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LtKenFrankenstein posted:I really still don't get why Robert Zemeckis thinks this style is so cool. I guess as a director he always has kinda been more show-offy than good. He has previously directed: Cast Away What Lies Beneath Contact Forrest Gump Back to the Future Part III Back to the Future Part II Who Framed Roger Rabbit Back to the Future Romancing the Stone Maybe recently he's been into this kind of technology, but I think you're down-right wrong otherwise.
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for the war effort
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GonSmithe posted:I mean, I'm not a diehard fan of Tintin, but, what's wrong with this trailer? As mentioned, Tintin himself is a weeeee bit too close to uncanny valley, but, everything else about this looks fantastic. Well, first I should say that I actually think it looks good, though I do think the mannequin-esque faces are going to... not be an asset to the movie. It's mostly that Herge basically created an entire school of cartooning from whole cloth and this movie does nothing to acknowledge that heritage visually. That would certainly be excusable for a live-action adaptation, but this is an animated film and they could've made it look and move like anything they wanted. Imagine American comics like Krazy Kat or Calvin & Hobbes having their formidable visual legacies thrown out in favor of mocap spectacle - some people would just never be able to accept that. It also looks a bit... bombastic for Tintin, but it's harder to judge the tone without seeing the movie.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Are we talking about the same Zemeckis? To be fair, Zemeckis' reputation has been that of an effects-first whiz bang guy since the 80s. Which isn't to say that he hasn't made some good movies, because he has.
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Tintin was always bombastic though, little fucker went to the moon in that one story.
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DNS posted:It also looks a bit... bombastic for Tintin, but it's harder to judge the tone without seeing the movie. I think it'll work for Tintin. Herge rarely went nuts with his storytelling, but if you think about it, he drew blockbustery stuff a lot.
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Found out I'm going to be doing some PA work on the new Superman movie in a month or so, pretty exciting news  Then I'll be moving onto Batman when it comes to Chicago briefly. It's a good summer for freelance movie set work in Chicago!
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We've had the discussion on Tintin's visuals in the animation thread. Someone won me over with the argument that his people were simple but everything else was a bit more realistic, so the movie fitting that style was fine. Of course we never actually got to see Tintin's face until now so whoever made that argument had better find a new one because that is not a face I think I want to watch for 2 hours.
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After seeing that trailer I don't really understand why they didn't just make a live action movie.
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I'm going to assume that many readers of this thread frequent Batman On Film, or have in the past, for Bat news...so I figure I'd post this here. I've been reading BOF since Begins came out back in '05 (it was around this time that I found SA and lurked for a year), and I used to really enjoy reading the site. Lately though, it seems as if "Jett" has sort of bought into himself a little much. He has basically gone nuts trying to be anti-fanboy over the years.....and in turn has seemingly become what he mocks (i.e. a major holier than thou complex), and just generally comes off as a terrible WB kiss-rear end/shill. Am I alone in this opinion? Regardless, I'm excited for the trailer.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Yeah, 'diehard fans' are probably the only people that are really excited about this movie, and thus don't need reassuring. I'm excited and I know nothing of Tin Tin. I also don't know why I am looking forward to this film. Something about the visuals actually intrigues me. I have no logical reason.
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I'm looking forward to Tintin because of every name on its poster (and Zemeckis' isn't).
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:I'm going to assume that many readers of this thread frequent Batman On Film, or have in the past, for Bat news...so I figure I'd post this here. I completely agree. http://www.batman-news.com is similar but doesn't have as much of Jett's crap (though I have a feeling that their spoiler policy is very slightly more relaxed than BOF's).
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Chris! posted:I completely agree. Hmm, that site sure looks nice. Jett likes to brag that he started BOF back in '98 or whatever......well it still looks like a 1998 Geocities site.
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| # ? Jul 11, 2011 21:14 |
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Really liked the Thompson falling down the stairs gag in the Tintin trailer (the cat hanging on with its claws was great) until they had Snowy do the loving "dog is embarassed, hides its face under its paw" bit from every lovely trailer ever.
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:I'm going to assume that many readers of this thread frequent Batman On Film, or have in the past, for Bat news...so I figure I'd post this here. No you're wrong. Jett was ALWAYS a douchebag, it's not a recent thing.
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AwkwardKnob posted:Found out I'm going to be doing some PA work on the new Superman movie in a month or so, pretty exciting news What in the world is Superman doing in Chicago?
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Crows Turn Off posted:Are we talking about the same Zemeckis? Hey, don't get me wrong, I like the Back to the Future films as much as the next guy. But when presented with the option of doing something nuanced or doing something ridiculously in-your-face, he'll go with the latter every time. Also, Contact, What Lies Beneath, Cast Away, and Forrest Gump all blow. So does Beowulf. I just looked at his IMDB page and I forgot that he did Death Becomes Her, which kicked rear end. So yeah, he's got about five movies I like and a lot more that I don't, and the last one of the former was in 1992. Sorry, but his name does not fill me with a lot of confidence.
