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Mr. Beaks Previews Robert Zemeckis's A CHRISTMAS CAROL And Disney's Promotional Train Tour!
Since its publication in 1843, Charles Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL has been retold and reconfigured more times than perhaps any other story in the history of the English language. It's been performed as a play and a musical. It's been filmed. It's been animated. It's been spoofed. It's been Muppet-ized, Murray-fied and McConaughey-ed. It's been done.
But it's never been done by Robert Zemeckis before. And, according to Jim Carrey, that's more than enough reason to do it all over again.
When you're talking Zemeckis post-CAST AWAY, this means it's never been done in performance capture and projected onto a seventy-fooot IMAX screen (in 3-D!) before. The Walt Disney Company is gambling that this infusion of technological wizardry, overseen by one of the industry's most visually gifted filmmakers, will be sufficient to convince audiences that they need to see grumpy old Ebenezer Scrooge once again learn to love his fellow man via illuminating visitations from the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future. Having seen somewhere in the neighborhood of ten minutes of (seemingly) finished footage from Zemeckis's retelling, I'd advise every community theater troupe in the country to steer clear of Dickens's evergreen this year; if parents have to subject their kids to one go-round with A CHRISTMAS CAROL this holiday season, they're probably going to opt for Carrey and the guy who directed THE POLAR EXPRESS.
As was the case with BEOWULF and THE POLAR EXPRESS, Zemeckis's A CHRISTMAS CAROL has clearly been designed with the vertigo-inducing capabilities of IMAX in mind. This was most evident from the extended theatrical trailer that closed out the brief footage presentation, the highlight of which was Carrey's Scrooge being rocketed through the roof of his house and into the sky high above Victorian-era London by what appears to be Bodhi from SOLARBABIES. I don't remember this scene from the novella, but it's the kind of breathtaking visual we've come to expect from Zemeckis since he began experimenting with performance-capture cinema. If nothing else, the man still knows his way around a set piece.
Whereas THE POLAR EXPRESS was nothing more than an impressive showreel for this technology, I felt Zemeckis managed to tell a fairly compelling story with BEOWULF. That said, he still hadn't found a way to forge the ol' "uncanny valley"; no matter how engrossing the action was, I couldn't get past the dead eyes of the characters. This is the problem performance capture has yet to remedy. While it appears incremental advances have been made with A CHRISTMAS CAROL, I'm afraid you're still acutely aware that the actors are part of a "process". This is especially true in the sequence where Fred (Colin Firth) nobly defends the spiritual virtues of the holiday to his cold-hearted brother; it's actually a beautifully-written scene (it's worth noting that this is Zemeckis's first solo flight as a screenwriter), but Firth's Fred constantly looks like he's lost his bearings. The effect is less distracting in the Marley scene - in that there's nothing wrong with a dead-eyed ghost - but fans of THE FRIGHTENERS might be a little peeved that Zemeckis has swiped The Judge's detached jaw bit of business (thought, to be fair, Zemeckis did produce Peter Jackson's 1996 horror flick).
But here's the good news: none of this is going to bother your kids. Skeptical. Well, over the next five months, you'll get to check out this footage for yourself for free as the CHRISTMAS CAROL whistle-stop train tour hits thirty-eight destinations across the continental United States. Isn't a train more closely associated with THE POLAR EXPRESS than A CHRISTMAS CAROL? As Zemeckis said at last Thursday's press event in Los Angeles, "Trains and Christmas! It's like peas and carrots! They just go together!" At which point he broke free of his leg braces and ran to Baltimore.
Obviously, this is one big promotion for a (hopefully) huge Hollywood movie, but I imagine kids will have fun touring the train, which is outfitted with touchscreen tours of the film's virtual set, a motion-capture stage, production art, flat-screen televisions showing off behind-the-scenes footage and a face-morphing application that mutates your visage to fit one of several characters from the film (I tried several times to pull off Scrooge, but the result was consistently a Sloth-level deformation). The 3-D footage will be shown in an adjacent tent. There will also be a variety of other Disney promotions tied into this. The tour schedule is listed below.
