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Post by king on Apr 24, 2011 15:55:29 GMT -6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7nq-r7QWW0I like the overall feel of the original 'future war' footage, its gritty, its depressing, its fucking awesome. And while I haven't seen Terminator Salvation, I did see the opening scene with the A-10's, I could tell it wasn't going to be as gritty as the originals. But still, I like the video, and while it is just an edit of all the scenes from the movies, its still pretty cool.
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Post by Hectator on Jun 28, 2011 4:36:50 GMT -6
I remember seeing all the Terminator movies, and the "future" scenes with the resistance trying to futilely well... resist the machines was always my favorite part.
I wish they'd just made the movies about that and not done all the crap with Arnie time-travelling in the nude, to be honest.
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Post by Carlos on Jun 30, 2011 11:10:26 GMT -6
Yeah.. Those scenes always made it seem like the humans were fighting a desperate war amongst the rubble and skulls of humanity. It always invoked a suffocating fear in my dreams. It seemed like humans hung on by living in underground hideouts with barely any food.
But Salvation made it seem like the world wasn't that bad off. Not nearly as many skulls lying around. And human military bases apparently were still active. Granted it's possible that what we saw was further on then salvation, as it seemed that laser weapons were more common, and in Salvation they are using the crappier terminators. But still! I want to see that incredibly gritty and desperate battle against the unrelenting machines!
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Post by kellen on Jul 2, 2011 4:45:46 GMT -6
I also liked those parts, I don't know if you would ever be able to shoot something like that again though...it just seems to have that 80's grit and grim to it that nothing that I really see nowadays has that sort of feel to it...I don't know know if I'm making any sense...sorry :/
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Post by Carlos on Jul 5, 2011 15:12:27 GMT -6
Necessity is the mother of invention, right? I think they could still do it and do it better. They just need to combine the best elements of real sets and CGI. Not just barf CGI on there.
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Post by Hectator on Jul 5, 2011 21:43:02 GMT -6
It just wouldn't have that same gritty old 90's feel though. I mean, unless they did it using the same methods they used back then. But even then I don't think they could pull it off because culture itself has evolved from where it was in the 90's and that in itself affects writers and producers.
I mean, look at 90's anime then compare it to modern stuff; it went from either randomly hilarious stuff (FLCL, Azumanga, etc) or gritty-feeling anime with a sense of realism despite their Sci-Fi/Fantasy settings (Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, GITS, etc) to a bunch of cutesy Moe Moe bullshit like Lucky Star and K-On. T_T
Even when the premise *could* be cool (the idea of a squad of not-German girls running around in a post-apoc world) it fails horribly in execution (Sora no Wata T_T )
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Just comparing Gundam alone (so I don't get accused of "apples and oranges") it went from the OVAs (which seem more grounded in reality) and Wing/GX (which again were still less outlandish than later AUs) to SEED/00 which is all Gundam pissing rainbows and shitting glitter.
And don't even get me started on this new PoS with the not-Zeon aliens T_T;;
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