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Re: Roger Ebert is wrong!

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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