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# 46 27-11-2003 , 02:10 AM

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I love monsters inc. for me it is even a lot better than final fantasy. ff was supposed to be for adults - but i still cant find the story behind the massive use of computer effects.

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You can't really compare the two movies, I feel. It's two very different styles. The thing with final fantasy, in my opinion, is that they've put all their energy in the stunning CG-graphics, causing them to neglect the story a bit.

My personal favourite is also shrek, because it has great CG, great humor, and above all a super cool story. I'll spare you my comments, because they've all been mentioned above ...

Another movie which I really like a lot is Ice Age. I think it has quite a nice and funny story, and the characters are absolutely superb. If you look at Scratt for example, a prehistoric sabre toothed squirrel, think about it, who comes up with an idea like that? Just the idea of the sabre toothed squirrel is hillarious. The contrast between Sid and Manfred is just great. And the way they get the emotions out of Manny's eyes.

Well, that's all I wanted to say ...

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# 47 27-11-2003 , 10:51 AM

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# 48 10-12-2003 , 12:25 PM

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Final Fantasy: Many people agree that this movie was good.. But not as good as they thought it would be. However... if the movie had been called The Spirits Within and not FF:TSW, i feel they would be saying it was a good movie overall with less letdowns. The hype is what got to people.

Ice Age: I thought it was good. Decent models good everything, sadly with the ICE AGE theme.. the scenery was mostly snow/ice/sky... vary easy to model... easy texture, not much eye candy... Story was okay.. but too predictable.

Shrek: One of my favourite movies with the crude humor for adults and childlike for kids.. very good. (im both so i got it all user added image

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Animatrix: Flight of the osiris: Was very good.. but there were too many "CG for the sake of CG" times... if she was in such a hurry... why did she do so many time consuming, needless stunts that had no benefit?... just to show off.

Matrix Reloaded: This.. i thought this movie was pathetic. The first one was excellent. However they got so many kudos for the CG and effects in the first one. They tried to outdo themselves. Resulting in CG for the sake of CG again.. Like the Neo vs 100 smiths... it was obvious to anyone it was flagrant cg, not even TRYING to cover it up. Sometimes you could see some of the models of smith didnt even have facial textures, just a basic skin texture. Very disapointing. The matrix used cg when they needed it for the desired effect. Matrix 2 used it... because they could.

One thing ive found surprisingly good is the Dinosaurs documentaries on the nature channel or whatever it is. They have stunning CG and very realistic. Photorealistic models. Which look perfect, even the occasional drool dripping from a t-rexs mouth. I watched it just for the cd. But educational too. Inspirational if your stuck

okay sorry its so long.. but its almost 6:30 am.. i should goto bed.

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# 49 10-12-2003 , 07:16 PM

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Hmm, I have to say I don't feel the same way about "Walking with dinosaurs".

Everybody thinks it's great CG and it's fantastic ... Well I don't! Ok, the CG is not bad, not bad at all. But there are many things that annoyed me. Like the dust when their feet thouch the ground ... you can see that it's fake from miles away in my opinion. But hey, I guess that's just me

Another thing that really annoyes me is the big wings above the eyes of the T-Rex. The only really good T-Rex that I've seen so far is in Jurrasic Park, and I don't mean the quality of CG, but the way the animal looks.

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# 50 10-12-2003 , 08:46 PM

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CG for the sake of CG alone = 100 smiths ? no, dosn't sound right to me. 100 smiths sounds more like the cool anime that the borthers have going in there head that put the matrix on the map in the first place. true it might not have bean 100% but still.

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# 51 12-12-2003 , 10:01 AM

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Pony: Um.. didnt quite follow you on that one... But on a semi related note, one of the premier reviews for the original matrix it was anounced as the Live action anime.

Uncle Fungus: It might not be the same series... my sister rented it for her class(shes a teacher), and she watched it at my house the day before class to take notes on it. Im pretty sure it was called "Living Dinosuars" or something like that. I thought it had excellent CG. And it only showed a T-Rex for a few seconds because it mainly focused on a different era of dinos.

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# 52 13-12-2003 , 12:06 AM

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Walking with Dinosuars, along with Walking with Beasts was a BBC docu-serise created by Framestore CFC.

Yeah, but no but yeah but no....

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# 53 13-12-2003 , 07:41 AM

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I thought that Matrix 2 story was really good. So I don't think it as CG for the sake of CG. And Anime is not just an action flic you watch. If you watch most of the good ones they have really good storys. Specally Manga.

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# 54 08-01-2004 , 05:00 AM

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I like :

Shrek, Final Fantasie, Ice Age and of course our maya mouse , that comes up with the second part (sorry can´t reminder the name).

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# 55 22-01-2004 , 04:55 PM

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OK; Shrek was insanely good, but Nemo, to me was more clever. The seagulls squaking "mine", was brilliant. I also loved the way they used personification with the animals. The way they incorporated the crabs, and their natuarally extended claws with "hey, hey" - like in an intallian swagger was pure joy. I really was overwhlemed by Nemo. Yeah, there are the "disney" moments, as with the surfer-dude-dell-wannabee type characters for the sea-turtles, but the nuances were perfect. I am VERY picky, but wanted to throw my 2 cents in for Nemo. Love the forum!

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