Zemeckis, Carrey and Disney Chairman Dick Cook hung out for a brief press conference following the tour and footage presentation (sadly, they won't be traveling with the train). Since there were kids around, I figured this was not the appropriate time to ask Zemeckis if he's considered making a raucous, R-rated, USED CARS-ish performance capture comedy. Another time, hopefully. Until then, I can honestly say I'm looking forward to A CHRISTMAS CAROL if only to see how Zemeckis has moved the technology forward. That said, it's still the appetizer for the big IMAX 3-D meal coming from James Cameron in December.
Faithfully submitted,
Mr. Beaks
“DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL” TRAIN TOUR
SCHEDULE
Stop # Market Date Site Address City State Zip
1 Los Angeles May 22-25 Los Angeles Union Station 800 N. Alameda St. Los Angeles CA 90012
2 Grand Canyon May 29-31 Williams Depot 233 North Grand Canyon Blvd Williams AZ 86046
3 Santa Fe June 2 Santa Fe Depot 410 S Guadalupe St Santa Fe NM 87501
4 Albuquerque June 5-7 Albuquerque Amtrak Station 214 First Street Southwest Albuquerque NM 87102
5 Denver June 12-14 Denver Union Station 1701 Wynkoop St Denver CO 80202
6 Salt Lake City June 16 Ogden Union Station 2501 Wall Avenue Ogden UT 84401
7 Sacramento June 19-21 California State Rail Road Museum 111 I Street Sacramento CA 95814
8 San Francisco June 26-28 Port of Redwood City 675 Seaport Blvd. Redwood City CA 94063
9 Portland July 1 Portland Union Station 800 Northwest 6th Avenue Portland OR 97209
10 Seattle July 3-5 King Street Station 303 South Jackson Street Seattle WA 98104
11 Spokane July 7 Spokane Amtrak Station 221 W. 1st Avenue Spokane WA 99201
12 Whitefish July 10-11 Whitefish Amtrak Station 500 Depot St Whitefish MT 59937
13 Fargo July 15 North Dakota State University 1301 12th Avenue North Fargo ND 58102
14 St. Paul July 17-19 Amtrak Midway Station 730 Transfer Road St. Paul MN 55114
15 Chicago July 24-26 Chicago Union Station 225 South Canal Street Chicago IL 60606
16 St. Louis July 31- August 2 St. Louis Union Station 550 South 16th Street Saint Louis MO 63103
17 Memphis August 4 Memphis Central Station 545 South Main Street Memphis TN 38103
18 New Orleans August 7-9 Riverview in Audubon Park 6500 Magazine Street New Orleans LA 70118
19 Houston August 11 Houston Amtrak Station 902 Washington Avenue Houston TX 77002
20 San Antonio August 14-16 San Antonio Amtrak Station 350 Hoefgen Street San Antonio TX 78205
21 Dallas August 18-19 Dallas Union Station 401 South Houston St Dallas TX 75202
22 Oklahoma City August 21-23 Oklahoma City Santa Fe Depot 100 South E. K.Gaylord Blvd Oklahoma City OK 73102
23 Kansas City August 25 Kansas City Union Station 30 W. Pershing Road Kansas City MO 64108
24 Omaha August 28-30 Durham Museum 801 South 10th Street Omaha NE 68108
25 Detroit September 4-6 Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village 20900 Oakwood Blvd Dearborn MI 48124
26 Indianapolis September 9 Downtown Bargersville 24 North Main Street Bargersville IN 46106
27 Louisville September 11-13 Louisville Union Station 1000 W. Broadway Louisville KY 40203
28 Cleveland September 18-19 Cleveland Brown’s Lot 1085 W Third St Cleveland OH 44114
29 Albany September 22 Albany Rensselaer Rail Station 525 East Street Rensselaer NY 12144
30 Boston September 25-27 South Station 2 South Station Boston MA 2110
31 Baltimore September 30 B & O Railroad Museum 901 W Pratt St Baltimore MD 21223
32 Washington October 2-4 Union Station 50 Massachusetts Ave. NE Washington DC 20002
33 Atlanta October 6 Southeastern Railway Museum 3595 Peachtree Rd Duluth GA 30096
34 Spencer October 9-11 NC Transportation Museum 411 S. Salisbury Ave Spencer NC 28159
