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CGI Dog and like the 80th Remake!!??

posted 4 years ago by TheAdlerian (2092)
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Why would anyone assume this would do well?

I saw an article that the film is doing poorly. There was a pic of Ford and the dog. I couldn't believe it because even on my phone I could see the dog was fake. It had the weird eyes.

Then, I watched the trailer and it looked like the dog was made out of fluid in the one scene as it turned its head. The other scenes it looked nothing like a dog.

I couldn't believe they couldn't use a real dog. Dog lovers love to believe these movie dogs can do what they seen in the films. They fall in love with the dogs. That isn't possible here.

Also, the keep remaking these Disney dog movies about Alaska!!! How many can there be!?

Make some new stories.

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[–] BurningSun (717) 4 years ago

WHoever decided to make the dog CGI should be fired. It’s one of the worst decisions in recent cinematic history. The CGI is awful too.

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

I am FUCKING SHOCKED!

Harrison Ford must me on drugs to agree to that.

I watched the one on Disney with Defoe. That was okay, although I hate the Alaskan dog crap, it was still okay and had a dog as a.....dog.

You would need photo realistic CGI to do a dog movie. I mean this thing had the Uncanny Valley eyes, just in the small photo I saw. They looked like dead human eyes, and when I saw it move it moved as a blob not a furry animal.

Just crazy.

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[–] kwestmo (4114) 4 years ago

"Harrison Ford must me on drugs to agree to that. " he did it for the check

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

Yeah but I'll bet there's WAY better Harrison Ford offers than this.

He's up for Indy 5.

I will go see that if it has five CGI dogs.

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[–] kwestmo (4114) 4 years ago

Ford leaves no check uncashed. He has a young wife (well sorta) that wants more money.

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

I guess a guy like him can have a failure and just come back from it easily.

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[–] kwestmo (4114) 4 years ago

I am not criticizing him. He likes money and has the means to make a lot.

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

Sure.

But, I was like, okay a dog movie, but he's in it, so maybe I'll see it anyway, then the CGI dog killed it.

I do get annoyed at actors I like being in crap. I have a stressful life and look forward to movies a lot.

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[–] PrimeMinisterX (8292) 4 years ago

Togo wasn't merely okay. It was great!

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

I don't like the subject matter.

I don't thick the hyper these movies have about dogs is true, so it's like a weird fantasy for me.

I liked it though.

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Indeed.

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[–] liscarkat (16530) 4 years ago

Some reviewers have loved the dog--actually wept. I haven't seen the movie, but in the trailer the dog, and other animals, look like a video game. I don't know if I can get emotionally involved when I am made aware in every shot that I'm looking at an electronic creation, not a dog. For a century or more, real, trained dogs have acted in movies with great success. I hope this film doesn't end that tradition.

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

It's funny because I hate movies about dogs that are "smart" because although I love dogs, I know they are just dogs. I also love adventure films, so I will watch dog movies if nothing else is on. But, I will not watch a CGI dog movies unless the CGI was 99.9 realistic.

I don't know how something fake in a movie can make you cry. If it was a fantasy movie and the dog talked, I get it, but this is not.

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[–] BeaSouth (2781) 4 years ago

The dog in this movie was able to psychoanalyze Thornton (Harrison Ford) and diagnose his depression from the loss of his son two years prior. The animal then literally intervened to stop his alcoholism and provide therapeutic treatment. It was quite remarkable even for a computer animated dog

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[–] strntz (10816) 4 years ago

I saw the trailer on YouTube and thought it was a joke. Sadly, no.

They should have spent the bucks and used real dogs. Back in the old days, Disney studios mastered this.

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

They have almost all the dog movies I can think of.

Again, they spent a lot of money on this movie. You'd think someone controlling the money would say, "Hey let's take a look at that dog guys!" and then stop it before it came out.

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[–] strntz (10816) 4 years ago

They have almost all the dog movies I can think of.

Yes, but it wasn't even just dogs with Disney! When I was a kid, we watched the Wonderful World of Disney every Sunday night, and many of the made for TV segments featured all kinds of animals. I remember a story about a coyote (Chico???) and a story about a cat named Thomasina.

I'm sure it took a lot of effort to get the shots of the animals that fit the story, but those stories were wonderful and the animal "actors" worked perfectly.

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

I used to watch that every Sunday hoping for cartoons.

I hated all of those animals movies and they were always about country people who I also can't stand.

I remember this one famous character actor kept calling a dog a "biscuit eater" negatively. My family adopted that as a purposely stupid saying.

These films remind me of disappointing sunday nights before school.

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[–] strntz (10816) 4 years ago

Wow, funny how people's perceptions of the same events are so different.

We actually had a color TV since 1959, and Disney and Bonanza were in color on Sunday nights, and we watched those shows along with Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

I recall that there was an animated show every other week, and a human interest show the others. Loved Disney. Our friends usually watched Ed Sullivan on Sundays.

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

I liked Wild Kingdom!

I love animals and the younger guy on the show was crazy. He'd be chasing after animals barefoot.

I love science fiction, cities, advanced culture, advanced learning, and so forth ever since I was little. I have always wanted to live in NYC. That is the prime location in the world, as I see it.

So, I REALLY hate some dude with an 80 IQ "who dawg won't hunt" and "he a biscuit eatta, har har" and would like to have them executed. I greatly hate the "simple but wise old farmer" type and all that garbage promoted by rich people making movies.

I hated Northern Exposure with intense passion, lol. Don't know if you saw that shit.

Anyway, it is interesting how people look at the same thing and see an entirely different reality, as you've said.

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[–] Coleburg83 (684) 4 years ago

Hardly the 80th and they all suck.

It's sad that no studio would make this movie or White Fang with a script that actually followed the novel. All of the movies about Jack London's novels have sucked.

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

I was joking.

I have never read any of novels. Are they much better and why?

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[–] Coleburg83 (684) 4 years ago

They are much better.

Especially if you are interested in the era of the Gold Rush and the frozen North. They are much better because they are based on London's own experiences during the time and not politically correct. Even though the novels are of course fantasy from the perspective of animals.

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

Interesting.

I'm not too interested in that time but I do like first hand accounts of the past. I always find it interesting how people lived.

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[–] asom (6509) 4 years ago

How the f can others make animals look real and with lower budget? I mean "The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale".

https://youtu.be/U0FaasRRPlI?t=121

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

WOW!!

I used to be interested in graphics and there's all kinds of different programs to use. I would hope that a Harrison Ford movie would use the best program, lol.

I remember reading years ago how hard "hair" graphics were to achieve. Animals look blobby, as I noticed here due to bad hair graphics. That tiger looked nearly perfect. I could still tell, but it was very good.

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[–] asom (6509) 4 years ago

If you haven't seen the movie i would recommend it, not just for the tiger.

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

I think it was on Netflix.

I love Asian films but have tired eyes at night and don't feel like reading but I have to start again.

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[–] asom (6509) 4 years ago

Well, enjoy, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv3BtEwx720

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[–] TheAdlerian (2092) 4 years ago

Thanks!

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