April 3, 2005
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Links and Stuff
“George & Nigel of The Jungle”
via snapatorium’s flickrThe Ward-O-Matic: Abundant Linkage. Tons of cool animation/design blog links.
We have just been informed that there is a new Mucha Lucha Yahoo Group! (You need to join the group to read messages)
My cute things blog has been linked to! Thank you I Like! Sorry, I know I don’t update this one very often… Lately, I’ve been too busy to surf for new toys… - Lili
We saw Steamboy last night…
Eddie: Okay, I’m not the biggest Anime fan out there, but I can hang with the best of them – Miyazaki, Cowboy BeBop The Movie, FLCL - so I’m always ready to see anything that gets a major release.
Steamboy is one of those soulless excercises where the filmmakers spend all their talent and resources in the rendering of the mechanical props (in this case, boilers!) and don’t give us one single reason to give a rat’s ass about the characters. As Lili pointed out…the characters spend 70% of the film shrouded in heat and steam, but never sweat! Maybe this would have personalised them a little. The look of the film is really unappealing; realistically rendered BGs in washed out colors that clash dramatically with the fully rendered CGI. We also saw the dubbed version, meaning that there were a lot of characters with gratingly BAD Lancashire accents. If you must see this, see the subtitled version.
Lili: Eddie’s from Manchester so he should know what the accents are supposed to sound like
To be brutally honest, I only enjoyed the final 15 minutes of the movie when Steamboy shoots around in the air while London gets totally trashed. OK, there were times when I thought WOW… all that metal industrial technology… the detail… almost magnificently Giger-esque. But you can only take so much of this before it gets old. And there was way too much of it.
Comments (1)
Neat. I’ll be sure to check more of those design blog links when i get the chance.