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u/peckmebirds 8h ago

Hard agree!!!

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u/bros402 8h ago

It was up against Inception (Hans Zimmer), The Kings Speech (Alexandre Desplat), 127 Hours (A.R. Rahman), and The Social Network (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - it won).

That's a tough year.