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IMO, Crecente deserves to be in 3D all the time!
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Call it a gimmick if you want, but I think this opens a lot more room for innovative gaming than motion sensing.
05/06/09
I never thought I'd catch myself defending motion sensing, but being able to make things appear popped-out hardly seems like it would open up many... ANY new mechanics.
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03/24/09
I got excited cuz I was like, "WHOA A G-FORCE MOVIE. YESSSSS".. until I saw the guinea pigs, and had nothing to do with the anime
I hate my life.
03/24/09
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I frankly got over the novelty of it and I long for the classic (a.k.a. not flash or CGI) animated movies. They used to be great. They looked charming and they caught me on a deeper level.
When it comes to CGI it just feels so shallow. Sure it is a simpler method but it feels like they are just dishing out the movies. Wall-e, Bolt and now G-force in less than a year? Man, and not even one of them even feature human protagonists. I remember when they did Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, hell, even Tarzan. Those were great. I still love them. And they had killed soundtracks.
Nowadays, it's just comically deformed humans a la Invincibles that Disney push out.
The Princess and the Frog is my last hope.
03/24/09
Disney and Dreamworks are to blame for the high number of CG animated films that are pushed to the market every summer.
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Only thing I meant about The Invincibles is that it captures how humans are made in these CGI-movies. Very caricatury. They make me miss the more human characters Disney used to make.
But I can agree that Pixar knows their stuff. It's just getting oversaturated with similar kinds of movies.
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I miss their great animated movies as well, but I doubt they would ever go back, especially since acquiring Pixar. In contrast to you though, I thoroughly enjoy just about everything Pixar has put out, in fact the Incredibles was one of my absolute favorite. The whole comically deformed character design was mimicking comic book art styles.
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I don't hate Pixar at all. I just think their prime was before every other movie used CGI as well. Disney's own CGI-movies are just blatant mashes of Pixar's movies and their own poor non-movie-based tv-shows (excluding Kim Possible and Dave the Barbarian).
Dreamworks needs to get back to work on Shrek and only Shrek when it comes to CGI. At least they were good at butting heads by doing the exact same thing as Disney once.
Hell, I even like the straight-to-video sequels more than these CGI-ones. Even if I know they are much poorer in quality than the original movie was, at least the animations makes it feel that they tried.
Can someone call Don Bluth?
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To be true i had the Feel that this movie with it's low amount of actual Dialog had told me a deeper story and more of it as every other movie since a whole lot of years of the near past.
I absolutely love this movie and a lot of the extremely creative and innovative (dream)works of Pixar.
03/24/09
I do believe fully that it is a really good movie.
Just that it is a movie in an oversaturated market.
03/24/09
The tragedy is that ho-hum concepts like Brother Bear couldn't hope to compete with the energy of Finding Nemo, regardless of the methods used to create it.
Disney simply saw that their gorgeously hand-drawn (but yawn-inducing) movies were failing to have the same box-office draw as Pixar's 3D (and witty and thrilling and well-written) movies and threw the baby out with the bathwater, as they say.
Oddly fitting that Disney is responsible for elevating 2D animation to a true art form, and is also responsible for its premature death.
03/24/09
But I really loved that soundtrack. Somehow Phil Collins make every Disney-movie better.
I might not be able to blame CGI for the disappearance of 2D movies. But there's plenty of other things to blame it for.
Like Aliens vs. Monsters.
I love how you can take an awesome concept and make it a run-to-the-mill CGI-movie with no appeal.
03/24/09
I'm not implying that you need to be told this, but that's pretty much what happened, and it is very saddening.
I long for the rebirth of the classic Disney animated masterpiece.
03/25/09
One of the problems with 3D animation is that every. Single. Movie. Gets compared to Pixar, instead of being judged on it's own merits. It's like comparing a high school art class to the collective works of Vincent Van Gogh. And for what it's worth, I liked Madagascar.
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