Terminator Salvation to have CG Arnie

[onona]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002743.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Well, I'll reserve judgement until I see it. I just hope he doesn't have any lines, because it's always the lip syncing that ruins digital human characters.

I'm assuming it's just a digital head replacement.

[Cleric]

Kewl. It sounds terribly cheesy, but that's Terminator these days. Wonder if they'll have him say the obligitory "I'll be back." as fanservice.

[onona]

I'm hoping that the fact that the story seems really different to the others means the film will bring something fresh to the franchise. The last Terminator film wasn't that great.

[Boggle24]

I'm pretty much banking on that, I don't think it could be as bad as T3 if it tried.

I thought you weren't even interested in the film though onona ?

[onona]

I thought you weren't even interested in the film though onona ?

I eventually surrender and watch most Hollywood blockbusters.

:B

[Boggle24]

See I do the same, except that I don't fight it at all, their sly marketing and shiny sparkly trailers combined with my immense curiosity and all around love of all things cinema means that my will has been forfeit long before I even knew the movie was being made.

:D

[James Donaldson]

They used a CG version of Peter Cushing (the man who played Moff Tarkin from the original Star Wars: Episode 4) in Episode 3. I only noticed him at the end when the movie showed again on Mnet and was kind-of freaked out by the obvious-CG version of a dead man.

All I'm trying to say, it better not be obvious he's CG, if they could use CG so well in Terminator 2 and Jurassic park, I have no clue why it's so obvious in modern movies.

[onona]

All I'm trying to say, it better not be obvious he's CG, if they could use CG so well in Terminator 2 and Jurassic park, I have no clue why it's so obvious in modern movies.

Well, for one thing, they didn't try to make CG humans back then. If they had, they'd have looked crap. CG humans are among hardest to accomplish because we know exactly how they should look, and as such, are much more aware when they don't look quite right. When we see a dinosaur on-screen, we don't have a real life counterpart to compare them to, so we buy the look much more easily.

Non-human CG has come a long way and is far better quality than Jurassic Park and T2 were. I watched T2 again the other and laughed at how sh!t the CG looks. There is a lot of hatred being thrown around about CG, and frankly, I think that most CG actually goes unnoticed in films these days. Almost all movies, even rom coms and dramas, these days have some measure of CG in them, somewhere. And no-one notices.

In Pirates of the Caribbean 2, the 100% CG character Davy Jones wowed audiences and had everyone in the industry talking, and yet very little was mentioned of his crew, who were all CG too, except for Bootstrap Bill.

[OnlyOneKenobi]

They used a CG version of Peter Cushing (the man who played Moff Tarkin from the original Star Wars: Episode 4) in Episode 3. I only noticed him at the end when the movie showed again on Mnet and was kind-of freaked out by the obvious-CG version of a dead man.

All I'm trying to say, it better not be obvious he's CG, if they could use CG so well in Terminator 2 and Jurassic park, I have no clue why it's so obvious in modern movies.

Tarkin in Star Wars Episode 3 wasn't a CGI version of Peter Cushing - the role was played by Wayne Pygram.

http://www.marsite.pl/grafika/aktualnosci/2005/marzec_wayne_pygram.jpg

[James Donaldson]

And now I know! ;) (Though I hope you'll forgive me, because almost everything was CGI and bluescreens in that movie)