beowulf

hawken

so this what it comes down to?

I had to watch the trailer a few times... all the actors are most certainly digitised (I think you can tell from the neck movements, they are close but not perfect)

worth checking out. My verdict? I'll probably go see it. Not been a good one since The Spirits Within.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/beowulf/

aesir

I'll see it just to see the cg, which regardless of whether how god awful the mocap is, should at least have some good aspects.

I bet the story is gonna suck.

(as in, they fucked up the real story.)

sonic

I don't know if this is the same trailer I saw (I'm on a slow connection right now), but the one I saw looked like a horrible ripoff of 300. It even had the same effect in the trailer with like a sideways scrolling background of clouds while text would shoot to the middle of the screen. And at the very end, he yells "I AM BEOWULF!"... I almost felt embarrassed when I saw that.

Rob Galanakis

Madness? This! Is! Eleventh Century England!!! RAHR

I don't get to the movies enough, certainly won't be seeing this... can't support films like this. There are good CG films I still have to see.

thomasp

i defended it after seeing the first bits of it. some of the cg was really nice down to the details. but as soon as it is put into motion, it's just awful. and then the dialogue lifts it to a completely insane level of unintentional comedy.

Steve Schulze

Nail Gaiman has writing credit on this. This has either been hacked to bits by executive decisions or he's a better story writer than a scriptwriter.

hawken

I dont care about any of that.

the actors are 3d models

discuss

Mongrelman

I guess that way we can't call them two dimensional characters if the script is terrible.

Tulkamir

I'll check it, but yea, it looks like it takes a nice deep swim in the uncanny valley.

ChaosEidolon

download the high rez and look at the poses during the funeral pyre scene. theyre posed like bad poser art. the sense of weight is waaay off and almost no attention given to the hands. whats the point of doing that in Cg?
if you cant pay attention to stuff like that it just make it looks like ass.

the other thing that irks me is that the jolie char has high heeled feet...not shoes, feet...like some bad devil chick pinup art.

I find it the 3d realism fetish thing really pointless. Unless you're going to make a point to use the flexibility that 3d gives you to do something artistic, it just ends up being masturbation. Not only that, but if you're trying to recreate the real world to such an anal extent, sooner or later youre going to fuck up and kill the suspension of disbelief.

300 and sin city were an artistic step in the right direction (and didnt even have the flexibilty of being 3d) but this is all gimmic.