Stop Having A Boring Tuna: The Iron Giant

Brad Bird is one the great director's of our time, has worked on a lot of shows and movies The Simpsons. The Critic, King Of The Hill, Disney's Fox and Hound, Animalympics and of course The Incredibles, but one of his greatest movies is The Iron Giant.

Brad Bird get's the concept of creating compelling characters and bringing them to life, giving them meaning and function. How the hell does one give emotion and character to an animated piece of iron? I don't exactly know how Brad is able to do this, but he does. It mostly comes from working for Disney, The Simpsons and a few other animation houses and it takes a long time to learn how to animate and write these things. But Brad does it like noone else can do it, he has that innate ability to tell a good story.

The Iron Giant is simply astounding, good pacing, good emotion, good story writing - all the things that make for a good movie which didn't do well at the box office, considering that (from Wikipedia) "
The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies."^[1] Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction blockbuster and cultural phenomenon The Matrix, Deep Canvas-pioneering Tarzan, Best Picture-winner American Beauty, critically acclaimed animated gem The Iron Giant, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's breakout film Being John Malkovich, M. Night Shyamalan's breakout hit The Sixth Sense, the controversial Fight Club, and the highly anticipated first installment of George Lucas' Star Wars prequel trilogy were released this year."

Stiff competition for an animated movie - though it should have done much better at the box office and was overlooked. Had this movie been released a year earlier or a year later, I think the outcome would have been completely different, especially if it were released in 2000. I mean hell, 1999 had the release of not only Star Wars Episode 1, but Toy Story 2, The Sixth Sense, Austin Powers, Eyes Wide Shut, American Beauty, The Matrix, The Mummy and The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow just to name a few (the complete list is below). That's a lot of blockbuster's.

Brad Bird is an incredible (no pun intended) director and I don't think he get's enough recognition for his ability to tell a story. If you have the chance to see this movie, great for all ages, take that chance and enjoy.

Oh and Vin Diesel played the Iron Giant.

On my scale of A to F this movie gets an A - Highly Recommended and a must see.

Some of Brad Bird's movies

1906 (in production)

2011 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (filming)

2007 Ratatouille

2005 Jack-Jack Attack (video short)

2004 The Incredibles

1999 The Iron Giant

1990-1991 The Simpsons (TV series)

– Like Father, Like Clown (1991)

– Krusty Gets Busted (1990)

1987 Amazing Stories (TV series)

– Family Dog (1987)

Also - ALL the movies released in 1999 -