Recent movies and my honest thoughs...if you want to read them

10,000BC: after reading the revew in 3D world raveing about its special effects, i desided not to pass up on a copy from a friend,
after about 10mins into the story line i just felt alittle sick, it was boring! and i havnt even go to the amasing affects!
it turned into some kind of weard caveman love story.
i would have to say the running mammoths where really odd looking, you know you get that feeling when something just doesnt look right? now im not saying i have a huge understanding on wooly elaphants but something about them just didnt look right.

on its good points though the saber toothed tigers where AWSOME! and really detailed ill give them that!
anyway enough ranting it had a weak storyline but from the same director as "the day after tomorrow" i didnt really expect more.
in short bad plot good special effects!

Alvin and the chipmunks: as embarast as i am to say it i really liked this movie!
I was one of the many thousands of people who cringed everytime they heard the "crazy frog",so having a whole movie of small rodents who sound like they have inhailed an entire heilem factory would grait on my nears.
suprisingly though i seemed to get ove the high pitched voises and loved the singing!
I loved the interaction the Jason Lee (also played Earl in "my name is Earl") had with the fluffy little critters, they seem to of masterd the carater interation and even though i know that they are petting or touching nothing except maby a prop if looked very real!

Sweeny Todd, the deamon barbor of fleet street: Ok i know this isnt a 3D movie but this revew is only to the starting credits, which i loved! (and no there wasnt any sceans on Jhonny Depp in the part im talking about!)its more to the sweep through london landing onto the Barbers shop, I also found intresting the part the Mr. Todd had just got off the boat and is walking along through the dark streets of london,you are taking on a sweeping shot through the streets passing homeless people and drunkerds though Fleet street (i.e. the rough end)
all in all AWSOME FILM even though Jhonny shouldnt really should stick to just acting.

Flight of the Conchords

if i had thought more about doing the first idear for the project i just found a vid showing what i wanted to do with the photographs, unfortunatly i cant rember how to show a live link so ive just posted it below :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqbB8aPD1UU

The little match seller

it occored to me that noone mite actuly know the story of the little match girl seller by Hans Christian Anderson so i desided to post it here:

IT was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast. In the cold and the darkness, a poor little girl, with bare head and naked feet, roamed through the streets. It is true she had on a pair of slippers when she left home, but they were not of much use. They were very large, so large, indeed, that they had belonged to her mother, and the poor little creature had lost them in running across the street to avoid two carriages that were rolling along at a terrible rate. One of the slippers she could not find, and a boy seized upon the other and ran away with it, saying that he could use it as a cradle, when he had children of his own. So the little girl went on with her little naked feet, which were quite red and blue with the cold. In an old apron she carried a number of matches, and had a bundle of them in her hands. No one had bought anything of her the whole day, nor had anyone given her even a penny. Shivering with cold and hunger, she crept along; poor little child, she looked the picture of misery. The snowflakes fell on her long, fair hair, which hung in curls on her shoulders, but she regarded them not.

Lights were shining from every window, and there was a savory smell of roast goose, for it was New-year’s eve—yes, she remembered that. In a corner, between two houses, one of which projected beyond the other, she sank down and huddled herself together. She had drawn her little feet under her, but she could not keep off the cold; and she dared not go home, for she had sold no matches, and could not take home even a penny of money. Her father would certainly beat her; besides, it was almost as cold at home as here, for they had only the roof to cover them, through which the wind howled, although the largest holes had been stopped up with straw and rags. Her little hands were almost frozen with the cold. Ah! perhaps a burning match might be some good, if she could draw it from the bundle and strike it against the wall, just to warm her fingers. She drew one out—“scratch!” how it sputtered as it burnt! It gave a warm, bright light, like a little candle, as she held her hand over it. It was really a wonderful light. It seemed to the little girl that she was sitting by a large iron stove, with polished brass feet and a brass ornament. How the fire burned! and seemed so beautifully warm that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them, when, lo! the flame of the match went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the half-burnt match in her hand.

She rubbed another match on the wall. It burst into a flame, and where its light fell upon the wall it became as transparent as a veil, and she could see into the room. The table was covered with a snowy white table-cloth, on which stood a splendid dinner service, and a steaming roast goose, stuffed with apples and dried plums. And what was still more wonderful, the goose jumped down from the dish and waddled across the floor, with a knife and fork in its breast, to the little girl. Then the match went out, and there remained nothing but the thick, damp, cold wall before her.

She lighted another match, and then she found herself sitting under a beautiful Christmas-tree. It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchant’s. Thousands of tapers were burning upon the green branches, and colored pictures, like those she had seen in the show-windows, looked down upon it all. The little one stretched out her hand towards them, and the match went out.

The Christmas lights rose higher and higher, till they looked to her like the stars in the sky. Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.

She again rubbed a match on the wall, and the light shone round her; in the brightness stood her old grandmother, clear and shining, yet mild and loving in her appearance. “Grandmother,” cried the little one, “O take me with you; I know you will go away when the match burns out; you will vanish like the warm stove, the roast goose, and the large, glorious Christmas-tree.” And she made haste to light the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother there. And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.

In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year; and the New-year’s sun rose and shone upon a little corpse! The child still sat, in the stiffness of death, holding the matches in her hand, one bundle of which was burnt. “She tried to warm herself,” said some. No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother, on New-year’s day.

A short about Roger Allers

Roger Allers is a Animation director and Storyboard Artist of Disney animated films. Away from the Disney studio, he directed the animated movie, Open Season for Sony.

He directed the Academy Award winning movie The Lion King, with Rob Minkoff. He was also nominated for a Tony for writing the book of the hit Broadway musical version of "The Lion King". He was a Story Artist on Oliver & Company and The Little Mermaid. And he supervised the story of Beauty and the Beast.

In 2007, Allers received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film for his interpretation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Little Match Girl, a short originally intended for Fantasia 2006.

taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Allers

life doesnt alwase have a Disney ending.

ok this sounds sad but i just watched "the little mermaid" it was a 2 disk edition, By accident i found a short animation called "The little match girl" it was based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson and it has to be the sadest story i have ever seen though animation (ok to mind i'v probberly seen worse!)
"The little match girl" is based in Russia and was directed by Roger Allers who was also the director for "the little mermaid"

"The little match girl" is about a small girl who is trying to sell matches. Of coarse no-one is intrested and one man is shown with a lighter.
you are then taken to another sceen of when she is sitting on the snow all alone and cold. She looks down at the matches and decided to light one. you are then taken to a part of her imagination of an open fire untill the match blows out and you are taken back to cold reality.
evently she lights the last of her matches and is taken to a fantesy of an older women hugging the little girl and when you matches blow out she is sitting on the snow and looks to be asleep.
The woman from the little girls fantsey picks up the little girl and walks off but in the picture below it was just the girls spirit and in fact the girl had died.

The enigma gets solved

As i said before i had a plan for the second project. After thinking it through i decided to go in the other direction.
Rereading the bref i changed my plan long ago.
I choose to use my room as a photo montarge with items that are interactive.
also there is a small supprise behind the door well three supprises to be exsact but im not telling you about them you will have to found them out on your own!