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Message in a Battle
The WP has a tale titled The Messages in a Battle about the recent growth of computer-generated battle scenes in movies, now that you don't have to pay all those extras. RotK clearly wouldn't have been much of a movie if the battle scenes hadn't been so good.
"..While the battle scenes were very eye appealing, I think that all of the actors did a wonderful job..."
Yeah, the orc 300th in from the left of the screen did an awesome job - definitely a star of the future.
You wasted your karma bonus on _THAT_????
We have all these movies now where CG-generated characters are used to fight and kill each other in every gory fashion imaginable, but why don't we have any movies where thousands of people get together and make love, not war? A massive orgy comprising of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, CG-generated characters in the scope and scale of Lord of the Rings would be an unforgettable moment in moviemaking history. Perhaps it would inspire the nations of Europe to solve their rapid depopulation problem -- we could have a summer of love all over again.
I was quite disappointed when that scene in the Matrix 2 turned out to be a mere scantily clad rave in a cave, all done with paid actors.
RotK clearly wouldn't have been much of a movie if the battle scenes hadn't been so good.
Duh. And in other news, Titanic wouldn't have been much of a movie if the ship hadn't sunk, Pearl Harbor wouldn't have been much of a movie if the Japanese hadn't attacked and X-Men would have been pretty bad if none of the characters had special powers.
Sure, there are a couple of hobbits winding their way to Mount Doom but Lord Of The Rings was always about epic battles - it's a bit hard to have an ultimate "good vs evil" struggle without a major conflict or two.
When people talk about these movies, they they talk about the battles within the mines of Moria, at Helm's Deep, at Isengard, and at Minas Tirith. They don't talk about Gandalf's fireworks at the Shire, or Frodo vs Gollum at the volcano's mouth. It's the major fight scenes that get us talking and it's those fight scenes where the real money is spent.
Of course Return Of The King wouldn't have been much of a movie if the battle scenes hadn't been so good. Neither would any major sci-fi or fantasy film you care to mention if equally bereft of seriously meaty action. Duh.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Your use. . . :P
You are an asshole.
eh... What does the C stand for?... Computer. Hmmm, what does the G stand for?... Generated.
Hmmm, what does the I stand for?... Idiot.
I know you are psychotic, but please make an effort.
UNUSED AUDIO COMMENTARY BY HOWARD ZINN AND NOAM CHOMSKY, RECORDED SUMMER 2002, FOR THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Platinum Series Extended Edition)DVD, Part One
Part Two
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It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Camera zooms in on and swoops past the walls of Helms Deep, which is full of 'orcs' that look suspicious like cardboard standees. The orcs stand side by side, leaving an empty space in the middle of the crowd. At one end stands Aragorn, sword in hand, wearing a long black tunic. At the other end, stands the King Orc, clearly identifiable by the saucy party hat he wears.
Aragorn: It ends tonight.
King Orc:I know it does. We already know I'm the one who beats you. That's why the rest of us are just going to enjoy the show. Grrgh.
They they fight, in a big battle scene would be ludicrously expensive if not for the fact Sam's head is in the way of the camera so only the occasional 'You swine!' is heard. A few moments later, Aragorneo's victory cry is heard. Close up on a shot of the Orc's party hat drifting poignantly to the ground. End scene.
If action puts you to sleep, then don't plan on having kids...
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Heh, not shit. I was waiting for one of those poor defenders of Minas Tirith to turn over and patch up his battered skull with some freshly liberated orc-brain.
Star? Cobblers. He left his wristwatch on, which is clearly visible for 0.5 of a second using the zoom feature of my Supa DVD player. And he doesn't even exist!
Admit it... what you really wanted to say was:
You are an asshole
Yeah, but what would your first reaction be to seeing something as big as the oliphaunts?
"Oh shit!"
or
"Charge!"
You got RotK on DVD? -cough-piracy-cough-
but that's what i call realism... they even rendered wristwatches for the computer generated orcs. artificial bloopers, a concept of the future indeed!
that's worth a patent
it's not about mimicking reality, it's about believability
Back in my day all the special effects were done by puppets, and we liked it!
The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.
Wasnt Dobby in Lord of the Rings?
Who is this gollum you speak of?
(hah if you say that at the theatres these days you will get attacked by a swarm of 12 year olds dresssed as orcs)
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
A few months ago, I was in my local theater waiting for the movie to start. The lights dim. The screen flickers. And where we usually start with a selection of previews for movies the studios would like us to see... I was treated to 20 mins of commercials (another rant for a different time).
At the tail end of these commercials was a heartening look at an industry stuntman. He talked about movies. He talked about his work. He talked about the risks he and his fellow stuntmen take to bring us exciting action in the movies. And he warned us that when we download a movie, we're stealing from him. Yep. Download a movie and you've all but made his work... his risks... his sacrifice worthless.
The message is clear. The MPAA wants us to know that downloading movies eliminates jobs. It hurts people like this particular stuntman. It takes away his job. Downloading is theft.
Of course, we have to wonder what this stuntman thinks about the massive battle scenes in the Lord of the Rings series. Sure. Motion capture plays a heavy part in the current technology. But you only need so many stuntment in a digital studio to generate the data needed for that. And what about the day when motion capture is no longer needed - when the actions of generic stunts have been long since captured, added to a database, and available on CDROM/DVD for a few hundred dollars? What happens to the job of the noble stuntman?
It seems that CGI too, is theft.
Or not.
Though I think I'm the only one who got it.
Had Tony Hawk done it, I'll bet half the /. crew would've shouted, "AWESOME, DUDE!"
/. crew would've shouted "That's easy, you just hold down left and triangle after an ollie"
Nah, half the
Not to pick nits, but you're complaining that a ghost army doesn't look real? Hmm...how does a real ghost army look? :)
Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS.
Plenty of the top 250 have NO CGI.
Little known fact: In "Citizen Kane," the sled was entirely computer-generated.
(Virtually all movies pre-date computer special effects technology, you moron.)
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