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Yawgmoft posted:What in the world is Superman doing in Chicago? Better than Australia.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Hey, don't get me wrong, I like the Back to the Future films as much as the next guy. But when presented with the option of doing something nuanced or doing something ridiculously in-your-face, he'll go with the latter every time. Cast Away is a pretty good movie. Certainly better than loving Back To The Future.
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Pedro De Heredia posted:Cast Away is a pretty good movie. Certainly better than loving Back To The Future. Are you loving serious?
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| # ? Jul 12, 2011 02:57 |
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First Dark Knight Rises Poster:
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That's pretty awesome. Now can we have a DKR thread?
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| # ? Jul 12, 2011 03:04 |
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Very cool poster. Surprised they went with crumbling buildings for the teaser, after Inception. Or maybe that was the intent. If you follow the link to the large size picture, I think it's purposely an optical illusion. It seems like they designed it to look like crumbling buildings at first, but a second look reveals a pit.
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Pedro De Heredia posted:Cast Away is a pretty good movie. Certainly better than loving Back To The Future. I guess this post is an example of "it takes ridiculous hyperbole to fight ridiculous hyperbole?"
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Rhyno posted:That's pretty awesome. You really can't wait four days?
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I was lying in bed sideways when I saw it, and didn't think much of it, then suddenly the logo jumped out at me. drat what a nice poster.
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| # ? Jul 12, 2011 05:27 |
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E the Shaggy posted:First Dark Knight Rises Poster:
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| # ? Jul 12, 2011 06:04 |
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My favorite part is the color scheme, which I really hope is indicative of the actual film. The official logo shown at some event recently had a purple glow, so I was worried they would just copy the blue, steel motif of The Dark Knight. The colors in the poster are very similar to Inception's black and gray/smokey white visuals, which I think creates a fitting sense of dark vs light for the final chapter of the series. They also seem to have carried over the urban decay motif from Inception, but that's also very fitting for Gotham's final battle. I know I'm reading too much into it, but for me this isn't just the next Batman film. It's the next Nolan film. I can't wait to see what he and Wally Pfister create together.
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| # ? Jul 12, 2011 06:12 |
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And we've come full circle.
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gregday posted:And we've come full circle. Oh wow, good eye. Props to Nolan & Co. This is why people stay on his junk. Rarely ever has so much thought and care been put into every part of the experience like this.
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Pedro De Heredia posted:Cast Away is a pretty good movie. Certainly better than loving Back To The Future.
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Bozz posted:If you follow the link to the large size picture, I think it's purposely an optical illusion. It seems like they designed it to look like crumbling buildings at first, but a second look reveals a pit. Wha? No, it's definitely crumbling building. I mean I guess in a literal sense it's a "pit" of crumbling buildings, but the only optical illusion here is the bat logo. But hey, it's Batman. I'm sure before this page is full we'll get a theory or two about how the black in the poster is a nod to black mask, or maybe a blown-up image of what's obviously Killer Croc peering out one of the windows.
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| # ? Jul 12, 2011 07:58 |
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It's crumbling buildings and they totally ripped off Inception
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Stare-Out posted:That's pretty clever. If you look at it from a distance you immediately notice the logo, but from up close the detail of the buildings jumps at you and it takes longer to see the logo. Great poster. Holy poo poo, I didn't even notice it was the Batman logo until I saw the thumbnail in your post. That's pretty drat clever.
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Bozz posted:Very cool poster. Surprised they went with crumbling buildings for the teaser, after Inception. Or maybe that was the intent. No, it's just poorly made. Half the rubble is floating away from the buildings to help the illusion and half of it is falling down from the empty sky. You think it's a pit because it's execution is sloppy, not because it's meant to be a pit.
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Red Pyramid posted:But hey, it's Batman. I'm sure before this page is full we'll get a theory or two about how the black in the poster is a nod to black mask, or maybe a blown-up image of what's obviously Killer Croc peering out one of the windows.
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Eh! Frank posted:I think you're getting us confused with the imdb boards. Based on past performance, I don't think he is.
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Welp. Let the speculation begin. (As if it hadn't already started) The Dark Knight Rises trailer description. Spoilered for anyone that wants to see it for the first time this Friday. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50347 quote:-Trailer opens with studio logos set on top of the blue flame from Dark Knight.
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quote:Ra's (Liam Neeson) voice over: "If you make yourself more then just a man. If you devout yourself to be ideal. And you become something else entirely. A legend Mr. Wayne....A LEGEND!" Spelling and grammar is too awful for me to take this seriously as a transcription of the trailer...
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Arkane posted:Spelling and grammar is too awful for me to take this seriously as a transcription of the trailer... It was done by one of the guys at aintitcool on his cellphone. He apologizes in the article for any spelling mistakes beforehand. Reading around this seems to be an accurate description of the trailer. EDIT: I just reread the article, I guess it was sent in by a projectionist. Yeah could be fake, but we'll see in a few days. Wazzit fucked around with this message at Jul 12, 2011 around 21:33 |
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