I've seen the movie and the quality of the rendering is actually quite impressive. Its of course a bit uneven, but generally speaking the movie looks lush and gorgeous and as impressive as any Pixar movie . You can argue your case that motion capture performaces are not your cup of tea, but you cant make the argument that this movie does not impress when seen on the big screen. If you try, you don't know what your talking about and you don't know the technology.

Motion capture is here to stay. Animation is the skill of bringing life to inanimate objects. When technology gets to the point of allowing actors, i.e professional performers, to give life to their own characters, rather then simply voicing a character and having a 32 year old maya monkey do his best to mimic the vocal performance, well isn't that an improvement?

Just in case you did not and though i was a total jerk for the language, it was meant as a Joke.

Yes, we GET IT. You're short and us 'western' girls are all angry and neurotic....but not you, though. You don't sound neurotic at all what with posting this same querulous and petulant rant over and over again. What do you want? For every woman of all races on this site to say "No, no...not YOU wintalfs. in YOUR case, it's totally cool to stereotype all asian women as easy- going and zen and shit and likewise to stereotype all 'western' women as angry nutjobs." Do you want us to sign a permission slip for you or something? God.

Also, none of the women on this post ever said Asian women were ACTUALLY SUBMISSIVE. We were pointing out that people who ascribe sweeping categorizations to an entire continent or race of people are idiot doucherockets. Some of these doucherockets think all Asian women are submissive, other doucherockets think all Asian women are Karma Sutra sex goddesses. Still other doucherockets think all Asian women are calm and centered and mystically enlightened, and, simultaneously, that all american women are nervous and high strung. Stereotypes do tend to trade in crude binaries like that--you know, all 'western' women are neurotic thereby all Asian women must be calm and stable. Have you noticed that clumsy binarism in some of the letters on this thread, wintalfs? Boy, I sure have.

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I have noticed, and I tried to avoid the stereotypes while also describing my experiences and contributing to the conversation. Stereotypes are what they are, false and useless when applied to individuals, but more telling when looking at groups of people. Perhaps I was obsessive in posting the same message over and over, but I could not help it and felt passionate about the topic. Sorry for the noise. I never claimed to not be neurotic.

Do u want to grab dinner sometime, I'm in the bay area and I know A nice little Chinese restaurant on Lombard...Did I mention I'm on the shorter side...

On behalf of your former neurotic, angry white American girlfriends, Fuck Off. Is that angry enough for you?

Ouch, Guess I deserved that. You forgot the neurotic part though, A more accurate response would be something like,

"I love myself, I hate myself, I need you, I hate YOU, go away... wait, come back..., now Fuck OFF!"

Its alright, Ive heard worse. Seriously, you wouldn't want me anyway. I hope you find your happiness. You have spunk, and I'm sure you could kick my ass.

By my observation, the good beautiful White women are infinitely much sought after than beautiful Asian women.

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To Rice,

While this may be true for our society as a whole (largely being a white society), I can say that now having dated both races, I would not for a second put White women above Asian women (as a generality of course). Given the choice I would most likely choose the Asian woman, but it also depends on the individual. I'm not alone in this feeling, hence the writing of this article in the first place. White women simple get more of the attention. Don't for a second believe you couldn't compete with them on any level. (I'm assuming you are Asian)

Also despite my history, I would stop short of saying I'm in anyway less of a catch then my white guy counterparts who faired better with White women. I think a large part of my problems stemmed from my height, which kept me off most of the white girls romantic radars, and mattered much less to the Asian Women I have met, who saw past that to my other qualities. Sometimes biology works that way.

Fridge,

I know you wont believe it no matter how many times its refuted, but:

1: Asian women are NOT submissive.

2: Most of the guys dating them do not in fact want them to be, and love them for other reasons.

3. Colonialists/imperialists were more often then not arrogant pricks.