Movie and Book review at Sword and Sorcery

[RyanHarvey]

Hello folks,

Well, after a holiday break, www.SwordAndSorcery.org is back with regular weekly updates...

This week, Bruce Durham reviews the Ralph Bakshi/Frank Frazetta animated collaboration, Fire and Ice, now available on a Limited Edition DVD. Also, Paul McNamee goes off the beaten track into Gothic Space Opera with a Warhammer 40,000 Duology, Blood Angels.

You can find them at http://www.swordandsorcery.org

Have a good time, and watch out for Rotoscoped monsters.



Ryan Harvey
Managing Editor at www.swordandsorcery.org
www.RealmOfRyan.com

[PaulMc]

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This week, Bruce Durham reviews the Ralph Bakshi/Frank Frazetta animated collaboration, Fire and Ice, now available on a Limited Edition DVD. Also, Paul McNamee goes off the beaten track into Gothic Space Opera with a Warhammer 40,000 Duology, Blood Angels.

You can find them at http://www.swordandsorcery.org

Have a good time, and watch out for Rotoscoped monsters.
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Fire & Ice does have weaknesses, but I still love it.

Thanks for the review, Bruce.

And, thanks for getting the reviews posted amidst your hectic schedule, Ryan!

-- Paul McNamee
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http://www.dorancoyle.net
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[jonesha]

Thanks, Ryan. I've already read Fire and Ice, and I look forward to seeing Paul's look at Warhammer this evening.

best,
Howard

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[RyanHarvey]

I like Fire and Ice, it's certainly much better than many of the live-action S&S films that were released at the time, but I have never liked rotoscoping, especially Bakshi's version of it. The movements look bizarre, not life-like as they are supposed to be, and Bruce is right that the rotoscoped characters look disconnected from the background. This is an even larger problem in Bakshi's horrendous Lord of the Rings adaptation, where the characters often seem to be floating above the ground while they run, instead of actually touching it. One reason Bakshi stuck to rotoscope was as an animation short-cut, and it's easy to see why it fell out of favor. (Although CGI motion-capture uses something of the same principle.)

Ryan Harvey
Managing Editor at www.swordandsorcery.org
www.RealmOfRyan.com