"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > Eye-candy is about all there is to it, really. Badly-drawn eye-candy,
> > mostly.
>
> Ah, I don't think it's that bad. It doesn't always look completely real, but I
> still think it looks good. And there's always the retcon that it's not *meant*
> to be real, since it's in the Matrix... ;-)

Badly drawn my ass.  You just simply can't tell apart actors from CG doubles
from the rendering itself.  It's the animation, when they start moving, that
makes you clearly see that no human being would ever be able to move that way,
and thus, spell FAKE all over it.  Rendering itself is top-notch.  Super punch?
 Looks truly like Smith's face until it deforms beyond what the actor would take
for any money whatsoever...

It's an "issue" with CG that will never go away:  you will always know something
is CG because it's there precisely to depict something that would never been
seen otherwise, be it dinosaurs running around, spider-man swinging over
buildings or transformable cars fighting it over.

BTW, pointless or not and despite the overly hysterical finish, the sequels were
quite good.  Here's my quick summary:

Matrix > Reloaded > Revolutions

seems like it was vanishing... :)

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