35 Savannah October 13 Savannah Amtrak Station 2611 Seaboard Coastline Dr Savannah GA 31415
36 Miami October 16-18 Gold Coast Railroad Museum 12450 SW 152nd St Miami FL 33177
37 Jacksonville October 20 Jacksonville Amtrak Station 3570 Clifford Lane Jacksonville FL 32209
38 Charleston October 23-25 Ansonborough Field Washington and Concord Streets Charleston SC 29401
39 Philadelphia October 27 30th Street Station 2955 Market Street Philadelphia PA 19104
40 New York October 30 - November 1 Grand Central Terminal 42nd Street and Park Avenue New York NY 10017
“DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL” TRAIN TOUR
SCHEDULE
Stop # Market Date Site Address City State Zip
1 Los Angeles May 22-25 Los Angeles Union Station 800 N. Alameda St. Los Angeles CA 90012
2 Grand Canyon May 29-31 Williams Depot 233 North Grand Canyon Blvd Williams AZ 86046
3 Santa Fe June 2 Santa Fe Depot 410 S Guadalupe St Santa Fe NM 87501
4 Albuquerque June 5-7 Albuquerque Amtrak Station 214 First Street Southwest Albuquerque NM 87102
5 Denver June 12-14 Denver Union Station 1701 Wynkoop St Denver CO 80202
6 Salt Lake City June 16 Ogden Union Station 2501 Wall Avenue Ogden UT 84401
7 Sacramento June 19-21 California State Rail Road Museum 111 I Street Sacramento CA 95814
8 San Francisco June 26-28 Port of Redwood City 675 Seaport Blvd. Redwood City CA 94063
9 Portland July 1 Portland Union Station 800 Northwest 6th Avenue Portland OR 97209
10 Seattle July 3-5 King Street Station 303 South Jackson Street Seattle WA 98104
11 Spokane July 7 Spokane Amtrak Station 221 W. 1st Avenue Spokane WA 99201
12 Whitefish July 10-11 Whitefish Amtrak Station 500 Depot St Whitefish MT 59937
13 Fargo July 15 North Dakota State University 1301 12th Avenue North Fargo ND 58102
14 St. Paul July 17-19 Amtrak Midway Station 730 Transfer Road St. Paul MN 55114
15 Chicago July 24-26 Chicago Union Station 225 South Canal Street Chicago IL 60606
16 St. Louis July 31- August 2 St. Louis Union Station 550 South 16th Street Saint Louis MO 63103
17 Memphis August 4 Memphis Central Station 545 South Main Street Memphis TN 38103
18 New Orleans August 7-9 Riverview in Audubon Park 6500 Magazine Street New Orleans LA 70118
19 Houston August 11 Houston Amtrak Station 902 Washington Avenue Houston TX 77002
20 San Antonio August 14-16 San Antonio Amtrak Station 350 Hoefgen Street San Antonio TX 78205
21 Dallas August 18-19 Dallas Union Station 401 South Houston St Dallas TX 75202
22 Oklahoma City August 21-23 Oklahoma City Santa Fe Depot 100 South E. K.Gaylord Blvd Oklahoma City OK 73102
23 Kansas City August 25 Kansas City Union Station 30 W. Pershing Road Kansas City MO 64108
24 Omaha August 28-30 Durham Museum 801 South 10th Street Omaha NE 68108
25 Detroit September 4-6 Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village 20900 Oakwood Blvd Dearborn MI 48124
26 Indianapolis September 9 Downtown Bargersville 24 North Main Street Bargersville IN 46106
27 Louisville September 11-13 Louisville Union Station 1000 W. Broadway Louisville KY 40203
28 Cleveland September 18-19 Cleveland Brown’s Lot 1085 W Third St Cleveland OH 44114
29 Albany September 22 Albany Rensselaer Rail Station 525 East Street Rensselaer NY 12144
30 Boston September 25-27 South Station 2 South Station Boston MA 2110
31 Baltimore September 30 B & O Railroad Museum 901 W Pratt St Baltimore MD 21223
32 Washington October 2-4 Union Station 50 Massachusetts Ave. NE Washington DC 20002
33 Atlanta October 6 Southeastern Railway Museum 3595 Peachtree Rd Duluth GA 30096
34 Spencer October 9-11 NC Transportation Museum 411 S. Salisbury Ave Spencer NC 28159
35 Savannah October 13 Savannah Amtrak Station 2611 Seaboard Coastline Dr Savannah GA 31415
36 Miami October 16-18 Gold Coast Railroad Museum 12450 SW 152nd St Miami FL 33177
