Heard they used a body double at some point
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> ha-ha, funny! Jolie has been--"enhanced"--so i'm not all that eager
> about seeing her au naturale
>
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> From: "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:ravenadal%40yahoo.com>>
> My 15 year-old daughter is taking an honors level course
> called "British Authors" this semester and her "British Authors"
> class, which read Beowulf this semester, are taking a field trip to
> see the movie at one of the suburban movie palaces showing the movie
> in 3-D. Eye, one the other hand, will probably not see it til it
> gets to the Budget theater (where I get most of my cinema in my old
> age).
>
> That said, any movie where Angelina Jolie says she was "embarrassed"
> to see herself naked? I am SO there!
>
> ~rave!
>
> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
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