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Message in a Battle

Posted by michael on from the jar-jar dept.

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.

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  1. Re:You know... things just don't amaze me. by ozbon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Personally, I think Gollum was utterly believable within the scope of LOTR. OK, not human - but the interaction with surroundings, the characterisation, all seemed pretty much perfect.

    Dobby the House Elf in Harry Potter was ground-breaking, but Gollum seems to be a whole generation above that.

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    I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
  2. Re:You know... things just don't amaze me. by bugbread · · Score: 3, Informative

    Interesting aside:

    One of the frequent dangers of car accidents is that people will pull an accident victim from their car, assuming it will blow up (as they've seen it a billion times in the movies). Properly aerating and dispersing gasoline such that it is explosive is pretty rare in car accidents, though, and the much greater danger is that a person with spine injuries will be further injured by...people pulling them out of the car.