37 Jacksonville October 20 Jacksonville Amtrak Station 3570 Clifford Lane Jacksonville FL 32209
38 Charleston October 23-25 Ansonborough Field Washington and Concord Streets Charleston SC 29401
39 Philadelphia October 27 30th Street Station 2955 Market Street Philadelphia PA 19104
40 New York October 30 - November 1 Grand Central Terminal 42nd Street and Park Avenue New York NY 10017
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and the lines were 3 hours long in the heat so it wasn't very kid friendly.
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Bring back old Zemeckis. This MOCAP shit is already gettin' old
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Talk about shit gettin' old...
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transportation to exhibit this state of the art technology. But "Christmas and trains"? I'd say Planes, Trains and Automoblies and Thanksgiving go together better.
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all have Alzheimer's. Or they're just fucking senile. But it's definitely one of them.
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YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST BEAT THE LITTLE BASTARDS AND TOLD THEM TO 'MAN UP'. FFS.
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It can be done. The problem is Zemeckis relies to much on motion capture and not enough actual animation. You need to use the best of both worlds to pull this off.
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I could not care less about another retelling of the fucking Christmas Carol. After a zillion versions of a story that's not even good in it's original form it's just unbearable.
But this is another in a series of posts by Beaks now that was informative and virtually devoid of the terrible pretentious, arrogant style of writing with which this guy normally tortures his readers. I feel like i'm taking crazy pills! Way to go beaks, keep it up! -
yeah bithces!
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making adult films. He's actually one of the better filmmakers out there still. I feel he's wasting his talent on kids stuff.
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it will more likely just get them wet, like pre-cum!
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hmmmm.....I MIGHT be wrong....but I think the old judge bit was taken from a version of CHRISTMAS CAROL somewhere along the line....
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxB0yXfpQZ8
Why would i show my kids the fucking Christmas carol when i can take them to see this?! -
But, please be sure to use ALL CAPS.
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its the start of summer....why are we talking about xmas stuff?That is not cool news...not at all
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He always had a 'death bow' tied around his head to keep his mouth closed after death. I don't think it's never come off in any of the film versions. Only in one of the old cartoons did it come off and his mouth dropped open.
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Please?
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look very much like the pictures McWeeny posted on HitFix last week. Strange...
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YOU FUCKING TWAT. GET THE FUCK OUT. NOW.
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There's no FUCKING TRAINS in a CHRISTMAS CAROL!!! FUUUUUCKK!!!
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When is Robert Zemeckis going to take a break from all of this motion capture/performance capture stuff andmake a REAL movie again? Am I the ONLY one that thinks this guy needs to give up the electronics and get back behind the camera again?
