Tag Archives: Animated Film

Q&A Thursday

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: January 31, 2013

So this Friday, I’ll be traveling. Rather than leave you with all your unanswered questions for another week, I thought I’d move Q&A Friday up a day because I care. As always, if you should have any questions, feel free to leave them here in the comments section, send them to me via Twitter (@ALeeMartinez) [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Adaptation, Adult, Amp, Budget Film, Buy Books, Comments Section, Gil, Lot, Love, Money, New Frontier, Novels, Rewarding Experience, Screenwriting, Unanswered Questions | Leave a comment

Horse Vs. Chimp

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: September 9, 2011

What makes a a great actor? As we move further into this digital revolution, I find myself frustrated on occasion by our refusal to admit that some of our best acting isn’t being done by people, but by animated characters. And I’m not talking about motion capture actors. I find the whole idea of motion [...]

Posted in Blog, Movies | Also tagged Animated Films, Animated Horse, Animators, Best Actor, Caesar, Chimp, Countless Number, Crutch, Digital Revolution, Fairy Tale, Film Base, Great Actor, Lack Of Respect, Motion Capture, Nod, Nomination, Planet Of The Apes, Promotional Material, Single Line | 1 Comment

Passing on Robot Gore

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: July 8, 2011

I haven’t seen the new Transformers film, and I really don’t have any desire to. I’m not going to bother judging it on the basis of quality. Quality is an ethereal thing, and it all boils down to opinion. I might think Green Lantern was a really fun and cool superhero movie (and one of [...]

Posted in Blog, Movies | Also tagged Bloodshed, Cinematic Moments, Darkness, Death And Destruction, Fist, Flesh, Gore, Green Lantern, Iron Hide, Kick Ass, Old Man, Personal Experience, Quality Quality, Robot, Robots, Slow Motion, Transformers, Unpleasant Aspects, Violent Imagery | Leave a comment

Green Lantern: First Flight (a review)

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: October 4, 2009

FIRST, THE COMIC BOOK RANT. YOU CAN SKIP TO THE REVIEW A FEW PARAGRAPHS DOWN. I don’t know if my regular readers have noticed this or not, but I tend to spend an unusual amount of time bemoaning the quality of modern comic books. A big part of this, I’ll admit, is simply coming from [...]