RE: Movie Review: Titan A.E.

I saw it opening day. 
But did not think enough about it to comment.

Some visuals are nice (opening is better than the ending).
Characters are Disney-tized Anime (reminded me of a section
of Heavy Metal). I.e. it didn't work.

I looked for ideas for FT...found none.
I looked for ideas for DS2...found none.
I looked for ideas for SG2...found none.

I had high expectations, but they were unfounded.

I agree with Brian, see it if you can see it cheap. Far from the
worst movie I've seen, but far from the best anime, too.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net   
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Burger [SMTP:yh728@victoria.tc.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 1:58 AM
> To:	GZG-L
> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
> - http://warbard.iwarp.com/games.html -
>