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Another Carol of Christmas
Despite not having the best review copy I found Disney’s A Christmas Carol staring Jim Carry and Gary Oldmen both creepy and awe inspiring displaying what can be done with 3D these days. What I loved best were the amazing director’s insight to take your vantage point to new places like behind a door knob that would not be able to achieved with a video camera and the hand held feel of much of it, really brilliantly story boarded.
I liked how it followed closely to the book and most if not all of the talking seemed right out of the original text exposing a universal audience to a richer form of English then most Hollywood movies and Disney audiences which never hurts our word knowledge.
It was amazingly dark, both the color tones used, old style art, how wretchedly hideous Ebenezer, and Marley looked and the visual effects. The second ghost in particular goes out in a fashion I’d never seen before, it was not New Years or even the end of Christmas Day so why he dies and becomes a mummy does not make sense and only upstages the rather dull 3rd ghost a hard act to follow and really makes it hard to feel frightened a second time for a silent silhouette grim reaper.
The tomb scene and over the top next morning seemed to loose my emotional strings, they just did not feel very personal. I’m not sure if it is the 3D or story telling but that usually is the best part of the story for me but it was powerless for me this time around.
Also he goes and buys the biggest turkey to presumably send to Tiny Tim’s family but the father goes to work and never says thanks or mentions anything.
Over all a great portrayal of the book and a Christmas classic that shows us that giving more to others on this time is what Christmas should be about. Jim Carry did quadruple duty on this one but really only makes a presence with Scrooge and ghost of Christmas present.
In finding pics for this post I was amazed to see so many different advertising and many trying to be so dark feeling, it’s a kids and family Christmas story.
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Weekend Wallpapers + poll
I get a lot of visitors to this blog but very little feedback so I am interested in knowing more about who my readers are, so if you have a few minutes to take the poll below and tell me why you visit this site. It will also help me know what kind of content to post in the next few months and new year or reevaluate this blog altogether.
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Autunm Colors ‘09
Well it is that time of year again, not my favorite but one thing that makes me look on the positive is trying to find interesting pics anyways despite the rain and cold and everything dieing all around. here are the first two wallpapers.
keep things simple
A new poster I got for my wall.
The quote reads:
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that is creativity.” – Charles Mangus
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Internal Ideas
As many of you know I have not been blogging much for ages here, I hope to change that and will be adding a series of post on matters relating to a smaller audiance thenthe whole open web, I will not close this entirly but will password protect posts that I only want a limited number of people to read. I will still try to keep up some travel and photograph type things here to keep the thing going for all but my primary reason for this blog will be more targeted, good news for those of you who will get the password as I think you might enjoy more indepth views on things to come.
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