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Neurolimal posted:I'm usually completely in favor of puppetry and animatronics and general traditional effects over CGI, but I will say that GotG is one of the few movies in the past like, 5 years where the CGI all felt natural and not-incredibly-jarring. Yeah, Rocket and Groot are right up there with Gollum for me.
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# ? Sep 14, 2014 22:42 |
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They've gotten incredibly good with CG creature effects in the past 6 years or so, and I think they're largely superior to traditional stuff now for almost every situation. It was mostly the late 90's-mid 00's that had the terrible CGI beasties that had you wishing they'd used animatronics instead, Gollum being a noteworthy exception.
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# ? Sep 14, 2014 23:42 |
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And Jar Jar being the other end of the spectrum. *shudder*
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# ? Sep 14, 2014 23:55 |
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Ensign_Ricky posted:And Jar Jar being the other end of the spectrum. Jar Jar is actually less bad than some things I can think of that came out within the past 2-3 years.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 00:00 |
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computer parts posted:Jar Jar is actually less bad than some things I can think of that came out within the past 2-3 years. I'll grant that in terms of animation, but as an overall character....not so much.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 00:14 |
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Jar Jar looks and acts great. He holds up pretty OK today. However, he's just a bad character in a worse movie. But his CGI is good.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 01:27 |
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davidspackage posted:That guy is really funny. "That was my favourite knife." That guy and the "CAPTAIN'S TEACHIN'!" guy stole the show for me.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 04:22 |
Jar-Jar looks and acts a dozen times better than CGI Yoda.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 05:07 |
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TheJoker138 posted:Jar-Jar looks and acts a dozen times better than CGI Yoda. I seemed to have blocked out all memory of GCI Yoda's acting. Probably a good thing.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 16:56 |
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wdarkk posted:I seemed to have blocked out all memory of GCI Yoda's acting. Probably a good thing. I'm not usually a gently caress CGI kind of guy, but when you watch the comparison between the Phantom Menace puppet and the CGI they replaced it with for the blu-ray it's staggering.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:33 |
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In my memory Phantom Menace puppet Yoda was pretty bad too, as opposed to 80s puppet Yoda.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 19:11 |
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davidspackage posted:In my memory Phantom Menace puppet Yoda was pretty bad too, as opposed to 80s puppet Yoda. Yeah, it looked like someone created the puppet based solely off their memory of what Yoda looked like. It was the previously unknown uncanny valley of puppetry.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 22:12 |
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Info on a deleted scene from Guardians: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=107546 quote:a scene where he [Prison guard] danced through the prison listening to Quill's Walkman (specifically, Magic by Pilot).
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 22:19 |
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This gives me hope that that song will be in GOTG2.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 22:25 |
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Gyges posted:Yeah, it looked like someone created the puppet based solely off their memory of what Yoda looked like. It was the previously unknown uncanny valley of puppetry. And once it was pointed out that it looks like Mark Hamill, it's something you can never not notice.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 22:26 |
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Cheston posted:This gives me hope that that song will be in GOTG2. I feel like I should embed it here anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iiryJwvDtc
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 22:26 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:And once it was pointed out that it looks like Mark Hamill, it's something you can never not notice. Please spoiler your revelations regarding the new Stars Wars.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 22:28 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:And once it was pointed out that it looks like Mark Hamill, it's something you can never not notice. ..... Nothing will ever be ok again...
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 22:34 |
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When someone said that, it was like I'd just taken the red pill. I tried to deny it, but it just kept nagging at me like a motherfucker. New Yoda looks like Mark Hamill. The old puppet definitely doesn't.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 22:58 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:And once it was pointed out that it looks like Mark Hamill, it's something you can never not notice. god loving damnit
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 01:29 |
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Everyone thinks Luke is going to be the new Obi Wan, but actually he's going to be the new Yoda. Just all green and talking funny.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 02:54 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:And once it was pointed out that it looks like Mark Hamill, it's something you can never not notice. You son of a bitch. Goddamn it.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 03:35 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:When someone said that, it was like I'd just taken the red pill. I tried to deny it, but it just kept nagging at me like a motherfucker. New Yoda looks like Mark Hamill. The old puppet definitely doesn't. Phantom Menace Yoda looks like OT Yoda, divided by this guy, multiplied by Mark Hamill. There's just none of that impish playfulness left.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 03:36 |
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How about some more concept art: Source: http://www.flaptrapsart.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy.html
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 15:17 |
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/15/i-am-groot/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000591
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 15:26 |
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I can't believe all those cool concepts for the Collector's place were done and they just went with "cluttered museum" in the movie.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 16:54 |
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Neo Rasa posted:I can't believe all those cool concepts for the Collector's place were done and they just went with "cluttered museum" in the movie. When has concept art NOT looked better than the final movie?
