Spielberg Still in Charge of First TINTIN - Aug 27, 2008 - 08:23pm
I think it will be great to see Tintin movies. I've loved these books as long as I can remember. And I'm glad they're going to be animated. There are some French live action movies from the 60s which I've never seen other than still images, but it's weird to see live people playing them, even if Tintin anc C0. are humans. And Stephan Moffat is a fantatsic writer for Doctor Who. He really cares for Who having been a fan all his life, so maybe he feels teh same way about Tintin. I'd like to see him pen another Indiana Jones movie, but I suspect he's got his hands full now as next head writer for Doctor Who. It's good they're starting with Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure. That's when Tintin meets Captain Haddock, so it makes sense to start with that two parter. I'd like to see The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun as well. I've always had a soft spot for Cigars of the Pharaoh, but it's an earlier one without Haddock.

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Warner Bros. Responds to Upset POTTER Fandom - Aug 20, 2008 - 12:13pm
You're right Hanso. The eports last week said the writer's strike had affected the release of other blockbusters they had been planning to release in Summer 2009. So I guess they're saying that they don't have anything else worthy that will be ready in time, so they're saving Harry Potter for then. But now won't they be missing out on having a big blockbuster for the Christmas season, or do they have something else. I don't even know why studios save their big blockbuster type of movies for Christmas or May/June/July. They're the ones who have set audiences up to assume blockbusters will only come out during those months, and that if a movie is released in February, it must not be as good. Why clump all of the big movies together and make them compete. Why not disperse big movies throughout the year. Working adults generally don't get summer and Christmas holidays like kids in school do, so it doesn't make a difference what time of year it is to get out and see a movie.

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New 2-D Art for PRINCESS AND THE FROG - Aug 12, 2008 - 06:18pm
I enjoyed Mulan and Hercules, and even Home on the Range. To me what makes them closer to the classic ones is that the characters sing the songs. I find that with Tarzan and Brother Bear, it really takes me out of the story when the music is played over the animation with the song creators singing and not the characters. Even though Elton John wrote the songs on Lion King, he didn't sing them in the film; it was supposed to be the characters. I thought it was terrible when they closed down the 2D studio. I heard people say that showing a kid a 2D animated movie is like showing him a black and white TV show comapred to colour. But that's not true, because the majority of cartoons on TV are still 2D, including ones made by Disney. The Goofy short about the home theatre installation at the beginning of National Treasure 2 was excellent. Perfectly in the style of the old cartoons. I read it was a test to see if they could use modern methods to create a classic style. I say they succeeded.

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