| | Sorry about not having posted to the questions raised [lost this thread, for one, so forgot about it]... so - techniquewise, the art is good - BUT, the subject, to me, sucks - even as allegory it in today's world, sucks, because it still refrains that old saw that something of fantasy needs be in the repertoire, else the world is somehow 'less' than it otherwise is... Clash of the Titans did not thrill me, either versions, for the same reason...
Does this mean I find nothing of fantasy enjoyable? Truth be said, wish I could say such, that only the real appeals to me,because it is real... but yes, I do enjoy the Harry Potter books and movies, Conan and the other works of Robert Howard, and the animations of Pixar are fun to see, for instance - so to that extent am tied to my era of history, like a cigarette addict... but it does not invalidate my assertion, only that it recognizes we are in a transition phase of history - we see the future, but have a tie to the primitive past, and it is in knowing this that one knows where to learn how to reach in acquiring solutions, to presenting those aspects commonly given in fantasy and presenting them in fiction with not just 'equal' but greater sense of life...
I should add that in the realm of science fiction, which I love, there is context needed so to prevent early works from being thought of as fantasy when in 'good faith' they were written otherwise - Edgar Rice Burroughs' works come to mind... and as for horror, it is, bluntly, a malevolent sense of life for its own sake - and this is not to excuse evil, for yes, evil exists, but to note the difference between Batman's Joker for instance, and the SAW, Nightmare, and Jason movies ...
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