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Post by ck100 on Feb 18, 2020 0:01:21 GMT
What do you all think of this upcoming movie? It's basically a gruff Harrison Ford and a CGI motion-captured dog go on an adventure together. Han Solo and Chewbacca this ain't.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2020 8:18:46 GMT
I'm excited and looking forward to it. I love the book. I had a St. Bernard mix growing up that looked a lot like that dog.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 18, 2020 21:27:14 GMT
Should have used a real dog.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2020 21:29:21 GMT
The trailer makes Fantasy Island look like Citizen Cane😃😃
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 22, 2020 14:56:21 GMT
Saw it yesterday. Entertaining enough. Aimed at a much younger audience than me, I suppose, but not so much that adults can't enjoy it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2020 15:36:06 GMT
Tje cgi dog has a better hair do
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Post by ck100 on Feb 23, 2020 20:40:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2020 14:38:14 GMT
I'm glad they used a CGI dog as opposed to a real one. It looked like there were some dangerous scenes, no reason to put a real dog through that.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 24, 2020 18:07:06 GMT
I'm glad they used a CGI dog as opposed to a real one. It looked like there were some dangerous scenes, no reason to put a real dog through that. You can use CGI for the dangerous scenes and a real dog for all the other scenes, just like they do with human actors.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2020 18:16:26 GMT
I'm glad they used a CGI dog as opposed to a real one. It looked like there were some dangerous scenes, no reason to put a real dog through that. You can use CGI for the dangerous scenes and a real dog for all the other scenes, just like they do with human actors. Maybe, but after the stuff with the behind the scenes footage of A Dog's Life I think I prefer CGI animals unless they're part of the back ground. I'm a big animal lover and I don't trust what goes on. And I had a St. Bernard mix growing up that that looked exactly like the CGI dog
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 24, 2020 18:19:24 GMT
I'm glad they used a CGI dog as opposed to a real one. It looked like there were some dangerous scenes, no reason to put a real dog through that. You can use CGI for the dangerous scenes and a real dog for all the other scenes, just like they do with human actors. I agree that that would have been better - but it's not just the dangerous scenes that would require CGI. There are plenty of scenes (probably most of them) where the character of the dog was not in danger but that would have been impossible to train real animals to do.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Feb 25, 2020 0:07:01 GMT
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Post by chalk3 on Feb 25, 2020 3:37:47 GMT
Saw this earlier this evening. Average. Reasonable adaption but definitely suited to a young audience.
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Post by ck100 on Mar 1, 2020 22:54:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2020 9:56:07 GMT
I plan on seeing it this week, so that's another $5. I wonder if Corona virus concerns will be affecting box office.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 2, 2020 16:36:46 GMT
Full Spoilers ahead
Not a good movie, but to be fair, I wasn't the target audience. I'm not a dog person and I've never read the book. It's a sneakily depressing film if you stop to think about any of the supporting characters in the various chapters of this dog's life. The family at the beginning loses their dog, who was clearly loved. I'm sure they were devastated even though Buck was rather rambunctious. Then the postal service guy loses his job. Buck's dog team are all apparently killed offscreen by idiotic tourists (who are also killed, I may have wanted to see that scene...). The Ford character has a depressing backstory to begin with and he dies with his story somewhat unresolved.
The dog is like a curse; maybe that's what the black wolf avatar is supposed to represent. Somebody rescore this film so I can view it as a dark horror-drama. I might get more out of it that way.
Better yet, go the other way with it and make it a wacked out spoof of itself. Book be damned, go crazy with this stuff. If Rian Johnson can burn Star Wars to the ground, surely we can go bonkers with Call of the Wild? Considering the supercanine feats of strength and intelligence the dog was exhibiting throughout the film, I half expected it to just start talking in the third act. It's already CGI, it would've been a short leap to make. Toward the end the dog is looking at its footprint compared to the wolf's in what genuinely felt like an existential crisis. I would've fallen out of my chair if the dog just looked at the screen and said, "What the f-ck?"
Like I said, I clearly wasn't the audience for this film.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Mar 3, 2020 5:23:02 GMT
Grizzled old-man-of-the-mountain Harrison Ford acting opposite a cartoon dog. Pass. I'll bet kids don't even read that book anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2020 1:08:37 GMT
They ruined this by using CGI dog. Watch TOGO...much better movie.
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