Re: [scifinoir2] Gonna see "Beowulf"?

[Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)]

I liked the format, but I did not really enjoy it

Martin wrote:
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> A friend of mine from Canada has said good things about the movie. I 
> still haven't gotten around to it.
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> Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:cwbadie%40yahoo.com>> wrote: Yet...
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> Daryle <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:yokozuna%40globalsoulmedia.com>> wrote:
> Now that wasn¡¯t right. You know I have to see every PKD story done on
> screen. I may not have LIKED A Scanner Darkly, but I saw it.
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> On 11/16/07 11:07 AM, "Astromancer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:cwbadie%40yahoo.com>> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >
> > So I gather you didn't see 'A Scanner Darkly'...
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> > Daryle <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:yokozuna%40globalsoulmedia.com> 
> <mailto:yokozuna%40globalsoulmedia.com> >
> > wrote: Nah. I©öm gonna pass on Beowulf. I feel like, either do a live
> > action movie
> > with big name stars, or do an animated feature. It worked at first 
> because
> > they were using big name actors to get people in to see animated 
> features.
> > But now people already know what to expect so they come. If I wanna 
> see a
> > movie with Angelina Jolie in it, I wanna see Angelina Jolie. Not a
> > rendition, not an interpretation...I wanna see HER. Otherwise give 
> the gig
> > to Cree Summer. It©ös time for one of these CGI or animated movies 
> to star
> > Cree Summer.
> >
> > On 11/15/07 11:36 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net>
> > <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> "
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> 
> <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> > wrote:
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Anyone plan to see "Beowulf"? I'm intrigued by the story, but 
> frankly a
> >> > little leery of the visual technology Zemeckis is using. The 
> so-called
> >> "Polar
> >> > Express" look, layering CGI-like effects over real life capture 
> images,
> >> simply
> >> > looks a little--creepy to me. One problem I have with so much 
> standard CGI
> >> > movies like "Final Fantasy" or any of the myriad kid flicks, is 
> that the
> >> > humans often don't look real. They're stiff, facial and body 
> muscles not
> >> > smoothly or realistically drawn. The technology's getting better, 
> true, but
> >> > right now some of the characters look like walking corpses. Some 
> of the
> >> > scenes I've seen from "Beowulf" are no different. Though better 
> looking
> >> than
> >> > "Polar Express", the characters still look stiff and dead to me.
> >> > Wonder why they didn't go with live action and then special 
> effects like
> >> LOTR,
> >> > or a live action/animation/CGI mix like "Sin City" and "300"?
> >> >
> >> > And i gotta admit, everytime I see the title character yell
> >> "I--am--Beowulf!"
> >> > I keep thinking of Leonidas' "This--is--Sparta!" and i laugh.
> >
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