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Since 6514 Days

I just kinda imagine that if you expand to 5 times your regular size, you'd look quite ripped :P

I also by far prefer the face and clothes of Incredible Hulk, Ang Lee's Hulk looks a bit too cartoony for my taste. ALso, i thought the muscle animation/simulation was by far better in Incredible Hulk.

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roxwell

Since 7137 Days

Tagged for those who haven't seen the Avengers film yet..
It will be very interesting to see what they do with Thanos, he's a top tier villain and the avengers shouldn't stand a chance (yes, even Hulk).

The Avengers Vs Xmen series is turning out to be very good too.

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Since 7119 Days

I don't like the idea of a villain who will be entirely cg no matter who it is

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Doom_Bringer

Since 6512 Days

Avatar was on tv last week, but I didn't really like it....the plot seemed stupid (it looked like an anime girl was teaching a disguised human how to be man or anime man whatever). And the CG looked pretty bad too, I don't understand why they didn't go with Star Trek type aliens (human characters with makeup and plastic attachments) which look far more believable and "realistic" than anything in Avatar. I shut it off after 20 mins, probably won't watch it again.

Also Lost continues to amaze me, this is by far the best tv show I have seen

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Since 7132 Days

Yes plot was daft, i expected more than "aliens vs marines" but bad CG? really? it was incredible.

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Sath

Since 7055 Days

Avatar was OK bu easily forgettable.
I love the planet though, very colorful.

Would i watch it again? if I was bored and had nothing special to do at the time when its on TV, yes I might.
Its way overrated IMO, and yes, i hate those Navi designs.

CGI was great.

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Since 6514 Days

Posted by Doom_Bringer

Avatar was on tv last week, but I didn't really like it....the plot seemed stupid (it looked like an anime girl was teaching a disguised human how to be man or anime man whatever). And the CG looked pretty bad too, I don't understand why they didn't go with Star Trek type aliens (human characters with makeup and plastic attachments) which look far more believable and "realistic" than anything in Avatar. I shut it off after 20 mins, probably won't watch it again.

Also Lost continues to amaze me, this is by far the best tv show I have seen

Wait a second, Avatar didn't have good CG? You need to go to a hospital and get that brain tumour removed, or start wanking again or something, becuase all is not right here :P

I can certainly agree that the plot really isn't anything special, it's just Cameron doing what he does best; icredibly two dimensional characters in a plot that's incredibly easy to get in to so that by the end you are really rooting for the good guys and really hate the bad guys...which kinda falls apart a wee bit if you start thinking about it too much.

Still, i don't se how you could go in to that movie without bias and not come out entertained. It's not a storytelling masterpiece but surely there are a lot of worse movies to watch.

I saw it 3 times in the theater just to get the mazing 3D :P

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[quote=Doom_Bringer]Avatar was on tv last week, but I didn't really like it....the plot seemed stupid (it looked like an anime girl was teaching a disguised human how to be man or anime man whatever).  And the CG looked pretty bad too, I don't understand why they didn't go with Star Trek type aliens (human characters with makeup and plastic attachments) which look far more believable and "realistic" than anything in Avatar.  I shut it off after 20 mins, probably won't watch it again.

Also Lost continues to amaze me, this is by far the best tv show I have seen[/quote]

Wait a second, Avatar didn't have good CG? You need to go to a hospital and get that brain tumour removed, or start wanking again or something, becuase all is not right here :P

I can certainly agree that the plot really isn't anything special, it's just Cameron doing what he does best; icredibly two dimensional characters in a plot that's incredibly easy to get in to so that by the end you are really rooting for the good guys and really hate the bad guys...which kinda falls apart a wee bit if you start thinking about it too much.

Still, i don't se how you could go in to that movie without bias and not come out entertained. It's not a storytelling masterpiece but surely there are a lot of worse movies to watch.

I saw it 3 times in the theater just to get the mazing 3D :P

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GriftGFX

Since 7189 Days

Posted by Megido

You need to go to a hospital and get that brain tumour removed, or start wanking again or something, becuase all is not right here :P

This is the dude who slams BF3's graphics.

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Doom_Bringer

Since 6512 Days

BF3 doesn't look good unless you have a $500 graphic card to run it on Ultra with 4XMSAA. Crysis is a far better looking game on my hardware...better water shaders, better clothes shaders, better skin shanders, better environments etc etc etc. On top of that the game isn't a jaggy mess like BF3.

I mean there are things you can do to Crysis in the config file....turn the wind up to 3 and have all the vegetation sway in the wind realistically, play it with the mster's config which looks way better the vanilla game etc etc. I could go on and on.....

But anyway I thought the lighting on characters looked really substandard, and so was the animation...while watching I said, "damn even Jurassic park looks better than this." I didn't watch the full movie but that part (where the girl is training the human) looked bad

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Since 6514 Days

Posted by Doom_Bringer

"damn even Jurassic park looks better than this."

Ok, that just means that you are a biased idiot and that your opinion is null and void. Sorry but if you think Jurassic park looks better than Avatar you neednew glasses :P

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Ronsauce

Since 7174 Days

I thought it looked better. Maybe not the cg, but flawed practical is almost always better in my book than cg, which is always flawed anyways.

