Pixar makes good movies and Brave is a good movie. But like every successful studio they seem to be slipping into the George Lucas mindset of using more special effects and not worrying so much about the story. Brave was an amazing looking film, the hair and water were especially well done. In fact, much of the film had a hyper-real look that was at times at odds with the usual cartoony people who live in the Pixar universe. This has always been a major gripe of mine-Pixar can make water and hair more real than reality but all their…
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The Masters of Solitude
Modern Post Apocalyptic stories has a pretty dim view of the future. The Terminator has mankind crushed by intelligent machines. The Road has all life coming to an end. The Matrix has man surviving as nothing more than fuel cells for more evil machines. Waterworld is a wet world filled with evil people. The Postman and Mad Max are a dry worlds filled with evil people. My favorite post apocalyptic books are by Octavia Butler and deal with a world where all kinds of bad things happen, but there is a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.…