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Wallace and Gromit: the movie


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I have GOT to see that.....

 

I've been a W and G fan for ten years. The first time I saw "The Wrong Trousers" was on a flight from Toronto to St. John's. I've never laughed so hard whilst in flight in my life. Pure genius. From then on, I've been hooked.

 

Cheers!

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Aardman Animation Studios is in my hometown. I keep meaning to see if they do a tour for when I visit, I'll get around to it at some point.... :)

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It's a good thing I have a four year old to take with me, or I'd have to go to the theater by myself!

 

Four year old? I just turned 31 and I'm taking my gf to go see it. We don't need no stinkin' four year olds!

 

Can't wait!

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Originally posted by zeronyne

Man, the attention to detail on W & G is amazing.

 

Yes, it's pretty incredible. Nick Parks does amazing things with his creatures.

 

What's really amazing is that claymation is a dead artform. Who does this stuff anymore? It's all about CG now, right? Even Disney laid off many of their animators -a childhood friend of mine being one of them.

So the idea that someone can make a claymation movie and get it onto the big screen is quite a feat.

 

 

I first saw The Wrong Trousers back when it came out. It had won some awards, and PBS put it on one night along with some behind the scenes footage.

My wife was with me -in fact, I think she may have been my girlfriend at the time- and we were both blown away.

 

I've loved them ever since. And now my kids love them too. :cool:

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You know, it never occured to me to mention that my primary computer at home is named "wallace":

 

wallace# uname -a

FreeBSD wallace.phaetonamplification.org 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #2: Thu Jul 28 21:51:09 CDT 2005 phaeton@wallace.phaetonamplification.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/WALLACE i386

 

My other machine, the K6-II that used to be my primary workstation, is called Gromit

 

:D

 

(and then there's Servo, Crow and Gypsy, but that's all a different story and i have to keep them in the basement):(

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