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Massive Two Towers Battle

Posted by timothy on from the looks-impressive dept.

ShadowLight writes ""In December vast hordes of eager filmgoers will mob cineplexes across the land and witness, at the climax of The Two Towers, one of the most anticipated scenes in recent movie history: the great Battle of Helm's Deep." This article talks about the software, named Massive, used to create this 50,000 creature battle."

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  1. Re:I only hope..... by Kintanon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What kind of anal retentive dick head even NOTICES this shit?! No offense to you personally since I doubt you noticed these during the movie, but looked them up later. But WHO sees the movie the first time through and sees shit like this without having purposely looking for it?! My GOODNESS people! You're complaining that a FUCKING ELF didn't have as many arrows in his quiver as you think he shot, and that HOBBITS aren't 100% fixed in size (WTF did you do? Get a fucking ruler and measure the size of everything on the screen and calculate?!) get a fucking LIFE!!

    Kintanon

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  2. Re:BFD. by no+reason+to+be+here · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you are lowbrow. you are also cultureless. i hope one day you come to realize the error of your ways.

    sometimes the journey is more important than the destination.

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  3. they're all about reinforcments. by ArmorFiend · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The good reason is that, if I recall correctly (and I'm not positive I do), the three major battles in the Lord of the Rings are different: the Battle of Helm's Deep is about holding on with no reinforcements coming, the battle at Minas Tirith is heavy on Nazgul and is about holding out til reinforcements come, and the final battle is about dying valiantly in an effort to delay Sauron until Frodo can destroy the ring. So they do have different feels.

    Helm's Deep is about holding out until the Ents come. Minas Tirith is about holding out till Rohan comes, then holding out some more till Aragorn comes with the reserves of Gondor. The final battle is about holding out till the Eagles come, and holding out some more till Frodo sneaks up under sauron and bites off his 'nads. Eeew.

    But you're right in the larger sense that they do have different feels.

  4. Re:The AI used by Control42 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That really does sound very French-like.