It’s about a snail. I know this because when I went to see Nigel: Man of Steel among the endless, deafening previews there was one for this. I’m planning to take the whole family.

SanFranLefty

10:21 am • Thursday • July 4, 2013

@Benedick: The pugs probably love to eat snails in the garden.

blogenfreude

11:22 am • Thursday • July 4, 2013

@Benedick: I would gnaw off a limb to avoid that movie.

Dodgerblue

12:14 pm • Thursday • July 4, 2013

This is the last project that my 63-year old animator friend worked on before being cruelly laid off.

Benedick

7:15 pm • Friday • July 5, 2013

@Dodgerblue: I know that many talented people worked on it. And other films like it. Huge amounts of skill and dedication go into movies like this. I didn’t mean to be knocking their work bey rather my own so not part of its targeted audience.

Tommmcatt Can’t Believe He Ate The Whole Thing

3:21 pm • Saturday • July 6, 2013

@Dodgerblue: It’s a cut-throat business. Mr. Catt survives at this point by being a quadruple threat: traditional animation, CG effects, modeling, and technical animation. They cull the old and experienced, because it’s cheaper to hire the young and not-so-good and overwork them until they get it right. Mr. Catt shifts from team to team and keeps a low profile.

For now. Exit plan is to teach when the getting out looks good.

Tommmcatt Can’t Believe He Ate The Whole Thing

3:24 pm • Saturday • July 6, 2013

TJ/ Human head transplants may become a possibility in the near-ish future, given advancements in technology and what-not. I vote we graft Benedick onto a gorilla.

ADD: See- http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/stress-and-health-dr-lind/2013/jul/6/human-head-transplant/

Benedick

5:25 pm • Saturday • July 6, 2013

@Tommmcatt Can’t Believe He Ate The Whole Thing: Recently saw Life of Pi and no I didn’t like it much but was appalled to learn about the conditions under which the SFX crews labor. And plus also the bankruptcy thing.

A gorilla? I’m touched.

Tommmcatt Can’t Believe He Ate The Whole Thing

12:41 am • Sunday • July 7, 2013

@Benedick: It would be amusing. Like grafting Samuel Pepys onto a hippo. It’s the contrast of the thing. Plus you could wear a little hat.

I wish you liked Life of Pi. I really liked it a great deal. It indulges my fantasies of heaven, which I think is a good thing. Leave me that at least.

Dodgerblue

2:32 am • Sunday • July 7, 2013

@Tommmcatt Can’t Believe He Ate The Whole Thing: I hope he is not at risk if/when “Lone Ranger” tanks.

JNOV

3:04 am • Sunday • July 7, 2013

@Tommmcatt Can’t Believe He Ate The Whole Thing: Dude!

Side note: I didn’t know Mary Shelley created science fiction.

Benedick

8:10 am • Sunday • July 7, 2013

@JNOV: She had to do something while her husband was blowing Lord Byron.

JNOV

3:25 pm • Sunday • July 7, 2013