8/29-31 Weekend BoxOffice
Juan F. Lara
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/
12 5 Star Wars: The Clone Wars $2,711,145 -52.1% 2,444 -1,008 $1,109 $29,619,167
18 16 Fly Me to the Moon $1,509,198 +6.1% 630 +90 $2,395 $6,242,261
21 17 Wall-E $1,175,863 +21.8% 1,155 +370 $1,018 $217,973,943
24 20 Kung Fu Panda $633,024 +9.3% 460 +23 $1,376 $213,591,364
29 24 Space Chimps $342,627 -15.2% 401 -66 $854 $28,862,148
90 89 Horton Hears a Who $3,662 -2.9% 12 -2 $305 $154,528,032
The Force turned against "Clone Wars" quickly. Its boxoffice plummetted
last week, and again though not as much this week. It's already getting
hustled out of theaters, which makes sence what with the TV series premiering
in less than a month. I guess the "Clone Wars" movie served its purpose of
being a big TV commercial.
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In the meantime, "Fly Me to the Moon" maintains its modest numbers,
gradually increasing its theaters.
I checked the 3D movie out last weekend. Now the 3D effect of the
backgrounds actually looked appealing. More believable than the backgrounds
in "Beowulf" for sure. 3D still doesn't work well for moving objects though.
I had too much trouble keeping characters focused whenever they moved closer
or further.
The human characters looked pretty good. Their facial features had a
roundness and softness that made them more appealing than I expected. But
there was no hope for the fly characters. They all had very unimaginative
heads, just two big eyes stuck on spheres, stuck on humanlike bodies. I'd need
to see "A Bug's Life" again, or even "Ant Bully" and "AntZ", to get some
insight as to how to design insect characters appealingly. I couldn't stand to
look at the flies in this movie.
The movie had extended scenes with no dialogue, and they were the film's
best scenes. Particularly the scene of the astronauts wandering around on
the Moon, where the movie was at its most charming. When characters did talk,
the film reverted to being a mediocre kid's movie. A subplot involving Soviet
baddies is thrown in just to eat up time.
- Juan F. Lara
Anim8rFSK
lj...@ces.clemson.edu (Juan F. Lara) wrote:
> The human characters looked pretty good. Their facial features had a
> roundness and softness that made them more appealing than I expected. But
> there was no hope for the fly characters. They all had very unimaginative
> heads, just two big eyes stuck on spheres, stuck on humanlike bodies. I'd
> need
> to see "A Bug's Life" again, or even "Ant Bully" and "AntZ", to get some
> insight as to how to design insect characters appealingly. I couldn't stand
> to
> look at the flies in this movie.
Ack! We just had to design an ant for a TV spot, and we loaded up AntZ
as an example of everything to do wrong.
--
Multiple root canals; hopped up on multiple pain drugs.
It's an explanation, not an excuse!
Juan F. Lara
Anim8rFSK <ANIM...@cox.net> wrote:
>Ack! We just had to design an ant for a TV spot, and we loaded up AntZ
>as an example of everything to do wrong.
Hmm, I liked the designs for heads of "AntZ", though in hindsight I guess
the bodies are too anthropomorphized.
- Juan F. Lara
Anim8rFSK
lj...@ces.clemson.edu (Juan F. Lara) wrote:
I'll accept that as a responsible opposing viewpoint. :)
But seriously, we really did put it up as an example of what to do
wrong. First, they don't LOOK like ants. They look like little
centaurs. The 4 legs and 2 arms is the lazy way out. If you take off
the antenna you'd have no way to know those are even bugs faces. And
they're just plain ugly. And noses? Why do ants have noses???
Compare and contrast with the little blue guy in Bug's Life who makes
you smile at first glance, and looks like an ant, even though he only
has 4 limbs and is blue. That's just a wonderful design. And no nose!