I had the privilege to see this movie in theatres way back in 1999. I was the perfect age, 10. No words can describe how thrilling and emotionally moving this film was to me. I still consider hands down without a doubt one of greatest cinematic experiences of my life (right up there with the lotr trilogy and Spider-Man 1). Why this film flopped I have no idea. The trailer looked awesome, so I don't know why too many people didn't make it to the cinema, but as predicted, it has gained lots of success since then. An absolute classic! Thank you Brad Bird!

Shed a tear at Guillermo del toro quote the mans a Nationala treasure

If the iron giant ever returns to theaters as a re-released, I’ll pay good money for it and the room will be packed

this is exactly what i was looking for. Ive gone through a lot in the last few years and i sat down and rewatched this film. Only reason i ever saw it on VHS was because my mom's coworker donated it to her when i was very little, since we had nothing at all living in a podunk town in east jesus nowhere tennessee, and the only tapes we had was either my dad's goodbye before he went off to war, and old copies of the little rascal's he left behind. I wish i could have been old enough to have seen this film in theaters, how wonderful that must have been. This film changed me, and is a cornerstone of who i am, down to getting my name changed. thank you for posting this online, anything to know about this film should be carefully documented, archived and distributed, because this film has made my life all the better, and has given me informed ideas on morality, life, and values.

Brad Bird is a wonderful animation director!

38:44 Even with unrendered CG of the Giant and rough animation of Hogarth, the Souls Don't Die scene still has the emotional impact it has on audiences around the world.

Neither Fantasia nor Citizen Kane were appreciated when they were released. It was generations later that the public saw them as classics and their re-release were awarded with high BO numbers. I hope the same will be said for this wonderful film.

He’s actually making Ray Gunn now

What great insight to the making of one of my favourite animated films. This delivered more than I was expecting. Thanks.

It's so interesting to see how After Effects was used way back then even though it was pretty new at that point. Thanks for making this available, it was great!

This is a truly wonderful documentary for one of the best movies out there.

Ray Gunn is finally being made

Thanks for uploading this. I wish there were the composer Michael Kamen's scoring footages as well, but overall, very good doc to understand what was really happened to Brad Bird's classic animation.

Best project I've ever worked on.

Thanks for uploading the doc. Bittersweet journey, that yielded a timeless treasure.

Misha was right, this was a bop of inspiration!

12:30 Warner Bros hired Pete Townsend to write songs for the movie before Brad Bird became the director. And similar, Disney changed the musical Kingdom of the Sun into the buddy comedy The Emperor's New Groove most of the singer Sting's songs being cut as well.

The iron giant: bombs because warner bros gave little to no attention to be a hit. 20 years later The lego movie 2: warner bros had faith for this movie to be a hit only for it to be a bomb causing the lego group leaving warner bros. Dont you hate when history repeat itself.

I was like 'oh this is long, maybe I'll just watch a few minutes..' and then I watched the whole almost hour. I have no regrets

46:33 Is the best part.

The big issue was the 4 months time frame for promo. If only they waited till spring of 2000 and competed with Disney’s Dinosaur… Just imagine

Drew McWeeny was absolutely fucking right! This is not a movie that I like casually, it is a movie that I love so damn much, and that I want to scream from the rooftops about how brilliant it is. I constantly dream of the day where I head off to school and they play this movie, I constantly dream of having the time with someone willing to listen to just spout every single thing that I love about this movie, and I even dream, of some day, maybe, trying to get a group of people together to just animate the Giant being a swell helpful Giant after the events of the movie, and maybe finding his way back to Hogarth. This masterpiece never leaves my mind, any time I hear giant, iron, rock, tree, I think of it, any time I see transmission towers, I think of it! I love this movie, and I would be honoured to shake the hand of all who worked on it.

I remember the first time I saw the iron giant! it was on nickelodeon of all places! and I was able to just see the ending! but I begged my parents to order the dvd version that night! because I wanted to see the rest of the movie! it was late 2000s early 2010s so I don't think smart tv's and being able to play something back on a tv was a thing back then! but I was determined to watch the rest of that movie! not a single movie that I saw on tv had this kind of effect on me before or since! it's truly one of my favorite movies!💗💗💗💗💗🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

Thanks for this I love full on animation documentaries

This documentary is so well made and informative I hope one day they make a bio pic movie about Brad bird's career 🔥

Just watched it for the first time tonight and loved it. This documentary is very interesting so thanks!

Brad Bird went on to do The Incredibles for Disney under Pixar

16:26-16:33 Pre-Spiderverse Sony Pictures Animation in a nutshell

Thank you for uploading this! I wanted to see this documentary since I heard of its existence, but couldn't find it. So, thanks!

Damn i just want to see a doc series on him working on Incredibles and Ratatouille since Ratatouille didn't even have an audio commentary WHICH SUCKS

If I was old enough at the time of iron giant’s release I definitely would’ve seen it in theaters. I was 2 at the time and was first exposed to it when Cartoon Network did 24 hour marathons of it for thanksgiving. Which I dunno why thanksgiving specifically (given it has little to nothing to do with it). But that first exposed me to it and as I got older I got to appreciate it much more.

I adore The Iron Giant

"Killed by gun violence." "When you shoot somebody, you're not just killing that person..." So the instrument somehow makes the death of his sister worse? Her husband wouldn't have done it another way? To make that the emphasis is astounding.

When did the inbetweening, inking, coloring, bg art, compositing etc happen? I'm not sure why so many animation documentaries skip this part and just focus on the key-animation =/

If I had a Time Machine. I would go back to when this masterpiece was released, to experience it the right way.

Uouu incrível como Guilherme Del Toro realmente estava certo. Esse filme se tornou um clássico. Esse filme é 1000 vezes melhor que muitos filmes da Disney hoje em dia. Eu lembro de assistir 7000000 de vezes e todas eu ficar impressionado.

Brad Bird has outdone himself.

I enjoyed it a lot! Its always interesting to see what stayd behind the great movies

8:15 Sad

I remember thinking that the storyboards were oddly dynamic when I was a kid! I never really thought about it until now, but I don’t really remember seeing anything like it until… The Incredibles storyboards… which Brad Bird also worked on! It’s cool that After Effects is pretty much used in the same way to this day.

This shows WBs true colors

Music:Michael Kamen(1999)

Wonderful

36:05 🤣

Geez, and I thought Disney's business practices were bad.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank youuuuu

I see Bird doing an enitre animated film about a young animator like himself trying to survive ina place like Disney, only to realize that he needs to stop trying to emulate them and do his own thing; it could animated like a Disney film for the first half to show symbolize how he's under their looming shadow, then the second half could be uniquely animated to symbolize him breaking away from that. If done right, it could stand among The Iron Giant as his best film

12:28, with the I Feel Good test animation for Shrek found. I wished this test animation in full could be found.

I knew this was an underdog movie but jeez

A young Lauren Faust was in it

35:47 This should have been a red flag. Brad flat out admits he has no idea how to promote his ideas. What is an executive at WB supposed to think if he saw this? At least with Quest for Camelot there was a successful precedent. But it bombed anyway so how is Warner Bros. supposed to believe in the Iron Giant seriously when it’s own Disney imitation failed?

19:07 "I'm working to the bone"

This on the DVD version, or exclusively blu ray?

35:30 39:59 46:50 47:34

AMC Century City had 14 Auditoriums, not 10.

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How Brad and Allison fought. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gbqgfMl_upa0gXU.html