Tag: cartoons

  1. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

    10 August 2009

    When I discovered that Spyglass Pictures was bringing G.I. Joe to the big screen a while ago I was nonplussed until I discovered that Christopher Eccleston, who happens to be one of my favorite actors, was playing the arms dealer Destro, or James McCullen the fourteenth, head of MARS.

    Chris, Chris, Chris.. what were you thinking?

    
    

    I want to like this movie, I really do. It’s just that there are so many things about it that piss me off in one way or another. When I go to see a science fiction movie, I implicitly agree to suspend …

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  2. The Wachowski brothers are at it again, and it's going to be a doozy.

    27 August 2007

    The Wachowski brothers, who made their names in Hollywood with the Matrix trilogy, are bringing the classic anime Speed Racer to the silver screen as a live action movie with a projected release date of 9 May 2008. True to form, they're pushing the envelope of video technology yet again with a new digital video camera that will keep the entire frame in focus at all times, giving the same visual style that you would see if you were watching a cartoon.

    Go ahead. Watch a movie, then watch a cartoon, and compare the relative sizes and distances in each …

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