Resident Evil Becoming Feature Length CG Movie
Titled Biohazard: Degeneration for Japanese audiences, the movie will, according to Capcom, feature "groundbreaking visual effects and a brand-new storyline" and is planned for a "terrifying release" in 2008.
It is currently unclear if that "brand-new storyline" bit means the feature will deviate from the plot of the game, as Paul W.S. Anderson's live-action trilogy has, or if it will simply investigate another aspect of the franchise's ever-growing zombie-oriented mythology, which goes so far as to encompass zombie elephants.
Other unknown factors include Capcom's plans for distribution--theatrical or straight-to-video--and the timeline of international releases.
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replySo how many people are going to be watching Beowulf 's performance to see if full CG, adult movies are finally ripe? Spirit's Within's failure at the box office killed interest for years. Polar Express wasn't much better.
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Final Fantasy VII Advent Children wasn't all that bad.
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It's funny...I can't get behind the "look" of Beowulf...for some reason the CGI style of it just ruins any desire to go see it for me. Where on the other hand, an art style like The Incredibles has me hooked!
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It's not just you. The graphics are incredible...on a technical level. On a visceral, emotional level they look fucking creepy. Going ultra-realistic with representations of real actors doesn't make sense. The cg characters simply can't express emotion even remotely close to the live actors. They look like dolls and talking dolls creep me out. Polar Express creeped me out. The Final Fantasy movies didn't though, but that's probably because they used made up characters, not the voice actors themselves to visually portray them.
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Polar Express was a terrible movie but unfortunately made a huge amount of money at the box office, which is why Zemekis is doing Beowulf.
In the end it's all about story, if it has a good story people will like it, if it has some pseudo-eastern philosophy junk like Spirits Within, then it'll bomb.-
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Sorry, it is a Japanese movie made for Japanese audiences. That means tons of pointless philosiphizing, 13 different subplots, and gaping logic holes all in 90 minutes of footage.
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