To be honest the first is the superior film, but after just the first 20 minutes I was happy to prostrate myself in supplication and respect for the unbelievable production design. Geiger meets Dune meets Cat in the Hat. They obviously really care about what they are doing too as there is lots of back story alluded to with loads of clever design in the background that you never see more than once. Check out the planet projecting device and see if you can figure out how it is supposed to work. I figure it is all done with sound waves, hence the peaks of constructive interference beneath the planets. Clever stuff. The soothsayers are pretty funky too. The black smog intake on the space craft was interesting too.
Interesting to consider that here we are at a time when Disney reveals that it has made its last cel-animated film. There was a time a few years ago that animation was considered dead, and now with big budget epics like this you have to wonder if 50% of screen space is actually made of animated backdrop. What new wonders we live to see!
Can you guess which character I hate though? You will too, don't worry. Kyra - Man, that girl was weak. I get so fed up with the feisty, untamed love interest schtick. It's only there for the 16 year old boys and ranks right up there on the Jar Jar Binks scale of annoying sidekicks. Why oh why oh why!
Did it strike anyone else that the opening sequence looks like Shock and Awe in Baghdad. That and the Imperium setting out to dispense their one truth.
Interesting to consider that here we are at a time when Disney reveals that it has made its last cel-animated film. There was a time a few years ago that animation was considered dead, and now with big budget epics like this you have to wonder if 50% of screen space is actually made of animated backdrop. What new wonders we live to see!
Can you guess which character I hate though? You will too, don't worry. Kyra - Man, that girl was weak. I get so fed up with the feisty, untamed love interest schtick. It's only there for the 16 year old boys and ranks right up there on the Jar Jar Binks scale of annoying sidekicks. Why oh why oh why!
Did it strike anyone else that the opening sequence looks like Shock and Awe in Baghdad. That and the Imperium setting out to dispense their one truth.