Thursday, September 22, 2005
Corpse Review:
The ASIFA-Hollywood Corpse Bride screening was well attended last night. I saw at least 25 of my current and former students, there were lots of ASIFA board members, ASIFA volunteers, ASIFA members and lots of friends. Fred Ladd and his wife were on hand. June Foray was in the audience and Fred Patten was out for the event.
It was good to see Fred Patten and he was looking good. He is getting movement back in his right side and the doctors are hopeful.
Movie Review:
The technology of the movie overwhelmed me. I loved the movement of the bride. You can`t do that in CGI. It doesn`t work the way it does in good Stop Motion. The face articulation - brilliant, ground breaking. Good job crew. My son said that he liked it more that Nightmare but I wouldn`t go that far. Nightmare Before Christmas is a mighty high bar.
A prominent voice actor in attendance complained about the voice work, stars not voice actors and I can see that point of view. But my daughter thought that the underplayed voices worked by not pulling you away from the story to marvel at the voices. There were only 3 really stand out voices as I see it, Christopher Lee as Pastor Galawells, Enn Reitel as Maggot (Peter Lorre impression), and Danny Elfman as Bonejangles (singing). But I personally was okay with the rest of the voice cast and thought they did a good job.
The story is smaller than Nightmare. A fun little piece that I want to see again about 4 or 5 more times before it leaves the big screen. There is some incredible stuff going on both in the story and in the animation.
We got a great combo flipbook / character design scrapbook as swag. (See below) I talked to some people I needed to see. And I had a very good time. Thank you Warner Bros. It was a great screening of a wholly remarkable movie. As a Stop Motion guy, and for completely greedy reasons, I hope you do great box office on this one. I would love to see all the studios thinking that Stop Motion is the next big thing.
¶ 12:56 PM 
The ASIFA-Hollywood Corpse Bride screening was well attended last night. I saw at least 25 of my current and former students, there were lots of ASIFA board members, ASIFA volunteers, ASIFA members and lots of friends. Fred Ladd and his wife were on hand. June Foray was in the audience and Fred Patten was out for the event.
It was good to see Fred Patten and he was looking good. He is getting movement back in his right side and the doctors are hopeful.
Movie Review:
The technology of the movie overwhelmed me. I loved the movement of the bride. You can`t do that in CGI. It doesn`t work the way it does in good Stop Motion. The face articulation - brilliant, ground breaking. Good job crew. My son said that he liked it more that Nightmare but I wouldn`t go that far. Nightmare Before Christmas is a mighty high bar.
A prominent voice actor in attendance complained about the voice work, stars not voice actors and I can see that point of view. But my daughter thought that the underplayed voices worked by not pulling you away from the story to marvel at the voices. There were only 3 really stand out voices as I see it, Christopher Lee as Pastor Galawells, Enn Reitel as Maggot (Peter Lorre impression), and Danny Elfman as Bonejangles (singing). But I personally was okay with the rest of the voice cast and thought they did a good job.
The story is smaller than Nightmare. A fun little piece that I want to see again about 4 or 5 more times before it leaves the big screen. There is some incredible stuff going on both in the story and in the animation.
We got a great combo flipbook / character design scrapbook as swag. (See below) I talked to some people I needed to see. And I had a very good time. Thank you Warner Bros. It was a great screening of a wholly remarkable movie. As a Stop Motion guy, and for completely greedy reasons, I hope you do great box office on this one. I would love to see all the studios thinking that Stop Motion is the next big thing.
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