Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Cosmic Closet (A) on September 15, 2009 at 18:34:28

In Reply to: RE: Real beats FX bullshit EVERY time. That's why "2001" makes a mockery of "Star Wars." posted by tinear on September 07, 2009 at 18:53:51

Hundreds (or thousands) of extras add a weight to a scene no digital anything can touch. Because even if you know nothing about filmmaking, you ultimately know what reality looks like. And you react to it.

"War and Peace" (The Russian original) has this in spades. It is not the greatest film ever made, but the battle scenes have rarely, if ever, been equalled, simply because they used uncountable numbers of Russian soldiers as extras, and the images of them stretched to the horizon, doing battle will never be mistaken for someone cloning people at a computer.

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