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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell

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Jessica - Jan 24, 2007 1:55:36 pm PST #7184 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Going to college in the midwest made my mother's Cincy accent come out of lurkdom and take over my entire vocabulary, and I could definitely hear the difference. Moving back East has mostly gotten rid of it.

But apparently even a crapass CG movie will make much more money than a very good (Were Rabbit, Corpse Bride) stop-motion.

Crapass CG movies tend to be "hipper" than stop-motion animated ones, and so will attract a larger audience of kids and teens. Stop-motion animation looks like art and rarely features the kind of lame pop culture references masquerading as jokes (yes, Shrek, I'm looking sternly at you) that today's young people seem to like. Stoopid young people.

Theodosia - Jan 24, 2007 3:02:18 pm PST #7185 of 10001

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Particularly when CG movies are trying harder and hard to look convincingly 3D, which of course the stop-motion ones have in spades.

DavidS - Jan 24, 2007 3:14:48 pm PST #7186 of 10001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Particularly when CG movies are trying harder and hard to look convincingly 3D, which of course the stop-motion ones have in spades.

Flushed Away (which Emmett and I enjoyed) was a CG movie done by Aardman to look like a Wallace and Gromit-ish movie.

Hayden - Jan 24, 2007 3:31:51 pm PST #7187 of 10001

aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

When I go visit Alabama, I come back sounding pretty country, but generally I have a mild drawl at best. Since many of the newscasters where I grew up didn't have the Newscaster Accent, it still sounds like an accent rather than normalized English to me.

Frankenbuddha - Jan 25, 2007 4:07:03 am PST #7188 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Flushed Away (which Emmett and I enjoyed) was a CG movie done by Aardman to look like a Wallace and Gromit-ish movie.

I heard (a link here, I think) the main reason they went CG with that was because there was so much water in the story, and emulating water is one of the things that stop motion has a serious problem with.

Beverly - Jan 25, 2007 5:18:09 am PST #7189 of 10001

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I really don't like stop-motion. From Gumby to Grommit. Sorry.

DavidS - Jan 25, 2007 5:29:48 am PST #7190 of 10001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I really don't like stop-motion. From Gumby to Grommit. Sorry.

Does the medium itself bug you, Bev?

Theodosia - Jan 25, 2007 5:38:07 am PST #7191 of 10001

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Me, I'm voting that a traumatic Davey & Goliath experience warped her for life.

Frankenbuddha - Jan 25, 2007 5:46:53 am PST #7192 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Me, I'm voting that a traumatic Davey & Goliath experience warped her for life.

I was gonna go with the original KING KONG myself.

Kathy A - Jan 25, 2007 7:02:53 am PST #7193 of 10001

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Sundance has shown a movie that the two Chicago Tribune movie reviewers actually liked, an Irish musical called Once. From their description, I hope it gets picked up for U.S. distribution, because I'd definitely go see it.

(Now, I'm off to IMDB to see who Glen Hansard played in The Commitments...)

ETA: OK, looked it up--which one of the guitar players was Outspan Foster? Was he the cute one with the reddish curly hair, or the rather dorky dark-haired one?

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