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Damn that movie sucked! It SUCKED! I hated IT! AHHHHH!!
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I wonder if the money was spent on more tv, print, and radio ads might be better to actually promote the film. Could someone in marketing please explain.
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May 27, 2009 4:36:27 PM CDT
So are Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd in this thing or what
by togmeister
Marty and the Doc returning to the Zemeckis fold would be reason enough to see it.
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if they're dipshits who never read A Christmas Carol.
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I totally missed the LA stop. I would have liked to have checked it out.
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than the movie is going to be...
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May 27, 2009 5:15:16 PM CDT
Fa_Tass_DinoMolester, the fuck did Spielberg do to you?
by mattmanreturns
And don't use the Indy 4 excuse, that doesn't count thanks to Lucas. The director of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun, and Close Encounters could film a steaming pile of shit for 2 hours and that would not change the fact that he's one of the best directors of all time. You people have the shortest attention spans ever. And if you want recent masterpieces, then you have Munich, Catch Me If You Can, and Minority Report. I'd add A.I. to that list but most talkbackers think the robots at the end were aliens.
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Bah humbug, Jim Carrey as Scrooge - that's gonna require some acting rather than just turning up and gurning to camera, maybe the computer rendering guys will help out.
However, I did really get a kick out of BEOWULF (saw it in 3D on imax - awesome - and then again with the 'harder' cut on Blu Ray) and my faith in Zemeckis' ability is high.
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"I'd add A.I. to that list but most talkbackers think the robots at the end were aliens"
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And it was still a sickening and cringe-inducing pile of shit at the end there. But I certainly wouldn't bag on Spielberg generally - Munich was awesome and I seem to be one the few people who still say War of the Worlds was pretty damn cool.
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Not great but not a bad film by any means. In fact, the son character is the only thing that really bugs me about it, but that's not enough to kill the movie.
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as Marley is GENIUS.
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is still Monsters House. Beowulf was good. But Monster House has a bit more charm to it.
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I think the main issue with AI was that it was a Kubrick/Spielberg hybrid. So it ended up being the less of both.
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Tom and the aliens were awesome, but those kids in it were awful.
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Drew Barrymore in E.T. still holds the trophy for best child actress.
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Actually, Spielberg used to be my favorite filmmaker, but from AI onward, (excluding Minority Report and Letters from Iwo Jima), everything he's been involved with has been mediocre at best and crap at worst; AI, The Terminal, and Crystal Skullfuck sucked, War of the Worlds' effects and score were the only good parts of that movie, Munich was spineless, and Tintin looks needless. Spielberg used to be a god of popular art; now he's obsessing over LaBoof, producing Michael Bay shit, and doing a pretty good Lucas impersonation. If you can't detect the massive lapse in the quality between his 1970's-90's work and his 2000's work, that's your problem.
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It'd be pretty easy. Just take out the bit where the boy survives and we have to endure Tom's creepy-arse wide-eyed crying shtik. Viola! Instantly better movie!
Seriously though, after the cool opening, I thought the most impressive bit was the tension in the scene where all you have is the incredibly simple flashing lights and loud noises to ratchet things up (when they're in the basement). Sometimes the 'Berg still has it like he used to. -
Most of the team dies, and the two that live realize that everything they've done is pointless. The hero is utterly wrecked in the end of the movie... can't even enjoy having sex with his wife. How... is that movie spineless, exactly?
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stems (bad word choice, but whatever), from its complete lack of anything new or definitive to say about the Israel/Palestine situation...it just reiterates the facts as we know them. Especially given how Spielberg wears his Judaism on his sleeve, (in particular with the Shoah Foundation), I'd think he would have something personal or political to say about Israel's policies and Palestine's suicide attacks, but the film has no voice of its own on the matter; its thematic content is just as muddled as that of its protagonists. In fact, the film is so non-definitive that upon its release, the Israelis claimed it was too pro-Palestinian, and the Palestinians claimed it was too pro-Israeli! Spielberg claimed he wanted to make a good political thriller, like "Three Days of the Condor", and it's certainly a well-made and slick-looking action film, but its failure to generate nothing but the same questions people in the region have been asking for decades anyway made it, in my mind, ultimately a failure.
