{"id":4103,"date":"2010-12-10T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/on-the-other-hand-maybe-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader-is-all-of-that-and-a-bag-of-chips.html"},"modified":"2010-12-10T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T09:01:00","slug":"on-the-other-hand-maybe-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader-is-all-of-that-and-a-bag-of-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/on-the-other-hand-maybe-voyage-of-the-dawn-treader-is-all-of-that-and-a-bag-of-chips.html","title":{"rendered":"On the other hand, maybe Voyage of the Dawn Treader is all of that and a bag of chips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

According to Randy Sly over at Catholic Online<\/a>, whatever changes were made were small potatoes next to the finished product.\u00a0 I dunno.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have to see.\u00a0 I was somewhat impressed by the first one, less so by the second.\u00a0 He, like many, emphasizes the sweeping scenic opportunities for the CGI team.\u00a0 Count me as one who is about 1\/3 impressed by movies that have sweeping CGI effects.\u00a0 When done will, with restraint and integrated into a real, material film, they can shine \u2013 Titanic, Jurassic Park<\/em>.\u00a0 But if there is just CGI after CGI, eventually it tells.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

After about a 10 year hiatus, I picked up Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em> and watched it with one of my boys a few weeks ago.\u00a0 I was absolutely gobsmacked by how great it was.\u00a0 At the time of its release in 1981, it was a fabulous adventure romp.\u00a0 But something about watching\u00a0it this time made me feel it rose head and shoulders above anything else today.\u00a0 How?\u00a0 That was thirty years ago, limited special effects, limits on stunts and action scenes.\u00a0 How could that feel so much better than Return of the King or Spiderman 2?\u00a0 Wasn\u2019t the fight between Dr. Octopus and Spiderman beyond anything Indiana Jones could do?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Then it hit me.\u00a0 Because it was real.\u00a0 It was a movie, sure.\u00a0 But it was real.\u00a0 Those were real actors fighting, or at least pretending to.\u00a0 It hit me that the movie felt so much richer and deeper because of what it compares to now.\u00a0 When Indiana fights the brawny soldier among the whirling propeller blades of the flying wing, those are real guys doing the fighting.\u00a0 When Spidey and Doc Oc are fighting, sometimes it\u2019s real actors in front of blue screens, and sometimes its CGI effects.\u00a0 Suddenly, what was once just pretend and make believe actually became more real.\u00a0 And Raiders was the better for it. <\/p>\n

So if the biggest complement for Voyage becomes \u2018look at the cool CGI scenery\u2019, I\u2019m afraid that won\u2019t move me.\u00a0 After all, Avatar<\/em> was, for all the hyperhype, just a giant video game with occasional human interaction.\u00a0 I could get the same feeling watching my boys play a PlayStation game. We\u2019ll have to see.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Randy Sly over at Catholic Online, whatever changes were made were small potatoes next to the finished product.\u00a0 I dunno.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have to see.\u00a0 I was somewhat impressed by the first one, less so by the second.\u00a0 He, like many, emphasizes the sweeping scenic opportunities for the CGI team.\u00a0 Count me as one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nOn the other hand, maybe Voyage of the Dawn Treader is all of that and a bag of chips<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"According to Randy Sly over at Catholic Online, whatever changes were made were small potatoes next to the finished product.  I dunno.  We'll\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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