It seems as if just recently I have been exposed to the world of a capella. Almost randomly I came across a video from the Voca People, a professional a capella group. Needless to say, I was more than impressed. This triggered me to look more into a capella and realizing that there are hundreds of brilliant professional and non-professional a capella groups all around the world making music and rhythms without any instruments. Good a capella seems to take beat boxing to a whole new level. There are several a capella clips that are quite impressive that can be found on video sharing sites such as YouTube. Here is a clipe from a group performing the theme song from The Simpsons.
Avatar for the Experience
Monday, January 18, 2010
Rating 8/10
There has been a lot of deserved hype about the movie Avatar. While I am by no means a fanatic of fantasy or sci-fi movies, I was definitely impressed with Avatar. Avatar is a movie that is more of an experience than a motion-picture. The visual effects used in Avatar seem to be unreal for the 21st (or even the 22nd) Century. Avatar is the first blockbuster to use non-animated three-dimensional effects. I would recommend this movie to anyone if nothing else but its visual effects. Nonetheless, I enjoyed more than just the effects, the plot was good albeit a bit cliche. Avatar has some striking similarities to the movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. I know this seems like an odd comparison, but it really shouldn't be. Like Avatar, FernGully involves a human who comes into contact with an outside land of creatures. Not only that, but the land of FernGully is about to be destroyed by humans. I would be shocked if the movie FernGully never crossed the minds of the makers of Avatar...but do not get me wrong, I much preferred Avatar. My only two criticisms of the movie are: Avatar is overwhelmingly cliche and (while limited) the foul language seems gratuitous. Overall Avatar deserves a 8 out of 10 and is worth seeing before it is no longer in theaters.
There has been a lot of deserved hype about the movie Avatar. While I am by no means a fanatic of fantasy or sci-fi movies, I was definitely impressed with Avatar. Avatar is a movie that is more of an experience than a motion-picture. The visual effects used in Avatar seem to be unreal for the 21st (or even the 22nd) Century. Avatar is the first blockbuster to use non-animated three-dimensional effects. I would recommend this movie to anyone if nothing else but its visual effects. Nonetheless, I enjoyed more than just the effects, the plot was good albeit a bit cliche. Avatar has some striking similarities to the movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. I know this seems like an odd comparison, but it really shouldn't be. Like Avatar, FernGully involves a human who comes into contact with an outside land of creatures. Not only that, but the land of FernGully is about to be destroyed by humans. I would be shocked if the movie FernGully never crossed the minds of the makers of Avatar...but do not get me wrong, I much preferred Avatar. My only two criticisms of the movie are: Avatar is overwhelmingly cliche and (while limited) the foul language seems gratuitous. Overall Avatar deserves a 8 out of 10 and is worth seeing before it is no longer in theaters.
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