Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow

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MournSanity

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Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
I don't like the way they did the color in it. Some crap is B/W and some is in color. Pick one damn't.
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It's supposed to look like a serial.
 
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RudeBoie

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Originally posted by: hypersonic5
Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
I don't like the way they did the color in it. Some crap is B/W and some is in color. Pick one damn't.
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It's supposed to look like a serial.
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And THAT is what interests me.
 
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thedarkwolf

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I get why they are doing the color thing, I just don't want to watch an hour and a half of it. Its annoying.
 
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Kelvrick

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Iono, but they can't screw it up as much as bourne 2. God damn, the director had to be smoking something. Even closeup shots to a picture frame had to bounce up and down as if you were in a high speed chase.
 
sandorski

sandorski

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The Title makes me suspicious. It's likely a crappy movie trying to evoke the Master and Commander surprise karma of last year. Translation: "the Movie sucks, let's sublimally suggest it's last years surprise. "
 
rudder

rudder

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Originally posted by: hypersonic5
Originally posted by: Choralone
Originally posted by: hypersonic5
Originally posted by: Choralone
By the trailers it looked to me like 95% of the movie was CGI. I don't know if I could handle that or not. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm just about CGI'd out. Otherwise it looks interesting. I'll have to see what the reviews and some of my friends say first.
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Everything is CGI. The only thing real in the movie are the actors. The whole movie was shot against bluescreen.

And yes, the movie looks freaking awesome.
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Well in that case bleh! I'm really tired of CGI everything in action movies. What's the point anymore if all the actors have to do is act in front of a screen. That's not movie making, that's like making a video game. Kind of reminds me of all those lame FMV games of the mid 90's.
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CGI is just a tool to make movies easier. Watch this movie and you will realize why they chose to do it all in CGI.
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CGI is ruining movies. Just go watch Aliens. If they made that movie today I bet it would not nearly have the impact that it had when it first came out. To many movie makers rely on CGI. The Hulk comes to mind. They might as well made that movie completely on the PC.
 
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SaltBoy

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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Angelina Jolie's character is a good guy, shes the partner of ewan mcgregor.
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It's actually Jude Law, but you knew who you were talking about. ;)

 
Mr.IncrediblyBored

Mr.IncrediblyBored

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Jun 18, 2000
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Originally posted by: rudder
CGI is ruining movies. Just go watch Aliens. If they made that movie today I bet it would not nearly have the impact that it had when it first came out. To many movie makers rely on CGI. The Hulk comes to mind. They might as well made that movie completely on the PC.
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What a load of crap. You see so much CGI in movies because we finally have the technology to incorporate it with a reasonable level of realism, in situations that were previously impossible using live actors. You bring up the Hulk as an example of overused CGI. How the hell were they supposed to make a Hulk movie without massive amounts of CGI? Maybe they should have brought back Lou Ferrigno like the 80's TV show :roll:.
 
rudder

rudder

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Originally posted by: KnightBreed
Originally posted by: rudder
CGI is ruining movies. Just go watch Aliens. If they made that movie today I bet it would not nearly have the impact that it had when it first came out. To many movie makers rely on CGI. The Hulk comes to mind. They might as well made that movie completely on the PC.
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What a load of crap. You see so much CGI in movies because we finally have the technology to incorporate it with a reasonable level of realism, in situations that were previously impossible using live actors. You bring up the Hulk as an example of overused CGI. How the hell were they supposed to make a Hulk movie without massive amounts of CGI? Maybe they should have brought back Lou Ferrigno like the 80's TV show :roll:.
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They should have made the movie exclusivley cgi. It looked ridiculous. Maybe thats why it bombed at the box office. As I mentioned Aliens, I knew the creatures were just basically puppets, but their presence did not distract from the movie. Now I see a cgi created monster in a movie and it just seems to distract from the movie. Some movies ,like lord of the rings, can get a way with that because of the rich story, most other movies can't.
 
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gotsmack

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CGI has come a long way. In a few more years I bet you won't even be able to tell.
 
Mr.IncrediblyBored

Mr.IncrediblyBored

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Jun 18, 2000
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Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: KnightBreed
Originally posted by: rudder
CGI is ruining movies. Just go watch Aliens. If they made that movie today I bet it would not nearly have the impact that it had when it first came out. To many movie makers rely on CGI. The Hulk comes to mind. They might as well made that movie completely on the PC.
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What a load of crap. You see so much CGI in movies because we finally have the technology to incorporate it with a reasonable level of realism, in situations that were previously impossible using live actors. You bring up the Hulk as an example of overused CGI. How the hell were they supposed to make a Hulk movie without massive amounts of CGI? Maybe they should have brought back Lou Ferrigno like the 80's TV show :roll:.
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They should have made the movie exclusivley cgi. It looked ridiculous. Maybe thats why it bombed at the box office. As I mentioned Aliens, I knew the creatures were just basically puppets, but their presence did not distract from the movie. Now I see a cgi created monster in a movie and it just seems to distract from the movie. Some movies ,like lord of the rings, can get a way with that because of the rich story, most other movies can't.
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I disagree. I loved the CGI in Hulk and thought it was perfectly integrated into the scenes - as perfect as current technology will allow, anyway. Sure it looked ridiculous in the sense that you have a huge green monster jumping miles at a time, but that's how the storyline goes. If you go into the movie expecting any else, you only have yourself to blame. Hulk bombed at the box office, not because of the CGI, but because of the questionable pacing/dialogue/cinematography. The CGI was one of the few things that received praise.

As was mentioned before, CGI is mearly a tool. Used properly it can compliment a good story, but it cannot be used to overcome shoddy directing.
 
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Goosemaster

Lifer
Apr 10, 2001
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Originally posted by: CombatChuk
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: hypersonic5
Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
I don't like the way they did the color in it. Some crap is B/W and some is in color. Pick one damn't.
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It's supposed to look like a serial.
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serial?
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I think surreal
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hehe...I was like "barcodes....dogtags...wtf is wrong with me..I should know this :| "


<---sometimes aks like a foo and believes the ignorant masses :(
 
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BullsOnParade

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i was thinking more disney tailspin. Though the movie was a lot of fun, I'm really a big fan of the big industrial age scifi plots.

 
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psiu

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Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Angelina Jolie's character is a good guy, shes the partner of ewan mcgregor.
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It's actually Jude Law, but you knew who you were talking about. ;)
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I remember seeing a preview for it like a year or two ago, and thinking it was Ewan McGregor. Even though I know it's Jude Law, watching the commercials it still looks and sounds like Obi-wan.

After looking at Yahoo movies, I guess he doesn't look like Ewan, but the quick shots in the commercials, especially with the costuming, make it hard to tell.
 
Triumph

Triumph

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Oct 9, 1999
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - Worst title ever. They could've come up with something better than that.

And I too can't stand the overuse of CGI. It was one half of what was wrong with Episodes 1 and 2. (the other half being the completely horrible storyline, acting, and characters)
 
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