Alien

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Anthony Lucas

I was lucky enough to meet Anthony Lucas; an Australian stop motion animator and director at university last week. He shared his film making process, showing how he developed and told story in animated cinema for such films as Slim Pickings, and Oscar nominated film - The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello. I took so many notes drew so many caricatures.

It was an entertaining seminar, and was great to talk to the guy that brought Australian kids like us those Kraft peanut butter man commercials.  This guy’s hung out with guys at Aardman, Pixar and Dreamworks. Awesome to see Australians still kickin’. Go check out his work and love the  wonderful old art of stop motion. NOW.

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The internet needs invites

 — Start chat — 
don-don-32@hotmail.com: just so you know, if you were wonering, i got your MSN addy off google
don-don-32@hotmail.com: wondering*
me: cool
don-don-32@hotmail.com: dont you care that your me addy is on google for the whole world to see?
me: there’s nothing I can do about it, because forums and other sites post it without authentication. It’s what you get for being known on the internet.
don-don-32@hotmail.com: ah right, how are you well known?
me: uhhh, css galleries, article writing, I’m friends with neat bloggers
me: things get around
don-don-32@hotmail.com: ahh right cool
don-don-32@hotmail.com: so what bloggers/celebs are you “friends with”
me: uhm, why do you need to know that?
me: i don’t even know who you are
don-don-32@hotmail.com: exactly so how do i know your telling the truth, and i was just making polite conversation
don-don-32@hotmail.com: its not like im asking your address or something lol
me: you did start a conversation with OH I GOT YOUR EMAIL OFF GOOGLE
don-don-32@hotmail.com: well i didnt word it like that
me: the essence is the same
me: and I am yet to know who you are or why i’ve been added to your list
me:
don-don-32@hotmail.com: erm for the crack
me: uh..
don-don-32@hotmail.com: haha
don-don-32@hotmail.com: do you understand what that means?
me: yeah, but I didn’t find it funny enough to laugh
don-don-32@hotmail.com: it wasnt meant to make you laugh anyways
me: sweet
don-don-32@hotmail.com: okay well as much as this conversation has entertained me i have nothing else to say to you, so erm bye lol
me: weird.
don-don-32@hotmail.com: oh and one last thing, aha you got pwned!
me: oh wait till you see how ironic this is when this gets on the internet. Cya.

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Attractive Animators

Currently 7 opinions.

Wanted

A film about an elite group of assassins. A “Fraternity”. I don’t really know where I stand with this one.  Ok, I’m lying, I hated it. Angelina Jolie really needs to stop being in shoot-out movies. Is that really the only genre she is capable of existing in? Long story short; decent comic, terrible film. It was immediately apparent that the roots of the action style was heavily derived from The Matrix’s bullet time sequences and Fight club’s underdog story.

The first building shot was composited terribly. It was so blatantly obvious that the building used in the scene was comped in. The key lighting didn’t match, and the figure chroma was university grade-esque (gross). I don’t get how they could make the rest of the visuals beautiful where bullets bend around corners and pierce skulls, while they can’t even light a scene decently? Shows you how terribly balanced the budget would have been for VFX. Probably all spent buying flowers for Angelina.

Morgan Freeman unpredictably played a mentoring role, while Angelina exposed her buttocks for the 7 millionth time, and brandished a gun while pouting. Everything about this was predictable. Barely any structure or plot, but plenty of shooting, car chases and train crashes.

Though the comic is closely matches shot to frame, they stripped out the super villain attribute of the characters, sacrificing them for slightly more ‘believable’ people with the ability to spike levels of adrenaline (thus making them think faster). Way to kill what would have been an excellent super villain movie…  The ‘plot’ was all over the shop, and the twists could be seen a long while off. I think the weakest plot hole is that they predict targets from pieces of cloth from some fancy weaving machine, while anyone could just cut out a scrap from a craft store and claim it to be part of the prophecy. It’s so central to the plot that they end up all dying. Pretty weak.

• Me: seen wanted yet?
• Me: it’s so horrible
• Tim Bond: don’t remind me of the piece of shit experience
• Tim Bond: There was a point I didn’t think it could get any worse and then it did
• Tim Bond: is it bad for me to want the main characters to die?
• Me: It was sooooooooooo bad
• Me: dude, you should get back into movie review schtuff
• Tim Bond: Oh I so would
• Tim Bond: but I have currently found a hobby that is taking all of my spare time
• Tim Bond: and it is not masturbation.

It was still fun to watch ( I took my pal Fran to see it and it was a blast!)  but wow; what a terrible remake of every shooting movie ever. You are best saving your ticket money for another screening of The Dark Knight,  Or Hellboy II.

Currently 10 opinions.