Now, I'm happy that Peter Serafinowicz is getting work. Really, I am. He's a genuinely talented, genuinely funny, genuinely nice person who deserves every ounce of the success that is coming his way. But a motion captured remake of Yellow Submarine? Ick. Just ick.
I eagerly await the day that the Robert Zemeckis who made Back To The Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit while helping launch the career of Peter Jackson comes back to beat this 'new and improved' Zemeckis about the head and shoulders with a hammer.
I eagerly await the day that the Robert Zemeckis who made Back To The Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit while helping launch the career of Peter Jackson comes back to beat this 'new and improved' Zemeckis about the head and shoulders with a hammer.
When you manage to find the real Steven Spielberg, you'll probably find the real Robert Zemeckis shortly thereafter.
I take it you're not a fan of Zemeckis's 'motion capture' animated films?
Personally, I love them. 'Beowulf' and 'A Christmas Carol' rank as two of the best 3D films I've ever seen. (Actually, they ARE the best 3D films I've ever seen.)
I understand a lot of folks don't dig the 'motion capture' style of animation. It doesn't bother me. In fact, I like it. And I think Zemeckis utilizes it to great effect, especially in his deployment of 'impossibly kinetic' camera movements. The orchestration of his camera movements could only take place within a virtual world and he wields this tool not only with exhuberance (perhaps too much exhuberance for some) but with a finely tuned sense of compositional mastery.
And while I'm not a fan of remakes in general, I welcome a re-imagining of 'Yellow Submarine' because in this instance, with Zemeckis deploying a completely new animation style to the telling of the tale, the term 're-imagining' is actually appropriate (for once).