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Motion Capture Beowulf Doesn't Spring To Life
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During the holiday season in 2004, the much-touted motion capture process, in which sensors attached to actors' bodies bring supposedly "lifelike" movement to computer-animated images, made director Robert Zemeckis's The Polar Express look and feel like a Christmas pageant performed by department store mannequins. Well, the director's latest flick, the motion capture Beowulf, suffers from the same drawback. Okay, I'll admit that 3-D technology can the images literally pop off the screen in this new movie. Not bad when you're looking at an unclad Angelina Jolie! But the motion capture Beowulf still looks glossy and stiff, making characters and images way less than believable. (And, yes, I know that motion capture also resulted in the memorable character of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies. But that was a one-off, fantastical creature in a film populated by live actors.) Hollywood hype-driven writers are getting carried away by how good this motion capture Beowulf works. Regarding the motion capture Beowulf objectively, I'd have to say the jury is still emphatically out on whether a whole, believable movie can be made this way.
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(Posted 11/27/07)
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