[UPDATE: I added “behind the scenes” images from Digital Domain; scroll down.] I haven’t seen Avatar yet, so I can’t comment, but I’ve noticed that everyone’s giving James Cameron’s team credit for “finally” solving the problem of creating expressive digital faces that look photorealistic and genuine, without being creepy…since nobody else has done this. Really? […]
December 2009
From Defamer: “I’m laying down some ground rules about movie theater seat saving, because I’m sick of having the film ruined by you assholes…If you can not follow them, then you have to sit in the aisle or wait for everything to come out on DVD and leave the theater for civilized folk.” The rules […]
(2006) **** If you drew a straight line from The Matrix to Dark City and then extended the line along the same axis, you’d eventually hit Silent Hill, French director Christophe Ganz’ feverishly obsessive cinematic rendering of the acclaimed computer game series of the same name. This odd, grisly, beautiful movie was a box-office disappointment […]