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Hi everyone! Sorry this is a bit late (yeah I know- understatement), my cat just died (she had FIV, basically the cat version of AIDS, which she was apparently born with.) and I completely didn't feel up to posting. I promise there will be minimum moping in this post :PRecieved for Review:You Wish by Mandy Hubbard (TBR August 5th, 2010 from Razorbill Publishing) (finished already)The Secrets of April, May and June by Robin Benway (TBR August 3rd, 2010 from Razorbill Publishing)Thanks so much to Razorbill Publishing for giving me complementary copies of these two great books for review!Library:From 2 different libraries... I know it seems like a lot, but I returned all the other books I had out, soooo.... it evens out, right? *cough*Kitchen Princess Vol. 1 (Manga)The Heart is Not A Size by Beth KephartMe, the Missing and the Dead by Jenny Valentine (one of my favorite authors)Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni (I'm in love with this imprint, Europa Editions!)Solanin by Asano Inio (Manga I've been trying to get FOREVER)The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti (I really haven't liked Caletti's work at all, but I'm giving her another chance)The Moving Toyshop by Edmund CrispinA Good Day for Love Letters- George Asakura (not sure how I feel about the art)Gentleman Prefer Blondes- Anita LoosCooking With Fernet Branca- James Patterson-HamiltonGourmet Rhapsody- Muriel BarberyThe Queen of the Tambourine- Jane GardamKimmie66- Aaron Alexovich (I wish this imprint hadn't closed, Minx w! as so great!)Emily the Strange: The Lost Days-Rob Reger (I hav! e no ide a what this is, it just looked cool. Is it a series?)The Ghosts of Ashbury High- Jaclyn Moriarty (YAY! I love this series!)The Evolution Man, or How I Ate My Father- Roy Lewis (Weird, I know :P)Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Foer The Line- Teri Hall (I never got to finish it)Sorry- Gail JonesGimme A Call- Sarah MylnowskiWonderland- Tommy Kovac and Sonny Leiw (Pretty.... *gape*)JPod- Douglas Coupland (love it even more than I thought I would, considering I'm not a fan of the pessimistic, vaguely pretentious Generation X stuff)*deep breath* Even more than I thought I'd checked out.Bought:All but 2 of these (the one on top and the one on the bottom) are from a used book store.! I got them for only 50 cents each down in Mississippi! *dance* Oh, and I got the Great Gatsby too, but I forgot to dig it out from under my bed (books are everywhere under there in my room, as I just got a new bookshelf and have yet to stock it). It's scary under there.Dr. Slump Vol. 1 by Akira Toriyama (my favorite manga ever! The art is so simple but genius. Toriyama is great.)The Taker- J. M. Steele A Farewell to Arms- Ernest HemingwayGreat Short Works of Mark TwainThe Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings- Oscar WildePygmalion and 3 Other Plays- George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (in too horrible condition to show: my dog got a hold of it! Luckily I had finished it on the trip back from Texas :P)The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (I like it much more than I expected to.)***********888Finally done with the list! I got a lot of great books this week, and didn't even spend that much money. A lot of these I've been trying to track down, and finally did, ! which is awesome :) Mostly mangas that weren't at B&N or e! ither of my libraries. So, what was in you mailbox this week?
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With blue belt received Thursday

After a pile of drills and 7 rounds, last two against my senseis, both Kyokushin black belts, I was awarded my blue belt. I was sucking air hard and taking hits, but it sounds like I did ok. Ill post more photos later. Another step in my journey accomplished.

