'Disney's A Christmas Carol' Trailer: Back to the Uncanny Valley
September 14, 2009 Comments
Proving that nearly-realistic, Christmas-themed computer animation can be made slightly creepier than Polar Express when the subject is a deformed old man, here's the new trailer for Robert Zemeckis's adaptation of the well-worn tale of Ebenezer Scrooge.
If you loved the floating feather dancing in the air in Forrest Gump, you'll love the floating snowflake dancing in the air in this trailer. What is Bobby Z's obsession with following delicate, white objects drifting gently to the ground?
If you use Diablo II cinematics as the benchmark of weird looking, elderly, CG males, Scrooge's expression at 1:12 (-1:22) is slightly less unsettling. But not much.
