August 2009 Archives

So incredibly creative, for one, but also so talented. The idea behind the art as well as the talent to be able to execute. Very, very cool.

Happened to catch a rerun of this on TV the other weekend, which prompted me to break out the DVD for the girls again.

"Can a gun have a soul?" That's the question asked by criminally underrated animated film The Iron Giant, which opened 10 years ago to mostly empty theaters and sporadic press coverage.

Combining a relatively infant CGI style with traditional hand-drawn animation, director Brad Bird's award-winning but critically ignored feature animation debut pondered how a paranoid, post-war America might react to an overwhelmingly powerful interstellar invader. A decade on, the cult classic stands as arguably the most intellectually and emotionally moving science-fiction tale in recent history.

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Agreed. Fantastic movie. One of the few animated flicks of the past decade that I look forward to repeated viewings.