Avatar - A new Era of Cinema begins
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@chris fullmer said:
I have to say David, I was VERY unimpressed by the trailers. I thought the rendering style was hideous, absolutely awful. But the movie feels nothing like the previews looked like. The movie felt very real
ChrisWell, I guess I am going to have to think about it, cuz just watching that little blurb above didn't give me a whole lot of confidence. . . and it wasn't really about the CG as much as the awful acting and clunky story. . . A bit heavy handed on the Holy Mother Planet thing. . . .
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I agree that Avatar is motion capture finally done right.
However, I have a bad feeling about this other motion capture project...
@unknownuser said:
Robert Zemeckis will be directing a performance capture 3D adaptation of the 1968 film Yellow Submarine, which will include 16 licensed Beatles songs.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/09/11/disney-confirms-robert-zemeckis-3d-yellow-submarine/
Watching motion-captured blue aliens is one thing, as we don't have real blue aliens around as a point of reference, but... The Beatles?
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This from the "Totally Unnecessary Remakes File". . . why don't they just digitally remake the Beatles--and let them go back on tour and re-do the Ed Sullivan Show and all that stuff. After all 2 are gone and Paul and Ringo are way past***"When I'm 64"***
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There are two good remakes to be released this year, firstly we have 'Clash of the Titans' which by the previews looks like a CG feast, definitely a must see.
Then from the guys that made 'Gladiator', will now be doing 'Robin Hood', and yes Russel Crowe is Robin Hood, I'm seriously looking forward to this, if it's anything as good a Gladiator it will be the big one this year. -
I don't know about that one Pete. It's hard to think of anybody else but Kevin Costner in the Role. -
Well, Gladiator also had some issues but yeah, I know I am a bit picky on this as it's my "profession" so to say...
BTW that initial scene and the death of Marcus Aurelius took place in "my province"
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@unknownuser said:
I don't know about that one Pete. It's hard to think of anybody else but Kevin Costner in the Role
I must admit he did play a good Robin Hood, and having Morgan Freeman in support was a bonus, not to mention the best Sheriff played by Alan Rickman (one of my fave obscure actors)
From what I see this one is more gritty, violent, Gladiator like, they have also done some serious research apparently, getting it historically correct(based on the time period and not the legend). -
I was totally joking.. . .For me there's only one Robin Hood. . .Errol Flynn. 1938
Olivia de Haviland, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone. CLASSIC!!!
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I think this is one is the best...
ahh Russel Crowe in tights.....what a gay thought
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@marian said:
I think this is one is the best...
ahh Russel Crowe in tights.....what a gay thought
LOL....Robin Hood and his "merry" men running around in the woods .... surely someone has made a gay parody of this tale.
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***We're men, we're men in tights.
We roam around the forest looking for fights.
We're men, we're men in tights.
We rob from the rich and give to the poor, that's right!
We may look like sissies, but watch what you say or else we'll put out your lights!
We're men, we're men in tights,
Always on guard defending the people's rights.We're men, MANLY men, we're men in tights.
[Gay voice] Yes!
We roam around the forest looking for fights.
We're men, we're men in tights.
We rob from the rich and give to the poor, that's right!
We may look like pansies, but don't get us wrong or else we'll put out your lights.
We're men, we're men in tights
[High Voice] TIGHT Tights
Always on guard defending the people's rights.
When you're in a fix just call for the men in tights!WE'RE BUTCH!***
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I guess the thread really hasn't changed course because correct me if I am wrong. . .don't the tall naked Blue people in AVATAR shoot bows and arrows too?
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Only arrows, Davit (withthe bows)
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Solo,
Alan Rickman an obscure actor? Not in the UK!
A clip from the superb Truly, Madly, Deeply with Juliet Stevenson. Rickman plays a ghost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll37xdj8rpU
Regards,
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My children knew him as Professor Snape. But for me it is his Star making turn as the baddie Hans Gruber in DIE HARD. He stole the show from Bruce
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Watkins, my referance to him being obscure comes from my exposure to American Television, we/they only really see him in small rolls like the Sheriff in Robin Hood, the villain in Die hard, the cheating husband in love Actually, etc.
But I'm sure he does a lot move work in the UK, I watch a lot of BBC dramas on Netflix instant (My wife is a BBC drama addict who strangely enough thinks he is hot, but then again she also thinks Willem Dafoe is hot)I heard that he was supposed to be the main character for the BBC detective Drama ' Wire in the Blood' but refused it in the end, I think that role would have been perfect for him.
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My wife loves him because he was the Dashing Colonel Brantley in Emma Thompson's Sense and Sensibility.
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I saw the movie last week and it was fabulous....not just the 3D but also the modeling is superb.
Makes Sketchup look a bit pale
A friend asked me if she would be able to see the 3D effects as she has only 5% visibility in her right eye (virtually blind on one side).
I forgot to try and close 1 eye to check if the 3D would still be there.So if one you guys here go and see it, could you check that for me?
Much appreciated.It would be a pitty to drag her along to the movie theatre when she can't fully enjoy it.
My guess is that she won't be able to see it, as the 3D probably works by projecting two different images on the two eyes (left and right, 90° rotated shutterglass),tricking the brain to interpret it as 3D..... -
Hi Chris,
I had cataract on both of my eyes. One was operated in 2006 (actually, when on sick leave, I got acquainted with SU) and the other one this last December (on this, I was almost completely blind already, too).
I know that my space feeling was very bad with one eye and I did not forget to check it out closing one eye what it would have been like before the operation.
Not only you cannot see the 3D effect at all but although these glasses are not those old, cheap ones, when you watch the movie without them or just one eye, the edges are hazy and some weird coloured still. So it is very bothering also, not only she couldn't enjoy the extra.
She could watch it in a "traditional", 2D movie however.
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