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Hi everyone! Sorry this is a bit late (yeah I know- understatement), my cat just died (she had FIV, basically the cat version of AIDS, which she was apparently born with.) and I completely didn't feel up to posting. I promise there will be minimum moping in this post :PRecieved for Review:You Wish by Mandy Hubbard (TBR August 5th, 2010 from Razorbill Publishing) (finished already)The Secrets of April, May and June by Robin Benway (TBR August 3rd, 2010 from Razorbill Publishing)Thanks so much to Razorbill Publishing for giving me complementary copies of these two great books for review!Library:From 2 different libraries... I know it seems like a lot, but I returned all the other books I had out, soooo.... it evens out, right? *cough*Kitchen Princess Vol. 1 (Manga)The Heart is Not A Size by Beth KephartMe, the Missing and the Dead by Jenny Valentine (one of my favorite authors)Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni (I'm in love with this imprint, Europa Editions!)Solanin by Asano Inio (Manga I've been trying to get FOREVER)The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti (I really haven't liked Caletti's work at all, but I'm giving her another chance)The Moving Toyshop by Edmund CrispinA Good Day for Love Letters- George Asakura (not sure how I feel about the art)Gentleman Prefer Blondes- Anita LoosCooking With Fernet Branca- James Patterson-HamiltonGourmet Rhapsody- Muriel BarberyThe Queen of the Tambourine- Jane GardamKimmie66- Aaron Alexovich (I wish this imprint hadn't closed, Minx w! as so great!)Emily the Strange: The Lost Days-Rob Reger (I hav! e no ide a what this is, it just looked cool. Is it a series?)The Ghosts of Ashbury High- Jaclyn Moriarty (YAY! I love this series!)The Evolution Man, or How I Ate My Father- Roy Lewis (Weird, I know :P)Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Foer The Line- Teri Hall (I never got to finish it)Sorry- Gail JonesGimme A Call- Sarah MylnowskiWonderland- Tommy Kovac and Sonny Leiw (Pretty.... *gape*)JPod- Douglas Coupland (love it even more than I thought I would, considering I'm not a fan of the pessimistic, vaguely pretentious Generation X stuff)*deep breath* Even more than I thought I'd checked out.Bought:All but 2 of these (the one on top and the one on the bottom) are from a used book store.! I got them for only 50 cents each down in Mississippi! *dance* Oh, and I got the Great Gatsby too, but I forgot to dig it out from under my bed (books are everywhere under there in my room, as I just got a new bookshelf and have yet to stock it). It's scary under there.Dr. Slump Vol. 1 by Akira Toriyama (my favorite manga ever! The art is so simple but genius. Toriyama is great.)The Taker- J. M. Steele A Farewell to Arms- Ernest HemingwayGreat Short Works of Mark TwainThe Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings- Oscar WildePygmalion and 3 Other Plays- George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (in too horrible condition to show: my dog got a hold of it! Luckily I had finished it on the trip back from Texas :P)The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (I like it much more than I expected to.)***********888Finally done with the list! I got a lot of great books this week, and didn't even spend that much money. A lot of these I've been trying to track down, and finally did, ! which is awesome :) Mostly mangas that weren't at B&N or e! ither of my libraries. So, what was in you mailbox this week?
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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn doesn’t see release until over a year from now — on December 23, 2011 to be exact. But the live-action footage upon which the mocap animated film will be based was directed by Steven Spielberg a year ago, with Jamie Bell playing the title character. (Tintin, not the unicorn.) The footage was then handed off to Peter Jackson and WETA, who went to work animating CGI footage based upon the live-action work.

We haven’t seen a single render of Tintin or the world the film will depict. Until now, that is. But we still don’t have a full image. For the moment there are only glimpses of textures. But they offer an idea of what will be revealed, likely on Monday. Hit the jump for an assembly of the image we might see this week.

Empire is slowly revealing a dozen close-up bits of the eventual debut image. There are eight so far, with a new one being added to the site every few hours. Several of the close-ups appear to be from a rendered version of the image above. Putting them together, we can see something taking shape.

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Here are the previews released so far, each of which demonstrates that we’ll see a very photo-realistic level of detail.

And this is how they seem to fit into the classic image. Tintin is often pictured in a blue sweater, which seems to be what we’ll see, rather than the suit. There’s no perfect correlation for the one close-up that seems to be the shadowy edge of the spotlight, but you get the idea.

• Steven Spielberg Talks About the Tech and the Look of Tintin
• Peter Jackson Would Direct The Hobbit if Necessary, May Not Be Able to Do So
• Peter Jackson Says Spielberg’s Tintin Has Finished Filming, Computer Animation Will Take Two Years, Updates on Hobbit
• Peter Jackson Talks Tintin 2; Script is Still a Year Away
• Spielberg’s Tintin Will Get Released Internationally First; December 2011 in The US
• Empire Spill Tintin Beans Galore – Second Film Coming Really Soon!

