I took an animation class while in film school. I liked it plenty.
I use to read CartoonBrew daily just because it seemed to be connected with the industry. I like their stance on dearth of hand drawn animation in the US.
If you love animation, then you can do no wrong than by visiting today’s link.
The Wachowski’s Speed Racer is certainly ambitious. With it’s candy coated visuals and cgi backdrops, it makes for an entertaining experience. Yet, it fails because of the use of cgi, because the meager plot couldn’t hide behind the pretty lights, the film relied on the flash rather than the story. And that is what’s so frustrating about this movie, the flashy visuals were good, but the tale was weak especially in the exposition of the fiendish Royalton. It was boring.
Until the races started up. I loved it. They looked like skaters doing ollie shove-its and 360 kick flips. This was the first time I felt like I had to play the video game. If it was about bashing other cars, it would be awesome like Mario Cart.
Christina Ricci is dangerous. Her Trixie enters and you know that the sugar coated affair has changed to something slightly off-kilter. John Goodman looking old, but serviceable as Pops. Sprittle was annoying, but needed to provide some comic relief for the children in the audience to laugh. Emile Hirsch is once again a blank 2d character like the animated version of speed racer.
The story did pick up until the racing. The early part was boring. In fact, I still don’t get the fiendish Royalton’s machinations because my eyes glazed over and I checked out for a bit.
It’s not as bad as the reviews its getting, but it needs some work. This is the first movie that seems to have been expressly made for high definition DVDs. I couldn’t help but think that hd DVD should’ve been its original release format.
3 of 5 stars.
This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love’s true instinct, back to thee!
Thomas Moore
Mom Portraite
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers in the world. May your children return the love you give them a thousand fold.
This one’s for my mom. She’s the greatest.
Hey, it’s my fourth anniversary of blogging on BrowserMetrics! There’s a lot to read for all you newbies, but let’s look back on how it was with my first post. After that, check out the archives. Hopefully, you’ll find them amusing.
This screencap was sitting on my desktop. It was interesting enough that I wanted to share it with you. She’s annoyed.
What happened?!
Plus, it seems as if it’s coming to a close.
This post should be about me being up this early or staying up late, but it is not.
It’s about writing and writers who make their doing some work as
ghostwriters.
They get up in the middle of the night or early in the morning to post things.
Boo!
;_;
“Ludux.” (Through light we shall govern.)
Dad
If every year a Pixar film had to go up against a Studio Ghibli film for the Best Animated Film Oscar, I think Pixar would lose. It’s not that Pixar’s films are not the best, but that they seem to lack the maturity towards storytelling and to the story that you find in a Studio Ghibli film.
I can honestly say that Studio Ghibli’s films rank higher than most Pixar films in my book, the exception being the phenomenal, The Incredibles.
Again, I am sending you to a Japanese only site. Sorry. If you want to know more about Studio Ghibli, but in English, google.
