BurgaFlippinMan
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Uncharted has always been a Hollywood blockbuster in video game form, but I'd say more so this time around than normal.
Thats funny, because in Naughty Dog's response to Eurogamer's 8/10 review they said they consciously tried to make it less handheld this time.
Well it is, in some cases. There will be levels were you can opt to try and sneak through undetected or go in guns blazing. But more or less, it feels more "directed." There are awesome chase sequences galore, but you can only go in the direction they choose.
I found it very interesting in the making of featurettes how they actually design the levels before they write the story, and then adjust whatever story ideas they have to fit in with what they have already developed. One of the foot chases was developed and ready to go, but they didn't know who Drake was chasing until the writing team caught up. Fascinating, since it feels the complete opposite. I find the stories in the franchise to be of the upmost quality.
Well, since its an action game, it makes sense to assume such action sequences would have been there anyway. So designing them first and filling in the characters later isn't really such an illogical thing to do if you think about it.
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Uncharted has always been a Hollywood blockbuster in video game form, but I'd say more so this time around than normal.
Thats funny, because in Naughty Dog's response to Eurogamer's 8/10 review they said they consciously tried to make it less handheld this time.
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Burger Flipper;
Not only are you a pretentious hack, you have also managed to practically obliterate any chance you ever had of making a career in the entertainment industry.
I'm not at all bothered by what you think of me, or my hobby. I'm quite content in that department thank you. And if you are the gatekeeper of getting into the entertainment industry, then I suppose I'm somewhat disappointed that the industry will go to shit a lot sooner than I thought it would.
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its quite obvious someone needs a pair of glasses, or lasik. me thinks your eyes are getting old and dated.
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whoa, getting personal now are we?
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I do think the closeups of the Brachiosaurus skin as it passes the camera looks like bad cgi, though. It stands out like a sore thumb every time I see it. Everything else in JP is fine and actually still quite brilliant, especially the night shots of the T-rex.
I don't think its 'bad', just old and dated. It also probably suffers from being a slow moving object, and in broad daylight. I think the T-Rex being mostly in the dark helps mask a lot.
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i'm pretty sure this has been discussed ages ago in the video games thread in the Other Topics forum
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they are very overpriced and quite ovely bassy. good for em hiphop i guess.
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Indeed. For early CGI films like T2 and JP an enormous amount of effort was put in getting each shot as good as it could be under the circumstances.
I think its because the situations in which CG is used is simpler. I don't think T2 had superior CG to T3 honestly.
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I'm open to giving things a bit of a facelift, with the caveat that its being done by the director. It would be great if the original version was always available, not so much as an obligation but as a service for fans. That said, I do wish the SW OT was available in original form in a contemporary high quality format. I can somewhat symphatize with George Lucas retinkering of the OT in a way. As a photographer, I've had many photos where I've retinkered with as my skills at post processing has gotten better over the years, and I sure as hell think that the current version is the best one and I don't want the earlier versions to be seen again. Of course, none of my photos is a global pop culture phenomenon like Star Wars, but you get my point.
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There's nothing wrong with the CG in Jurassic Park.
Nothing wrong, but it is a bit dated. Shaders and textures have come a loooooong way since. Especially the leap made in 2002.
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
Simply, the movie Indy 4 should have been. (and I like Indy 4)
Even though it uses 2 technologies Spielberg was new 2 (motion capture and 3D) and it's an animation film, something the director has never dabbled in himself (though he's produced plenty of them) it really feels like a Spielberg film.
It actually feels like Steven Spielberg unbridled. No longer restricted by the limitations of filming in the real world. Most directors would not be able to handle that, and go to far, or simply stich to what they know and don't go far enough.
Spielberg loves setting up complicated shots with lots of camera movement (the action scenes in Minority Report or WOTW for example, were the camera revolves around the car). This film must have allowed him such freedom. I'm sure he probably put shots in their that he had wanted to do for projects for years, but were not feasible.
Again, KOCS feels like Spielberg is dutifully making a film the rest of the world expects him to make, This one feels like it's coming from Spielberg himself. It's an itch that's finally being scratched.
the characters, they feel right. Jamie Bell has the probably thankless role of playing Tintin, a hero without that much a a personality. He plays the character with a quiet urgency. He NEEDS to discover the secret of the unicorn, he regards Haddock with some impatience, which feels just right. It's actually a spot on performance that will possibly go unnoticed.
Andy (Mo Cap) Serkis has fun with Haddock, playing him larger then life, at times pitiable, at times annoying, always lovable.
Daniel Craig is so good as Saccharine that you won't know it Daniel Craig. He's a strong villian, slimy, clever.
The look of the film!
No, it does not look much like Herge's comic, but it's a good translation of it to a very different medium. The characters look larger then life, but never grotesque, like in the comics, the environment they inhabit looks realistic, but more colourful, just like in the comics. It's a perfectly valid way to adapt Herge's clear line style.
The look of Tintin himself. The initial images and clips that were released worried some people, including me. In the comic Tintin doesn't have a very expressive face. So I was worried having the character with a fully animated, semi-realistic face would feel weird.
I think they cracked it. After the initial few minutes you just get completely used to how the character looks. Same for Haddock. The uncanny valley was crossed successfully. (something Beowulf never managed).
The story is good. Could have been an Indiana Jones film, at times the movie feels like one. I do like that Tintin isn't out to save the world. He's just looking for answers, and wants to see the bad guys caught.
