King Kong
- Thread starter mmm
- Start date
A stunning movie that felt self serving if not brilliant. I really didn't care that much about these people even though i thought they were great. Weird feeling. I loved the movie but didn't feel fullfilled. I did feel a bit dizzy walking out of the theatre though:thumbsup:
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
mmm said:
It's not my dog! :laugh:
CaptainMench
Carbonite Member
I did.
There were a few others... something about film stock... don't remember... but I do remember thinking... "I need to remember that line to post on DVXUser and ask what the hell it meant."
CaptM
There were a few others... something about film stock... don't remember... but I do remember thinking... "I need to remember that line to post on DVXUser and ask what the hell it meant."
CaptM
J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
I wonder how much of the ICE STORm on the EAST COAST has affected these numbers?
Evan S
Veteran
I'll probably get killed for saying this.. but... How come everyone thinks Andy Serkis is such an amazing actor when it comes to kong or gollum? It's a CGI character, and he moves around in the motion capture suite. I mean, the voice of Gollum is great. and I realize they take his facial expression, but how come he's so AMAZING? When say an an animator can duplicate the same thing from the computer?
kyledroid said:
Check post #72.
John_Hudson said:
It didn't stop me! Miserable, miserable day.
manglerBMX
Veteran
acctually this is what i predicted (this is spidey again lol)
Sean R
Active member
Wow.
Quite an emotionally stirring movie Mr. Jackson put together. The entire time, I was expecting the inevitable, the moment when Kong would die. The "manly tears" were certainly present when he did take the final plunge...
Some have complained about its slow pacing, but maybe that's a good thing (not the complaining). Maybe its a nice break from the relentless action and ADD-tendancies of Hollywood. Same with the soundtrack - I'm SO sick of the bombastic scores that drive the scene as opposed to complementing it.
Now, because I'll look like a PJ fanatic otherwise, I do have a few gripes. First, some of the chase scenes looked just terrible, especially the stampede scene. That just reeked of rush work. Some of the CG was completely disjointed from the greenscreen work. Second, I felt especially restless in the scene were Adrian Brody navigates a bat cave, trying to reach Naomi. It was just too long, and I was losing patience with giant mutant animals.
Otherwise, the director did his job, and you'll be missing out if you don't check King Kong out.
If not for the story, at LEAST go to see some film crew killed off. Too bad they didn't kill off the director
.
Quite an emotionally stirring movie Mr. Jackson put together. The entire time, I was expecting the inevitable, the moment when Kong would die. The "manly tears" were certainly present when he did take the final plunge...
Some have complained about its slow pacing, but maybe that's a good thing (not the complaining). Maybe its a nice break from the relentless action and ADD-tendancies of Hollywood. Same with the soundtrack - I'm SO sick of the bombastic scores that drive the scene as opposed to complementing it.
Now, because I'll look like a PJ fanatic otherwise, I do have a few gripes. First, some of the chase scenes looked just terrible, especially the stampede scene. That just reeked of rush work. Some of the CG was completely disjointed from the greenscreen work. Second, I felt especially restless in the scene were Adrian Brody navigates a bat cave, trying to reach Naomi. It was just too long, and I was losing patience with giant mutant animals.
Otherwise, the director did his job, and you'll be missing out if you don't check King Kong out.
If not for the story, at LEAST go to see some film crew killed off. Too bad they didn't kill off the director
.
Now that I think about it . . . isn't Kong's fall shot almost exactly the same as Jack's death in "Titanic"?
ecarr
Well-known member
yea it looks a little like titanic, but did it make anyone else a little dizzy while the camera rotated around as he's falling?
and serkis is a great actor because they COULDN'T duplicate it on a computer. they do facial motion capture because expressions are so complex you can't get everything animating from scratch. it's all in the lotr docs and kong prod diaries.
and serkis is a great actor because they COULDN'T duplicate it on a computer. they do facial motion capture because expressions are so complex you can't get everything animating from scratch. it's all in the lotr docs and kong prod diaries.
xl70e3
Skywalker
ecarr said:
Actually, it's said in Production diaries that face motion capture is used as a sorta sample/carcass to base the facial animations on and ALL of Kong's facial expressions required further detail enhancement by animators, because you just can't capture all the little stuff (imagine the amount and size of trackers they would have to use to capture everything). You can animate everything from scratch, but why bother if you can get half of it done, by capturing the main/larger muscles' movements using a real actor.
As for Serkis... I really don't see what the big deal is. He's quite a lame actor actually, as you could see from his Lumpy performance (also 13 Going on 30 and Avenger). They could use just about anyone with more or less pronounced mimics and ability to imitate a gorilla after studying one in the zoo.
KevinPeeples
Well-known member
Andy Serkis didnt just run around in a motion capture suit. He actually acted on set with Naomi Watts, did the king kong movements, etc. Not anyone can be a realistic gorilla. Have you tried and actually looked and sounded decent? He also acted in Lord of the rings in a Golum suit before they added the CG version. He's not the greatest actor the world has ever seen, but hes good at what he does and hes got great vocal talent.