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Learn OpenGL ES: For Mobile Game and Graphics Development

Prateek Mehta

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Want to create sophisticated games and graphics-intensive apps? Learn OpenGL ES gets you started...

Comics & Media: A Special Issue of Critical Inquiry

Alison Bechdel, Hillary L. Chute, Patrick Jagoda and Lynda Barry

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The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and...

Leap! (Ballerina) (2017)

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Starring: Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Maddie Ziegler, Carly Rae Jepsen Felicie has one dream, to...

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics

Jason Porath

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Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Titan A.E. (2000) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020

Titan A.E. (2000)

2000 | Animation, Family, Sci-Fi

6.9

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Design-wise nothing short of extraordinary, the blend of astounding nu-age CGI and trademark Bluth animation should by no means work but it ends up looking like heaven. Definitely also helps that this has exactly 0% fat to it and rides on one fun, kinetic wave from start to finish that's full of rapturous action sequences and endlessly creative visuals. That being said, outside of a couple nice turns the story is total copy-and-paste sci-fi template - but I digress, I guess it's still serviceable for this type of thing but this is just *begging* to have some depth injected into its potentially thought-provoking story. What kills this from greatness for me is how chained it is to the era it was made in; granted it still could have turned out much worse but the fakey-sounding, faux-edgy soundtrack sucks so much shit (sans a couple okay song choices [thx Powerman 5000]) that it single-handedly knocks the whole rating down a half star, and the totally repellent "tude" that was required in all of these mid-late 90s/early 2000s kids' films makes me want to rip my hair out. I suppose you can write this in with 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 for flawed early-aughts orgasmically animated sci-fi bombs that I'm still a total softie for. Gets pretty gnarly sometimes, too.