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Irritating animation style


The animation makes it impossible to watch. Either do an actual animation or do live action. But stop with this sloppy overlay format.

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I disagree, I think it's brilliant and perfectly captures the drug-induced storyline...

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It would've been way stronger had they only used it during the drug scenes. I think the only reason it was used was because Linklater needed a way to make the morph suits look convincing, and so he could make Austin look like LA.

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ruins a possibly good movie.
proof?

- this did REALLY poorly
- no one else is doing this, or even bothering to try
- seems more like an "ART" film... you know, not a good enough story so they have to shroud it in something for misdirection? Don't get me wrong, I LIKE the story, but probably not eveyone got what it did storywise.

I GET they wanted it to put you in the feels of a drug tripper.... personally, i think that failed. just looks like really bad cartooning. much better fx could have given you a drugged up feeling

Whatever. I'm watching it again because I liked the story. I'll pretend it is a piece of shit "indie" film and cut it some slack for the garbage visual.

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Agreed with all points but won’t watch it again.

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i watched it. skipped forward a few times.... too much banal talking about nothing to seem human, evading the plot. I recalled I liked the ending, but now it lacked ALL impact. it could have been a 30 minute show and would have been more entertaining. the rotoscoping was still pointless

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no one else is doing this

The company that developed the software for this animation style doesn't want anyone else to have it.

flatblackfilms.com/Flat_Black_Films/Rotoshop.html

"At this time, Rotoshop is not available outside of the company, and currently there aren’t any plans to market it. "

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Ha! Who'd WANT it? kinda pointless and too niche. weird flex, fb films

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I think they called it Rotoscope.
I didn't like it either.
I wish I had not seen it.
Reading the book was good enough.

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