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Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol is a beautiful rendition of Dicken's story and one of my favorite versions.
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Sick of Jim Carrey, sick of MOCAP, sick of Zemeckis squandering his talent on this creepy crap. But I am ESPECIALLY sick of the eternal re-telling of ACC. Watched an interview of Zemeckis saying we now have the technology to do ACC right - Jesus, how arrogant is that?? Sorry, I'll take a real George C. Scott or even Michael Caine screaming at Muppets over MOCAP Carrey any day of the week! Also watched "Back to the Future" again last week - great movie! Zemeckis's latest, such a waste...
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I loved Beowolf...love CG 3D in general.
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Well I just watched my favorite scenes...it was by far not a great movie but did a few excellent scenes...probably edit it down to 45 min and it would rock. Just the first scene of the tripod alient thing coming out of the ground and frying people...that is one of the best sci-fi action sequences in the last 25 years. But most of the film = meh or worse.
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You do realize Letters from Iwo Jima was a Clint Eastwood movie...right?
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May 27, 2009 10:57:49 PM CDT
I liked the scene where the plane crashes around the house
by lockesbrokenleg
pretty cool.
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...which is unstoppable
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...I'm sick and tired of this "well, your kids will like it" bullshit. If the movie is unnessecary crap, then its unnessecary crap. Did we really need ANOTHER adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL? No. That's it. Stop making excuses for this shit just because its using the completely worthless Imax 3-D technology. Every Kool-Aid drinkin' internet twat who's already proclaiming Imax 3-D the savior of crappy cinema, keeps making every excuse in the book for every crappy picture that uses the technology (unless the crappy picture isn't an A-list studio orgy). "Sure its not ground-breaking storywise, but, the kids will love it." Fuck you. I quote Ebert: "Kids say they "like" it, but kids are inclined to say they "like" anything that is animated and that they get to see in a movie theater. It is the responsibility of parents to explain this useful truth: If it ain't broke. don't fix it. Every single frame of a 3D movie gives you something to look at that is not necessary." The reason why these born-again-esque followers keep using "kids" as an excuse to give these pieces of shit a free pass is the same reason why junk-food companies market primarily to children; get the kids, get the parents. That's the reason why the majority of these motion-capture, 3-D, Imax, digital, etc. pictures are children's movies. Its a way to make people go watch something and accept it being mediocre. Didn't like the story? Well, its a kids movie, what did you expect? Was the 3-D good? Did your kids have a good time? If the answer is "yes" then what are you complaining about? Its a way to silence critics of this technology and of movies in general. Its the same agrument that arose several years ago when a critic criticised the other critics for putting down DADDY DAY CARE because his son loved it, and its a kids movie, therefore, its deserves a free pass. We're looking at movies from a marketing perspective then a critical one. If its marketed to kids and the kids like it, then its a success. It doesn't have to be good as long as it makes money. Either at the box office or from the use of its technology. MONSTERS VS. ALIENS is another example. The review from my newspaper's local film critic panned it, but still reccommended people go see it on account of the cgi 3-D (He was especially impressed by how well the female lead's HAIR looked...). This is EXACTLY what the studios want: go pay money to see it, even if its not that good. And that's one of the REAL reasons why this technology is being hailed as the second-coming. Stop whoring our children for this worthless bullshit.
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Back to the Future 3 ending, Polar Express, now a Train tour. Just make Train the movie already.
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It had a proper story, proper complex characters, was set in a proper context, it was absolutely NOT the kind of action-packed rubbish we are used to seeing. It was a return to superior, ideas-packed entertainment Zemeckis, the Zemeckis we know from Roger Rabbit and Contact. I'm totally surprised at the hate coming at this guy in some of the above posts.
