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Posted by BlisTer on Mon Nov 28th at 1:54pm 2005

UD, i see your point about the role Bloom had to play in KOH. Yes he started out as a mere young blacksmith and i agree he played that part decently, but the whole point of the movie IMO was that he transformed into this charismatic "king" (because he had it in him through his father) that his ppl would follow into battle like, indeed, in gladiator or even in alexander or king arthur.

At the end of the movie, where he speeched to his ppl to fight, i just wasnt convinced, i thought it was laughable.

Roles like in LOTR or in Troy are good for him, not the roles where he has to be charismatic at one point.




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Posted by French Toast on Mon Nov 28th at 2:58pm 2005

He makes agood elf because he's feminine and wimpy. He made me angry in Troy and Pirates of the Caribean. He dilevers every single line exactly the same. It's the same emotionless emotion with the same sound... GOD it's annoying.




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Posted by Underdog on Tue Nov 29th at 3:32am 2005

Just watched Madagascar. (I think thats how its spelled)

Anyway, it just replaced The Incredibles as my favorite cartoon. Its so full of subliminal humor I was in pain the whole time from laughing.

Watch it people and know true humor.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Nov 29th at 3:47am 2005

Have you seen Finding Nemo yet? I loved the Incredibles but I still think Finding Nemo was better. I haven't seen Madagascar yet but I'd like to.




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Posted by Gaara on Tue Nov 29th at 9:56am 2005

I can't find Chasing Amy. Orlando Bloom was in KOH? Didn't even notice. Good thing I didn't because every time I do notice him a little voice in the back of my head says sissy elf must die. Also, has anyone seen The Corpse Bride? If so, is it 3D made to look like clay or is it clay with computer effects applied or just ordinary clay? Couldn't tell because only saw for a second in a preview.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue Nov 29th at 1:27pm 2005

Well, if Tim Buton did it the same way as he did Nightmare Before Christmas, then he has a wall full of little clay interchangeable heads with different expressions that he uses stop motion to switch and animate.

Ahah, I was right. A quick search of www.imdb.com trivia revealed this:

? quoting www.IMDB.com:
  • The puppets were made from stainless steel armatures covered with silicone skin.
  • The first stop-motion feature to be edited using Apple's Final Cut Pro.
  • As an indication of the painstaking nature of stop-motion animation, it took the animators 28 separate shots to make the bride blink.
  • The puppets used neither of the industry standards of replaceable heads (like those used on The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)) or replaceable mouths (like those used by Aardman Studios in Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)) but instead used precision crafted clockwork heads, adjusted by hidden keys. This allowed for unprecedented subtlety, but was apparently even more painstaking than the already notoriously arduous animation. One animator even reported having recurring nightmares of adjusting his own facial expression in this fashion.
  • Small moving elements, such as candle flames, were photographed in MiniDV.






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Posted by Crono on Tue Nov 29th at 6:28pm 2005

I know they used A LOT of CG in that movie too. Probably for making things smooth, shadows, and junk. Some of those shots would be impossible otherwise.


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Posted by Underdog on Wed Nov 30th at 2:06am 2005

Just got back from Potter 4. First and foremost, I am glad I went. I would suggest that if you have not read the book yet, watch the movie first. They omitted so many key elements and rewrote so many scenes that it only resembles the story in the book. Its not a bad movie but in parts where I know this or that was coming, it never did, and other places I was wondering "where the heck did that come from?"

Anyway, the book was a 10/10, the movie maybe a 7/10 in comparison.

I would say that 70-80% of the book is missing. Many,many key elements are gone and some pertain to part #5. I wonder how they will fill them in in the next movie.




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Posted by Underdog on Fri Dec 9th at 10:45pm 2005

Just watched "Fantastic four"

It stayed amazingly true to the comics and for a group of relatively unknown actors, they did a very good job.




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Posted by ReNo on Sat Dec 10th at 1:55am 2005

Watched a Japanese movie called "Casshern" this evening, and while I enjoyed it for the most part, it really went on and on at points. Often scenes would linger for far too long, and the entire ending sequence which felt like it went on forever didn't really impress me. The first hour or so is certainly the best part of the movie, and while the action scenes are pretty cool in places, they aren't really anything worth shouting about. Check if out if you like CG intensive movies though, as there is plenty of it on show here.




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Posted by Underdog on Sat Dec 10th at 2:23am 2005

Just finished "March of the Penguins"

Very good movie if you are into documentaries.




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Posted by Crono on Wed Dec 14th at 12:33pm 2005

KING KONG

I love you Peter Jackson. <3

I don't even know what to say. See it. You wont notice that it's 3 hours and 7 minutes.

One thing I've noticed in some movies (King Kong, Hulk, etc) is the animated characters in the movie look so much better than the real actors. I'm thinking it's a combination of things, like the film stock, or the fact that Kong was always digital. Not sure, but it's just an odd feeling to watch a film and go, "That person looks fake", when the fake character looks more real than anything else on the screen.

Needless to say, that'll happen a few times when you watch this.

Also, Andy Serkis does a fantastic job ... as usual. How many other actors out there can really put digital performances on their resume? Because, he's got two as it is.


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Dec 14th at 4:18pm 2005

Isn't this movie, like Skycaptain and the World of Tomorrow, mostly digital backgrounds? Couldn't that be why the "real" people look odd?

Edit: I thought I seen something on TV along the lines of that. It was about how they digitally edited all the skyline shots of New York City to make sure it was as historically accurate as possible. They mentioned Skycaptain, but I took it a little too far.




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Posted by Crono on Wed Dec 14th at 8:45pm 2005

No.


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Posted by Underdog on Thu Dec 15th at 9:43pm 2005

Just finished watching "Steamboy" .

It was, unique.




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Posted by ReNo on Thu Dec 15th at 11:29pm 2005

Whats the point in posting if that's all you're gonna say about it :P




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Posted by Underdog on Thu Dec 15th at 11:33pm 2005

? quoting ReNo
Whats the point in posting if that's all you're gonna say about it

Apparently you didn't notice the post directly above mine. It contains only one word. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">

Seriously, I don't really know how to classify that movie but I bet someone might so I posted it. Perhaps someone else saw it too?

Now that I think about it, at least my post was about the movie. Yours was about me. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">




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Posted by ReNo on Thu Dec 15th at 11:45pm 2005

Only because I wanted to know a bit more about it than "unique" - it's a movie I'd be interested in seeing, you see <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> And Crono's post answered a question, in an almost rudely succinct way I must say, but it still fulfilled its purpose <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Posted by Underdog on Thu Dec 15th at 11:59pm 2005

Truly, I don't know what to say. It is really out there IMO. It seems to be made by some oriental company because all of the credits were in either Chinese or Japanese.

I have never seen anything like it before. It was good, but other than that...

I suppose the best piece of advice I can give you is, "Watch it and decide for yourself"

Sorry.




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Posted by French Toast on Fri Dec 16th at 2:29am 2005

Just watched the Island. I thought it was going to be kinda bad, but I ended up loving it. It's kinda predictable, but it still has its moments.

Watch it, but only if you've already seen King Kong. See that first.





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