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Thomamelas
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So Ketar didn't post his movie review. So I'm gonna post a small filler review. We will still have our regularly scheduled movie this Tuesday from Atomika. Also, I'm gonna apologize, I'm rushing this out a bit.
A missing will. A hard boiled detective crawling into the bottle and deeper into the sewers. Blackmail. Pattycake. A mallet that shoots a boxing glove. Trolley Cars. A cartoon rabbit and his wife who isn't bad, she's just drawn that way.
Cartoons and Noir. Not a combination you expect to work, but Robert Zemeckis meticulously crafts a film in which they do. For those who have never seen it, the film combines animation and live action. But it does so with an intense eye for detail. The cartoons cast shadows. The actors are placed just so, so that they are looking right at the animation. It gives them a weight and feel that is often missing with green screen effects and CGI. And time and effort it took. It was originally planned with a budget of $30 million. It would be finished with a budget of $70 million and the effort shows.
And the casting is about as perfect as one hoped for. Bob Hoskins plays Eddie Valiant with a gruff seriousness to give the film grounding, and his interactions with the members of Toontown brings them into our world as an accepted part. The kind of thing you encounter on the street. A particular challenge since very few of his co-stars are even there. And Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom. Evil and foreboding and yet making excellent use of his comedic talents. It's enough to make you wish he hadn't disappeared into kids direct to video films in the 90's.
In the end we get a film that riffs on Chinatown, somewhat spoofingly, somewhat lovingly in a way that could only come through cartoon logic. By all descriptions, none of this should work but it does so, and in doing so it's brilliant. It presents us with a rich world to explore. So come, enjoy it.
A missing will. A hard boiled detective crawling into the bottle and deeper into the sewers. Blackmail. Pattycake. A mallet that shoots a boxing glove. Trolley Cars. A cartoon rabbit and his wife who isn't bad, she's just drawn that way.
http://youtu.be/OFCIaMyMORgCartoons and Noir. Not a combination you expect to work, but Robert Zemeckis meticulously crafts a film in which they do. For those who have never seen it, the film combines animation and live action. But it does so with an intense eye for detail. The cartoons cast shadows. The actors are placed just so, so that they are looking right at the animation. It gives them a weight and feel that is often missing with green screen effects and CGI. And time and effort it took. It was originally planned with a budget of $30 million. It would be finished with a budget of $70 million and the effort shows.
And the casting is about as perfect as one hoped for. Bob Hoskins plays Eddie Valiant with a gruff seriousness to give the film grounding, and his interactions with the members of Toontown brings them into our world as an accepted part. The kind of thing you encounter on the street. A particular challenge since very few of his co-stars are even there. And Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom. Evil and foreboding and yet making excellent use of his comedic talents. It's enough to make you wish he hadn't disappeared into kids direct to video films in the 90's.
In the end we get a film that riffs on Chinatown, somewhat spoofingly, somewhat lovingly in a way that could only come through cartoon logic. By all descriptions, none of this should work but it does so, and in doing so it's brilliant. It presents us with a rich world to explore. So come, enjoy it.
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I wish I could post the WIP but its quite NSFW
I think the only reason it didn't was my scary movie nightmares were occupied with Roald Dahl's The Witches.
Doom and the death of Optimus Prime were the bulk of my nightmares in the 80s.
shoe dip made me mad
Doom reveal is probably the second time a movie ever inspired terror in me (the first being Gmork from The Never Ending Story)
I didn't see that until like a year ago.
As it is, I got ptsd from the trolls in Ernest Scared Stupid as a kid
And I mean ice!
Roald Dahl books don't pull punches
Some screwed up shit happens in them
I still laugh at this joke just remembering it sometimes
those trolls weren't fuckin around
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Oh Jesus Gmork
Fuck that wolf
I did it. I framed him.
Whew. Feels good to come clean.
Edit: Wait, they made a movie about that?
yeah, the flattened man peeling himself off the floor was really disconcerting and surreal and horrifying, especially considering all the screaming just before
Doesn't matter dip em boys
sometimes our cats eyes glow like that and even though I know it's just the cats?
immediate super goosebumps and pounding heart
But I'm reeeaaaallllll [increasingly tiny fonnnnnnt]
i was much better off not knowing alex jones existed
Yeah that was a total "Wwait, what? What's he doing? What's wrong with his eyes oh NOOOOO"
Oh good. Maybe his listeners will storm in to Mars to save them
Can we just fuck with the coordinates and send them to Mercury
The difference between a rocket and an explosive is an oops. Just saying this can be easy.
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This is a story of how i saw a porno at age 9. A buddy and i rented Who Framed Roger Rabbit from one of these places. Excellent movie. Anywho, after the credits rolled i kept the tape going. At some point i had cought on to the fact that the rental stores would reuse tapes when a movie got less popular by taping another movie over it. Sometimes the new movie was shorter and you could still watch a chunk of a movie you didn't even rent "for free". This was an excellent deal, as far as i was concerned, so i always checked.
That time though, it wasn't the usual "another movie from same approximate genra". I don't really remember this but according to my mom who was napping in another room, my buddy and i all of a sudden got really quiet.
Yay!!!
I'm cool with the matrix now.
We barely even use it to share kitten pictures these days.
The internet has stayed from God's light.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Yet it gave us each other