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October 18, 2010How to Train Your Dragon (2010) **1/2Directed by Dean DeBlois & Chris SandersMy tweet:How to Train Your Dragon (2010)- What a disappointment! Voice acting is stiff & the character animation is less than mediocre. **1/2 of 5Other thoughts:Granted, I saw How to Train Your Dragon in 2D since I can't see 3D films because of my eye. Maybe that third dimension might have helped my overall opinion of the film, but no matter how lush the visuals I may have missed, there still remains a completely rote script which outright steals plot ideas from better films like The Black Stallion, Kung Fu Panda and Beauty and the Beast. I have no problem with formulaic kids' films, but I do have ! a problem when every single minute of the second half of the film plays out exactly as I would expect without fail. Perhaps I'm reacting a bit to its almost universal acclaim, proven by its 98% Rotten Tomatoes rating, but I'll take a wisecracking comedy/action animated feature like Monsters vs. Aliens over this joyless exercise in connecting all-too-familiar dots.Jay Baruchel gives a barely conscious vocal performance as Hiccup (ummm...okay), the son of an alpha-Viking dragon slayer named Stoick, voiced by the under-talented Gerard Butler, who is trying to earn his father's pride and nab himself a girlfriend. The film opens on a chaotic nighttime dragon raid on a Viking village where each is proud of his or her ability to kill dragons. When Hiccup leaves his house to help, everyone in the town yells at him to go back inside. He's an inventor at heart and produces a catapult contraption which he sneaks away to use to attempt to nab himself one of the most mysterious and dang! erous of all dragons--a night fury.Meanwhile, Hiccup makes a h! uge mess of things back in the village which leads his embarrassed father to sign him up to take dragon killing classes led by the one-legged, one-armed Gobber, voiced with much needed excitement by Craig Ferguson. Here, he antagonizes a bunch of geeks including a young woman named Astrid, voiced by America Ferrera. She's cute; he wants a girlfriend; what do you think happens between them at the end? After classes are over, he goes out to find that he did in fact capture a night fury, and after some initial mistrust between the two, Hiccup finds out that the night fury who he ironically names Toothless (har har har) is pretty much nothing more than a flying, fire-breathing cat.The Viking method of dealing with dragons is to kill them on sight, which is understandable considering that the dragons are stealing the Vikings' food for a purpose we learn later in the film. Hiccup realizes that the dragons can be tamed quite easily when he learns that they hate eels and enjoy being scratch! ed behind the ears. Eventually, Hiccup must choose between making his father and his village proud by killing his first dragon in public or staying true to his firm commitment to cuddle with his new-found dragon friends.Baruchel is so truly awful and completely miscast in the lead role. He never even attempts to attain the life and death stakes of his character in the way he lazily delivers every line. Further, he tries to inject sarcastic humor into parts of his delivery that makes absolutely no sense and ends up as nothing more than a vanity exercise. Ridiculously underwritten supporting characters voiced by talents such as Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse randomly throw in nursery school jokes about pooping one's pants and making annoying noises that couldn't be more inappropriate to what's going on in the plot.There are two admittedly beautiful flying sequences that look expensive and deliver the awe that's intended. Further, the background animators ought to be ! proud of the lavish work they produced. The CGI of the humans,! however , looks like the product of a final exam in an Introduction to Computer Animation course at a community college in a non-urban section of Alaska. I remember watching a documentary on the making of Finding Nemo and being impressed by the fact that the animators so meticulously and tirelessly worked for years to make sure that every single visual detail was as fully-realized as could possibly be. This movie looks like it was made in a matter of months, which is the problem with Dreamworks animated films in general. Pixar is willing to put the time into one really great film a year. Dreamworks churns them out one after the other to make money.How to Train Your Dragon is not a terrible movie, though it does have some pretty awful elements. It's simply lazy and disturbingly comfortable in its mediocrity. Some have said that this movie rivals Avatar, and again admitting that I can't comment on either film's 3D elements, Avatar is such a visual feast in every way. How to Train Your! Dragon, in comparison, comes across as a half-priced visual appetizer microwaved the next day as a dried out late-afternoon snack.
