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Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol
Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com —
Charles Dickens made a mint with readings of A Christmas Carol , but a century and a half of technological progress has not been kind to the property. Thanks to Robert Zemeckis’s state-of-the-art 3-D performance-capture animation, audiences can now enjoy the spectacle of Jacob Marley’s ghost (Gary Oldman) spewing spit in their laps.Or Bob Cratchit (Oldman again) looking like Gollum in a waistcoat. Or endless sequences of the camera flying over a snow-globe-like London. And there’s something about the process that frees up actors to deliver their hammiest performances, especially Jim Carrey as Scrooge and all three Ghosts. Man, that Ghost of Christmas Present ...
Ghost of Souless Christmas
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Ghost of Souless Christmas Robert Zemeckis 's A Christmas Carol "turns a 19th-century morality tale into a 21st-century funhouse ride, replete with digital greasepaint and 3-D gaping," says the Toronto Star 's Peter Howell . "Look past all the techno tinsel, and the uplift is the same as always. You might even enjoy the 3-D faux snow landing in your lap. "The bad news is that all this glitter is not gold . This is the third film by Zemeckis using motion-capture technology, the others being The Polar Express and Beowulf , and he has yet to prove the worth of a dubious hybrid that is not quite live action and not quite animation. "Indeed, with ...
WEEKEND PREVIEW: THE BOX OPENS
Filmdrunk —
(The Men Who Stare at Goatse)
Opening this weekend (click titles for reviews, trailer after the jump)
The Box
Frank Langella has a box and if you press the button you get some money, but someone in the world also dies. So what’s the catch again? And how much are we talking, like a twenty spot, or less?
A Christmas Carol
A digital Jim Carrey stars in Robert Zemeckis’ latest attempt to make motion-capture happen. Dude, just film the damn actors, this computer crap looks stupid.
The Fourth ...
Coming Out This Week
gmanReviews —
This week in the theatre will be:
2012
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Written by: Roland Emmerich & Harald Kloser
Starring: John Cusack, Chewitel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Thandi Newton, Oliver Platt, Woody Harrelson & Danny Glover
Synopsis: An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
Trailer: ...
