Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I gotta say, this flick, which I first heard about in Netflix's 2023 sizzle reel today, sounds like a lot of fun.
Tudum said:
It comes out on Netflix on Oct. 13.
Damsel: Millie Bobbie Brown is a princess sacrificed to a dragon, and then fights back
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I gotta say, this flick, which I first heard about in Netflix's 2023 sizzle reel today, sounds like a lot of fun.
It comes out on Netflix on Oct. 13.
Ryujin
Legend
Sounds remarkably like another movie, the name of which escapes me now, that came out last year. Princess is kidnapped and then sets about rescuing herself.
Ah, yes! That was it. "The Princess."
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Ah, yes! That was it. "The Princess."
The Princess (2022) - IMDb
The Princess: Directed by Le-Van Kiet. With Joey King, Olga Kurylenko, Antoni Davidov, Radoslav Parvanov. When a strong-willed princess refuses to wed the cruel sociopath, she is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle. With her vindictive suitor intent on taking her...
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Ruin Explorer
Legend
What I want to know is:
A) Why in god's holy name is has that sword got a CGI blade?
B) Is the final version going to to look less incredibly awful? This one isn't even lined up quite correctly - the perspective is noticeably off.
Practical FX, guys, they still exist for a reason. I'm pretty sure Millie Bobbie Brown can lift a sword. And just using a hilt, the moves she makes will not be the same as if she makes them with an actual sword. Joey King, who I think is even smaller, managed to run around with non-CGI swords for an entire damn movie with a similar concept recently (I enjoyed it - The Princess), though I'm sure some of that was a stuntwoman.
A) Why in god's holy name is has that sword got a CGI blade?
B) Is the final version going to to look less incredibly awful? This one isn't even lined up quite correctly - the perspective is noticeably off.
Practical FX, guys, they still exist for a reason. I'm pretty sure Millie Bobbie Brown can lift a sword. And just using a hilt, the moves she makes will not be the same as if she makes them with an actual sword. Joey King, who I think is even smaller, managed to run around with non-CGI swords for an entire damn movie with a similar concept recently (I enjoyed it - The Princess), though I'm sure some of that was a stuntwoman.
Ryujin
Legend
Can't have expensive actors running around with actual pointy things, can we? Insurance costs a fortune!
Truth is there's been a lot of CGI "blades" in recent years. It's frequently a coloured stick with a ball on the end, for tracking purposes.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
This appears to be just a hilt, though, because the blade is misaligned in the CGI, which shouldn't happen with a rigid tracking stick.
And I'm confident in saying Joey King was running around with an actual pointy thing. Probably blunt as hell but that's a given.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
The movie's not coming out for nine months. They haven't even wrapped principal photography. I assume the sword and other CGI will be a lot better by the time it's done.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
I'm still skeptical it'll look good, moves-wise, but we shall see.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
I can think of a number of reasons:
1) It's actually a lightsabre/flameblade/moonblade/sunblade/vorpal sword. The final blade FX haven't been completed yet.
2) They wanted to make the sword look larger/heavier than the performer could actually wield effectively.
3) they want it to look unreal. In His Dark Materials (BBC/HBO) they used CGI for the daemons, even when a real animal could have been used, the slight unreality was intentional.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
I guess we'll see. It looks dreadful right now because it's misaligned but hopefully they can fix that.