Winnie the Pooh (review)
Oh, it’s more of the same old crap we’re feeding our kids these days: Gratuitious destruction of the English language. Partial ursine nudity. Hunny abuse.
CGI
trailer break: ‘Green Lantern’
I dunno… there’s an awful lot of CGI in this trailer. Is the whole movie going to be one big cartoon?
deep thought (re ‘Mars Needs Moms’)
Not all children’s books — not even really really good ones — are worth blowing up into $150 million, CGI-motion-captured 3D IMAX cinematic experiences.
Mars Needs Moms (review)
Do kids really need to be reminded — in IMAX 3D! — that Mom loves you and has your best interests at heart when she tells you to eat your broccoli and gets mad when you feed it to the cat instead? I guess someone at Disney figured this was the case.
Seth Green, actor and nonentity in Hollywood’s CGI heaven
Have you read Connie Willis’s novel Remake? Danged if this news — regarding Seth Green’s performance in Mars Needs Moms — doesn’t sound like what Willis was warning us about…
Rango (review)
How can it be that a kiddie movie is wiser and funnier and more relevant than the Coens Brothers’ True Grit? This is, in fact, what a Coens’ animated flick might look like and sound like, if they got an assist from Terry Giliam: this is a deeply weird and deeply demented movie, and thrillingly so.
Alpha and Omega (review)
The bizarre non sequiturs that pass for jokes — such as the golf-playing goose who really, really hates cupcakes — make the poop jokes sound like wit.
fair warning: ‘Expendables’ sequel all but inevitable
Sylvester Stallone: writer, director, *auteur*…
what she said: io9’s Charlie Jane Anders…
…on what to call an overload of CGI (in commenting on Predators) It’s a minor miracle to see an action movie in which the action feels organic, and it’s not just a flatulence of CG. (By the way, that’s officially the plural term for a lot of CG, or several CG effects in one place … more…
omg: Ray Harryhausen feted at BFI on his 90th birthday; is he available to work?
I’ve just come from enduring some truly cold and deeply unmoving CGI FX in The Last Airbender. Sterile, inorganic, lifeless… I haven’t seen anything so lackluster since Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. And Jonah Hex. And Clash of the Titans. And Alice in Wonderland. And — oh yeah — last night, when I … more…