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Hi everyone! Sorry this is a bit late (yeah I know- understatement), my cat just died (she had FIV, basically the cat version of AIDS, which she was apparently born with.) and I completely didn't feel up to posting. I promise there will be minimum moping in this post :PRecieved for Review:You Wish by Mandy Hubbard (TBR August 5th, 2010 from Razorbill Publishing) (finished already)The Secrets of April, May and June by Robin Benway (TBR August 3rd, 2010 from Razorbill Publishing)Thanks so much to Razorbill Publishing for giving me complementary copies of these two great books for review!Library:From 2 different libraries... I know it seems like a lot, but I returned all the other books I had out, soooo.... it evens out, right? *cough*Kitchen Princess Vol. 1 (Manga)The Heart is Not A Size by Beth KephartMe, the Missing and the Dead by Jenny Valentine (one of my favorite authors)Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni (I'm in love with this imprint, Europa Editions!)Solanin by Asano Inio (Manga I've been trying to get FOREVER)The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti (I really haven't liked Caletti's work at all, but I'm giving her another chance)The Moving Toyshop by Edmund CrispinA Good Day for Love Letters- George Asakura (not sure how I feel about the art)Gentleman Prefer Blondes- Anita LoosCooking With Fernet Branca- James Patterson-HamiltonGourmet Rhapsody- Muriel BarberyThe Queen of the Tambourine- Jane GardamKimmie66- Aaron Alexovich (I wish this imprint hadn't closed, Minx w! as so great!)Emily the Strange: The Lost Days-Rob Reger (I hav! e no ide a what this is, it just looked cool. Is it a series?)The Ghosts of Ashbury High- Jaclyn Moriarty (YAY! I love this series!)The Evolution Man, or How I Ate My Father- Roy Lewis (Weird, I know :P)Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Foer The Line- Teri Hall (I never got to finish it)Sorry- Gail JonesGimme A Call- Sarah MylnowskiWonderland- Tommy Kovac and Sonny Leiw (Pretty.... *gape*)JPod- Douglas Coupland (love it even more than I thought I would, considering I'm not a fan of the pessimistic, vaguely pretentious Generation X stuff)*deep breath* Even more than I thought I'd checked out.Bought:All but 2 of these (the one on top and the one on the bottom) are from a used book store.! I got them for only 50 cents each down in Mississippi! *dance* Oh, and I got the Great Gatsby too, but I forgot to dig it out from under my bed (books are everywhere under there in my room, as I just got a new bookshelf and have yet to stock it). It's scary under there.Dr. Slump Vol. 1 by Akira Toriyama (my favorite manga ever! The art is so simple but genius. Toriyama is great.)The Taker- J. M. Steele A Farewell to Arms- Ernest HemingwayGreat Short Works of Mark TwainThe Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings- Oscar WildePygmalion and 3 Other Plays- George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (in too horrible condition to show: my dog got a hold of it! Luckily I had finished it on the trip back from Texas :P)The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (I like it much more than I expected to.)***********888Finally done with the list! I got a lot of great books this week, and didn't even spend that much money. A lot of these I've been trying to track down, and finally did, ! which is awesome :) Mostly mangas that weren't at B&N or e! ither of my libraries. So, what was in you mailbox this week?
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October 18, 2010How to Train Your Dragon (2010) **1/2Directed by Dean DeBlois & Chris SandersMy tweet:How to Train Your Dragon (2010)- What a disappointment! Voice acting is stiff & the character animation is less than mediocre. **1/2 of 5Other thoughts:Granted, I saw How to Train Your Dragon in 2D since I can't see 3D films because of my eye. Maybe that third dimension might have helped my overall opinion of the film, but no matter how lush the visuals I may have missed, there still remains a completely rote script which outright steals plot ideas from better films like The Black Stallion, Kung Fu Panda and Beauty and the Beast. I have no problem with formulaic kids' films, but I do have ! a problem when every single minute of the second half of the film plays out exactly as I would expect without fail. Perhaps I'm reacting a bit to its almost universal acclaim, proven by its 98% Rotten Tomatoes rating, but I'll take a wisecracking comedy/action animated feature like Monsters vs. Aliens over this joyless exercise in connecting all-too-familiar dots.Jay Baruchel gives a barely conscious vocal performance as Hiccup (ummm...okay), the son of an alpha-Viking dragon slayer named Stoick, voiced by the under-talented Gerard Butler, who is trying to earn his father's pride and nab himself a girlfriend. The film opens on a chaotic nighttime dragon raid on a Viking village where each is proud of his or her ability to kill dragons. When Hiccup leaves his house to help, everyone in the town yells at him to go back inside. He's an inventor at heart and