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reapersaurus

Hellboy II, Hancock, Wall-E, and other summer movies

Jul 14, 2008 11:12

I don't think I've posted a movie review in a while, and I haven't yet about the rash of summer movies I've been fortunate enough to attend this year, so here's a collected post about them (reverse chronological order):

Hellboy II -
I went into this one with low expectations, since I just never really got into Hellboy I for some reason. I appreciate ( Read more... )

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toryadore July 14 2008, 23:54:53 UTC

You can still review the pants off things babe, maybe even better than you did in college, and you were pretty damn fantastic then too! I remember what Mrs. Sessano said to you back then.

cmjenn July 15 2008, 00:43:33 UTC

What did Mrs. Sessano say? I'm curious because I think John writes great reviews too!

cmjenn July 15 2008, 00:48:39 UTC

We watched Hellboy I last Thursday night and I thought it was a bit slow. This sequel is much better. The troll market was fantastic; I'd love to watch the movie again to see if I missed anything about it. And the tooth fairies... how wonderfully evil were they?!

ext_83464 July 15 2008, 22:34:37 UTC

Wall-E totally looks like the robot from "Short Circuit"... minus the cheesy 80's style of course

just an update reapersaurus August 1 2008, 19:37:51 UTC

Interview with Angus MacLane:
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/86635/angus_maclane_of_pixar_the_den_of_geek_interview.html
Angus MacLane of Pixar: The Den of Geek interview - Den of Geek

There were clearly some very strong decisions made at the start there, in terms of the vision of the project?

I think it was always going to be a sci-fi opera set in space, a tribute to the 60s and 70s sci-fi films that we all were interested in. Andrew was like well we’re going to make a robot movie that’s about robots, but it’s a 60s or 70s sci-fi film.

The film opened to huge numbers in the States. Yet this was perhaps the project viewed by outsiders as the riskier Pixar project. How would you encapsulate the secret of the success?So as long as we keep making movies that we believe in, and push ourselves to tell the best stories that we can, even when it’s not financially convenient to do so, then I think that we’ll ( ... )