They must've missed Terminator: Salvation ...
SnakeDoc
This is interesting technology. It opens the door to the possibility that actors could “live forever” in film—or at least their simulated counterparts can. Imagine seeing a young Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible XXX a century from now?
On second thought....nevermind.
At this point, I’m more concerned about his remake of “True Grit”.
Seriously, WTF?
I guess since it's him playing him, they won't have the problems that the studios had replacing Crispin Glover in Back To The Future 2, making up an actor to look like Glover.
-PJ
Did they not reverse age Magneto and Prof X just a smidge in the third xmen? They had to show back twenty years ago.
IMHO, it was a good job, but they didn’t look really natural. A touch like a video game.
They must've missed Terminator: Salvation ...
SnakeDoc
I’ll probably see both films (Tron and True Grit)—on cable though.
The Dude abides...of a younger Dude.......dude.
They need to do this with Clint Eastwood.
I saw a sleeper of a movie that does this with a lot of actors. I liked the flick so much I bought it. It’s called Surrogate and stars Bruce Willis. It’s got a very interesting story and some fascinating plot twists and “what if?” scenarios.
I highly recommend it.
Even with all its flaws, I LOVED the original Tron. I was a mainframe programmer when it came out. That may have been part of the draw. ;)
I am very excited about this one. It’s one of those movies I’d really like to see done “right”.
BTW, I think one of the films biggest flaws was actually an epidemic at Disney back around that time: The score. Watch the old Tron and “The Black Hole” some time. Notice the music that accompanies the action in the latter (or the former, for that matter). It’s laughable.
I’ve read other reviews of this, however, I’ve read that it’s still not perfect. They say that when CLU talks you can instantly see it’s a computer gened image by the way the mouth works and that his skin is a little to ‘shiny’ as they put it. However, I think they aren’t far away from the time when we won’t be able to tell.
This technology is not new. They’ve been using in entertainment for many years now.
I know that starting with about season 2 of sex and the city, those running the show started digitally enhanching Sara Jessica Parkers face and figure to make her more attractive. The other 3 demanded the same thing quickly. So on the Reruns, DVDs, and Movies, etc....every single frame of them is heavily manipulated to make them look younger, more attractive in the face, and much thinner.
I know the brunette whose probably the best looking one of the bunch is obsessed with her hips being wide, so any front or back shots of her, they used computers to give her the hips and ass of a 18 year old model or would go out of the way to film her waist up.
You’d be shocked if you saw most hollywood actors or tv stars in real life these days. They look almost nothing like what is presented on print and film because of all the digital “touchups”. Face and bodies.
Does Jeff get double pay?
I saw a preview and I wondered how they pulled that off. Interesting.
One of my all time favorite movies was Tron. It had huge flaws (like the score), but I loved the story. I was very excited to hear a “sequel” was being made. I saw the trailers and am going to HAVE to see it in 3d IMAX
However, there was another movie from around the same period that hit me as hard. And I just finished watching it after downloading off uTorrent. It is the first movie I remember actually tearing up at the end, and I did it again tonight. Like Tron, It was a great story with serious flaws. In this case it was “first generation” CGI, rather than the score, which is awesome. I’d love to see a modern follow up in 3D Imax.
The movie is “The Last Starfighter”. I just sat through the whole thing with my 22” monitor and was even able to look past the flaws.