OT: Re: Titan A.E.

> From: Brian Burger <yh728@victoria.tc.ca>
>  Subject: Movie Review: Titan A.E.
>  
>  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.

What was annoying?  The graphics or the personalities?
  
>  Some very cool space stations & ships. The various asteroid stations
and
>  'Drifter colonies' are very cool.

It reminded me of Heavy Metal the Movie.  They were functional and not
fancy with "warp nacelles" out on wings.
  
>  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...)

They didn't spend too much time in character development, but they only
had 90 minutes (if that) for a movie.  The hero is a teenager or maybe a
bit 
older,
of course he whines.  I'm surprised he hadn't been tossed out an airlock
a 
long
time ago, though.
I hated the ending.  See spoiler below.
  
>  It does have nasty alien badguys (who blow Earth up) who are probably
the
>  coolest-looking things in the movie.

They reminded me of Phantom Warriors from the computer game Master of
Magic.
  
>  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?
  
I'm glad I saw it since these type of movies are rare (space opera) but
not glad I paid the price to see it (even at matinee price).

Glen
(spoilers alert)

Let's make a solar system in 15 minutes with planets
cool enough to walk on.  *yuck*
And what was to keep other alien races from just taking
this brand-spanking new planet?  The humans had no
warships to defend it.

The enemy: What a "nice" way to get rid of the enemy,
no bloody/oozy bodies to clean up.  Although I hated
them for blowing up the Earth so good riddance.