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Re: Roger Ebert is wrong!

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In Reply to: Roger Ebert is wrong! posted by TAFKA Steve on July 14, 2001 at 11:04:30:

I think an important point is our brains capacity to disengage from monitoring imperfect visuals. I have not seen the movie but believe everyone that it is a bad one. The point is that the bad movie never engaged us enough to stop looking at the animation. In a bad movie, we tend to stare at the screen looking for interesting thing and not engage in the plot. Cats & Dogs was like this for me. My kids laughed while I got so bored I can't even tell you what the plot is. I started at the screen looking closely at the animations and spotting for errors on the screen. I could say the animation was bad, but really everything else was bad.
Compare FF to Shrek. Shrek is not a great movie but better (I think) than FF. Shrek engaged me enough to stop thinking about the animation and that fact that Shrek was green and not very realistic. He was a character that engaged me. So my brain accepted shrek as a live character because everything else carried me there.
This effect is not limited to animation. Think of the last time you thought 'Hey, there is Sean Connery" in a movie (this happens to me in every Harrison Ford movie after the first SW, I can't seem to force him into any character). If the character is not hiding the player or the plot/script is not shielding the player, you cannot engage in the story or plot. Every mis-queue or bad shot sticks out.
In contrast, think of the last time your spouse asked what your thought of XX, and you said you did not notice he/she was in the movie. Your brain never took them out of character.
I think this FF style of animation has a future and we will be seeing more of it. But it will require support from a script and directors/technicians to convince us the characters are real.
P

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Topic - Roger Ebert is wrong! - TAFKA Steve 11:04:30 07/14/01 (12)

Re: Roger Ebert is wrong! - Pjay 14:01:49 07/18/01 (0)

What seemed strange to me.... - Joe S 13:40:30 07/17/01 (0)

Keanu Reeves... - Rich 14:24:44 07/16/01 (4)

Good Lord - is Keanu Reeves an actor ... - TG 00:33:51 07/17/01 (1)

LOL... - Rich 12:30:24 07/17/01 (0)

Yup... - TAFKA Steve 17:09:44 07/16/01 (0)

"Experts said that digital would never sound as good as analog." - clarkjohnsen 10:55:17 07/16/01 (0)

Re: "Experts said that digital would never sound as good as analog." - Ishmael 16:29:03 07/31/01 (0)

Re: Roger Ebert is wrong! - SR 15:47:42 07/14/01 (2)

U miss his point - Mellson 00:27:22 07/31/01 (0)

Re: Good point! - Randy Bey 10:34:34 07/15/01 (0)

Re: Roger Ebert is wrong! - caa 15:37:45 07/14/01 (2)

hey, i used to play Go all the time - late 21:18:39 07/14/01 (1)

Re: hey, i used to play Go all the time - caa 21:48:18 07/15/01 (0)

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