I believe that a stop-motion methodology could be applied to CGI as well, and it would look just like physical stop-motion animation. It's just that, other than the novelty of it, I don't think anybody sees any point in doing it. It seems to me that the only reason traditional stop-motion animation is still done at…

Yes except that Daybreakers runs with the conceit that humans need to be saved and treated "better" because they are almost extinct and no alternative food source has been found for vampires. It is meant to be an exercise in irony while providing audiences with a reason to care what happens in the story (cuz humans…

Stop-motion animation is truly a dying art form, which is a tragedy. But what does it mean to say that it "looks better" than CGI? I've seen CGI animation that looks indistinguishable from stop-motion puppetry, right down to the textures, lighting, and movement. I've also seen CGI with such incompetent animation and…

Stop-motion animation is truly a dying art form, which is a tragedy. But what does it mean to say that it "looks better" than CGI? I've seen CGI animation that looks indistinguishable from stop-motion puppetry, right down to the textures, lighting, and movement. I've also seen CGI with such incompetent animation and…

Yes, that is precisely the kind of thing I am talking about. A tv series based on WW's World of Darkeness could be absolutely brilliant.

I love Netflix. But I hate the studios and networks who haven't figured out how to construct a business model that makes any sense to the customer. When shows come and go from the Watch It Instantly list without any rhyme or reason, then you know something is seriously f**cked up with the system.

Indeed. The missed opportunity, as I see it, that came in the wake of the film adaptation of Interview was the opportunity to explore such a world in more depth. In the first installment of the Rice saga, we only get a glimpse of the larger world of vampires. There is a lot of rich potential to be mined in a…

According to the article, it is a re-telling of historical events. Not a futuristic imagining of robotic enslavement.

Taking it a step farther, you can look at a human as a different species from vampires. In this case, the vampire hero's not even dating someone too young for him. He's dating food. This is like a guy taking a cow to the prom. Or, given the intelligence of some of the heroines of these stories, a potato to the prom.

The part where I addressed the method of story was when I said:

Is it too much to hope that TVD will get more coverage from io9 in the future? I mean, is CJA the only contributor there who loves the show this much? Surely others must realize how fun this show is.

Only when the allegory is a poorly conceived one.

Enslavement.

I honestly don't know why everyone loves X-Men FC so much. Must be an age thing. X2 was still a far superior bit of storytelling all around, IMO.

It makes zero sense to me. Robot slums? Robot riots? There is no explanation of robotic development that plausibly leads to this scenario.

I trust Joss to have the writing skills to make villains like Thanos or the Skrull intellectually manageable to "average audiences." Either of them would be my choice. The benefit of the Skrull, from a production point of view, is that for most of the movie they would appear as normal people, which would keep the FX…

I can't imagine why anyone would care if the man smoked weed, ate shrooms, guzzled guinness, or pigged out on sugar plums. Tabloid curiosity at its finest.

Of course, the "Cat Scratch Fever" that Ted Nugent is singing about is nymphomania, not fluid drainage.

I believe the usual rhetoric involves claims that cartoon porn, while not directly harming a living individual during content creation, is potentially harming the reader by re-wiring his or her psycho-sexual (and moral) compass to such an extent that they could be "inspired" (or driven in extreme cases) to enact their…

Tool is so utterly non-period that I almost cringed, but then I got goosebumps because the trailer itself is awesome, makes the movie look awesome, and well, it's effing TOOL! Regardless of the anachronism, that music got me so pumped for this movie, I applaud whomever decided to put 46 and 2 into it. Bravo!