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Jazz Inmate

In Reply to: RE: NO NO NO! posted by patrickU on June 30, 2008 at 01:05:44

But Patrick, CGI was common before LOTR. Blue screen tricks were being used even in the early '90s for films such as Jurassic Park and to put Clint Eastwood in JFK footage for "In the Line of Fire". Then a never-ending stream of crap was produced that had no story but just an excuse for CGI effects--dragons and such. What LOTR added was an epic storyline and humongous battle sequences. This did have an effect on the movies that followed, but LOTR was not the progenitor for all CGI, as you seem to think.
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RE: yes yes yes! - patrickU 09:57:05 06/30/08 (2)
Not the progenitor no, but cher Jazz, the dam that break free.
I think Bambi B has put into words ( that courageous guy ) the essential...
AND it is also a question of dosage...
" Mieux vaut une t�te bien faite qu'une t�te bien pleine."
- I think its influence was in different areas. - sjb 10:37:42 06/30/08 (1)
  The influence of LOTR is in those epic scene's Jazz mentions.
  
  SO many movies after LOTR have tried to copy and one up the scale of these epic scenes... especially battles and especially things like seeing a whole army of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and things like a sky full of arrows being shot.
  
  But as for simply using CGI and creating fantasy worlds and the like... that horse was out of the barn long ago and I dont see LOTR as some kind of watershed in that regard.
  
  As to Pans Labrynth... I appreciated the film and was taken by much of it but overall it was very stressful and I certainly didn't enjoy watching it (I'm pretty sure I was gnashing my teeth much of the time - at least clenching my jaw - and I often turned away).
  
  "You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
  - RE: I think its influence was in different areas. - patrickU 12:02:41 06/30/08 (0)
    I don�t think so. I think that a kind of special atmosphere has see the light with the filming of loTR.
    It is the same story in images over & over again.
    It may be the result of the same digital imprint.
    I may even think it is.
    
    I don�t turn away at situations I like.
    This film has a message but the cover ( envellope ) ain�t mine....
    " Mieux vaut une t�te bien faite qu'une t�te bien pleine."

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