Showing posts with label cgi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cgi. Show all posts

Saturday, December 26, 2009

AVATAR 2.0


I'm writing this without re-reading what Fay wrote in her post, but I just saw Avatar and you must go see it. It's mindblowing. And heart-achingly good. When I say heart-aching, I'm trying to evoke that simultaneously effervescent and desperate feeling you get in your chest and brain when you can't get enough of someone -- in this case, something. Sort of an increased awareness in all synapses within a selective state of oblivion. At times I caught myself holding my breath and had to remember to breathe. 

Imagine if that world existed. At one point in the movie, I thought (likely out loud, if you've ever watched a movie with me), "well that's unrealistic," before I realized that the entire thing was unrealistic, of course.

Now that's good cinema. And excellent technology. And art. And a truly beautiful imagination I very much respect. Alright, enough gushing from me -- don't take my word for it, see it for yourself.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Sherlock Holmes: CGI Looks Really Bad



The CGI looks really bad in Sherlock Holmes. Especially that shot of the fight on a bridge. What is that?

Oh, and I remember I used to be excited about this movie because I like Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, and I liked that still of a shirtless RDJ in an underground fist-fight, but it looks like there's way too much sex and violence. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQbmFAE5WI

PS: Love the whole Victorian revival going on in menswear.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/fashion/12CODES.html?scp=1&sq=victoian%20menswear&st=cse
 
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