produces a catapult contraption which he sneaks away to use to attempt to nab himself one of the most mysterious and dang! erous of all dragons--a night fury.Meanwhile, Hiccup makes a h! uge mess of things back in the village which leads his embarrassed father to sign him up to take dragon killing classes led by the one-legged, one-armed Gobber, voiced with much needed excitement by Craig Ferguson. Here, he antagonizes a bunch of geeks including a young woman named Astrid, voiced by America Ferrera. She's cute; he wants a girlfriend; what do you think happens between them at the end? After classes are over, he goes out to find that he did in fact capture a night fury, and after some initial mistrust between the two, Hiccup finds out that the night fury who he ironically names Toothless (har har har) is pretty much nothing more than a flying, fire-breathing cat.The Viking method of dealing with dragons is to kill them on sight, which is understandable considering that the dragons are stealing the Vikings' food for a purpose we learn later in the film. Hiccup realizes that the dragons can be tamed quite easily when he learns that they hate eels and enjoy being scratch! ed behind the ears. Eventually, Hiccup must choose between making his father and his village proud by killing his first dragon in public or staying true to his firm commitment to cuddle with his new-found dragon friends.Baruchel is so truly awful and completely miscast in the lead role. He never even attempts to attain the life and death stakes of his character in the way he lazily delivers every line. Further, he tries to inject sarcastic humor into parts of his delivery that makes absolutely no sense and ends up as nothing more than a vanity exercise. Ridiculously underwritten supporting characters voiced by talents such as Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse randomly throw in nursery school jokes about pooping one's pants and making annoying noises that couldn't be more inappropriate to what's going on in the plot.There are two admittedly beautiful flying sequences that look expensive and deliver the awe that's intended. Further, the background animators ought to be ! proud of the lavish work they produced. The CGI of the humans,! however , looks like the product of a final exam in an Introduction to Computer Animation course at a community college in a non-urban section of Alaska. I remember watching a documentary on the making of Finding Nemo and being impressed by the fact that the animators so meticulously and tirelessly worked for years to make sure that every single visual detail was as fully-realized as could possibly be. This movie looks like it was made in a matter of months, which is the problem with Dreamworks animated films in general. Pixar is willing to put the time into one really great film a year. Dreamworks churns them out one after the other to make money.How to Train Your Dragon is not a terrible movie, though it does have some pretty awful elements. It's simply lazy and disturbingly comfortable in its mediocrity. Some have said that this movie rivals Avatar, and again admitting that I can't comment on either film's 3D elements, Avatar is such a visual feast in every way. How to Train Your! Dragon, in comparison, comes across as a half-priced visual appetizer microwaved the next day as a dried out late-afternoon snack.
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Hi everyone! Sorry this is a bit late (yeah I know- understatement), my cat just died (she had FIV, basically the cat version of AIDS, which she was apparently born with.) and I completely didn't feel up to posting. I promise there will be minimum moping in this post :PRecieved for Review:You Wish by Mandy Hubbard (TBR August 5th, 2010 from Razorbill Publishing) (finished already)The Secrets of April, May and June by Robin Benway (TBR August 3rd, 2010 from Razorbill Publishing)Thanks so much to Razorbill Publishing for giving me complementary copies of these two great books for review!Library:From 2 different libraries... I know it seems like a lot, but I returned all the other books I had out, soooo.... it evens out, right? *cough*Kitchen Princess Vol. 1 (Manga)The Heart is Not A Size by Beth KephartMe, the Missing and the Dead by Jenny Valentine (one of my favorite authors)Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni (I'm in love with this imprint, Europa Editions!)Solanin by Asano Inio (Manga I've been trying to get FOREVER)The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti (I really haven't liked Caletti's work at all, but I'm giving her another chance)The Moving Toyshop by Edmund CrispinA Good Day for Love Letters- George Asakura (not sure how I feel about the art)Gentleman Prefer Blondes- Anita LoosCooking With Fernet Branca- James Patterson-HamiltonGourmet Rhapsody- Muriel BarberyThe Queen of the Tambourine- Jane GardamKimmie66- Aaron Alexovich (I wish this imprint hadn't closed, Minx w! as so great!)Emily the Strange: The Lost Days-Rob Reger (I hav! e no ide a what this is, it just looked cool. Is it a series?)The Ghosts of Ashbury High- Jaclyn Moriarty (YAY! I love this series!)The Evolution Man, or How I Ate My Father- Roy Lewis (Weird, I know :P)Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Foer The Line- Teri Hall (I never got to finish it)Sorry- Gail JonesGimme A Call- Sarah MylnowskiWonderland- Tommy Kovac and Sonny Leiw (Pretty.... *gape*)JPod- Douglas Coupland (love it even more than I thought I would, considering I'm not a fan of the pessimistic, vaguely pretentious Generation X stuff)*deep breath* Even more than I thought I'd checked out.Bought:All but 2 of these (the one on top and the one on the bottom) are from a used book store.! I got them for only 50 cents each down in Mississippi! *dance* Oh, and I got the Great Gatsby too, but I forgot to dig it out from under my bed (books are everywhere under there in my room, as I just got a new bookshelf and have yet to stock it). It's scary under there.Dr. Slump Vol. 1 by Akira Toriyama (my favorite manga ever! The art is so simple but genius. Toriyama is great.)The Taker- J. M. Steele A Farewell to Arms- Ernest HemingwayGreat Short Works of Mark TwainThe Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings- Oscar WildePygmalion and 3 Other Plays- George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (in too horrible condition to show: my dog got a hold of it! Luckily I had finished it on the trip back from Texas :P)The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (I like it much more than I expected to.)***********888Finally done with the list! I got a lot of great books this week, and didn't even spend that much money. A lot of these I've been trying to track down, and finally did, ! which is awesome :) Mostly mangas that weren't at B&N or e! ither of my libraries. So, what was in you mailbox this week?
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October 18, 2010How to Train Your Dragon (2010) **1/2Directed by Dean DeBlois & Chris SandersMy tweet:How to Train Your Dragon (2010)- What a disappointment! Voice acting is stiff & the character animation is less than mediocre. **1/2 of 5Other thoughts:Granted, I saw How to Train Your Dragon in 2D since I can't see 3D films because of my eye. Maybe that third dimension might have helped my overall opinion of the film, but no matter how lush the visuals I may have missed, there still remains a completely rote script which outright steals plot ideas from better films like The Black Stallion, Kung Fu Panda and Beauty and the Beast. I have no problem with formulaic kids' films, but I do have ! a problem when every single minute of the second half of the film plays out exactly as I would expect without fail. Perhaps I'm reacting a bit to its almost universal acclaim, proven by its 98% Rotten Tomatoes rating, but I'll take a wisecracking comedy/action animated feature like Monsters vs. Aliens over this joyless exercise in connecting all-too-familiar dots.Jay Baruchel gives a barely conscious vocal performance as Hiccup (ummm...okay), the son of an alpha-Viking dragon slayer named Stoick, voiced by the under-talented Gerard Butler, who is trying to earn his father's pride and nab himself a girlfriend. The film opens on a chaotic nighttime dragon raid on a Viking village where each is proud of his or her ability to kill dragons. When Hiccup leaves his house to help, everyone in the town yells at him to go back inside. He's an inventor at heart and produces a catapult contraption which he sneaks away to use to attempt to nab himself one of the most mysterious and dang! erous of all dragons--a night fury.Meanwhile, Hiccup makes a h! uge mess of things back in the village which leads his embarrassed father to sign him up to take dragon killing classes led by the one-legged, one-armed Gobber, voiced with much needed excitement by Craig Ferguson. Here, he antagonizes a bunch of geeks including a young woman named Astrid, voiced by America Ferrera. She's cute; he wants a girlfriend; what do you think happens between them at the end? After classes are over, he goes out to find that he did in fact capture a night fury, and after some initial mistrust between the two, Hiccup finds out that the night fury who he ironically names Toothless (har har har) is pretty much nothing more than a flying, fire-breathing cat.The Viking method of dealing with dragons is to kill them on sight, which is understandable considering that the dragons are stealing the Vikings' food for a purpose we learn later in the film. Hiccup realizes that the dragons can be tamed quite easily when he learns that they hate eels and enjoy being scratch! ed behind the ears. Eventually, Hiccup must choose between making his father and his village proud by killing his first dragon in public or staying true to his firm commitment to cuddle with his new-found dragon friends.Baruchel is so truly awful and completely miscast in the lead role. He never even attempts to attain the life and death stakes of his character in the way he lazily delivers every line. Further, he tries to inject sarcastic humor into parts of his delivery that makes absolutely no sense and ends up as nothing more than a vanity exercise. Ridiculously