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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.
I really don't like stop-motion. From Gumby to Grommit. Sorry.
I really don't like stop-motion. From Gumby to Grommit. Sorry.
Does the medium itself bug you, Bev?
Me, I'm voting that a traumatic Davey & Goliath experience warped her for life.
Me, I'm voting that a traumatic Davey & Goliath experience warped her for life.
I was gonna go with the original KING KONG myself.
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?
Foster was the guitar player, therefore the one with the red hair. The dark-haired one, Derek, played bass.
I've watched that movie way too many times. I didn't even have to IMDB for that.
Yes, it's the medium itself. And it probably was early monster movies that contributed, but I remember being freaked by Gumby and Pokey and Davey and Goliath.
I enjoyed Chicken Run, but I mostly "watched" with my eyes shut. I'm a freak, I know.
After poking around the IMDB entry for The Commitments, I'm now tempted to pull out my DVD of it and watch tonight.
"Is this the band? I betcha U2 is shittin' themselves."
"So who were your influences?"
My former boss (who now has a CD out) used to team-interview prospective new hires. And both of us had to forcibly restrain ourselves from asking that question.