Comments on: Tuesday's Nerd News Top 5

By: movies #14

movies #14 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:27:15 +0000

movies #14...

Your topic Mr. Big Dubya: Trackback::Working Without a Net Since 2005 was interesting when I found it on Sunday searching for movies #14...

By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:32:49 +0000

@lostepic - then you'd better not have a 5-year-old girl. Mine is WAY too into these moderately bad mocap CG Barbie Fairy Tale movies.

By: lostepic

lostepic — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:12:13 +0000

I love CG. I just dont like a film to be bloated with it or watch a film were a director is addicted to CGI and that is all he wants to do. "cough" Lucas "cough". LOTR was a beautiful combination, the first two specificaly, of CGI and old fashioned tricks and techniques. I love CGI when if fits and is in its proper place, not so much because the director wants to pass it off because its too difficult a shot. Pixar can not be included because thats what they do. Pixar is awesome. Its computer animation. If you look at Pixar history they have come a long way but they are not in the same room as Lucas' "mickey mouse". I reconize completely the beginning of bringing a proper balance between the two. . Now if we can keep another crappy motion capture from being made. I like motion capture, I just think nothing beats the close ups of real actors.

By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0000

@lostepic - for what it's worth, there's a movement here among some younger directors and VFX supervisors to do as much in-camera as possible and use CG for elements only for what can't be done. Look at Chris Nolan with Batman or even Jackson's LOTR movies. There's something amazing about doing it in-camera. Of course, then we have the opposite extreme with guys like Zach Snyder and Pixar directors who try to push the CG as far as possible - but generally that means creating stylized worlds, not trying to recreate reality. I have to admit, as a nerd, I really love both ideologies. One is retro-cool and the other is geek art.

By: lostepic

lostepic — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:24:04 +0000

@dennitzio: awesome right!?! The creativity that was involved in creating some of the techniques in film, before CGI started to try to take the glory, is just amazing.

By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:46:15 +0000

Duvateen. Second most important wonderful substance on a film set, just before black wrap and just after black gaff tape. Black cloth that magically absorbs light.

By: anon76

anon76 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:53:59 +0000

C'mon Grossman! I know its summer, but I've still got work to blow off. Throw us a bone already!

By: lostepic

lostepic — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:29:11 +0000

To buy or not to buy Watchmen. Its not the special edition with the black frieghter on the dvd that Snyder said he would make. But perhaps that will come out later like all marketing schemes. Its has Snyders touch on it. All style and no substance. It wasnt nearly as good as the graphic novel and scene for scene, shot for shot style of adaptations is starting to make me sick. But it was still fairly good adaptation for a story that isnt primarly a action story like it was promoted to be. Regardless of its flaws I will most likely still get it. Did I hear correctly? Is Snyder going to make his "own" movie with original material not just a remake or adaptation? Of course the question is, is the material original.

By: Church

Church — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:41:45 +0000

Speaking of The Pirate Bay...

By: Kemper

Kemper — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:39:42 +0000

@ anon76 - I'm just bitter that Church beat me to that one...