okay, why did the one that went through another arrow go deeper than the others?
also, awesome.

now it makes sense. suspension of disbelief re-engaged.

Dang I wanna see this movie.

Two films that I am excited for that are still in production and I hope they get released this year are "The Goon" and "Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D".

Teaser trailers are out for both, and they look awesome!

"The Goon" is based on an awesome comic by Eric Powell. Clancy Brown is voicing Goon and Paul Giamatti is voicing Frankie.

"Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D" is an animated remake (obviously) of "Night of the Living Dead" from 1968. It has been remade twice, and from the 1990 remake (one of only a handful of remakes that I actually like) Tony Todd is reprising the role of Ben and Bill Moseley is reprising the role of Johnny. Joe Pilato is going to play Harry Cooper. He had been in "Dawn of the Dead" as a cop and in "Day of the Dead" as Captain Rhodes. Interesting side note is that Pilato was the voice of Metal Greymon on "Digimon".

Another film set to be released this year is "Guardians of Luna", an OVA about werewolves fighting against evil in a futuristic city.

That could be good! But there's no way it's going to do well, being animated and black-and-white.

Oh snap

That looks pretty awesome.
I hope they do it all in black and white.

Psykeout said they will. Which is why I'm confident it will fail.

"Nightmare Before Christmas" and "The Corpse Bride" might as well have been in black and white since they where so monochromatic. Most scenes were dark and had very few colors.

For other black and white films in the age of color films did very well, like "Schindler's List", "The Artist", "The Elephantman", "Eraserhead", and so on. The only film in recent years that failed financially was "Ed Wood" and even then it won three Oscars and developed a cult following.

"Frankenweenie" is a Tim Burton film and it should appeal to the same crowd that liked his previous animated films.

Don't really see any reason for it to fail just because it's in b/w

A lot of people think all animation is inherently just for kids, and a lot of kids think all black-and-white films are inherently boring.

I'm intrigued. Partially because I actually just finished almost reading Frankenstein, which I'm guessing will have little relevance to this movie, but it still looks interesting.

didn't stop a certain show. XP

So you have to beat the audience over the head with swear words and sex jokes in order to convince them animation can be for adults.

Most people think black and white is boring. People want special effects. They want fancy visuals. And then there's the stigma of animation on top of all that.

You didn't like it? Well, I guess too many people expected it to be more like "Nightmare Before Christmas". I was going more on its box office returns and Rotten Tomatoes reviews. But to each its own.

It has bursts of color, but every Burton movie its very drab. Joe Bob Briggs once said that the influence of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" is present in every movie that Burton has done.

I love all kinds of movies and a lot of my favorite films are in black and white. I don't think that "Night of the Living Dead" would have worked better if it was color. It contributed to the sense of dread.

That's just an average review. If you don't like it that's alright, to each his own. I didn't hate it but I didn't think it was that special. It just means they won't get closer to 100%.

I agree with Psyke that the Corpse Bride was not very interesting
I don't remember really anything about the movie other than that there are some dead folks in it


Victor Frankenstein never received his doctorate, had no assistance in his work (nor is it mentioned that he knew any distinctively hunchbacked persons), and his female creation ended up being ripped apart before it was ever brought to life.
:B

Not that diverging from the source material is inherently bad. Since people are more familiar with the Universal films (which aren't bad), it makes sense to work off of those. (Although for the record, in Universal's Frankenstein, Henry Frankenstein's assistant was named Fritz. Ygor was the assistant to Frankenstein's son in some later movie which I haven't seen because I can't be bothered).

Divergence from the source material can alter or destroy the author's intended vision of the story. I love monster on the loose movies, but much of Shelley's message and commentaries where lost in the Universal series and all the other attempts. Some of them tried to use it as a template to express their own ideas. "Flesh for Frankenstein" was an anti-fascist parable and "Lady Frankenstein" and "The Bride" were feminist variation of the story.

So in this movie, the dead dog will be...

...animated?

*sunglasses*

Yeah.

sunglasses come before the pun, after the set up.

Allow me to post one adorable picture of a kitten for each care I give:

I really liked Corpse Bride
but to each his/her own I guess

this coincidence seems to have surprised you.

"Lightning strikes, it's the witching hour.
The monstrosity comes alive.
A victim of man's vanity.
Born in delirium, a deranged child.
He turns his back on his own creation.
Chaos ensues, the innocent die.
Who's the monster?
Who's the victim?"

Found a trailer for "The Goon". Fare warning, it has some offensive language that carries over from the comic. So BE WARNED! NAUGHTY WORDS and some cartoon violence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T1NF81BIRQ

I found a teaser trailer for "Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D". WARNING for some very bad CGI blood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hXZtnPH7qM

Now that I see the actual animation I am not as excited as I was before. I looks kind of crappy and they look like there going to do to "Night of the Living Dead" in this remake what they did to "Dawn of the Dead" in its remake. No atmosphere, just cheap scares. Even if a dead thing could get up and move around it would be in no shape to move fast let alone run. But no the other hand, this version does have a solid cast, maybe they can overcome the short comings of the animation.

There is no trailer yet for "Guardians of Luna" unfortunately. I did see some clips in a presentation reel for the animation company that is making it and it looked awesome!

Rise of the Guardians trailer
do want.

Oh my glub this is going to be so amazing I have to see it.

Why did the narrator list off all of the Guardians' names separately? "We are the Sand Man. And we are the Tooth Fairy. And we are the Easter Bunny..." etc. That was just awkward.

The movie itself looks really cool though. Dreamworks never fails to make stylistically gorgeous films.

It was supposed to be like a speech. repetition like that is a rhetorical device.
plus it was "we are the Easter bunny and the Tooth fairy. we are the sandman and Santa"
one more thing, the Narrator was Santa

Actually it was, "We are the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy. We are the Easter Bunny and Santa." Regardless, no matter how poetic it might've looked on paper, the delivery was bad and awkward and more bad. That's just my opinion, though. (Plus, no matter how epic the guy voicing it, I just can't take the line, "We are the Easter Bunny... and Santa." seriously. It just sounds downright goofy.)

And I kinda figured the narrator was Santa.

Just a taught, Does anyone think that RIO, Lady and tramp, Bolt, alpha and omega, and Balto have Big common in differnet way?

Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm totally psyched (resisting the urge to make bad puns...) to see this movie. I SAW THAT ANIMATION AND HEARD DEM VOICES. I just thought that one line was delivered really oddly.

Also, yeah, there are very few similarities between the aforementioned movies.

Edit: Oh, and since Psyke mentioned guilty pleasures. Alpha and Omega is totally mine. It's really a pretty bad movie, all things considered, but I loved it anyway. 3: