Even if the film itself is a letdown, the alien designs are truly amazing. That's a stunning variety of cool looking aliens.
Green Lantern (2011)
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Well, the film's not going to let me down. 
Nice book. Now I'm interested in this as well as the film.
I must say the new trailer is quite the thing to behold.... I've shown it to several people who do not know anything about G.L. and they agree... it looks like a kick ass movie...
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/901053/green_lantern_new_trailer_released.html
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/901053/green_lantern_new_trailer_released.html
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did thcast any actos at all... anything that matters is done with computers anyway. looks like crap. I miss the 80's and 90's, when computers were just a tool, not the whole damn film.
I miss 80s movies, but not because computers have done anything other than improve special effects across the board.
I can't wait for this movie - it looks to be exactly what GL should be.
I can't wait for this movie - it looks to be exactly what GL should be.
Pretty much all of the human characters, and stuff on Earth are done in (mostly) live action. It's just the aliens and Oa that are CG.
There's so much preview material getting out now that I've decided to avoid looking at too much of it. Not that I'm afraid of spoilers, but because they're trying so hard to lure people in that I'm afraid of seeing all of the truly dazzling moments.
Let's not forget that massive cloud "thing" going through the streets and latching onto the buildings.
Oh, and do you think that flying scenes in their jets are not using any CGI?
Even if you are right, this film is clearly just a CGI orgasm.. all the magic powers are just boring CGI renderings. And Ryan Reynold's is the kind of actor that's just plain boring... he can take a character that's interesting on the page and make him boring... he seems more fake than all the G.
It's clear that the studio has no fucking idea how to market the film, nor do they have a clue if it will resonate with anyone but the niche audience. The first trailer focused on the lead character and his relationship with his girl friend (or latest sleep prospect) and his flight partner, and focused on the comedy. Although it looked like a million other films, it still seems to be a good representation of what this film is going to be, yet fans hated the trailer. So they went back and cut together another trailer than nixed the comedy around the women while simultaneously telling the entire story about the lead character.
And still, they are not sure if the film will generate interest. So they roll the dice and hastily patch together a new trailer done from the POV of.. the Latern Corp, or some god-like voice.. and they give away every trick this film has to offer and hopes that we care about this universal war, or that "yellow is the power of fear" while failing to generate any true excitement.
I agree the first trailer was a mistake, but I haven't seen any kind of cluelessness in what's been released since. It all looks pretty professional and top of the line to me.
As for the CGI, I have plenty of faith that the director behind the two best modern Bond films (and a pretty kickass Zorro movie) will be able to tell his story without that getting too much in the way.
As for the CGI, I have plenty of faith that the director behind the two best modern Bond films (and a pretty kickass Zorro movie) will be able to tell his story without that getting too much in the way.
Yeah, they're doing a very effective job of marketing the movie, at this point.
It really amazes that after 35 (1976's Westworld was the featured a 3D CGI hand and face) people are pissed when these kinds of movies use CGI effects. I find it hard to believe anyone would have honestly expected otherwise at this point.
And as someone who only knows a little about GL, I'd say that other than the first trailer (which Warner Bros. admitted was a mistake) the marketing for this has been very effective . It's definitely gotten me alot more interested in the movie and the GL/GC character(s) than I was before hand.
You know, I liked that Moon used a lot of models and practical effects, but even that movie had a smattering of CGI.
I think CGI's great precisely because it works very well and makes it easier to bring increasingly surreal vistas to the film screen. I'd think sci-fi fans would like the capacity to make ever weirder, ever more bizarre films, so the hostility I've almost relfexively seen to the ascent of CGI has always baffled me a little.
That said, CGI can be overused or used badly. The pink/red alien looks for all intents and purposes like some human guy with a pigmented skin - the kind of role a lot of other productions would just give to an actor and doll him up in makeup, as they did the purple guy who gets killed. I'm not at all clear why he's CGI, but I'm sure fans of the franchise can throw some arcane reason that he must be CGI because he has six fingers or a marginally different body structure to humans or something like that.
I think CGI's great precisely because it works very well and makes it easier to bring increasingly surreal vistas to the film screen. I'd think sci-fi fans would like the capacity to make ever weirder, ever more bizarre films, so the hostility I've almost relfexively seen to the ascent of CGI has always baffled me a little.
That said, CGI can be overused or used badly. The pink/red alien looks for all intents and purposes like some human guy with a pigmented skin - the kind of role a lot of other productions would just give to an actor and doll him up in makeup, as they did the purple guy who gets killed. I'm not at all clear why he's CGI, but I'm sure fans of the franchise can throw some arcane reason that he must be CGI because he has six fingers or a marginally different body structure to humans or something like that.
Likewise. I'd basically written this off as Iron Man Lite (not that there's anything wrong with that) until they released that trailer that had stuff on the alien planet.
I'm not sure which character you're referring to. The pink/red guy with the moustache, Sinestro, is played by a human actor in makeup. His "uniform" is CG, same as Ryan Reynolds' is, but other than possibly distorting the size of his skull a little in post - and I'm not sure that they've even done that, it's just that his head looks a little bigger than in the behind-the-scenes photos - he's just a guy wearing prosthetics on his head.
The actor is Mark Strong.
Ah. I guess it must have been the skull thing, because when I saw that guy I figured he was CGI.
I'm pretty miserable at telling the difference, though.
Ok.
What I can't figure out is why the first trailer was a mistake. If your into the this kind of film, it shows you a good idea of what the movie will be like. What was worng with that trailer as opposed to the others?
What I can't figure out is why the first trailer was a mistake. If your into the this kind of film, it shows you a good idea of what the movie will be like. What was worng with that trailer as opposed to the others?
Because it actually didn't "show you a good idea of what the movie will be like." That's why.
Or they're pretty good at this. We're not supposed to be able to easily tell the difference, after all, other than by context ("human beings can't do that/they didn't actually film a guy throwing a 747").
Or they're pretty good at this. We're not supposed to be able to easily tell the difference, after all, other than by context ("human beings can't do that/they didn't actually film a guy throwing a 747").
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