Sky High

Yes its the Disney super hero flick and yes, sorry to say but I really enjoyed this movie. Granted there are some lame ass "too Disney-esque" moments in the film but for the most part, this movie was pretty enjoyable and not a bad way to kill some time.

Acting was decent, gained some funny performances from Kurt Russell and Patrick Warburton (his voice anyway). The concept of the super hero school and the classes/systems they have are pretty clever and the costumes for the film were pretty damn snazzy I don't mind saying.

I'm glad Disney is doing fine work consistently with their animated world and live action world with the likes of Pirates, Pixar, and Enchanted backing them up, I expect some pretty good stuff from Disney to come in the future. Or hope so anyway.

Nonetheless, it is still gratifying to see Disney acknowledge that 2D animation has a legitimate place in the cinema of today. Particularly since barely a couple of years ago they were coming out with such myopic and dispiriting statements as "Showing 2D animation to kids these days is like showing them something in black and white", wherein they manage to insult not only everything upon which they built their once-mighty empire, but just about every single classic movie made before the 1960s. Bringing just a little of it into Enchanted is certainly a step in the right direction.

I will probably end up seeing Charlie Wilson's War, if only when it comes to my campus's student cinema. I wasn't a huge fan of Mike Nichols' previous film, Closer, but I think that had more to do with the acting and the dialogue than the direction itself.

Well put and well said, I totally agree, I really don't care who animated the opening sequences. Either way its still traditional animation and its nice to see it come from somewhere rather then no one at all.

Enchanted was a marvelous movie and I was quite impressed with it. Like I said about Sky High, I've been pretty pleased with Disney's recent films both lived and animated. They've talked about making Enchanted a trilogy.

Planning 2 more films in connection with Enchanted. If this first film though is any indication of what's to come then I say, bring em on!

The Cannonball Run

This movie if officially my favorite thing to watch. That's not to say it's necessarily a good movie; it's just ludicriously fun to watch.

I honestly think that anyone who thought that traditional animation was going away were kidding themselves. It was knee-jerk reactions on both sides. It was both the audiences who thought there was too much CGI and the studios who thought it was actually feasible to phase out traditional animation. 2D animation can never and will never die. It's an impossibility.

I myself cared quite a bit. I loved the movie, but I knew something was amiss with the animation. While good, it wasn't quite Disney, it was parody. I guess that makes sense seeing as the movie itself was a parody. Their animated movie I'm most looking forward to is Rapunzel with director Glen Keane. He and his team have put together CGI that has the fluidity and warmth of 2D and the depth of CGI. It looks like a moving oil painting, absolutely stunning.

that sounds cool, ill have to check it out

Right now (litterally-- as I type!) I'm watching O for AP Lit. It's an adaptation of Othello, the last book we read.

So far I'm liking it-- it's got good music and the acting's pretty good. It's rated R, but hey, what are you gonna do? Still highly fantastic. (Even if it IS the first twenty minutes...)

On the 2D animation debate: yeah, it's great to see it back. From most accounts, the main ones to thank for that are Pixar men John Lasseter and Ed Catmull, 2D aficionados who, thanks to the Disney-Pixar merger, now find themselves in key creative positions in Walt Disney Animation Studios, and it's largely through their influence that Disney have committed themselves to the revival of the form. All eyes will be on the 2009 release of The Princess and the Frog, a 1920's Jazz Age fairy tale that will be directed by Ron Clements and John Musker (Aladdin, Hercules, The Little Mermaid), and will be Disney's first traditional animation since 2004. I'm certainly looking forward to how it turns out. :D

Peter Jackson's King Kong. It's a great remake of the classic, but it lacks the savagery that the original had.

The Killer

Kiss Kiss, Bang bang

A John Woo film for the first one, best of his work I've ever seen and I always loved Bang, bang. One of the funniest scripts I've ever heard, the dialog is so sharp and witty I couldn't stop loving how smart this movie's writing was.