Well.. I think so.. mostly because of the decrease in the number of quality artists these days.. do you realize it. Almost 90% English, Hindi, Tamil films seem to have considered the 'thrill' / 'rushes' they call coming today from doing some kind of Computer graphics on the film more than having very involving actors with very generously detailed story telling.
I think these are the days of king kong, godzilla, Transformers, X-men.. and it all started with Finding Nemo, X-men 3, and movies like Rat-ta-tou-lie..
At my official visit to Belgium, I saw two movies back to back at UGC cinemas .. one was some sandra bullock movie which I am happy I have forgotten.. the other was 'Transformers 2'.
I loved the detail of Transformers 2, as much as I loved Transformer 1.. and why not, they even very clearly established the old links left behind in the first part to the second part. At No point, did I feel like I was watching an animation film.
Now that I am married, I occassionally get to convince my wife that booking tickets for an animation film for two adults is not ridiculous,.. and make her come with me to a 3D movie .. UP. yes, it was called 'UP' and my wife seemed to enjoy it as well.
Though it was her first 3D movie (she almost forgot when she last saw any 3D movie).. she was occassionally frowning that I was not only seeing an animation movie myself.. but getting her to see it.. and then the 3D glasses are not good.. the glasses giving her an headache for which I interestingly ask her to hold them with one finger in a particular focal length for the rest of the movie.. "whaaaat !" she said, but eventually had to do it to continue watching the movie.
Full-length animation films, sometimes still called cartoon films, which have no human characters are getting better and better and importantly easier to watch or sit-through than any other type of movie.. ofcourse, I must agree that I am feeling so much good for animation films only because they are a welcome change of movie type after a bunch of non-animated movies. not otherwise.
We need more harrison fords's... anthony hopkins's, arnolds's, stallone's, .. all of them younger.. to revive the better movie segment genre of english movies... and we could almost forget people like tom cruise, russel crowe, who are more busy with reviving their personal lives, than reviving anything like movie industry.
As for me,
I am looking forward to 'AVATAR'.. coincidentally today it seems like the movie has had its world's largest live viewing movie trailer released today.. also, the comic-con conference had these questions 'How many of you wanted to see another planet once.. are you ready to go to Pandorum?' to huge crowd uproars before showing off some 25 secs of Avatar's upcoming movie clips.
