Monday, January 15th, 2007
How to bury the best film of the year under CG dinosaurs
by Warren
Hollywood has a long tradition of abandoning really good movies to the marketplace while promoting crap like A Night at the Museum (which has been #1 at the box office for a few weeks). It seems Children of Men, which is easily one of the best films of the year, is suffering the same fate. To be fair, a grim movie about the end of the world isn’t quite the box office draw with the wide appeal of Ben Stiller/dinosaur hijinks, but the point still stands.
And if you’re interested in how they pulled off the insanely cool “one-take” seamless special effects in Children of Men, check this out.