Titan A.E.

Starring: Bill Pullman, Matt Damon Director: Art Vitello, Don Bluth, Gary Goldman Original UK Premiere: 2000 Dvd Release: 9th April, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Czech, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish, Portuguese Dubbed In: German

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Titan A,E. is a 2000 animated sci-fi space adventure movie from Fox Animation Studios & Twentieth Century Fox. The title refers to the fictional Titan spacecraft that is central to the plot, with A,E. meaning After Earth. The films animation technique combines traditional hand-drawn animation & extensive use of computer generated imagery. The film is in color, running 94 minutes in length & is rated PG for action violence, mild sensuality & brief language. Its working title was Planet Ice. Titan A,E. was not financially successful; after it made only $9,376,845 during its opening weekend, Fox Animation Studios was shut down. A video game in the works for Playstation was cancelled in order to save money. The Spirits Within & Treasure Planet as an example of an animated science-fiction/fantasy movie that failed to attract an audience. In the year 3028 A,D. Earth is under attack by the Drej, aliens made of pure energy. The Drej mothership destroys Earth with an energy beam just as hundreds of escape vehicles manage to escape with the last of humankind aboard.

A visual knockout, Titan A.E. is an ambitious animated feature that combines traditional animation, computer-generated imagery & special effects in the service of a science fiction adventure plotted with narrative conventions familiar from Star Wars & Star Trek. Credit directors Don Bluth & Gary Goldman with crafting a vivid, convincing look to this deep space saga, which conjures some stunning images: a tense opening sequence climaxing in the destruction of Earth; a watery planet where delicate but deadly hydrogen trees float; joyriding in a starship while pursued by playful space angels; & a nerve-wracking journey through a lethal maze of massive ice crystals each qualify as mesmerising sequences in any film context.

Whats visually stunning proves intermittently stunted on the narrative front, however. Orphaned when the evil Drej atomise Earth, protagonist Cale must journey across space to unlock the mystery of his late fathers final project, the Titan spacecraft, in a test of faith & filial identity that echoes Star Wars. The Titan itself ultimately poses a cosmic potential familiar to admirers of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Comical sidekicks , a sultry love interest & a roguish mentor all verge on the generic, narrowly redeemed by dialogue from a writing team including Buffy the Vampire Slayer-creator Joss Whedon.

Its likely that Titans target audience of young males prompted the filmmakers to walk a tightrope between softer family features & more violent, hard-edged anime. Although its brief bloodshed & coy nudity stops short of more adult terrain, younger viewers might be unsettled by the violence. Young teens will find the proceedings tamer than the video games & anime fantasies that have influenced it.

Bill Pullman is an American actor. Born in Hornell, New York, he attended State University of New York & University of Massachusetts. In the 1980s, he primarily worked with theatre companies around New York & Los Angeles. His first prominent movie role was in the film Ruthless People, starring Danny DeVito. Other notable films included the lead in Spaceballs, The Serpent & the Rainbow, While You Were Sleeping & Independence Day. Bill continues to act in both theatre & in movies, independent & big budget. He is married to dancer Tamara Hurwitz & has three children. Revelations TV Series. Richard Massey. Man Is Mostly Water, A. Parking Fascist. Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies. Live. Co-Host. History Is Made at Night. Harry Howe/Ernie Halliday. Merry Christmas, George Bailey. George Bailey. Independence Day. President Thomas J Whitmore. While You Were Sleeping. Jack Callaghan. Mr. Jones. Construction Site Foreman. Home Fires Burning. Lieutenant Henry Tibbetts. Serpent & the Rainbow, The. Dennis Alan. Posters Of Independence Day

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Matt Damon is an American film actor. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He shares an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with his friend Ben Affleck for the movie Good Will Hunting. He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same film. He founded Project Greenlight with Affleck to find & fund worthwhile film projects from novice filmmakers. In 2004 his uncle became the oldest person at 70 years old to swim the English Channel. Damon also produced an audiobook, reading Howard Zinn s A Peoples History of the United States. He grew up next door to Zinn. Posters Of Matt Damon

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Don Bluth is a former Disney animator who set out on his own in the early 1980s to start his own animation studio, Don Bluth Productions. His style is rougher & more lively than Disneys & his films tend to have a mystical element to them. Much of his early work still has devoted fans today. At Disney in the 1970s he was an animator on Robin Hood, The Rescuers & Petes Dragon. Afterwards he left Disney & independently produced a short film titled Banjo the Woodpile Cat as a demonstration of his ability & this led to work on an animated segment of the live-action film Xanadu & his most noteworthy film, The Secret of NIMH. Teaming up with Rick Dyer, he created the groundbreaking arcade video game Dragons Lair, which let the player control a cartoon -animated character on screen. This was followed in 1984 by Space Ace, a science-fiction game based on the same technology, but which gave the player a choice of different routes to take through the story; & Dragons Lair II, a sequel which was very rare in arcades. Posters Of All Dogs Go To Heaven

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