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I think it might have been the hype, but am I the only one who didn't think the SFX were all that good? It suffered from the same problem 9/10ths of CGI has, which is that it doesn't look like you can feel it. Everything always looks smooth and glossy.
( Not that it didn't have many other flaws )
And now we move onto things that are general fail with a lot of movies.
WHY WITH THE HOMINID ALIENS?!
Seriously, can't we have cute cuddly octopoids for once? Or insects, or anything else that doesn't stand up on two legs. It's not much to ask. I give earlier series a pass on this due to SFX not being good enough back then, but now, when James Cameron is going on and on about how advanced SFX are, do I still have lots of two legged aliens. Danny, who I watched it with, did point out that it's because the film-makers, quite reasonably, feel that humans are more likely to feel for things that look like them. And this is probably true. But once, just once I want something non-hominid. I was spoilt by Rygel.
And again with the faces
Okay, I get why in the cases of the avatars, but why is there this trend in cartoons and heavily SFX films to make the characters look like the actors. It's distracting, because I end up spending half the movie trying to figure out who the actor is rather than taking the character at face value, the Avatar example being Wes Studi as Eytukan, but the same thing happened with Alec Baldwin and Bernie Mac in Madagascar 2.
( Not that it didn't have many other flaws )
And now we move onto things that are general fail with a lot of movies.
WHY WITH THE HOMINID ALIENS?!
Seriously, can't we have cute cuddly octopoids for once? Or insects, or anything else that doesn't stand up on two legs. It's not much to ask. I give earlier series a pass on this due to SFX not being good enough back then, but now, when James Cameron is going on and on about how advanced SFX are, do I still have lots of two legged aliens. Danny, who I watched it with, did point out that it's because the film-makers, quite reasonably, feel that humans are more likely to feel for things that look like them. And this is probably true. But once, just once I want something non-hominid. I was spoilt by Rygel.
And again with the faces
Okay, I get why in the cases of the avatars, but why is there this trend in cartoons and heavily SFX films to make the characters look like the actors. It's distracting, because I end up spending half the movie trying to figure out who the actor is rather than taking the character at face value, the Avatar example being Wes Studi as Eytukan, but the same thing happened with Alec Baldwin and Bernie Mac in Madagascar 2.
