One of the bestest ever

I saw Iron Giant again, although it sounds like too much, I could really say it's the best animated movie ever, at least from my perspective. I judge it from a technical point of view and it's just beautifully done, such impecable animation, they way a huge metal guy makes you feel... those guys did magic; and, on the other hand, the topic... which is very interesting.

The first time I saw it this movie made me, literally, cry... now I love animation, but that doesn't happen quite ofter, I can remember a couple other that made me really sad, but tears flowing?... I think this one has been the only one to do it, now I saw it for a second time, and there were no tears, but my guts were trully moved, and I already knew what was comming.

It made me wonder though... this movie, one of the best animated movies ever, really didn't cut it into the teathers, and really didn't make much money out there. Now, this is a huge production, voices of Jennifer Aniston and Vin Diesel, Warner Studios, great sound trach... stuff like that. People claim that the movie didn't make it as much due to a marketing mistake, they just didn't promote it well enough, or didn't release it when they had to. I remeber back when I was learning a lot in animation, I joined several mailing lists with pros who would dicuss about all this, those guys made me want to see the movie, they all thought it was just the best thing ever... and this guys know what they are talking about.

The thing is... this movie really makes the US goverment, or some of it, really look foolish... it's a critic about their policy kill now, ask later... to whatever is left... it openly states how stupid is all the fear that they make people feel from outside stuff, and their ideas about mistrusting everything other than their wepons. All this in order to protect america we have to kill everything that is a "threat" and it's foolishness it widely exposed... in a wonderful, even naive, way.

Does the idea of those guys bombarding the middle east looking for weapons, and after destroying the place not finding anything rings a bell?. Well yes, it doesn't only happen on the cartoons you know?.

It almost pisses me off... yet getting pissed of is not the answer, because anger and fear are the things that cause all this suffering.

Anyway, my point is, was the marketing of this movie stopped or tuned low because of it's political critic?... didn't this guys believe that teaching the younger generations to be tolerant would be dangerous to their status quo?... who knows, maybe I am being paranoic... but if you ask me, it does make sense.

**cheers.