I was really looking forward to The Hulk, and I knew it was going to be
CGI, and I knew it wasn't going to be perfect.  But still, I wasn't
ready for the Amazing Growing Jello Man.

Ah, well.  They can't all be winners.

--BenD

Charlie Griefer wrote:

>  >> ----- Original Message -----
>  >> From: Jerry Johnson
>  >> To: CF-Community
>  >> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 12:56 PM
>  >> Subject: Re: I'm so happy, I could cry...
>  >>
>  >> Yuck!
>  >>
>  >> Did everyone see the last Spiderman movie?
>  >>
>  >> For the most part I liked the movie, but there were some bad cgi scenes
> that completely ruined the moment for me.
>  >>
>  >> Was anyone else bothered by the bad cgi where he is climbing the
> buildings (the rounded, rubbery knees for example, and flat >> lighting)
>  >> What about the street swinging scenes where his motion does not follow
> physics (he starts his next turn before he shoots the >> next web)
>  >>
>  >> Nitpicky I know, but those kinds of errors really pull me out of the
> scene.
>  >>
>  >> Jerry Johnson
>
> Sorry Jerry, but you sound like a guy who was complaining in a forum that
> the movements looked (and I quote) "too comic-booky".  We all know that they
> used CGI (they weren't able to cast a real guy who could shoot webs from his
> wrists and swing around Manhattan)...so one really needed to walk into the
> movie ready to suspend their disbelief.
>
> I thought they dead-on nailed the whole thing.  The way Peter made his own
> costume...fighting Bonesaw...learning how to swing on the webs (and not
> doing a great job of it at first)...it all worked for me.
>
> But getting back to the suspension of disbelief thing...I didn't even mind
> the Hulk (the character in the movie...not the movie itself...which
> was...bad).  I knew going in it was going to be CGI, and knew it wouldn't be
> perfect.  Why set myself up for a disappointment by expecting too much?
>
> These are representations of comic book characters.  They should serve as an
> escape from the real world, where the laws of physics don't necessarily have
> to apply.  In the real world, we fall down and go boom.  I don't need to
> spend $9.00 to see that real world represented in what should be some
> light-hearted escapist fantasy.
>
> But that's just my opinion :)
>
> Charlie
>
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