OT - Spiderman: movie Version or comic book Version?

[PvK]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
PvK, I think the reason why some of those movies stink is that the direct/producer/executive productor relied too much on special effects. ...

I agree that's one of the essential shortcomings of films like the recent SW flicks. Two others are the lack of convincing terror during combat (reducing the events to unemotional CGI contests), and the bad physics I mentioned before (making the motions look unconvincing and stupid, to people who have seen real objects move, or the pacing of real fighting and panic situations).

Episode IV showed rebels who were afraid of the stormtroopers bLasting them, and with good reason. Episodes I-II had kids who were too young to act, doing impossible physics-defying and common-sense-insulting stunts and risking their lives without a second thought or even seeming concerned at all, and laying waste to bunches of unemotional opponents as a sort of "oh yeah, they died" side-effect.

Reaction times (in Episode IV) were also NOT fake-o instant reactions where the only pause between gymnastic combat is for unbelievable blase one-liners ("I'm so cool, I am not at all concerned by your CGI powers. Watch my CGI be scripted to (yawn) defeat you. Now, watch my CGI not need to take any time to catch its breath, get its bearings, tell friend from foe, catch its balance, or anything that weak non-CGI beings need to do."). Episode IV showed sweating terrified rebels getting bLasted, and used actual WW2 dogfight films to choreograph the maneuvers of fighters in combat. Episodes I-II had nonsense like jumping thousands of feet onto speeding moving vehicles, and catching light sabres from similar distances, without breaking any bones or failing to grab hold of things, and plenty of generally way-too-fast and way-too-maneuverable and way-too-easy maneuvers by the way-too-unconcerned pilots.

Ok, pardon the side-topic rant. Ahem.

PvK

[ July 07, 2004, 19:02: Message edited by: PvK ]