==== New Movies, Wired Coverage
Slashdot has another story, this time on the upcoming Clonez kidz series:
http://slashdot.org/...7/05/27/2040256Wired also has a huge in-depth coverage of all things Star Wars. If you want to burgle your neighbourhood Force.Net loser, do it today. He(*) will be so glued to his Mac's screen he won't notice. The bad news is, unless a bookcase of Special Edition DVDs and Boba-Fett action figures is your bag, he'll have nothing worse taking.
http://www.wired.com...s/2007/05/lucas(*) = I deliberately use the masculine pronoun. I doubt females would mind being excluded from this group.
I liked this, from a positive review of the 'Empire at War' PC Game:
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Normally, I cringe whenever Lucas launches another movie. Ever since the Ewoks appeared in 1983's Return of the Jedi, his films have steadily tobogganed downwards into a vale of unwatchability. It's hard to figure out what Lucas has done worse: Is it his increasingly Disneyfied characters? His wooden scripts? Or the plots that, having been carefully denuded of action sequences, instead focus on, y'know, trade disputes?
==== CGI
Very good post KurganX. Couldn't agree more. The Human Eye is a very difficult device to fool, and it's great at spotting 'Hey, that's not right' flaws and they grate. Something as stupid as Dooku's double-somersault. It couldn't possibly be real: I laughed: Suspension of disbelief suspended.
The funny thing is, any actor who gave a performance above the typical James Bond Megalomaniac would have been a much better Grievous than Grievous (and a name like Grievous? He might have well worn a T-shirt that said "1 Dimensional Character").
> Of course some CG just looks fake (like some of the close ups of Yoda, or the Clone Trooper armor when Morrison takes off/puts on his helmet).
Lucas *boasted* about this on the director's commentary. He said "We didn't make a single suit of Clone Armour." My question.... WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???????????
Also noticed on the commentaries his CGI guys have far too much control. Far more than the creative types. Hell, Lucas is their only writer.
Infernus wrote:
> Fair to say the old movies have a realistic feel to them that parts of the prequels do not.
I noticed this. Watching the dogfight in ROTJ was *better* than the plastic prequels.
This post has been edited by Toru-chan: 27 May 2007 - 07:06 PM