Re: Movie Review: Titan A.E.

On  6-Jul-00 at 02:03, Brian Burger (yh728@victoria.tc.ca) wrote:
> Just saw this last night (Tuesday). It's an animated space opera,
> basically. Most of the scenery is computer graphics, and it's pretty
great
> visually; the characters are all hand-drawn animation and are
pretty...
> annoying, actually.
> 
> Some very cool space stations & ships. The various asteroid stations
and
> 'Drifter colonies' are very cool.
> 
> Storywise & for characters, it's a weak movie... Most of the
characters
> are pretty one-dimensional, the 'hero' whines way too much, most of
the
> aliens are there for laughs... This is Hollywood's take on anime,
> basically. See it for inspiration for your FT modelling - I want to
find
> some screenshots on the web - and not for the characters & plot...
(plot:
> simple; ending: silly...)
> 
> It does have nasty alien badguys (who blow Earth up) who are probably
the
> coolest-looking things in the movie.
> 
> Verdict: Worth getting to if you can get in cheap (Tuesday is
cheap-movie
> night in town) or wait and see it on video for the visuals...
> 
> Anyone else seen it?

Saw it, enjoyed it.  I'm not saying it was a great movie, but with the
derth of Sci-Fi on the big screen and the fact that most S-F has good
computer animation worth seeing big screen I tend to go see everything
I can at the theatre.  Well, almost, I hated the book Battlefield
Earth and after the reviews I heard I'm waiting for the video.

Roger