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Corpse Bride (2005)

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Ghost in a Red Giant and has no comments yet.

Corpse Bride is a Tim Burton feature done in claymation. It is the tale of a worried young groom who mistakenly marries a corpse in the forest. This movie was done in claymation which is absolutely grueling and taxing work for the animator, but really gives the movie a cool look and feel. I liked [...]

Waking Life (2001)

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Ghost in a Red Giant and has no comments yet.

Waking Life is done by Richard Linklater. It follows a young man in a lucid dream state bouncing from conversation to conversation. This movie was very abstract. This was the first time I had seen a rotoscoped film. I enjoyed the originality in the animation as well as plot, but I did not really care [...]

9 (2009)

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Ghost in a Red Giant and has 1 comment.

9 is a film by Shane Acker produced by Tim Burton. It is the spawn of a 2005 short of the same name. This movie was really childish. Tim Burton associated his name with it and it had a PG-13 rating, so I expected a little more of an adult theme. I don’t love Tim [...]

Shrek the Third (2007)

Posted on December 6, 2009 by Mr Arn and has no comments yet.

Watched this in HD, and it was worth it. The animation in this movie is great and the HD really showed it off. Saw the first two, but I don’t remember enjoying them as much as I did this one. While the story centers around Shrek, it’s the rest of the cast that makes the [...]