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>And then there are films I have not seen yet but I am told are clever, inventive and beautiful -- Coco, Inside Out, Soul.

you should watch both coco and soul.

coco is beautiful. it's a love letter to mexican culture.

soul is not only quite beautiful but the soundtrack... oh! i mean it's trent reznor, atticus ross and jon batiste. it won both a grammy and an oscar!

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Weird because of those three movies I would say Inside Out was the most beautiful masterpiece they have created in the last 10 years hands down.

That’s a movie where the message really did change my life. I used to think a good life was one without sadness, and now I know it’s part of life, and you have to learn to cope with it. A simple insight, maybe I had always known it, but the movie reinforced it. No happiness without sadness!

I was visiting with a therapist at the time and they were encouraging everyone to watch it if they could. It touched on a number of intrinsic but commonly overlooked things that most people never think about, but also went pretty deep into our current understanding of the mind in some parts.

It's the best animated movie I've ever seen I believe.

After Zootopia, yes :)

I cringed at Inside Out. Movies where they have to explain and explain and explain all the rules of a made up world are not my thing. It’s all so contrived and that creates a distance emotionally for me. I would much rather have preferred an actual movie about teenage emotions without all the exposition necessitated by the contrived world.

Soul isn't on the same level of Coco. Coco is a clear and heartfelt message with a (mostly) beautiful backdrop. Soul is a consistently ugly meandering story with all sorts of strange crypto Gnostic and pro life themes that just confuses.

I don't know why is this downvoted, I thought that the general consensus was that Soul is not even close to Coco? Coco is one of the best cartoon in this millennia[0], while Soul is not.

[0] see for example the IMBD toplist : https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?num_votes=200000,&genres=... Coco is 12-15, on 8.4, while Soul is 29-33 on 8.0. (Okay, I tweaked the number of votes value, until the ranking matched my personal toplist. Lower numbers cause a lot of not that good shows to occupy the top, and higher numbers filter out a lot of really good shows.)

Though if you watch Coco I think you should also watch Book of Life. Book of Life got somewhat ignored in the box office because it wasn't Pixar, but of the two had far more Mexican/Mexican-American creative talent involved behind the scenes (not that I'm accusing Pixar of appropriation, but there are some questions to be had there if you are feeling cynical), tells the more complete cultural story, and I think is very much the better movie.

We like both in our house but have to agree that Book of Life is the better movie.

+1 on soul ... especially if, like me, you're an ageing musician with a day job

I’m glad I have young kids because I missed most animation movies in the last 15-20 years. It’s great when a new one comes out.

Now is the perfect time to watch those old ones that you missed. I'm doing it with my son and love it, probably more than he does.

Inside Out was great too.

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