They picked the wrong puppy!
Posted on 02/21/2020 11:31:24 AM PST by edwinland
‘The Call of the Wild’ Review: Arctic Meltdown
A CG pooch is the liveliest part of a production that otherwise goes to the dogs.
They got it all wrong in “The Call of the Wild,” a woefully inept retelling, or re-re-retelling, of the Jack London story about a comfortably domesticated California dog named Buck finding his true feral self in the Yukon during the Gold Rush. This latest iteration of Buck is so lifelike, thanks to the wonders of computer animation, and the people around him are such lifeless caricatures, that the studio should have given the pooch the gift of speech and kept the humans mercifully mute.
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Buck is so precocious, such a relentlessly clever construction, that he leaves nothing to our imagination. He’s the soul-free star of a movie that’s dead in the icy water.
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The one previews make the dog look incredibly fake.
You should actually look at the trailer before commenting on it. The CG dog was given human facial expressions which was simply bizarre and creepy, and the action scenes were beyond the laws of physics. The overall result was embarrassingly bad.
They picked the wrong puppy!
...” it’s basically a cartoon”....
Yep....I’ it’s basically a cartoon. not interested in CGI animals...it’s like deep - fake stuff only worse!
You’re confusing landing incidents. The time at the golf course he actually crashed. The wrong runway was at John Wayne Airport when he landed on a taxiway instead of the runway. He almost came down on another aircraft that time.
yup
—Yoda
Deepfake software
” it’s basically a cartoon.”
You got that right!
I believe that Buck actually became the Alpha leader of a wolf pack.
You may want to read my comment before telling me what to do.
The problem is not with how they did it, but with what they did. They give the dog human emotion and expressions. This is deeply creepy, and only works if you have never seen a dog before.
I watched the movie. I liked the movie. And I still don’t like HFs politics but I didn’t go there to see/think about that. It was entertaining for me. YMMV
Thanks for posting, haven’t seen that film since I was a kid in the ‘50s.
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