The music. The score really clicks once you've seen the film. Yes John Williams does not re-invent himself, and yes I wished the film would have had a killer theme (all the themes are good, none of them are brilliant). Funny to see that for the pirate fight even John Williams now uses heavy low chords ala Pirates Of The Caribbean. The main theme of the film is definatly the Unicorn theme, which is used throughout in many guises, from artefact theme, to full out action extravaganza.
This is a great little film, very loyal to Hergé in spirit (though he was more forgiving or Haddock's drinking). Great to look at, even in 3D, and you don't have to like it despite itself, like with Indy 4.
***1/3 out of ****
does 3D add anything to it?
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Before this article, everyone despised the nuke scene. After this article, "Oh it was Spielberg's idea? It's genius! Love it, so funny and fits right in with everything else!!"
Only at JWFan.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. The fridge scene is just as dumb as most of the rest of the film. In the first three movies Indy's escapades, improbable and fantastic as they were, were still well grounded in the realm of the possible. To expect anyone (even Indy) to have survived being blasted that high into the air in a fridge is pushing it too far. Raiders works so well because for all his bravado and posturing, Indy is still very obviously presented as a mortal man.
It's no less realistic than Indy jumping off an airplane with an inflatable lifeboat and falling off thousand-foot cliffs. Or Indy falling off a cliff while on a tank that explodes upon impact.
Actually, I think a couple of years ago on a film-themed episode of Mythbusters they did the "falling out of a plane on an inflated liferaft" thing from TOD thinking it would be easy to prove no one could survive such a ridiculous stunt. To their surprise, the dummies inside the raft lived through the experience.
Ok I'm getting tired of people quoting Mythbusters, that gold standard of science *sarcasm*. In any case, iirc the temple of doom raft myth was actually busted.
EDIT: Couldn't quite find the video, but here's the text recap from Annotated Mythbusters
Drop 1
For the first drop they rigged Buster in center of the raft, which turned out to be a bad job. The rigging gave way after they had lifted the raft 400 ft up, ejecting Buster from the raft. Buster was completely destroyed and Adam reacted in shock to the carnage: "Buster is a pile of scrap."
Drop 2
They improved the rigging in the raft by using big hauling straps instead. Somehow they managed to resurrect Buster. They must have had a lot of spare parts on hand because even the instruments were pretty trashed from the first mishap.
The raft flipped over and floated in like a parachute at 22mph. Parachutists usually land at about 14mph. This might have been fine for Buster, except he was ejected when the raft flipped over and landed at 154 MPH.
Drop 3
For the third drop they decided to re-rig the raft to be used as a parachute to keep Buster from falling separately. They managed to resurrect Buster resurrected yet again, though he's headless and looking pretty bad for the wear.
The parachute safely worked as a parachute, but the rate of descent was too fast. Initially they thought Buster was ok, but once they got close they saw that Buster's limbs were pretty wrecked. The chest sensors showed that he might have lived (50g shock watch was broken, but 75 and 100 were not), however, even though Buster might have lived, the notion that someone could have lept out and rigged the parachute-like harness is very unlikely. They had already demonstrated the problems with the Indiana-Jones-style descent, so mythbusted.
(Life raft) busted
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I liked KOTCS, always did. Nowhere near Raiders, or for that matter Temple, but it is as enjoyable as Crusade was, while being quite a bit more original than Crusade.
Crusade is twice the movie KOTCS is.
It has better characters, better script, better acting, not to mention better music.
Also, Spielberg gave a crap about it. Contrary to Crystal Skull, apparently.
The end result of both films is I find them about equally enjoyable, which is very enjoyable.
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and in another thread we are talking about getting an interview with him. with suggestions of tazing him floating around these boards i think we should keep him unaware of our existence.
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I liked KOTCS, always did. Nowhere near Raiders, or for that matter Temple, but it is as enjoyable as Crusade was, while being quite a bit more original than Crusade.
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but, vehicles have always been the most fun thing about the Battlefield games!
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this is what The Shining really was all about
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are u playing it on the console or PC? we all know the console versions are rather neutered. no 64 player mayhem? bah!
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Didn't the early digital recordings have a very low resolution compared to that of traditional analogue recording technology.
I mean even now we are basically still using 16 bit 44.1 as a standard in our CD players, while an analogue recording can actually be converted to a far higher digital resolution, as SACD proved.
well, technology has to be pushed at some point for it to gain some momentum.
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AOTC and ROTS are 1080p, so are most of the other digitally shot movies up till recently such as Apocalypto and Sin City. 28 Days later is not even HD.
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I'm not even really worried film won't be used anymore in the future. Speaking as a stills enthusiast, 35mm film has been quite irrelevant for a while now imo and even medium format film is no longer worth the effort in most cases. And I'm one of the 'film lovers' of my school's photoclub
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If anyone is interested in watching a bunch of webisodes, here are the aforementioned Zacuto ones. While a bit technical at times with the jargon,I think they do quite a good job explaining it to the laymen if you arent too well versed in photography terms. They stack up the latest digital cameras against 4k scans as well as a few DSLRs.
The 2010 one
http://www.zacuto.com/shootout
The 2011 one
http://www.zacuto.co...011/episode-one
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i think something went wrong in the encoding of the file they uploaded. even the green of the Preview card is off
CGI re-tinkering of Jurassic Park? A good idea?
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I disagree with a lot of the changes Lucas made to the OT, but I don't disagree with his right to do so.