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Since 7132 Days

Avatar was CG Jurrasic park was a mixture of puppets (mainly) and cg
i prefer jurrasic park, but i prefer puppets (the thing)

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Since 6514 Days

How does prefering practical effects make the CG in Jurassic park better than Avatar? I like practical effects too, the CG was still a bazillion times better in Avatar.

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Since 7119 Days

I'm not sure really why it is, but some movies just look like trash a year later and some look great even a decade down the road
Jurassic Park has really held up well over all these years

In regards to this conversation though, I haven't seen Avatar since I saw it in theaters so I can't really speak on it.
When movies try to cg humans though it generally always looks awful

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Since 7132 Days

Posted by Megido

How does prefering practical effects make the CG in Jurassic park better than Avatar? I like practical effects too, the CG was still a bazillion times better in Avatar.

lol i personally did not mean it like that... cg in avatar is untouchable in my eyes, but i prefer what is it now "animatronics"?

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Since 6514 Days

Posted by Tinks

I'm not sure really why it is, but some movies just look like trash a year later and some look great even a decade down the road
Jurassic Park has really held up well over all these years

Probably because of technical limitations. I mean the CG shots in The Abyss were awesome at the time but look really lame today, mainly because CG as come such a long way since 89. I think, however, that a film like Avatar that is like 90% pure CG and really well made to boot, will still look alright a few years on. I mean, in the case of Jurassic park i think they had puppetry and animatronics pretty much nailed down, whereas CG is a thing that is still evolving and changeing over time. Just imagine working on some of the modeling needed for high resolution models and props prior to programs like Zbrush or Mudbox. What a goddamn nightmare. Then again, in time i expect real time graphics will make us look at that stuff and go "Huh, so that was amazing back then, was it?" But currentl it's still some of the best damn CG available, wheter you likeit or not.

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lol i personally did not mean it like that... cg in avatar is untouchable in my eyes, but i prefer what is it now "animatronics"?

Well it was mainl aimed at Ronsauce. Still i just assumed we were talking CG, not overall look of the movie. Feels kinda weird to go CG v Practical all of a sudden, just for some lame attempt to salvage a weird opinion (DoomBringer in this case).

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[quote=Tinks]I'm not sure really why it is, but some movies just look like trash a year later and some look great even a decade down the road
Jurassic Park has really held up well over all these years[/quote]

Probably because of technical limitations. I mean the CG shots in The Abyss were awesome at the time but look really lame today, mainly because CG as come such a long way since 89. I think, however, that a film like Avatar that is like 90% pure CG and really well made to boot, will still look alright a few years on. I mean, in the case of Jurassic park i think they had puppetry and animatronics pretty much nailed down, whereas CG is a thing that is still evolving and changeing over time. Just imagine working on some of the modeling needed for high resolution models and props prior to programs like Zbrush or Mudbox. What a goddamn nightmare. Then again, in time i expect real time graphics will make us look at that stuff and go "Huh, so that was amazing back then, was it?" But currentl it's still some of the best damn CG available, wheter you likeit or not.

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lol i personally did not mean it like that... cg in avatar is untouchable in my eyes, but i prefer what is it now "animatronics"?[/quote]
Well it was mainl aimed at Ronsauce. Still i just assumed we were talking CG, not overall look of the movie. Feels kinda weird to go CG v Practical all of a sudden, just for some lame attempt to salvage a weird opinion (DoomBringer in this case).

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Ronsauce

Since 7174 Days

Posted by Megido

Well it was mainl aimed at Ronsauce.

And that's what I meant as well. Obviously the cg in Avatar is of a higher quality than that in Jurassic Park, but the cg in Jurassic Park was used more to my liking.

And in the interest of full disclosure, I'm really not a fan of Avatar at all. It was boring and awkward and the action was uninspired. When everything's a special effect, no effects are special. It's just a personal opinion heavily influenced by look, but if it had been practical, I would have been far more engrossed by it. That's just how I feel in general. Hellboy 2 wouldn't have been as amazing to me if all the creatures were cg.

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IRAIPT0IR

Since 5897 Days

Posted by Ronsauce

Hellboy 2 wouldn't have been as amazing to me if all the creatures were cg.

Dat Troll market...

:D

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Sath

Since 7055 Days

LOL, trollin the troll market :P

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Since 7119 Days

New James Bond!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mTIE4D9JM

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KORNdog

Since 6593 Days

Just watched "In time" with justin timberlake. It was pretty good. Premis was probably better then the execution, but generally it was an enjoyable watch.

@ the whole CGI/practical effects debate. I think it's entirely dependable on the quality of the cgi. If it's as believable as avatar where you no longer question whether it is CGi or real, then it's fine, but if it's as obvious and low quality as say, the 3 prequel star wars films, then i'd rather they go back to models, sets and prosthetics/animatronics since the movie would look better for it.

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Since 7119 Days

Rewatched ALIEN tonight with friends to get ready for Prometheus

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Sath

Since 7055 Days

Posted by Tinks

Rewatched ALIEN tonight with friends to get ready for Prometheus

Perfect!
I will watch Alien on friday to get ready for Prometheus on Saturday :D
Maybe throw in Aliens for good balance of greatness.

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