sky captain

is

friggin'

amazing.

or at least i definitely thought so. i love how the whole thing looks like a dream/thirties film, and i LOVE LOVE LOVE the shots that are so blatantly retro. (ie, the fingers pointing to the sky, the radio wave circles emitting from the robot antennae, the actual map on the land and water as they show the plane flying over the ocean) sweet merciful moses. i was beautiful. beautiful and full of good robot ass-kickery, but by no means in a resident evil: apocalypse sort of way*. my god the robots were cool. i have to see the movie again before i finalize my opinion on the plot and overall content of the film. though while I was seeing it for this first time, i had this amazing sensation as if i was in a movie theater decades in the past, watching the movie as though i were in the era it took place in and when i walked outside, everybody would be dressed in late thirties-garb, bustling about and driving those keen cars they had back in the day. no movie has ever made me feel that way (obviously, because no movie has ever been made quite like sky captain has) so that sensation alone made the movie incredible. plus i could never resist jude law's ever-so-sexy britishosity.

last night's venture brothers was equally pleasing with a special guest: RACE BANNON. i like so much that the show is intelligent enough and the writers aren't afraid to put in an exact character from a show they're obviously parodying and not only make it work, but make it tie the venture bros. into an interesting time scheme with other cartoons. nifty, i say!!

0oohh work. the story of my life. work and then midterm projects and cutting shapes of a mallet out with scissors and pasting them onto various rectangles. art school continues to amaze.

sadly, atomic betty is really awful. cute animation i guess, but it's still so hard to get over the "bounciness" look of cartoons animated with flash and the like (since i heard betty wasn't even animation with flash). the spaceships look cool, but just about every aspect of the episode i saw was boring and had been done before. disappointing, yes, but okay. there are and will be other great things.

i want my videonow. wait, no i don't.