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Aneirin -> RE: Geek-gasm (7/23/2010 5:02:02 AM)
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Stories in movies these days rarely interest me, they have all been told before, in whatever genre in whatever age. My interest is an original sound and light extravaganza, something which is becoming increasingly rare these days because we are soaked in the stuff via computer technology. Twenty eight years ago when personal computers, the internet and all we now take for granted was a world away to the great majority of us something like TRON was a visual feast, whereas the new TRON I feel has lost it's originality, it will be another film that fades into the miasma of similar CGI infested products.
Can you imagine the first time the original StarWars was shown at the cinema, a complete breakthrough at the time, a western movie in space, goodies wore white, baddies wore black, subsequent episodes, The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of The Jedi though part of the story following the lives of characters from the original masterpiece, they had lost the edge that Star Wars had, it quite simply had been seen before, although there were with advances in technology in subsequent years small break throughs of breath taking action, speeder bikes through a forest for example, as seen in The Return of The Jedi. That was that as far as we of that generation were concerned, the Star Wars trilogy complete and with good memories too.
But what happens, years later up pops a new episode, then another and another, obviously there was more to the story to be had and so film (?) makers churned out a sameness which did not have the same appeal, aye the effects were good, computer generated and with a slickness that made the original films look positively gritty, but with the new technologies employed they got it wrong as far as many of the original followers were concerned. What made it wrong was the new computer generated technology created scenes that appeared to be more advanced than the original films, more futuristic yet they were supposed to be set earlier than the origianl Star Wars trilogy, years earlier as the story goes, they had basically fucked up with that one, for they had lost continuity.
But I am not against CGI, in fact I love it, with Final Fantasy-The Spirits Within being one of my favourite films and though I didn't get to see Avatar in the cinema, I shall at some point see it, it is on my menu of films to see, but one thing I am becoming very aware of every film from the past that is remade with modern technology is losing the original appeal, as if the film makers are saying the first attempt at this thing was a half assed attempt, but now we have the tools available to us, we can get it right this time, or is it really about keeping their jobs in an industry that has basically done it all already before the advent of computers.
But of films that are memorable to me they are few but come from 43 years of cinema delight and represent milestones in my age and do include ; Pete's Dragon, The Cat From Outer Space, Warlords Of Atlantis, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of The Jedi, Tron, Clash of The Titans, Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome, Dune, The Crow, Final Fantasy, Braveheart, Gladiator LOTR LOTR 2, LOTR 3 not in any particular order, but they all hold memories from the time I saw the movies, so they stick with me as the good times in my life.
But, I suppose it could be, my aversion to modern day remakes of my classics could be about the movie industry rehashing my good memories
Edited to add, I just watched Mad Max 4 teaser on Youtube and that looks like it has lost it as well ah well, keep the memories as they say.
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