Futile Times:

Surf`s Up but only to $34,625,490 in it`s second weak/week. And it is a shame because it is a better movie than Happy Feet. I missed the ASIFA screening of Surf because Hell, I`m not going to drive into L.A. for another damn penguin movie. The motion capture Happy Feet was the last pebble for me in the flood of penguin animations.

And I just wasn`t going to go for another penguin movie, no way. No how! Maybe watch it on DVD.

Yesterday I went out and saw saw the Surfing Birds at the mall because Jerry Beck said it was a great movie. And it is a good solid film. Very lush CGI, innovative hand held camera, water spots on the lens, inventive documentary plot, water animation to rival Nemo, well worth seeing. But still, another penguin movie!

It is certainly great to have Sony ImageWorks putting out quality feature animation. I would love them to stay in the market and I sure hope they continue to produce quality feature animation for a long time to come. Unfortunately, corporate bean counters hold the purse strings and they only look at numbers not the playing field. So it does not bode well. Sad!