Talk:Mick LaSalle

Restoring controversial review paragraph

I have restored the paragraph about the about the controversial review of Monsters House that a user (PEQUOTWARS contribs) has removed twice without any justification; the first removal also messed the rest of the article. The user has edited just this page. According to the biographies of living persons policy, i think that the paragraph about the controversial review of Monster's House, should be left. It is well sourced, with references to the original review and the comment of a renowed artist (look at the Jeff Pidgeon filmography on imdb). It tries to do not use weasel words, and hopefully it is sufficiently NPOV.

Probably some quotes of the review could help to better understand the controversy. From Mick LaSalle review, when talking about motion capture technologies:

• [animated movies] ... never had the ability to show the human face. There was never any point to a close-up in an animated film -- there was never really anything to see... Imagine what Disney might have done with this in the creation of the Seven Dwarfs. Imagine all the things that will be done with this in the future. "Monster House" looks like the ground floor of something important.

It is easy to understand why many professional animators were upset from the above sentences... ALoopingIcon 05:15, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

An anonymous user has removed this paragraph again. Reverted. Twice. ALoopingIcon 21:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

His birth name

User Dell6299 removed without any explanation the reference to Mick LaSalle's birth name, Al Agate. Since Agate is a semi-famous person, I believe that this should be restored. However, now that this article has been frozen it is impossible to do so.

You can see a reference to him under his birth name at [1], which also mentions his marriage to Amy Freed. The magazine SF Weekly, in a 1996 column, makes a reference to him under both names at [2].

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