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Originally posted by traxor
Cookie please don't criticise anything before you've seen it, watching the videos on youtube it actually looks amazing and I wish I went.
I'm not critcizing that it wouldn't look good though. In fact, It may _look_ better.
But I'm criticizing the fact that the original movie, and especially if you know how it was made and in what time period it was made, probably has more 'magic' than the current one, just because they had to do it in a certain concept, in a certain way, using only tools which they had and which they agreed upon on using.
Looking at the trailers only, I can already see that CGI stuff is indeed added (so it isn't just making it 3d), something which I can't agree upon, eventhough it does _look_ more modern/awesome.
eg: a 3D CGI Wallace & Gromit may look awesome, yet I will loose the 'magic' touch it has in the original stop-motion series. To put it in another way: CGI is a nice tool, but can (I say 'can', not 'will') make movie people 'lazy'... It looses the human touch/it's like saying the craftsmen who made the movie with their bare hands didn't do a proper job so to speak...
Another such movie is The Dark Crystal. Using CGI to even 'enhance' such a movie would turn Jim Hanson around in his grave as a matter of speeking. It is something else if a sequal or prequel (aka a new movie) is being made using new modern technics though...
Another good example are the classic Startrek movies. They are made in a time period when modern CGI wasn't available. Yet they often have far more 'magic' in them than the modern variants.
You can even compare it to classic PC games, where the originals were sometimes far better, spoke more to the imagination than their modern remakes.
Anyways, hard to explain. Though I'm sure it will _look_ amazing. As for the rest, I can indeed only judge when I actually have seen/experienced it, but I have my reservations...
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