But in Spiderman, those scenes were created to be photorealistic. And they fell short. And the state of the art at the time showed that knees could be handled easily. And the swinging errors were just laziness, IMHO. Physics is important in fantasy and science ficiton (and comics).
I agree the rest of the film was great. That's why I even mentioned the things that bothered me. I hope they keep the feel, but nail the little details in the new one.
Do you remember Dragonheart? The dragon was cgi, mixed in with live action. The lighting on the dragon was completely different thatn the lighting on the live action characters. And the direction of lighting in some scenes was wrong. But I could forgive that, since they were completely pushing the envelope on that one. A completely cgi character. With Sean Connery's voice. Awesome.
Jerry Johnson
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>> ----- 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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