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Graphic Process, Good at Distracting from the Bad Acting

posted 16 years ago by onepotato2
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1) Film your movie
2) Realize the acting is below grade
3) Rescue Attempt: Feed the whole thing through a rotoscoping process
4) Noone will mention the bad acting*, while saying "Kewl visuals man!"

* Woody Harrelson / Winona.

[–] stuckinabox65 16 years ago

you are so wrong it hurts me inside. The acting in this movie was incredible for the most part. Reeves gives the performance of his lifetime while Downey Jr got snubbed an oscar nomination in my opinion. He's that good.

[–] saint665 16 years ago

you are so wrong it hurts me inside.

true, but I'm calling bogus for different reasons: they knew at the start that it would be rotoscoped. it wasn't an after-thought to "hide crappy acting."

I thought the performances were quite good -- even Keanu (who sleepwalked through this, but since his character was a brain-damaged drug addict it "worked")-- but if you don't like something like that, it's subjective.

"It's got a wonderful defense mechanism: you don't dare kill it." - Parker

[–] WarpedRecord 16 years ago

I'm not sure I agree that rotoscoping will cover up bad acting. In many ways, it makes the voices much more important because we can't judge the performances by actors' physical gestures. And far be it from me to defend Keanu Reeves, whom I normally can't stand, but I think him and the rest of the cast were pretty good here. Woah.

[–] Petronius Arbiter II 10 years ago

In many ways, it makes the voices much more important because we can't judge the performances by actors' physical gestures.

Rotoscoping in general is designed to preserve most of the actors' physical gestures, in a way that traditional animation cannot.

Especially computer-assisted rotoscoping, see also:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/board/nest/240522847?d=242503708#242503708

"I don't deduce, I observe."

[–] sbere 15 years ago

It was planned to be animated before it was started. However, in the DVD extras the actors mentioned that they hammed it up a bit to cut through the animation process. I thought it would have been better if they played it straight.

[–] sbere 14 years ago

Agreed....

[–] sbere 12 years ago

Very good point!

[–] germanii 14 years ago

Well I have noted that most rotoscoped movies involve serious overacting.

[–] UberNoodle 14 years ago

There is no rotoscoping process to "feed the film through". The film was hand traced for the most part.

I love it when know-it-alls online prove how little they deserve the title.

[–] Satan2016 12 years ago

Rotoscoping started in the 1930s, so it is tracing by hand.

[–] Jgalatzan 14 years ago

woody's performance was great IMO asi know a person exactly like him.not sure your beef with his acting and winona char was just a burnout that's the reason fort lack of emotion. I see it alot in the circles I've been through.

[–] stuart_drake4 11 years ago

I didn't have a problem with Woody Harrelson. It was Rory Cochrane as Freck that I couldn't stand.

[–] redfox5367 10 years ago

He was the best one! He reminded me of Bruno Schleinstein.

[–] helderuto 11 years ago

Nice attempt of trolling