Brave

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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John Carter

I can’t remember the last time I watched a Disney movie-oh yeah, it was Tron 2.  Shudder. John Carter of Mars is the story of a US Civil War vet who ends up transported to Mars, where he has amazing adventures and wins the heart of a Princess.  The CGI is good enough, it looks exactly the the CGI used to animate the last three Star Wars films and there is a strong Star Wars feel to John Carter.  Hordes of computer generated aliens, a chase scene that stole a couple of moves from the Speeder scene in Return of…

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