BEOWULF Trailer Now Online

Now that looks really cool...

Yes, this does look really cool. Zemeckis is making amazing strides with the motion capture style he's using. Imagine what James Cameron is going to do with his movie! wow. I can't wait to see this movie. Beowolf and Grendel was a great version, too. I only bought it because it was filmed in Iceland, and having lived there, I wanted to see if I could tell where the lcoations were. Turned out to be a greally good movie. I like seeing the epic on film, because there's probably a lot of people out there who have never read the story but bought the Cliff notes for the high school literature report.

Well this is the first time I've been really excited about this movie.
I watched the trailer in 480 HD and it still looked really grainy. Did anyone else think so or is there something wrong with my computer?

The trailer looked good, but the quality between characters varied. Jolie's animated form looked like the actress was there. The skin tone, shadows, details looked flawless. The others were less so. Especially the Queen (Princess Buttercup). She looked like a video game cut scene.
You can tell the best people worked on Jolie. Her character was the only one whose eyes didn't look weird. I hope they have time to polish the rest before November.

It took me awhile, but I thought it was live action movie. That is some great effects, definietly going to see this movie.

Well we have finally reached the pennacle of computer graphics nearly matching real life form, human physicality and emotional reflex detail while maintaining real time action.

Soon there will be no difference between live actor/actress and computer created ala "Simone".

The good news is dead cinema actors and actresses actually can be broughten back to life after they have died to continue on with a movie with little paid by studios to use their likenesses to their estate.

Or reduce the amount of money paid out to current living actors/actresses to use their likenesses and cut down on wear and tear on their bodies or precious time and just have them simply have them come in for voice work, motion capture and facial scanning.

I like the idea, but I can see how Hollywood, if not curtailed, could abuse it to take advantage of actors/actresses.

I can also see them making new actors/actresses by compositing a series of actors/actresses upon a work template and create a new actor/actress via a combination of visual looks fine tuned to make a movie from it without using actors/actresses from a master template.

The good news is they could actually carry on movies from the original 1977 series of Star Wars using likenesses of Luke, Han, etc... while using them to voice their characters. But Hollywood not have to pay as much as the actor/actress needs not have to act so long physically.

Same with Indiana Jones. Indy is still as young as we remember but Harrison proves the voice. The animated character does the hard physical work without stress and danger to the actor.

Imagine a return of Star Trek: The Original Series voiced by the original actors/actresses, with the exception of those who have already died where they get vocal duplicates to voice them but have the original looking character on screen..

It's a new avenue and it's now an option to actors/actresses to use in their work as well as Hollywood to continue on franchises without fear of old age disrupting the franchise character.

I love the boundaries pushed in computer gaming and graphics with Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion and it is refreshing to see it starting to be carried over to Hollywood cinema. :-)

Why didn't they just make this live action?

That's my question too. Would be cheaper to do most of it live.

I really dont get why this isn't live action either. The best special effects are when you dont know it's a special effect, but with this it's like you know it's fake. For some reason that bugs that crap out of me. Take Attack of the Clones for example, not one damn Stormtrooper was real, all cgi! This might look cool in a video game, but do i really want to watch a 2 hour movie of it? Well with a naked Angelina Jolie, probably.

Reminded me of the Final Fantasy movie which I enjoyed a lot.