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[edoraslass]

Avatar: Meh. Pretty and full of insanely complicated CGI, extraordinarily mundane, predictable plot, and a wandering Aussie accent. BUT did have That One Guy, You Know, The Intern from Bones [OH HEY now I understand the hoo-ha in that one episode *facepalm*], which was a nice surprise, and Wes Studi for like half a minute of voiceover time. MOAR

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[just_ann_now]

Well, I love Eleven, purely from an aesthetic standpoint; he pushes all my Tall-Rangy-Lean buttons. I may never (that is, probably never) watch a Who of any regeneration, and he'll still be my favorite Who.

I'm so not ready to go back, but if everyone else is going, there wouldn't be anyone around to entertain me, so I might as well. *pouts*

Happy birthday to your mom!

[edoraslass]

I don't really want to go back, either. But I need a nice, structured day.

[shoebox_rhymes]

I've heard that about Avatar, also including the comment that it's full of "Let me tell you how to FEEL about this scene!" music. Heh. And yeah, that episode of Bones was mysterious at the time for me, too. :)

Do you think that Holmes is watchable for the book-fan? I haven't heard any opinions yet.

[aranel_took]

[shoebox_rhymes]

Oh, that does sound promising. Thanks!

[edoraslass]

Yes, I have heard a LOT of "competent Watson!!!" squee, that's for certain.

[aranel_took]

[edoraslass]

Honestly, I don't really get the big deal with the CGI, because to me, it was just pretty much....you know, CGI. A lot more of it than usual, but still, just CGI. It didn't jar me when it went from 100% CGI to Mostly Live People and sets, but a CGI character carrying a real person looked just like a CGI character carrying a real person to me. Also there were some Uncanny Valley issues on my part. :) Now I saw it in 2D, so maybe that makes a difference - but I'm also pretty picky about CGI, in that I don't want to constantly be aware it's there. I had issues with the story on more than "boring/crap writing" level, too, but surprisingly, not as many as I'd thought I would.

I'm only marginally attached to Clash of the Titans as a childhood movie; the one person I knew who had a VCR [Betamax!] never really wanted to watch it, so I didn't get to watch it obsessively.

Toy Story 3 trailers

Well, Tony Stark IS Robert Downey Jr. I'm sure that helps. :)

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[edoraslass]

I can academically understand that the tech involved is incredible and advanced blah blah pixels blah blah rendering blah blah whatever. BUT on many levels, I am not very visually focused, and therefore ZOMG FANTASTIC VISUALS don't do much for me. IMO, James Cameron needs to have his computer taken away from him.

However, on other weird levels I do notice visuals, and what CGI people STILL do NOT understand the the biggest problem with a LOT of CGI is that it looks too clean. It's too clean, it's too neat, it's too symmetrical, it's too mathematically aligned, and that will bother me. My rule of thumb is that the darker/dirtier the movie is, the less I will notice the CGI. Holmes has CGI, and I barely noticed it at all, because Victorian England is filthy and not overly sunshiney. :)[Although I'm sure people from London noticed] I know there aren't 2316546 Orcs at Helm's Deep, but it's dark and it's mixed with a LOT of real people/set dressing

[roh_wyn]

I saw Sherlock Holmes over the holidays, and actually sort of hated it, even though I'm a big fan of that genre, and I'm generally game for anything that features stuff blowing up around pretty men. It's watchable, but it's not $9 worth of watchable.

The Robin Hood trailer makes no sense, and unless they're going for a Robin and Marian sort of storyline, the actors are too old for their parts. But it's Ridley Scott, so I'll watch it, lol.

I liked the CotT trailer. Still have fond memories of the original. Yes, I really am that old. ;)

Now that Eleven is done, maybe we'll get just a bit less of David Tennant? He's everywhere, all the time. Bored now.

(I promise that all my future comments will be happy-happy love-love!)

[edoraslass]

And I'm not really a fan of the genre - I don't much like "everyone sit round the parlor and I shall explain to you every detail of how I figured it out!" type things. I kinda consider Holmes a genre unto himself, and I've read one Holmes story ever, but I suspect Arthur Conan Doyle is actually to blame for that mystery-wrap-up template. :)

I've been looking forward to a Robin Hood that skews older. There's nothing to say [that I know of] that the characters HAVE to be below 25-30, and I think it'll give it a completely different angle, so far as motivations are concerned.

Yeah, there has been Tennant everywhere all the time for a while, hasn't there? I'm sure in spring we'll be sick of Matt Smith, everywhere, all the time.

[roh_wyn]

Oh, I should have been more clear. I'm a fan of the sort of steampunky genre that this Sherlock Holmes movie was in. I just didn't enjoy its execution all that much. (I'm also not a Jude Law fan, which might have put a damper on things *sigh*)

And fwiw, the movie does have a mystery-wrap-up scene, doesn't it? Granted, it's in nobody's idea of a nice Victorian parlor, but it's there, just the same. ;)

I'm not saying Robin Hood needs to be 25 or younger. But it's the 1190s, and if he was 30-something, he'd probably be close to death. *shrugs* I'm too close to all the Robin Hood stuff just now to be objective about it, but what I've seen so far of the trailer confuses me. And well, Russell Crowe. Still on the fence about him.

Did I tell you I (along with a few other LJ'ers) accidentally ran into Matt Smith after a play last year? He was stunned he had that many fans before he had even started filming DW, lol.

[edoraslass]

I was expecting far more steampunk,actually, and my friend laughed at me for saying so. :)And yeah,I can see where not liking Jude Law would be a problem. It does have a wrap-up scene, and honestly, it did annoy me - although more because really, that's the very FIRST part of the mystery that should have been addressed. The wrap-scene does tend to work better for me in visual form rather than script, because when it's visual media, they've also been explaining as they go, rather than dumping it in your lap all at once.

Oh, that kind of age issue! That's a type of thing I can't get riled about; IMO, there's no way to age cast in tune with the actual time period with anything set that far in the past, so I more concern myself with the age difference between characters. If they're supposed to be contemporaries, you can't use actors who are 15 years apart in age, that type of thing.

Oh dear. It really sounds like Matt Smith doesn't understand what he's gotten into. The poor boy.

[lady_branwyn]

Ditto about work. I feel this looming sense of depression. :(