Beowulf in 3D
I don't post much, but I wanted to tell people about the movie, and in my head it took the form of a LJ post....
I went and saw Beowulf in 3D on Tuesday. It kicked a fair amount of ass.
If you don't know, the entire movie is computer animated, but the actors were there acting underneath the animation in a rotoscope kind of way. "Performance capture" they call it. People with dots all over them act, and the computer adds the cool parts. The guy who played Beowulf is 50 and has a good paunch on him, but the face and voice is all he needed.
Long shots with people have a kind of Shrek feel to it.the People aren't perfect, but damn good. Close-ups might have been real footage, I couldn't tell if it was computer or not the faces were so good.
So it starts and it looks like Shrek a bit; people are having a party in Heorot, beer is passed around, and we see the old king's naked ass and the implication that the king was having sex with women who are not the queen.
OK, It's a little bawdier then Shrek, that's fine.
Some exposition happens and then we get Grendel. The doors burst open and the fires in the hall go out, magic blue fire rises in their place, and we get our first good look at the monster himself. He's all gnarly, his "hair" like porcupine quills, quasi-human shape, mis-formed hands and jaw, drool coming from the snarled teeth, and he starts screaming like a man on the verge of total insanity.
Wait, this is NOT a friendly ogre.
The men of the hall get over the moment of shock, quickly grab their weapons, and charge the monster. Grendel snags one of them up in one hand, grabs the man's leg in the other, and pulls. The man yells in horrendous pain as the limb separates sending a 3D spray of blood showering down onto a crowd of terrified, screaming onlookers who have been backed into the corner of the room.
This is not Shrek; this is not Shrek at all.
That's really the goreiest moment of the movie. One has to have a good, scary monster if the hero to be super heroic.
OH! And computer animated Angelina Jolie is basically naked, so that's cool (and more "purt" looking than real Angelina Jolie was in Gia)
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The 3D aspect was OK. Real life is 3D and you don't think anything of it, and I didn't think of the 3D movie being super obvious unless I had a spear in my face, or a rainbow-arch of blood coming my way.
I kept the 3D glasses; not just because they look like something Buddy holly would wear, or that I love polerized filters, but also because as real theatres try to one-up the home theatre experiance I think we'll be seeing a lot more 3D movies.
I went and saw Beowulf in 3D on Tuesday. It kicked a fair amount of ass.
If you don't know, the entire movie is computer animated, but the actors were there acting underneath the animation in a rotoscope kind of way. "Performance capture" they call it. People with dots all over them act, and the computer adds the cool parts. The guy who played Beowulf is 50 and has a good paunch on him, but the face and voice is all he needed.
Long shots with people have a kind of Shrek feel to it.the People aren't perfect, but damn good. Close-ups might have been real footage, I couldn't tell if it was computer or not the faces were so good.
So it starts and it looks like Shrek a bit; people are having a party in Heorot, beer is passed around, and we see the old king's naked ass and the implication that the king was having sex with women who are not the queen.
OK, It's a little bawdier then Shrek, that's fine.
Some exposition happens and then we get Grendel. The doors burst open and the fires in the hall go out, magic blue fire rises in their place, and we get our first good look at the monster himself. He's all gnarly, his "hair" like porcupine quills, quasi-human shape, mis-formed hands and jaw, drool coming from the snarled teeth, and he starts screaming like a man on the verge of total insanity.
Wait, this is NOT a friendly ogre.
The men of the hall get over the moment of shock, quickly grab their weapons, and charge the monster. Grendel snags one of them up in one hand, grabs the man's leg in the other, and pulls. The man yells in horrendous pain as the limb separates sending a 3D spray of blood showering down onto a crowd of terrified, screaming onlookers who have been backed into the corner of the room.
This is not Shrek; this is not Shrek at all.
That's really the goreiest moment of the movie. One has to have a good, scary monster if the hero to be super heroic.
OH! And computer animated Angelina Jolie is basically naked, so that's cool (and more "purt" looking than real Angelina Jolie was in Gia)
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The 3D aspect was OK. Real life is 3D and you don't think anything of it, and I didn't think of the 3D movie being super obvious unless I had a spear in my face, or a rainbow-arch of blood coming my way.
I kept the 3D glasses; not just because they look like something Buddy holly would wear, or that I love polerized filters, but also because as real theatres try to one-up the home theatre experiance I think we'll be seeing a lot more 3D movies.