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Its artificial effects totally revolting, I thought it elevated bad taste to record level.
This was true, until I started watching Band of Brothers on TV.
What gives here, guys? I thought after 12 years one should expect the effects to get better, not worse.
I love war films, and I try to connect to the guys in the film... but the totally atrocious digital effects kill any chance of a good experience.
So sad...
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Story of a Marine Recon. division going into Iraq during Gulf War 2.
Very good stuff.
J.B.
I saw it when it was on HBO and thoroughly enjoyed it for the story of the paratroopers of Easy Company. It wasn't written, directed, shot, or edited like a movie. The effects weren't intended to be seen on a 60" HD screen. We forget std res TV's limitations of just five or six years ago and 27" CRTs.
"We must beware of those who burn with zeal but are not endowed with much sense." - Angelo Roncalli
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I thoroughly enjoyed it for the story of the paratroopers of Easy Company. It wasn't written, directed, shot, or edited like a movie. The effects weren't intended to be seen on a 60" HD screen. We forget std res TV's limitations of just five or six years ago and 27" CRTs.
"We must beware of those who burn with zeal but are not endowed with much sense." - Angelo Roncalli
terrible--- it lost me with such miscasting. I kept expecting him to make with the twenty-something jokes.
Schwimmer did a good job playing a jerk who, according the book, made the men into a great company despite himself. Trying to distill all that time into an hour and introducing the men is going to leave that character short but much of that stuff was described in the book. As to your associations with the actor, that's your baggage and not his.
Came out in the fall of 2001. CGI has improved..and continues to improve..by leaps and bounds. What will always be important is the quality of the writing, actor's performances, and the technical skill of the film maker and crew. By those standards Band of Brothers is a top notch work of art.
Baba-Booey to you all!
***CGI has improved..and continues to improve..by leaps and bounds.They shouldn't. They should have been choked to death in their cradle.
That is why I will watch the Waterloo but refuse the modern dreck.
Edits: 01/27/10
future clones look "realistic." They look exactly like what they are, crude facsimiles of reality.
Anyone that has seen, "2001: A Space Odyssey" either in its original format (true Cinemascope) or on a large screen with a "clean" copy knows the difference. It isn't even close. CGI's popularity truly is a mystery. SO fakey it isn't even arguable.
I think in a SciFi movie one can take two different roads.
One - just hint at new worlds, don't fall all over yourself trying to fool the viewers, put there just enough to make it look unlike the reality. In some sense this is what the theater does, with its obviously artificial decorations.
This is the road the Solaris takes, and it succeeds. Yes, the viewer has no doubts regarding the place and time, but it is all done with very simple means.
The other road is in throwing in everything plus the proverbial sink, trying to impress... Whom? The teenagers.
That is the 2001 approach, and it fails.
Instead of learning the lesson, the future generations of directors simply decided more junk was "much more better", if you overwhelm the viewer you then can win the Oscars. So we had endless Star Wars, then more stuff, then LoTR, and now that Avatar thingy.
Nothing but tinsel. Actors who can't act, plot that can't stand on its feet, images that do nothing for the brain.
The spaceships, their flight over the planet surface, the landing.... all look amazingly real, even today. You know why, I assume? NO FX. All models and then older-fashioned analog manipulation. I'd argue that the effects in "Forbidden Planet" similarly surpass any CGI bullshit.
One of the best parts of 2001 is its portrayal of Russians. I bet that's what bothers you!
***The spaceships, their flight over the planet surface, the landing.... all look amazingly real, even today.
Really? Realistic? Have you seen objects fly by at space velocities?
Forget that... have you seen a pistol bullet fly?
There was nothing realistic about the film.
Back then I remember I was the only one of all my friends who did not like it.
Save the first five minutes of magic, the rest was empty as empty can be.
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