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Re: ED-209
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Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:53:25 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Matt Bohlmann wrote:
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Matt Bohlmann wrote:
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Timothy Gould wrote:
Ah yes. RoboCop was the last great hurrah before The Abyss and
Terminator 2 ushered in the computer effects era for good. So in effect,
ED was the curtain call for stop-motion animation, as far as big-budget
sci-fi films are concerned.
And oh how I miss it.
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Surely you’re not forgetting Army of Darkness?!? If that’s not a
stop-motion tour de force, I don’t know what is!
But I agree that something satisfying was lost when the film industry
collectively decided to move to CGI...
Dave!
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Oh no, no indeed! I don’t forget the glorious Army of Darkness. But
considering it came out one year after T2 and one year before Jurassic
Park, it was essentially already a throwback to an era whose time had past.
A eulogy of sorts.
As was Peter Jackson’s monumental Braindead / Dead Alive, a stop-motion
masterpiece... also from 1992.
Notable to consider that the combined budgets of Robocop, Army of
Darkness, and Dead Alive amounted to less than 1/2 of the total cost of
Jurassic Park -- and 1/3 of the cost of T2.
There’s something in the stop-motion process that I think commands more
attention to the smallest details from the animators. I’d trade all of
Spielberg’s dinosaurs for the distinctive gait of a chicken walker, or the
inimitable curl of a Ray Harryhausen tentacle. Or the twitching toe of a
fallen ED-209.
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Stop action isn’t dead, but it’s definitely “retro.” Check out Aardman’s
“Chicken Run” or “Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” Talk about attention to detail;
there’s practically a sight-gag in every frame!
Just watch the credits for any modern CGI movie (The Incredibles is my curent
favorite, although Cars has some of the most realistic rendering to date) and
you can easily see why the budgets are so large. Literally armies of
programmers, animators, sound engineers, and accountants are credited at the end
of every one.
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| (...) That's true, but Aardman's stuff doesn't count because it's perfect--and it's a vile blasphemy to suggest otherwise. Its inclusion would automatically distort analysis of any other film!!! (...) My three-year-old is, surprise-surprise, very (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| (...) Oh no, no indeed! I don't forget the glorious Army of Darkness. But considering it came out one year after T2 and one year before Jurassic Park, it was essentially already a throwback to an era whose time had past. A eulogy of sorts. As was (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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