Mars Needs Moms Movie Review.
Mars Needs Moms uses the latest technology in capture animation. It’s a Disney movie but it was produced by the studio of Robert Zemeckis, who brought us Forrest Gump and Back to the Future. The technology, paired with the 3D animation, blurs the lines between animation and real action on the big screen. It’s an amazing experience.
Mars Needs Moms focuses on Milo, a 9 year old boy that thinks his life would be much less complicated if his mom wasn’t in it. His wish comes true when his mom is kidnapped by Martians in the middle of the night. He stows away on the ship and travels to Mars to try and save his mom.
On the planet he meets a fellow human who lives in the garbage pit with the rest of the Martian men. The Martian men play and dance all day while the Martian women run the surface of the planet. Likewise, Martian boys are exiled to the dump while each girl Martian is assigned to a nanny to be cared for and nurtured. Mars Needs Moms to program the robot care takers to be good mothers.
The story is a sweet tale of a little boy who realizes he needs his mom’s love and fights to get it back. It’s also a story that can be enjoyed by little kids and grown ups alike. I enjoyed it very much. It was just a fun movie. Be sure and stay until the very end of the movie to check out the out takes of how the capture animation works in the filming of the movie.
The movie is rated PG and lasts just under :90 minutes this is a great family outing movie.
Posted by admin Date: Monday, March 14, 2011
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Check These Out: Four New Stills from Chris Nolan’s Inception
We don’t know when the next trailer for Chris Nolan’s Inception will be arriving (I’m guessing sometime early this summer?), so to hold you over, we’re featuring these four new photos that have popped up various places over the last few days. SlashFilm culled them all together and cleaned them up a bit, so I owe them some thanks. Coincidentally we last featured four new photos from Inception just last week, so it looks like they keep hitting in batches of four. Seen in these photos are Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur, and Ellen Page as Ariadne. I think a few of them were found in the Mind Crime viral game.
If you haven’t seen them, watch the first teaser trailer and second teaser trailer for Inception at those links. We’ll definitely let you know whenever any trailers show up online for Inception, so stay tuned right here!
Inception is both written and directed by acclaimed Oscar nominated British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige and The Dark Knight. Nolan previously co-wrote the scripts for Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige, and The Dark Knight with his brother Jonathan Nolan. Warner Bros is bringing Inception to theaters starting on July 16th this summer. See you all in theaters!
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Posted by admin Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010
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Chinese Earthquake Movie ‘Aftershocks’
I’m pretty damn sure no one has heard of this film before today, but you won’t forget about it after watching this trailer. Twitch first discovered this extraordinary teaser trailer for a disaster film called Aftershocks coming out of China about the devastating 1976 Tangshan Earthquake that killed over 240,000 people. This trailer reminds me of Schindler’s List with the little girl and the way it uses the red to accent the terror and chaos of the situation. I would say this is China’s big disaster film in response to 2012, but since this is about an event that already happened, it’s very different and much more emotional. Check out the teaser below.
Watch the teaser trailer for Xiaogang Feng’s Aftershocks:
When a mother is informed by a rescue team that, since her 7-year old twins are buried under the debris close to each other, digging one out would result in the collapse of the wreckage on the other, she is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life. Based around the devastating Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.
Aftershocks, originally titled Tangshan Dadizheng in Chinese, is being directed by Beijing-born filmmaker Xiaogang Feng, of other Chinese films like The Dream Factory, Happy Funeral, A World Without Thieves and The Banquet previously. The film will be released in China in July of this year, but it does not have a US release date. In fact, it doesn’t even have a US distributor yet. We’ll let you know if we hear more about it!
Posted by admin Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010
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Barry Sonnenfeld Helping Develop ‘Pig Scrolls’ at DreamWorks
DreamWorks Animation seems to be putting a lot of different adaptations into development. Add another one to their slate, this time an adaptation of Paul Shipton’s novel Pig Scrolls about a talking pig who was transformed into the beast by the goddess Circe on her island. The story follows Gryllus and his endeavors to save the world (in Ancient Greece), plus it includes all the ancient Greek gods. Basically, Hollywood is a bit obsessed with Greek history at the moment (Percy Jackson, Clash of the Titans, War of the Gods) and now DreamWorks wants their Greek gods movie, too. So that’s where Barry Sonnenfeld comes into play.
Sonnenfeld, who has directed live-action movies like The Addams Family, Men in Black (I and II), and RV (bleh) but hasn’t directed a feature film since then. Pajiba says that DreamWorks has recruited Sonnenfeld to develop a Pig Scrolls adaptation “as a potential directing project.” So he’s not necessarily going to direct, but he is going to help give the project some direction early on. But considering Sonnenfeld has a lot of other options, including Men in Black III, a Scandal Makers remake, Edward Stratemeyer’s Swift, Lisa Lutz’ The Spellman Files, so who knows what he’ll eventually end up taking on as a his next full-time feature project.
Normally, I’m not too excited by ideas at DreamWorks, however after How to Train Your Dragon, I’ll give some of their movies a chance. Although I don’t know if I really want to watch a talking pig fight Greek gods for two hours anytime soon, do you? Has anyone out there read these books? Does they have any potential?
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Posted by admin Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010
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