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The final Potter film will be truer to the source material than the other films? Pfft. If there is ANY of the books that could use a little pruning, it's the final one. I mean, come on; it's two and a half hours of bitchy teens camping out in drizzly woods.
Ok, I've never actually watched Smallville - SPACE (Canada's SyFy) shows repeats of the current episodes at 6am on Mondays (when I'm usually at the gym.)
I've gotta ask - does that fellow (Oliver? from the sub-titles) actually OWN a shirt?
@EdificeComplex: I just love this show in general. So far the only thing I have whined about was what they did with the Trickster. I would have liked it better if he had really been Loki.
@LittleDragon: The whole Loki thing didn't bother me too much. The way they dealt with who he actually was fits with the show's established mythology, I think. So far, IIRC, all the demi-god level characters have been from the Christian mythos. Although if they did open up the show to deities from other religious pantheons, it would allow for some great new story-lines. Potential Season 6???
@EdificeComplex: I am for any thing that gets us a season 6. The five demi-gods that I can think of are the harvest scary crow, the winter time human eaters, the fan eater, and the trickster. Where do the other four fit into christian mythos? I am not arguing, I just don't know. Can't remember enough of my sunday school.
@LittleDragon: "harvest scary crow, the winter time human eaters, the fan eater"
Oh, you're right. Scratch what I said in my previous post then. It's been a while since I watched the previous seasons, and I tend to wipe anything with Paris Hilton from my memory. Time to break out the DVD sets again.
@EdificeComplex: I thought was missing some connections. Semi-photographic memories come in handy when obsessing about a favorite tv show. I would have glazed the PH as well but there were some good Dean/Sam moments. Some may think its sacrilege, but I thought it was great when Gandhi attacks Sam.
The first time I consciously started noticing, what I now know as the concept of the Uncanny Valley [en.wikipedia.org] , was after reading an article about the 1986 'Betty Blue' [en.wikipedia.org] actress, Beatrice Dalle, in which the interviewer described her as "looking like she had been designed by a committee of perverts".
If her life story since [en.wikipedia.org] , is anything to go by, the future may turn out to be very, very, uncanny indeed ...
The thing that bothered me the most about that Matrix Reloaded fight scene was how boring it was. I kept thinking how it should be exciting, only it wasn't.
The real Hugo Weaving is far more effective than a bunch of fake Mr Smiths.
That's one of the interesting things about Avatar's CGI vs the scary CGI depicted here. The Na'Vi don't look terribly creepy or unreal. They don't give me nightmares like Benjamin "Does This Composited CGI Old Baby Head Look Real To You?" Button.
@firstanointed: Funny you say that, because the Na'vi are part of what make me unsure about Avatar. They don't look the right amount of real compared to the amazing backgrounds that are Pandora. I guess that puts them in the uncanny valley for me.
the Orville Redenbacher spots were done to test the tech for Benjamin Button...
Zemeckis should have abandoned the method he (and others) uses because it's totally outclassed by what was used for BB and on Avatar...see Dr. Manhattan vs. Benjamin Button...
a better kid is the one in A Series of Horrible Events - a bunch of shots are 100% CG and they looked great...
better de-aging was done in Benjamin Button...but the X-Men 3 stuff was a good, if not entirely sucessful, attempt.
The Beatle and Sunmaid don't really blong here as they are clearly stylized...
there is a big difference between bad CG and badly done CG...
@goldfarb: Yeah but I don't count a grid warp covering up a wrinkle as "CG" I count it as an extreme case of touch-up. When I think CGI I think of something like Button with a full CG head replacement.
The Beatles Rockband graphics are horrifying. They look like dead-eyed puppets and it freaks me the hell out.
I wish the entire game was in the same style as the opening/closing cinematic. They could have made something really unique and special, instead of 3D marionettes creepily miming the Beatles.
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I SMELL OSCAR
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I've already seen that once and hated it in "The Blair Witch Project." No need to see it again.
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I've gotta ask - does that fellow (Oliver? from the sub-titles) actually OWN a shirt?
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Oh, you're right. Scratch what I said in my previous post then. It's been a while since I watched the previous seasons, and I tend to wipe anything with Paris Hilton from my memory. Time to break out the DVD sets again.
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Awesome.
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That's mean. Bay films have scripts. It's just 90 pages of "BOOM!" "BLAM!" and "I'm too old for this shit."
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also lol @ heroes. THIS DEATH STICKS.. well until next season
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If her life story since [en.wikipedia.org] , is anything to go by, the future may turn out to be very, very, uncanny indeed ...
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The real Hugo Weaving is far more effective than a bunch of fake Mr Smiths.
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Zemeckis should have abandoned the method he (and others) uses because it's totally outclassed by what was used for BB and on Avatar...see Dr. Manhattan vs. Benjamin Button...
a better kid is the one in A Series of Horrible Events - a bunch of shots are 100% CG and they looked great...
better de-aging was done in Benjamin Button...but the X-Men 3 stuff was a good, if not entirely sucessful, attempt.
The Beatle and Sunmaid don't really blong here as they are clearly stylized...
there is a big difference between bad CG and badly done CG...
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I wish the entire game was in the same style as the opening/closing cinematic. They could have made something really unique and special, instead of 3D marionettes creepily miming the Beatles.
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