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 Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:03 pm
Alpha & Omega trailer.
So I saw this earlier on the tube. Despite the inevitable sparkle fur following it will have on FA, DA and Youtube (remember Balto?), it actually doesn't look all that terrible. I might see it, seeing as how it's the same team behind the Ice Age movies, which were pretty good.
Anyways, DISCUSS!
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Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:44 pm
I really want to see it, too! I first caught a glimpse of this a while back on AppleTrailers, and I am looking forward to it.
Even though it completely misinterprets what an alpha and omega are in a wolf pack (but it is a kid's movie, so I don't hold it against them), it looks very well animated, and I think has a lot of potential to be good. Worse comes to worse, I'll just stare at the pretty wolfies XD
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:46 pm
Looks alright. I can definately see some haters and shtuff like that happening.
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:35 am
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- ALPHA AND OMEGA -
I saw this on the television and squee'd. I mean, another animated wolf movie?
Happy freakin' birthday to me!
As for how good it's going to be, according to the previews it doesn't look half bad.
But if it's not that great, I can just sit there and watch the wolves.
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:48 pm
So in a shocking twist of events... We have ANOTHER furry movie hitting theaters, but only if you're into avians.
Legend Of The Guardian Trailer.
This one looks to be a tad bit more serious, than Alpha & Omega... And looks to be a bit better done as well (Come'on its Pixar and John Lasseter)
Anyways... FURTHER DISCUSSION.
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:47 pm
Wooooow... First thing I go to say with my comings-back and I'm gonna be the opinion that throws the curve off... Time to score these two new movies with a star system, rating ★x1 being the lowest and ★x5 being the highest.
Thoughts on Alpha and Omega:
First thing I think of with Alpha and Omega is something to do about the End Times. Or maybe a couple of Actives from Dollhouse. Over all, as soon as I hear/read the title and see a wolf on the screen, I immediately know what it was going to be about in one way or another; the movie would have some underdog runt pairing up with the group leader in one way or another and forcing the natural rift between their status to close and change things between themselves or the hierarchy line in general.
Plot:
A leader and a surf put together to fight their way back home? It's been done in so many ways in so many scenarios and is a classic one. But what is implied here is the runt of the pack is just wanting to MATE with the leader. ....which happens to be the main leader's daughter and happens to be called an Alpha as well just because things are being more PC in the animal kingdom... Ugh... aaaaaanyways, this is more of a tale of the nerd who wants to sleep with the cheerleader Class President [who has almost as much power as the principal or something] and the two just happen to wind up in a situation to make pair stick together and deal with what's going on or nothing will be resolved. This, does not act as a good plot for me. When I think of a story where animals are teaming up to make a trip back home, and it's THE MAIN PLOT, no sleeping together being the actual idea for the characters, the movie of choice I think of is Homeward Bound. You have the aged leader retriever, the trouble making green horn pit bull and the sassy The Chick of the group who is a cat all make their way through the wilderness and beat the odds to make it back home. Very touching. Alpha and Omega, sorry, but maybe I wouldn't have hated your storyline if you had both a romantic path AND a journeying path put into one flow.
Looks:
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH. There's just something about the design of these characters that make me wish I could wave a hand and derezz them or turn them into Nulls. They don't really look like wolves to me and there's just something about them trying some sort of anime build to the faces that irk me... The eyes are too unnatural and the foofy-doosh hair really doesn't work with their faces. ONLY character I thought looked alright was the moose as it looked like they modeled it from the moose from Brother Bear and if I remember right the goose had a similar look to the goose from Balto. How most of the other wildlife can look normal but the wolves are some color explotion'd, Vidal Sassoon-looking things just confuse and anger me.
Sounds (by trailer song of choice and the lines/voice work shown):
I will admit, it looks like some of the voice work is alright. But I can expect most of the jokes and lines used in the actiony sequences in the trailer will be some of the best. And with it being a kiddy movie I'm sure there has to be either a pointless montage or singing scene (most likely montage, I'm betting it'll be a montage) will get thrown in and it'll both be used for filler as well as "entertaining" for children. Despite being a furry, I must be the only one who cringes at the song they used for the trailer too. Yeah, it's a movie with wolves in it. I get it. STOP HITTING REPEAT ON THE "Hungry like the woooooooolf" PART OF THE SONG AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! Remember when movies would use part of a song that was made FOR the move or a song that was interesting and fit the movie looks were used for the trailer and it got your attention? You know, I knew Kick-a** was gonna be a great movie but if they were to just show ten seconds of Hit Girl first showing up and tearing folks up with the up-beat ska version of the Banana Splits theme, that alone would have grabbed some attention and would have been great for a second trailer. All Alpha and Omega shows me is it'll have a song that happens to be furry/wolf related in it and any other songs will be just random "we need music to move the movie along and we think our mix play list is good enough as ambiance".
I know I'm going off on too much about this movie... But after seeing what is going to be used for Smurf'd and Yogi Bear, I see a movie that is not a re-make or a book-to-screen and I just wonder where the creativity has gone.
Final grade via previews of Alpha and Omega: ★x1
As for the Legend of the Guardian, I have nothing to say about it really. Not a movie I'd go out to see, but the looks are amazing, the voicework look JAWSOME, it isn't spazzing some popculture music that happens to just be popular or coincidently happens to have owls in the song lyrics, and Pixar has had such an amazing run on movies so even if I did go see it I know I wouldn't be disappointed if I did.
The score I'd put for the owl movie is would be something like ★x3. Maybe ★2 1/2. Something in the middle so if it's great the score can be raised but it's low enough to keep people from expecting an epic story when it might not be.
The reason why I say I have nothing to say about it personally is it doesn't bother me like Alpha and Omega does but also I believe it's a story based from the books, and it has the same "I'm not interested in owls in a story" feeling for me like Watership Down was for a lot of people who never read the book and said "I'm not interested in a story about a sinking ship rabbits". Once it hits Netflix, yeah, I'll see it. If Jess or Ace wanna go see it and such then yeah I'll go with 'em. Alpha and Omega on the other hand would be the kind of movie I'd have to see just to do an actual review on but only if I had enough people tell me to go see the thing. Maybe. I've put up with bad CG'd animal movies before (my goodness the horribleness of The Missing Lynx....), but Alpha and Omega really rubs wrong with me.
why must I post extremely long things? Arglebah! *finishes off the rest of my Dr. Pepper Throwback*
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