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Watched Johnny Mnemonic. I need room service

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If I were being a pickypants, Collosus looked a little.... dull? Plasticy? I didnt like his armor.

 

There was something incredibly off about the way he moved, which surprised me as director Tim Miller's background is as a CG director.

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Supposedly the reason Colossus wasn't used much in the X-Men franchise was the cost of making his armor reflective and chrome-like.

They went with CGI mo-cap colossus because Miller wanted comic accurate sized Collosus. My guess is to keep expenses down they dulled his reflectiveness.

I'd imagine any stiffness to the animation is due to the tight budget.

 

EDIT: Originally posted on phone with big thumbs

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Could be it. It reminded me of a time I overcleaned fidgety mocap and I ended up with something that moved almost like a real person, but just so slightly slower and stiffer that it made it look creepy as hell.

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http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/02/original-1977-star-wars-35mm-print-has-been-restored-and-released-online/

 

Well, not that any of you people would download it. Not legal and so on. 

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Just saw "the Hateful Eight", really enjoyed it! 

Will go and see "Deadpool" as soon as it's out - should be next week where I live...

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Re-watched the Wall.

 

 

And remembered how I seriously wished that movie was just animated from start to finish.

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Garm Wars : The Last Druid.

 

A bizarre little number, a sort of 30% live action / 70% cgi anime. With a weirdly twisted together sci-fi take of... Gaelic mythology merged with I think, Mongolian influences.

In a bleak apocalyptic world where tribes of clone soldiers fight each other, one ends up apart from her pack and traipsing on a mission of discovery with an odd band of others.

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Watched Druids (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199481/), figured something about the Gallic wars wouldn't be too bad.   Yep, I was wrong.

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So Warner Bros. have confirmed they will be keeping Zack Snyder on to help the 2-part Justice League films.

 

 

 


In other and completely unrelated news, Marvel executives were found passed out in a local bar after ordering round after round of the best drinks the bar had to offer. Nobody could get from them what they were celebrating except that they kept on screaming “DARKNESS” before each shot and follow it up with generous amounts of laughter.

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I saw Deadpool today and it was el muchos excellente. I don't remember the last I laughed as much as I did during the small-hand-jokes or during the second cab drive with Dopinder. If Schwarzenegger was born to play the terminator then Reynolds was definitely born to play Deadpool.

 

The Bad: Story wasn't anything worth mentioning and CGI was badish more often than not.

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I saw Deadpool today and it was el muchos excellente. I don't remember the last I laughed as much as I did during the small-hand-jokes or during the second cab drive with Dopinder. If Schwarzenegger was born to play the terminator then Reynolds was definitely born to play Deadpool.

 

The Bad: Story wasn't anything worth mentioning and CGI was badish more often than not.

 

Funny story - Apparently one producer involved with Blade Trinity introduced Reynolds to Deadpool. He told him after seeing his character in that film, he was totally Deadpool. Reynolds had never heard of him before, so went and got an issue out of curiosity. For the really quirky... that very first Deadpool comic he opened had a panel where Deadpool actually described himself as "Ryan Reynolds meets <some other bizarre character>"

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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Sword of Destiny.

 

Is it weird to be disappointed that it's all done in English and you don't hear Mandarin while reading subtitles?

 

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Okay, now that I've watched it all. Hm,. I'd say mixed reviews on it. It's an enjoyable romp as it is, but it's much more hollywoodised in the general style than the first time around. The locations bounce around and don't really feel that linked, and while the majority of the wuxia sequences are decent, there's nothing too outstanding to it. And towards the end some of the cgi background is a wee bit dodgy.

 

The actors work well with what they have, hell, it's Donnie Yen and Michelle Yeoh leading the cast, with Jason Scott Lee as the big bad, so you expect that. There's a certain "Seven Samurai" feel to the gathering of folks to defend against the evil guys, but they don't really do anything to explore the supporting characters. It's more "they have this name, that goes with this fighting style."

 

So decent fight sequences, good acting for the most part, pretty women, and of course, a lot of the same style of music for background. Along with the requisite sort of tragic romance theme running along. 

It also put me in the mood to go back and watch the original Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But I don't want to get my feels box broken tonight.

 

I will say it's a damn shame there's no good English translations available for the original books both films were based on. I'm curious as to what the Crane-Iron Pentology comes across as.

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Oscars can go to hell., Rewarding an overrated movie like Mad Max with all the 'extra' awards. They better give the Oscar to Leo. L0L

 

 

First time I've watched Oscars in awhile b/c I think he'll finally win. Knowing how things work, I probably cursed his chances. :(

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Oscars can go to hell., Rewarding an overrated movie like Mad Max with all the 'extra' awards. They better give the Oscar to Leo. L0L

 

 

First time I've watched Oscars in awhile b/c I think he'll finally win. Knowing how things work, I probably cursed his chances. :(

Relax. Leo's odds of winning is 1/100. (That's extremely good)

 

And Mad Max was awesome.

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The Babadook. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

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Way overrated, so far going six of seven beating Force Awakens 4-0.

 

Sound Editing and Sound Mixing, both, they couldn't share. And Sly snubbed OMG WHY  

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L0L

 

Grats Leo on the win but stuff it with the ;political clap trap garbage.

 

 

What an outrage with the Best Film winner. I guess the Academy does love adults having sex with kiddies. :p

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