Pixar’s ‘John Carter of Mars’

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Andrew Stanton’s next movie after the success of Wall·E. [Link]

Wall·E review

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Wall·ESo here comes my first(long-waited?) attempt at writing a movie review. Somehow I think I manage to fail before I even started.

And to make things worse, aside from this ridiculous title, I will avoid using a few words that have been widely popular among the reviews of this movie. “Cute”, “adorable”, “beautiful”, “touching”, “best”, “perfect”, “amazing” and “great” are the ones in my list.

Don’t get me wrong though, avoid using these words doesn’t mean I disagree with any of them or I hated this movie. In fact, I like this movie too much that I have to ask myself to justify my reasons of adoring it. This is, however, not exclusive to this movie.
First off, I do not think this movie is a Sci-Fi movie(2001: A Space Odyssey for example) like many believe so. It seems like there’s an unwritten rule that if you put “700 years later”, “robots” and “galaxy” together in a movie or a novel, it is then automatically labeled as “Sci-Fi”. Aside from Wall·E and Eve, the robots in this movie are actually what we are living with today. For example, MO is very similiar to the iRobot available in your supermarket. What makes Wall·E and Eve stand out from all the robots is the personalities they possess. But I take that part as magic, not Sci-Fi. “Wall·E is”, said the director Andrew Stanton, “nerdy romantic”. I wholeheartedly agree, it is more of romantic than Sci-Fi, or rather, a romantic story disguised as Sci-Fi.

This categorization matters and maybe matters to me alone, since I’m trying to justify the reasons of my fondness. I’ve read through several “rotten” reviews on RottenTomatoes to see if they can pull me back to normal. Unfortunately(or fortunately?), they all failed more or less.
The critic who failed miserably is Brian Orndorf of scifimoviepage.com. He wrote:
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Posters from The Dark Knight (with High Resolution Download links)

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The Dark Knight Poster
[High Resolution Download(4.5MB): Link]
The Dark Knight is probably my most anticipated movie of the year. Director Christopher Nolan is a talented director who directed not only some of the most artistically beautiful films, but also some of the current witty ones; Memento and The Prestige are just two of the examples.
With the success of Batman Begins, Chris’ coming film The Dark Knight certainly gained the most hype among movie-goers like me. I particularly like the posters from this coming movie. Those posters are what I think movie posters should be like. They succeeded at being three things at once: aesthetically, an enthralling image that captures your eyes; all share a consistent dark tune with taglines from the Joker. I can’t help but think this Joker does look promising just from the look the the poster; most rarely, they are witty and even inspiring . You can certainly tell by looking at some of them.
These posters are designed by the famous BLT & Associates, a company that specializes in film poster designs.
More posters after the break.
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Limited edition artwork of Wall·E

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Not cheap, but quite well made. →Link

AFI: Top 10 greatest films in 10 categories

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The American Film Institute has released a new set of top 10 lists.
61020ebd08b3b71c21491c2e6fa5e8f5 AFI: Top 10 greatest films in 10 categoriesAnimation

  1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  2. Pinocchio (1940)
  3. Bambi (1942)
  4. The Lion King (1994)
  5. Fantasia (1940)
  6. Toy Story (1995)
  7. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  8. Shrek (2001)
  9. Cinderella (1950)
  10. Finding Nemo (2003)

Fantasy

  1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  3. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  4. King Kong (1933)
  5. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  6. Field of Dreams (1989)
  7. Harvey (1950)
  8. Groundhog Day (1993)
  9. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
  10. Big (1988)

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The sounds of Wall·E

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Wall·E

One of my favorite websites, Rottentomatoes, has put up a video in which the director of Wall·E, Andrew Stanton, and sound director Ben Burtt guide us through the sounds in Pixar’s latest movie. Ben Burtt is also the man who was behind the sound effect in Star Wars(R2-D2, for example). The download link is here.

[Photo via:andy castro]
Update: Surprisingly(or unsurprisingly?), the rebooting sound of Wall·E is exactly the same as the bootup sound in Mac OS X. I wonder if Jonathan Ive designed this or it’s from Ben Burtt too.

Update 2: Ben Burtt interview.

Not my type

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3b0998f254b2c3d782c273a519f40c91 Not my type

James Bond: Don’t worry, you aren’t my type.

Vesper Lynd: Smart?

James Bond: Single.

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