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 16:58 |
Meeting with Marvel executives: "Those are some nice pictures. Real nice. "Here's a picture of how much we want you to spend on the set: "
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 17:00 |
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I think the cluttered look worked better for the Collection, although a top-down view of the lanes btw cages would have been a better shout-out to Raiders of the Lost Ark than the magnet-ball.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 17:22 |
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IronicDongz posted:You're in luck! What are the comics that have stark and rocket interacting? Id totally read them
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 20:42 |
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wdarkk posted:When has concept art NOT looked better than the final movie? I mean generally yeah often executives will always choose the safest blandest option but no one even tried.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 20:54 |
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MacheteZombie posted:Please spoiler your revelations regarding the new Stars Wars. Nonsense, Yoda clearly said that by the time Hamill is 900 years old, he won't look that good.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 21:05 |
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Neo Rasa posted:I mean generally yeah often
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 21:09 |
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Waroduce posted:What are the comics that have stark and rocket interacting? Id totally read them Start from the beginning of the 2013 run.
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# ? Sep 16, 2014 23:28 |
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I've been reading through this thread to see others' opinions on it, and I'm glad it wasn't a fluke that my friends and I liked it so much. Usually when it's a comic/video game based movie my brother or friends will ask me 'oh, are the books anything like this?' 'Who's this guy?' Aside from the Nova Corps being like, the space air force, I felt this movie was pretty good on setting everything up for a bunch of rather unknown characters (like, you know what you're getting into going to see a Spider-Man movie or a Batman for example). My only issue was that I would've liked to see a little more of Korath (Djimon Hounsou) even with his limited screen time, I cracked up at their first encounter, and toward the end when Quill got all giddy when he called him Star-Lord. I need to get it when it comes out on DVD, since I had a hard time hearing some of the dialogue in the theater, especially during fight scenes, and what I misheard left me confused. When the Necro guys were telling Yondu to surrender, I honestly thought the bad guy shouted 'All your men have turned on the Nova Corps'. But since they were still helping in later scenes, I was like 'yeah, heard that wrong'. And this was from about halfway back in the thread, but another poster mentioned that we'd never get the Super-Skrull in a Marvel movie. Anyone know why that is? I'm assuming somebody else has the rights (the studio that did those awful FF movies, maybe?). That's a bummer, because I liked him in all the cosmic story lines in the comics, like Annihilation (and I always pick him in Marvel Capcom 3).
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# ? Sep 18, 2014 02:42 |
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LadyPictureShow posted:When the Necro guys were telling Yondu to surrender, I honestly thought the bad guy shouted 'All your men have turned on the Nova Corps'. But since they were still helping in later scenes, I was like 'yeah, heard that wrong'. It was tell all your men to turn on the Nova corps. The reason why they will never get super skrull is due to his character/powers being tied directly with the Fantastic Four.
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# ? Sep 18, 2014 03:12 |
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*takes a huge hit* "yo what if 'balance to the force' means having only one Jedi..."
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# ? Sep 18, 2014 03:30 |
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I just was this movie and it was probably the best of the superhero movies yet. Who were the putty men working for The blue guy? I don't think that was explained.
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# ? Sep 19, 2014 12:31 |
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:I just was this movie and it was probably the best of the superhero movies yet. Who were the putty men working for The blue guy? I don't think that was explained. I'm pretty sure they're just normal bad guys. No explanation necessary.
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# ? Sep 19, 2014 13:50 |
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I watched the first fifteen minutes of the movie during Labor Day. Completely filled with kids. And they were looooving it. The energy was insane. I think for a lot of them, it'll be a milestone.
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