You may have hated on the Amazing Spider-Man 2 but....
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BUT DAMMIT!!!!, these CGI swinging shots were completely mindblowing and you can't argue on that.
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An animation prowess If I may say so and a rendering one too!
Animation behind the scene: [ame]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpLXI4w2nuc[/ame]
Rendering behind the scene: [ame]
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Props to Sony Imageworks. I hope I'll be able to animate like that one day.:drool:
This isn't a thread to talk about how the movie sucked or to discuss if the original trilogy was better (we alreadu have enough of these).
This is a thread that was simply made to acknowledge that CGI feats that were presented to the spectators ( I could almost feel the wind during swinging in theaters).
I am especially amazed by the swinging scene from TASM2 but the one from Raimi's movie were also good.
Here's a comp of all of theme.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m25JtAgroN0[/ame]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F--wGjZNDGI[/ame]An animation prowess If I may say so and a rendering one too!
Animation behind the scene: [ame]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpLXI4w2nuc[/ame]Rendering behind the scene: [ame]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG2qDR5ka5w[/ame]Props to Sony Imageworks. I hope I'll be able to animate like that one day.:drool:
This isn't a thread to talk about how the movie sucked or to discuss if the original trilogy was better (we alreadu have enough of these).
This is a thread that was simply made to acknowledge that CGI feats that were presented to the spectators ( I could almost feel the wind during swinging in theaters).
I am especially amazed by the swinging scene from TASM2 but the one from Raimi's movie were also good.
Here's a comp of all of theme.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m25JtAgroN0[/ame]
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The breakdowns are pretty sweet though.
was sure as hell better than this:
Oh man, How come I never noticed it was a doll?! Ha ha ha.
Hey, anyway, my favorite swinging sequence is when he chases Electro, the scrambling-swinging motion is simply phenomenal..
Well that, and her hair is going the wrong direction
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I'm in awe.
In the case of this film, we have very capable tools being used capably by very capable people, to make a movie that sucks something awful. I envy those who are able to appreciate these quality elements while ignoring everything flawed about the film. I can't turn my brain off to the obscenely bad screenplay, wooden acting, and terrible characterization.
I honestly pity those that can't. Nothing is flawless, and if you focus on nothing but the flaws, you don't ever appreciate anything. Sure, some flaws are more minor than others, but I've always found giving things the benefit of the doubt, and enjoying things for what they are makes everything in life more enjoyable.
Just roll with the good and forget the bad.
I was very happy when it was announced that Spiderman was being rebooted again because it meant we didn't need to stick around with those design decisions any longer.
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Everything around it is still rubbish though
While I agree with your sentiment, I can't approve of this particular statement. Forgetting what you don't approve of is denial.
Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
Hope someone noticed it too?
You got me there. I should have said "forgive the bad".
Also, I may be in the minority, but at this point, I only go the theaters to watch movies that are big on effects or action. I much rather watch deeper movies in the comfort of my own home, where I can comfortably reflect on what I'm watching.
Mad Max, Jurassic World, Terminator: Genisys, Ant-Man, Mission: Impossible are all movies that I want to see in the theaters. None of them are based on any new IP, and none of them are going to have exceptional dramatic acting or depth.
Are they going to be perfect films? Probably not.
Are they going to make money? I'm going to go out on a limb and say "yes", to one degree or another.
Am I a part of the problem? Sure.
The AAA gaming industry suffers from the same problems. Assassins Creed, Call of Duty, Battlefield, are established IPs. They all have flaws, but they're all still entertaining games. More importantly, they all make money, and until that changes, we're going to continue getting more of them.
Bottom line: I still find a lot of the huge releases of movies and games to be entertaining, despite the flaws they might have. I much rather have imperfect Superhero and Sci-Fi films, than none at all. If they don't make money, they're not going to make them... at all.
As an aside. I liked the last two Amazing Spiderman movies far more than the Raimi Trilogy. I though Garfield's portrayal of Spiderman was superior to Maguire's.
Perhaps it does but Hollywood already learned a long time ago that crappy movies can be quite profitable. I don't think they need any encouragement at this point
People desire to create stuff, if there were no FX driven blockbusters there would still be all kinds of other movies getting made.
In fact movies that aren't expected to make big money are being made all the time, just not necessarily in hollywood or US.
Well, I'm not demanding perfection. This is a cop-out that a lot of the boom-fest crowd bring up whenever someone criticizes the "Bay" school of film-making.
Making a big-budget summer action flick doesn't mean that you have to make a brain-dead film, or a poor film. And we've had numerous examples of this over the past few years. While films like Transformers (it doesn't matter which, just pick one) are aggressively bad, the Marvel Studios offerings have been solid across the board, while still being action-heavy. Guardians of the Galaxy came out last year and nailed it. Avengers: Age of Ultron just recently nailed it.
These movies don't have to be perfect, far from it. But making a spectacle-fueled flick doesn't give you a license to ignore basic tenets of script-writing, directing, and cinematography. And making a profitable movie doesn't really excuse you from this either. Perhaps in the eyes of the shareholders, but what artist in their right mind would be satisfied with that?
There have been enough prime examples of high-quality, enjoyable popcorn films that I am now growing increasingly tired of Platinum-Dunes-style offerings.
The actual story driven films like The Rock (which people seem to forget he made), or The Island are pretty good! So maybe the problem with the transformers movies was quite literally that they said "people want to see robots and explosions".