underwritten supporting characters voiced by talents such as Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse randomly throw in nursery school jokes about pooping one's pants and making annoying noises that couldn't be more inappropriate to what's going on in the plot.There are two admittedly beautiful flying sequences that look expensive and deliver the awe that's intended. Further, the background animators ought to be ! proud of the lavish work they produced. The CGI of the humans,! however , looks like the product of a final exam in an Introduction to Computer Animation course at a community college in a non-urban section of Alaska. I remember watching a documentary on the making of Finding Nemo and being impressed by the fact that the animators so meticulously and tirelessly worked for years to make sure that every single visual detail was as fully-realized as could possibly be. This movie looks like it was made in a matter of months, which is the problem with Dreamworks animated films in general. Pixar is willing to put the time into one really great film a year. Dreamworks churns them out one after the other to make money.How to Train Your Dragon is not a terrible movie, though it does have some pretty awful elements. It's simply lazy and disturbingly comfortable in its mediocrity. Some have said that this movie rivals Avatar, and again admitting that I can't comment on either film's 3D elements, Avatar is such a visual feast in every way. How to Train Your! Dragon, in comparison, comes across as a half-priced visual appetizer microwaved the next day as a dried out late-afternoon snack.
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Hi everyone! Sorry this is a bit late (yeah I know- understatement), my cat just died (she had FIV, basically the cat version of AIDS, which she was apparently born with.) and I completely didn't feel up to posting. I promise there will be minimum moping in this post :PRecieved for Review:You Wish by Mandy Hubbard (TBR August 5th, 2010 from Razorbill Publishing) (finished already)The Secrets of April, May and June by Robin Benway (TBR August 3rd, 2010 from Razorbill Publishing)Thanks so much to Razorbill Publishing for giving me complementary copies of these two great books for review!Library:From 2 different libraries... I know it seems like a lot, but I returned all the other books I had out, soooo.... it evens out, right? *cough*Kitchen Princess Vol. 1 (Manga)The Heart is Not A Size by Beth KephartMe, the Missing and the Dead by Jenny Valentine (one of my favorite authors)Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni (I'm in love with this imprint, Europa Editions!)Solanin by Asano Inio (Manga I've been trying to get FOREVER)The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti (I really haven't liked Caletti's work at all, but I'm giving her another chance)The Moving Toyshop by Edmund CrispinA Good Day for Love Letters- George Asakura (not sure how I feel about the art)Gentleman Prefer Blondes- Anita LoosCooking With Fernet Branca- James Patterson-HamiltonGourmet Rhapsody- Muriel BarberyThe Queen of the Tambourine- Jane GardamKimmie66- Aaron Alexovich (I wish this imprint hadn't closed, Minx w! as so great!)Emily the Strange: The Lost Days-Rob Reger (I hav! e no ide a what this is, it just looked cool. Is it a series?)The Ghosts of Ashbury High- Jaclyn Moriarty (YAY! I love this series!)The Evolution Man, or How I Ate My Father- Roy Lewis (Weird, I know :P)Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Foer The Line- Teri Hall (I never got to finish it)Sorry- Gail JonesGimme A Call- Sarah MylnowskiWonderland- Tommy Kovac and Sonny Leiw (Pretty.... *gape*)JPod- Douglas Coupland (love it even more than I thought I would, considering I'm not a fan of the pessimistic, vaguely pretentious Generation X stuff)*deep breath* Even more than I thought I'd checked out.Bought:All but 2 of these (the one on top and the one on the bottom) are from a used book store.! I got them for only 50 cents each down in Mississippi! *dance* Oh, and I got the Great Gatsby too, but I forgot to dig it out from under my bed (books are everywhere under there in my room, as I just got a new bookshelf and have yet to stock it). It's scary under there.Dr. Slump Vol. 1 by Akira Toriyama (my favorite manga ever! The art is so simple but genius. Toriyama is great.)The Taker- J. M. Steele A Farewell to Arms- Ernest HemingwayGreat Short Works of Mark TwainThe Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings- Oscar WildePygmalion and 3 Other Plays- George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (in too horrible condition to show: my dog got a hold of it! Luckily I had finished it on the trip back from Texas :P)The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (I like it much more than I expected to.)***********888Finally done with the list! I got a lot of great books this week, and didn't even spend that much money. A lot of these I've been trying to track down, and finally did, ! which is awesome :) Mostly mangas that weren't at B&N or e! ither of my libraries. So, what was in you mailbox this week?
