This week is a very blu week, not in the sad way in the ray way!!! Yes this week marks 2 Pixar Movies hitting Blu Ray and just in time for the holidays. Don’t be down simply look UP…..okay bad joke. So Up is out along with Monster’s Inc. Also this week in terms of games we have Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. In the Movie Theater we have Pirate Radio with Chris O’Dowd aka Roy from IT Crowd. Don’t know how good the flick is but love IT Crowd!!! Anywho you see anything I missed drop a comment.
Its finally here! The Toy Story 3 trailer is finally on the internets. After watching this, there is not a doubt in my mind that this will be another box office hit. Pixar will always be the best computer animated story tellers of our time. Always making us go thorugh every type of emotion. Especially with Up. Enjoy the trailer. Oh and btw, LOL at Spanish Buzz. Pixar FTW!
By now, everyone has seen UP, including you, right? Well, if you haven’t, “what’s with you man!” (Spaceballs quote.) In the usual Pixar tradition, Pixar produces short films that pay before the actual movie. They have nothing to do with the feature presentation, but always comes with a great moral. Here is “Partly Cloudy.”
All filmmakers know that if you can tell a story with film without any dialog or better yet, sound, you’re doing it right. This is what makes Pixar better than Dreamworks. They can tell stories with emotion and without big name actors that do the character voice overs. Take WALL-E vs Kung Fu Panda for example. Try watching both movies straight through on mute. You’ll see what I mean.
With everyone talking about UP, which released in theaters today, Disney/Pixar gave us even more things to smile about. Toy Story 3 gets a release date and a very cute teaser trailer. Most of the voice actors and their characters are back for the third film. But, before Toy Story 3 comes out, Pixar will be released Toy story 1 and 2 in 3D. I can’t wait to watch them all. Also, in my opinion, Pixar has always been better than Dreamworks. To find out why, go past the break. (more…)
I’m ranking this summer’s geek movies. I’m not a professional movie critic – I’m just saying how I reel’y feel. If you don’t agree with this chart, let us know in the comments. Maybe you can change my mind.
Current Rankings:
Movies yet to be reviewed:
Such a lovable character. He adds more fun that UP already looks like it’s going to be.
Got room for this beast next to your quad SLI setup?
Have you ever fancied the kind of graphics possible only in highly detailed fully rendered films from the likes of Dreamworks and Pixar in your video games? Well Caustic Graphics reckon they’ve got the answer with their graphics co-processor the Ray Tracing Processing Unit (RTPU). For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept of Ray Tracing it is a computational technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane. The benefit of this technique of image rendering is that it’s able to produce an extremely high degree of photorealism capable of simulating a wide variety of optical effects, such as reflection and refraction, scattering, and chromatic aberration, higher than that of the typical scanline rendering methods currently used in games and anything real time. The main problem with Ray Tracing is that it comes at a considerably greater computational cost, especially for typical graphics processors and CPUs which aren’t geared up for this task. This means Ray Tracing is only really suitable for pre-rendered images and video such as still images plus film and television special effects.
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This is what I have been saying all along. Dreamworks animated films suck. They go for the easy kid money. None of their work is classic. Each film just feels like an easy scam to get kids into the theaters. And of course kids can’t go alone, so they get extra money because the parents have to buy a ticket too. The films suck because there is no substance to their story.
All film makers know , or atleast I hope they do, that a film is supposed to tell a good story. A story that will stick with you for days. Pixar does just that. Also, they add in good genuine comedy (”Edna mode….. and guest”). Not the comedy of fart jokes (Shrek). Because of this opinion of mine, I have never watched another Dreamworks Animated film since Antz.
But, I did beat Kun-Fu Panda on Xbox360. It came with the console. =
Disney/Pixar’s new movie “UP” has a new trailer. Check it out!
Excerpt from FilmSchoolRejects.com:
“Pixar’s latest gem WALL-E doesn’t hit DVD shelves until November 18th, but it showed up at my house yesterday. And like any movie geek, I tore that UPS envelope open like a kid on Christmas morning, anxiously awaiting the prize inside. But while my greatest excitement was due to the fact that I would be able to watch WALL-E again, I was taken back by the awesomeness of the 3-Disc Special Edition’s packaging. And since it isn’t every day when such a standard release has cool packaging, I thought I would share it with you.”
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Can’t wait to get my hands on it. I love every Pixar movie. Every film they come out with not only has comedy, but a heart touching story that no other studio can produce. Yes, I’m looking at you Dreamworks. Just because you mainly cater towards children doesn’t mean that slap stick and one-line comedy will make it a great computer animated movie.