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Even if it's a pile of poo, I'm going to convince myself it's amazing. As an experiment. Just to see if it makes the movie a more enjoyable experience. I'll buy the t-shirt & the baseball cap. Pre-order the dvd. Join the Jim Carrey fan club. Ok, let's try it... I cannot wait for this movie! WOW! NOW I'M FEELING IT! IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME!!! ZEMECKIS!!! I think it's working.
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I have nothing else to add. He sums up exactly what is so wrong (both artistically and morally) about bad kids movies these days.
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I second that applause for tophat. Not for his post above but for his smart top hat. Even if you killed someone, tophat, I wouldn't turn you in.
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... it's pretty clear in almost every post that you pretty much hate EVERYTHING. Yet you love Zemeckis' Beowulf?! That's it, I give up...
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but I'm confused! Rick McCallum said Episode one WAS good, and we just didn't 'get' it, because we're not kids! Kids love Jar Jar. Are you saying... he was LYING to us?!
So confused,
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I'm going to pretend it's another Back to the Future movie and maybe I'll be able to work up some enthusiasm for it.
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Christmas time is when most every mall in my area as well as millions of families pull out the old train set and set it up. Why? I don't know, but it's true. Fire stations do it as well. It's huge. It makes sense to me. I had the opportunity to act in A Christmas Carol in High School (I was Bob Cratchit)and I always love the story. Yes we know what happens but it's a seasonal thing. I'm gonna go see it. My kids are too young right now. When it comes out the daughter will be 3 and the boy will be 4 months. I may take my daughter to see the train when it hits Baltimore. And I agree that Zemeckis should go back and film real actors again.
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to get this technology off the ground when it's never really worked? Early Pixar/Dreamworks 3D might have had some room to improve technology-wise, but they were always creative and interesting to watch with believable characters. So how long are we supposed to wait before the characters in these movies are believable and don't keep widening the uncanney valley? When is the benefit of this technology finally gonna show up? Cause I have yet to see it.
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to get this technology off the ground when it's never really worked? Early Pixar/Dreamworks 3D might have had some room to improve technology-wise, but they were always creative and interesting to watch with believable characters. So how long are we supposed to wait before the characters in these movies are believable and don't keep widening the uncanney valley? When is the benefit of this technology finally gonna show up? Cause I have yet to see it.
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My bad.
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By Spielberg's own comment, he wasn't looking to make a political statement, he was seeking to make a political-themed action thriller. The movie did have resonance and themes about vengeance and losing one's humanity, and it had a few superb, and I mean, SUPERB suspense sequences. The scene with the bomb in the apartment and the little girl goes to pick up the phone, while Bana dashes to call it off, was arm-seat gripping. Spielberg still has it in him, the flaming turd that is Indy IV aside, which I blame more on Lucas.
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I attended this on Friday. Luckily the line was only 90 minutes long when I got there. It was pretty cool, Disney and HP are going all out to promote this film. The "tent" is actually the biggest inflatable bouncy I have ever seen, with a giant flat screen TV inside. The footage that was shown looked incredible. I will be seeing the movie in IMAX for sure
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but it (and the pretty mediocre Flags of Our Fathers) was produced by Spielberg. Orbots, I hope you're right...I'd love Spielberg to come roaring back with Lincoln and Interstellar.
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Why the fuck are they doing anything Christmas-related right now?
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May 28, 2009 10:27:00 PM CDT
this is coming to Savannah, I may just check this out...
by the amazing g
anyway I saw Beowulf in no frills 2D and while I thought it was a pretty good movie, it's not a hair on the ass of Used Cars, Back To The Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit etc etc
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pretty fun mid-90's movie
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Just as Steve Martin is no Peter Sellers (re awful Panther remakes), Jim Carrey is no Allistair Sims. Thumbs, toes and other bits of the anatomy down on this unnecessary piece of trash.
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