I saw "Flushed Away" last night with the VES. I had pretty low expectations: I'm a big fan of Aardman's work but I didn't like the trailers which looked pretty rough. I was also dubious about whether I'd enjoy the movie without the stop-motion, and I wondered how it would feel for American CG artists to make a European stop-motion movie. (No ( Read more... )

I saw Brokeback Mountain with matrushkaka at an Open Captioned screening last night. Dispite wanting and expecting to enjoy and appreciate this movie I didn't, and here's why.

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I saw King Kong this evening with matrushkaka at a special screening. I freely admit that I can't be objective about the film that set the standard for how visual effects and film would define each other and inspired three generations of VFX artists. Asking me to say what's good and bad about King Kong is like asking the Pope what's good and bad about the ( Read more... )

matrushkaka and I went to see "Star Wars" this weekend. It wasn't captioned but she found a copy of the script in the IMSDB and read it before the movie, which let her know what was happening. It was fun, and I'm happy I saw it, but I was let down by a few things.

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matrushkaka and I went to see "Downfall" last night. Boy howdy does this movie have some Nazis. There are maybe two scenes in which non-Nazis are visible anywhere in the frame. Here's how to make "Downfall": take a Nazi movie like Raiders of the Lost Ark: the Nazis start off all powerful and sharp-dressed until, at the end of Reel Four, they make some sort ( Read more... )

I first heard about "What The #$*! Do We Know?" a few weeks ago. The website made the movie seem promising and the concept looked like a sure thing: get some physicists, scientists, doctors, religious experts, and mystics together and have a round-table discussion about knowlege and human experience. Last week my friend Ray came to work fuming ( Read more... )

I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 last night with doohickey, zoot_speaks, and Scott. I was expecting great things, but I left more disappointed than anything else. I was disappointed because I think Moore squandered an opportunity to make a much more persuasive movie. Moore states at the outset that his goal is to persuade viewers not to re-elect Bush in the 2004 election. ( Read more... )