In my “Favourite Movies” list, I always dutifully add “Ghost in the Shell”, because it is that good a movie. It is also the prime example I give to the sort of people to judge animation movies incapable to telling serious, intelligent stories. Ghost in the Shell is a work of art, a cinematic masterpiece, no less.
And it’s going to be remade, by Spielberg’s very own Dreamworks. Hit the jump to find out what the hell.
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One of my favouritest animated films of all time is Ice Age, and for that effort alone I am willing to check out any sequel it gets, regardless of quality. Now, I’m the sort of guy who thinks Ice Age 2 wasn’t really that bad a movie - sure, it was too commercial and it wasn’t as charming as the first, but it wasn’t disastrous either.
This time, in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs it seems that the trio is faced with another problem: dinosaurs! This seems a little weird, because I’m no paleontologist, but didn’t dinosaurs exist before mammoths, sabretooths and sloths? And also, in the first movie we had humans and Flintstones mythos aside, everyone knows that dinosaurs existed way before humans.
What is the mystery here, then? Is this a prequel, or do our heroes find some secluded island inhabited by dinosaurs, taking a jab at Jurassic Park? Whatever the case, take a look at the teaser trailer and decide!
Hit the jump for the trailer!
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