Comments on: Making Adventure the Old Fashion Way

By: Fluffy

Fluffy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:25:35 +0000

There’s a documented effect—they even have a name for it—that shows the more realistic an artifical human creation attempts to be, the more humans are repulsed by it.

What about this?

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:14:09 +0000

And the AICN reviews pour in. Please, please, please live up to the hype. I really enjoyed both Iron Man and surprisingly The Hulk. But they both were really popcorn movies. Nolan is trying something deeper. It sounds like he pulls it off. I want to believe…

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:39:16 +0000

Polar Express definitely does have some simmering creepiness just from the plot.

BTW - Check out the Rolling Stone Review of Dark Knight.

By: a random John

a random John — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:03:16 +0000

I’m sorry, but Polar Express is creepy for reasons other than the uncanny valley.

By: William Morris

William Morris — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:24:16 +0000

The uncanny valley. Also known in my household as “that creepy Polar Express thing.”

By: clark

clark — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:38:52 +0000

Good point. I’d forgotten about that.

By: Brian G

Brian G — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:08:17 +0000

The difference is that in a Pixar film the entire world is CGI, so you don’t feel like you’re watching a cartoon on top of live action, and you don’t have actors staring off into space pretending there’s a space creature, or what have you sitting there.

Plus, for the most part Pixar characters aren’t human. There’s a documented effect—they even have a name for it—that shows the more realistic an artifical human creation attempts to be, the more humans are repulsed by it.

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:58:00 +0000

Well Lucas did a lot with muppets in RotJ that wasn’t an ideal set of choices…

But in principle I agree. CGI almost makes it too easy. So that you don’t need to be creative. It thus leads to paint by number creations.

I honestly don’t know how Pixar year in and year out avoids that problem.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:51:47 +0000

I love that Nolan is doing this. CGI was the biggest reason Indy sucked. If you force Lucas to do everything with stuntmen, wires and real animals then all of a sudden that film isn’t that bad. He either chooses not to do it or figures out a way to make it work so that it’s not a cartoon.

By: Bull Moose

Bull Moose — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:40:36 +0000

Sorry, but when I read your headline, my thought was:

You “Choose Your Own …”

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