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[Urwumpe]

Which is why I tend to avoid reboots whenever possible. New stuff? Sign me up.

Would have made you miss "The Magnificent Seven" and "A fistful of dollar".

Both remakes and both worth watching on their own right.

And after x interpretations of Batman, the Christopher Nolan trilogy is sure the ultimate form - for now.

 

[jedidia]

Would have made you miss "The Magnificent Seven"

Not exactly your classical remake, though... more of a re-examination of the source material in a completely different setting and time period.

 

[Urwumpe]

Not exactly your classical remake, though... more of a re-examination of the source material in a completely different setting and time period.

Though you can nearly present both movies side-by-side in parallel and see similar scenes.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Would have made you miss "The Magnificent Seven" and "A fistful of dollar".

Both remakes and both worth watching on their own right.

And after x interpretations of Batman, the Christopher Nolan trilogy is sure the ultimate form - for now.

Tend to, not exclusively. I did watch the Dark Knight Trilogy... I agree. They're the best ones to date.

 

[ISProgram]

It really is amazing how with all this technology so many modern movies suck so horribly.

If anyone has even seen The Thing (1987), and then its prequel (2011), then you would know how well those two movies conform to this. IMHO, the 1987 film is still much better than 2011 film, precisely because of its lack of CGI.

 

[Notebook]

If anyone has even seen The Thing (1987), and then its prequel (2011), then you would know how well those two movies conform to this. IMHO, the 1987 film is still much better than 2011 film, precisely because of its lack of CGI.

Well, if you like lack of CGI, you'll love this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...&mid=3821566AC28FCCBA49393821566AC28FCCBA4939

Not Howard Hawks usual thing, and extra points for anyone who knows what series James Arness was famous for? USA citizens should know anyway, so are excluded. I'm sure I've done this before...

N.

 

[Pipcard]

Maybe the reason why people think "cgi" is bad for movies is because only the bad, highly conspicuous cgi is noticed.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Went out for sushi for dinner the other night. The itamae were playing their own music to the dining room. The selection? The Flash Gordon soundtrack by Queen :huh:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4_Z84-rRE"]Flash - Queen (Official Music Video) - YouTube[/ame]

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Maybe the reason why people think "cgi" is bad for movies is because only the bad, highly conspicuous cgi is noticed.

I think it is more the fact that when CGI really started to be used, it was applied to churn out a lot (and I mean A LOT) of bad movies that relied more on CGI dazzle than story to sell. That worked when CGI was new, but now everyone has seen CGI effects; the dazzle is gone and everyone wants a story again. A lot of people have been burned by watching a 2 hr movie with over-the-top special effects and absolutely no story, so many people equate CGI with poor storyline. That equality is not true, but the onus is on the director to tell a story supported by CGI effects.

 

[Andy44]

CGI is too often used as a crutch and to cover up poor writing and story-telling.

And special effects just aren't as cool as they used to be, because the novelty had worn off. In the old days, when you saw a cockpit view of an X-wing making the trench run on the Death Star, you were in awe and couldn't believe what you were seeing; someone had obviously done a lot of work on that shot. And the first CGI I remember was The Abyss, and then Terminator 2, which were truly groundbreaking at the time.

CGI is used in Old Spice commercials now, so it doesn't impress me when Micheal Bay uses it in his new Super Duper Explosionerrific Sci Fi Ego blockbuster movie with a zillion-dollar budget.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Agreed. It's about how it's applied, not the quantity of it.

And that trench run in Episode IV? NOT CGI. It was a scale model practical effect.

 

[Andy44]

And that trench run in Episode IV? NOT CGI. It was a scale model practical effect.

That's my point. Before CGI special effects were still "special".

Also, it's not "Episode IV". It's just plain "Star Wars".

Now get off my lawn!

 

[jedidia]

So my wife just went to bed, I stayed up to play a bit, when suddenly the printer beside me jumps to life and starts spitting out paper. She was figuring out how to print stuff from her phone over WIFI. I start to wonder who the actual nerd is in this family... :shifty:

 

[Pipcard]

The last time I saw Star Wars was when I was a kid, so maybe I was too young to understand how bad the prequels were. But I'm not gonna be one of those people who denies their existence.

 

[Andy44]

Disney is gearing up for the Star Wars-ification of their theme parks. If they have a guy in a padded rubber Jar Jar Binks suit and sparring helmet and let you beat on him for $20 bucks I will buy a plane ticket to go there with a $100 dollar bill in my hand.

 

[ISProgram]

I'm first in line for that. I may only have $30, but boy what a beat-down it's gonna be.

 

[Artlav]

Hm, i wonder if there will be one in Paris' disneyland...?

 

[Urwumpe]

So my wife just went to bed, I stayed up to play a bit, when suddenly the printer beside me jumps to life and starts spitting out paper. She was figuring out how to print stuff from her phone over WIFI. I start to wonder who the actual nerd is in this family... :shifty:

I used such technology before buying my own office. I drove to my parents house, stopped my car, waited 5 seconds so my smartphone found my parents WLAN, printed, entered the house, went to the printer, fetched my print-outs and drove back to university. :lol:

Of course, I had to pay the price in form of buying boxes of paper and ink for them.

 

[Linguofreak]

Dear application programmers: When your program is launched, it is never OK to check for a running instance, signal that instance to open a new window/tab, and exit. When you do this, your users end up with a multiple files open in the same process, which can lead to significant data loss should that process crash.

 

[Andy44]

This is random comments, right? Good:

I got a new phone. Pre-loaded on this phone is some sort of NFL football app. It spams me with stupid news about the NFL. It updates itself. I don't even watch football. I dislike the NFL. I really hate having football shoved in my face using bandwidth I pay for. I resent the assumption that everyone likes NFL football. I finally figured out how to remove this app; problem solved for now.

 

[Urwumpe]

This is random comments, right? Good:

I got a new phone. Pre-loaded on this phone is some sort of NFL football app. It spams me with stupid news about the NFL. It updates itself. I don't even watch football. I dislike the NFL. I really hate having football shoved in my face using bandwidth I pay for. I resent the assumption that everyone likes NFL football. I finally figured out how to remove this app; problem solved for now.

That is something I dislike as well - I like (real) football, but I choose the app, to inform me about it.

I am still waiting for my new phone to ship to me... ordered a Nexus 6, after two months of decision process. In the end, the many recently discovered security problems in Android and the very slow updates by all manufacturers except Google/Motorola became the deciding point. Now I can also safely root my old phone and use it as backup toy.