G.I. Joe

That's great! Live action G.I. Joe has got to rock! I loved that show when I was little, and a few years ago, caught a clip on tv when one of the bad guys had a chainsaw held the neck of one of the good guys, and I thought to myself, "No wonder I liked this show so much."

Thanks for the info on the movie. I'll have to check it out.

I'll watch for the trailers. I thought the look of Sin City as a film similar to the style of a comic book was interesting. Maybe it'll be a bit like that?

There's at least one more like that out there, but I forget the name of it.

I've been burned too many times, I'll wait and see what the reviews and others have to say about it.  The trailers looked decent, but then again how many times does the trailers look great and the movie is trash? 

Very true Pagan! Hopefully they will do a good job with it. I think Transformers turned out really good.

I think the first one was pretty good. Do you mean that one, or have you seen the second one?

It must be a major amount of CGI work to get the details of the vehicles changing and merging like that. I'd think that the second one in particular would probably be worth seeing at the theater if it's decent.

The first one. I haven't seen the second one.

I was very much surprised by the first one, I wasn't expecting much and ended up enjoying it allot.  The second one is opening up at the Cinerama, which is one of the only surviving Cinerama's left (something like only 3 or 4 left), so I'll be sure to catch it there 

As for GI Joe, as I said I'm going to take a wait and see.  Hollywood just puts out too much crap these days to waste the money on ya know

GI Joe looks like one that I probably will go see, based on the previews. I never read the reveiws. Too many times I have gone to see a movie, then read the reviews, only to find my opions differing from the reviews. So I don't read the reviews so that I don't have any predetermined thoughts before I see the movie. If I hear something from other people, well there is nothing I can do about that.

Speaking of new movies, have you seen the trailers for 2012?I was impressed, but I know the trailers sometimes are misleading.

I thought the production value looked technically quite good. Some of the newer movies look too dark to me, but these trailers didn't. I wonder if it's less expensive to do CGI in the darker kind of look?

I excpect that the computer generated images will be a big part of this one too.

I don't really think I want to see the movie.  I'm afraid of what they'd do to a character that was a symbol of patriotism.  Somewhere around here I think I actually have my GI Joe doll from way way way back when.

Truth is: It's lighting.  Realistic lighting is nearly impossible for CGI artists to achieve on the scale of a major motion picture.  It takes technical brilliance and accomplished artistry to master light with just sketching and painting, let alone with full epic scenery and conforming moving objects and backgrounds to the same sources of light - when it's all digital fabrication.  So the filmmakers get a baseline lighting quality in the CGI and conform the rest of the film to the same quality (usually more subdued and lower contrast - "darker")  I think it's ok in a way, because it is just atmosphere, but when all CGI films have to conform to the same atmosphere, it's kind of old.

I appreciated the steps in lighting that 'Iron Man' took.  They got lighting pretty near perfect in the flight sequences, although the moving object was relatively small, they managed lighting conformity that I hadn't seen in CGI films up until then.  Hope for the future of CGI.

Speaking of Transformers, the sequence where the American base is attacked in the beginning was some of the best melding of CGI and live action that I have seen to date, although it was night - which can have its own lighting complications and pitfalls.  They nailed it, though.

Just saw the thriller and was good. Not like in the animated movie. It was totally shocking especially the graphics its like the movie transformers but well humans this time. Never thought that there would be a project involving G.I JOE. Well lets just wait and see what would be the outcome of the movie.

Just saw the movie and it didn't let me down. I loved the action and the special effects. The producers and director really did a great job. Wish there would be a sequel for the movie.

The movie ain't very good. I've seen it and would like to say that its a crappy movie which is only suitable for minors

The action is kinda funny with women running around in tights and gunslingers taking on one another.

I plan to wait till this one hits the DVD/Blu-ray thing....I am not into the whole "movies based on toys" thing, and I'm old enough to remember when GI Joe action figures were not the 3.75-inch ones Hasbro created after Kenner's Star Wars figures totally kicked its butt but the bigger, original 12-inch ones introduced in 1964.

As for movie trailers...they either show all the good bits of a movie OR they give away too much of the plot. Don't know if this was always the case, but that's the trend now, it seems.