tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793728792473426877.post9100151165351683902..comments2024-03-22T14:46:02.911-07:00Comments on Cinésthesia: Toil and trouble: "Brave"Mike McCahillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04422740293868518305noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793728792473426877.post-44783715714605935882012-09-02T15:10:35.292-07:002012-09-02T15:10:35.292-07:00ParaNorman looks amazing! I'm also looking for...ParaNorman looks amazing! I'm also looking forward to Wreck-It Ralph. Lots of good stuff coming up!Beverly Sutphinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804376331438753963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793728792473426877.post-72659259018088151652012-09-02T10:32:34.820-07:002012-09-02T10:32:34.820-07:00It's a fair point, and I guess I'm guilty ...It's a fair point, and I guess I'm guilty as anyone of lazily attributing these films' achievements and failings to the machines, rather than the good men and women operating them. One half-hearted excuse I could offer is that this may be a wordcount issue: it's more efficient to type "computers" than "computer programmers". But, like I say, half-hearted, and an excuse. I'll take this into account when I see "ParaNorman" next week, which I am very much looking forward to seeing...Mike McCahillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04422740293868518305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793728792473426877.post-37043516641106308362012-09-01T09:36:47.125-07:002012-09-01T09:36:47.125-07:00But surely just as many lacklustre non-CG films th...But surely just as many lacklustre non-CG films that haven't made us smile, or laugh, or cry?<br /><br />Of course there's nothing wrong with pointing out that a CG movie is... well, CG. It's just that, unfortunately, there still seems to be a general feeling that CG images are made by computers, rather than with computers. A review of a period drama won't be filled with references to sewing machines; if the costumes are mentioned at all, more often than not, the costume designer will be named. Likewise, a film may be praised for its camera work, often accompanied by a namecheck of the director of photography, but the review won't dwell on the type of camera rig used or the constant use of lenses to make the pictures. As a result, I tend to prickle when I read a review which focuses on the tools, rather than the artists who use them.Beverly Sutphinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804376331438753963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793728792473426877.post-23153384332315124212012-08-27T09:58:43.398-07:002012-08-27T09:58:43.398-07:00Certainly CG films have become definable as a genr...Certainly CG films have become definable as a genre in themselves - in part because of their commercial success: "Madagascar 3" and "Ice Age 4" are the U-rated equivalents of "Saw VI" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street 6", or wherever we're at these days. I fear you may just have found me guilty of (perhaps) unnecessary wordplay when it comes to the reviews themselves - I don't intend to treat animated films any differently from any other release, although I always think it may be more of an achievement when a CG character makes you smile, or laugh, or cry than when an actor does it. Partly that's because of the technical issue (and the vast hours of intricate programming it must take to achieve that) but also because, of late, there have been so many nondescript CG characters, in so many lacklustre CG films, that simply HAVEN'T made us smile, or laugh, or cry...Mike McCahillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04422740293868518305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793728792473426877.post-40501173840094128882012-08-25T07:55:39.801-07:002012-08-25T07:55:39.801-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Beverly Sutphinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804376331438753963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793728792473426877.post-82181600199119454322012-08-20T04:29:18.002-07:002012-08-20T04:29:18.002-07:00Glad you agree (and so eloquently!) - I do worry t...Glad you agree (and so eloquently!) - I do worry that, between "Cars 2" and "Toy Story 4", Pixar are going through a cynical "Second Jungle Book" phase from which they simply may not be encouraged to emerge. At the time of writing, "Brave" is taking very respectable sums of money at the UK box-office - between it, "The Lorax" and "Ice Age 4", it would now seem impossible to lose money making computer-animated features released during the school holidays. (There's surely a correlation between lazy parenting and lazy animation.) With prominent Pixar lynchpins (Andrew Stanton, Brad Bird etc.) departing for live action projects, I fear only a "Mars Needs Moms"-level disaster will rouse the company's remaining bright minds from creative slumber...<br /><br />Mike.<br /><br />P.S. That's a fine choice of pseudonym.Mike McCahillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04422740293868518305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793728792473426877.post-27515502940365810022012-08-19T06:00:28.344-07:002012-08-19T06:00:28.344-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Beverly Sutphinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804376331438753963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793728792473426877.post-18740543059602286422012-08-19T05:10:32.992-07:002012-08-19T05:10:32.992-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Beverly Sutphinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804376331438753963noreply@blogger.com