Beowulf: A Before and After Movie

[Crothian]

If there is a groundbreaking thing, it's the vastly improved human-detail CGI models. In my lifetime I expect them to supplant the vast majority of the SAG membership, as well as close down most clothing, set construction, and stunt work.

This has been said in the past when CGI really came into its own and I rolled my eyes then too.

 

[hafrogman]

3D is still just a gimmick as long as you have to wear glasses, especially glasses over other glasses.

See, I can't do this. Something about wearing 3-D glasses over my normal glasses changes the focal point just a little and the only real effect is to give me a splitting headache. I cannot sit through a feature length 3-d film without wanting to gouge out my own frontal lobes with a spoon.

 

[warlord]

Sure Beowulf is totally a before and after movie, if by before and after you mean that it took butchary of the book to movie genre to a new low.

 

[threshel]

OP: I think the movie you're looking for is called Monster House. It was filmed using the exact techniques used in Beowulf (motion capture actors' performances, and fully 3D presentation), only it was made a couple of years ago. Otherwise, I agree with all of your assesments on the technology, it's impact on the viewer (mind-blowing!) and the market (finally, a reason to go to the freakin theater again!).

J

 

[Templetroll]

OP: I think the movie you're looking for is called Monster House. It was filmed using the exact techniques used in Beowulf (motion capture actors' performances, and fully 3D presentation), only it was made a couple of years ago. Otherwise, I agree with all of your assesments on the technology, it's impact on the viewer (mind-blowing!) and the market (finally, a reason to go to the freakin theater again!).

J

So, what does it do to home video/dvd sales? Those sales outweigh art in Hollywood.

How about a normal murder mystery? Will that use the CGI method? I doubt it.

 

[Darkwolf71]

While I don't think that 3D will be 'the new norm', I do think we will see more 3D films coming up.

As far as the technology, I think many of you are missing the point. It's not the filming that was ground-breaking. It's the ability to present it in 3D format in virtually any theater that wishes to do so. That is what will cause more 3D films to be made, a wider more accessible audience.

CGI? Now, that is still a novelty. I don't think the SAG has much to worry about in the near future.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

If there is a groundbreaking thing, it's the vastly improved human-detail CGI models. In my lifetime I expect them to supplant the vast majority of the SAG membership, as well as close down most clothing, set construction, and stunt work.

Exactly how do you expect them to capture performance without actors? I'm with you on the costumes, stunts, and set construction, but they will always need actors to provide the underlying performance. I've never seen anything that elminated that.

Incidentally, I'm one of those one-eye dominant folks. No 3-D effect invented yet that I've seen has worked for me - if Boewulf is the first wave of a new way of making movies, all it guarantees is that I've seen my last movie in a theater.

 

[satori01]

Post Revision after seeing the movie
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Saw the 3D version yesterday.. I am happy to report no headaches for me, and I have before this had them for every other 3D sequence I have seen.
To amend my earlier post...the movie is amazing in 3D, it is clearly the way to see the movie.
The battle sequence with Grendel and Beowulf is mind blowingly good in 3D.
I agree with Steel Wind, mind blowingly good.