Cordelia ,'Lessons'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
AFI defines "animated" as a genre in which the film's images are primarily created by computer or hand and the characters are voiced by actors.
AFI defines "sports" as a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition.
the characters are voiced by actors.
As opposed to...?
Robots? Zombies?
As opposed to...?
Un-snarkily for a moment, a lot of truly great European animation has little or no dialogue at all. And a hell of a lot more stylistic variety than the nothing but Disney/Pixar list that AFI came up with.
Un-snarkily for a moment, a lot of truly great European animation has little or no dialogue at all. And a hell of a lot more stylistic variety than the nothing but Disney/Pixar list that AFI came up with.
But it's still animation, no?
Crikey, that was some chattiness...
Genndy is now working on a Dark Crystal sequel for Henson.
Last I heard this project's development had slowed to a crawl. That may be old news, I'm not sure.
What the hell makes Titanic an epic?!
The number of teenage girls who wrote about Leonardo DiCaprio in their diaries after seeing it?
But it's still animation, no?
I certainly think so. AFI's definition says otherwise.
What the hell makes Titanic an epic?!
Big budget?
As to the list as a whole, some breathtakingly right choices (It Happened One Night, Laura) and some breathtakingly ordinary choices.
Mediocrity so banal it will take your breath away!