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October 18, 2010How to Train Your Dragon (2010) **1/2Directed by Dean DeBlois & Chris SandersMy tweet:How to Train Your Dragon (2010)- What a disappointment! Voice acting is stiff & the character animation is less than mediocre. **1/2 of 5Other thoughts:Granted, I saw How to Train Your Dragon in 2D since I can't see 3D films because of my eye. Maybe that third dimension might have helped my overall opinion of the film, but no matter how lush the visuals I may have missed, there still remains a completely rote script which outright steals plot ideas from better films like The Black Stallion, Kung Fu Panda and Beauty and the Beast. I have no problem with formulaic kids' films, but I do have ! a problem when every single minute of the second half of the film plays out exactly as I would expect without fail. Perhaps I'm reacting a bit to its almost universal acclaim, proven by its 98% Rotten Tomatoes rating, but I'll take a wisecracking comedy/action animated feature like Monsters vs. Aliens over this joyless exercise in connecting all-too-familiar dots.Jay Baruchel gives a barely conscious vocal performance as Hiccup (ummm...okay), the son of an alpha-Viking dragon slayer named Stoick, voiced by the under-talented Gerard Butler, who is trying to earn his father's pride and nab himself a girlfriend. The film opens on a chaotic nighttime dragon raid on a Viking village where each is proud of his or her ability to kill dragons. When Hiccup leaves his house to help, everyone in the town yells at him to go back inside. He's an inventor at heart and produces a catapult contraption which he sneaks away to use to attempt to nab himself one of the most mysterious and dang! erous of all dragons--a night fury.Meanwhile, Hiccup makes a h! uge mess of things back in the village which leads his embarrassed father to sign him up to take dragon killing classes led by the one-legged, one-armed Gobber, voiced with much needed excitement by Craig Ferguson. Here, he antagonizes a bunch of geeks including a young woman named Astrid, voiced by America Ferrera. She's cute; he wants a girlfriend; what do you think happens between them at the end? After classes are over, he goes out to find that he did in fact capture a night fury, and after some initial mistrust between the two, Hiccup finds out that the night fury who he ironically names Toothless (har har har) is pretty much nothing more than a flying, fire-breathing cat.The Viking method of dealing with dragons is to kill them on sight, which is understandable considering that the dragons are stealing the Vikings' food for a purpose we learn later in the film. Hiccup realizes that the dragons can be tamed quite easily when he learns that they hate eels and enjoy being scratch! ed behind the ears. Eventually, Hiccup must choose between making his father and his village proud by killing his first dragon in public or staying true to his firm commitment to cuddle with his new-found dragon friends.Baruchel is so truly awful and completely miscast in the lead role. He never even attempts to attain the life and death stakes of his character in the way he lazily delivers every line. Further, he tries to inject sarcastic humor into parts of his delivery that makes absolutely no sense and ends up as nothing more than a vanity exercise. Ridiculously underwritten supporting characters voiced by talents such as Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse randomly throw in nursery school jokes about pooping one's pants and making annoying noises that couldn't be more inappropriate to what's going on in the plot.There are two admittedly beautiful flying sequences that look expensive and deliver the awe that's intended. Further, the background animators ought to be ! proud of the lavish work they produced. The CGI of the humans,! however , looks like the product of a final exam in an Introduction to Computer Animation course at a community college in a non-urban section of Alaska. I remember watching a documentary on the making of Finding Nemo and being impressed by the fact that the animators so meticulously and tirelessly worked for years to make sure that every single visual detail was as fully-realized as could possibly be. This movie looks like it was made in a matter of months, which is the problem with Dreamworks animated films in general. Pixar is willing to put the time into one really great film a year. Dreamworks churns them out one after the other to make money.How to Train Your Dragon is not a terrible movie, though it does have some pretty awful elements. It's simply lazy and disturbingly comfortable in its mediocrity. Some have said that this movie rivals Avatar, and again admitting that I can't comment on either film's 3D elements, Avatar is such a visual feast in every way. How to Train Your! Dragon, in comparison, comes across as a half-priced visual appetizer microwaved the next day as a dried out late-afternoon snack.
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