I wonder if special effects like these would be more challenging if they were dealing with an actor who, unlike Brad Pitt, has more than two facial expressions?
I'm still pissed that they got the oscar for best visual effects. it's just them splicing a face onto a different body.
unlike Iron Man where they constructed a fully functional mech suit inside a computer and made it look believable, or Dark Knight where they just decided to take a city and digitally blow the hell out of it.
@victorkruger: Bah, everything in Iron Man and Dark Knight had been done before (and arguably better). The oscar went to the people that were actually pushing visual effects as it should of.
@tande04: Iron Man also employs full digital facial construction, although it's never shown up close like in Benjamin Button, but it's there. And you'd never notice it unless you're told which part.
@Howlin' Mad Murdock...Lite: if those glow in the dark condoms did there job hopefully youl never have to say " i am your father" til the time is right
Thank you Barack Obama and all your Dumb-o-crat (and some Repube-ican) buddies in Congress who are totally SCREWING UP MY COUNTRY! Every week a new bill is signed that demands more and more of these cubes of money that haven't been printed yet. My unborn grandchildren have already been bankrupted. They'll be so thrilled when they find out.
@orbitcorbett: Um, Obama has been in office for about 50 days, how is this his fault? Democrats have been in power for less than 3 years. So since the start of this slide (aka Reagan) we've had 4 Republican Presidents, and a stretch of 6 years under W where Republicans have had COMPLETE control, which they used to turn the largest surplus this country has ever seen, into the largest deficit the WORLD has ever seen. And you think this is Obamas fault?
And you do realize that this isn't even equivalent to the deficit spending we did to get us out of the great depression. So if your grandchildren will be pissed at anyone, it will be the conservatives who pissed away their natural resources, bankrupted them because of Iraq (which is still more expensive than the surplus), and turned them into drooling morons by excessive interbreeding.
Unless you were satirizing the short sighted, idiotic, uneducated, ditto head neo-con trolls that frequent these boards, and amuse us to no end with their goldfish like memory. In that case, well played.
@Zombie_Belvedere: He referred to them as "Dumb-o-crat"s and "Repube-ican"s. You're really going to pay attention to anything he has to say after that?
@craig_16: With a live studio audience they couldn't use CGI, but that doesnt' mean they can't swap out a real ball for a CGI one between the performance and the broadcast. That's what China did for the fireworks footsteps, after all (only they had to have the CGI version ready to air during a live broadcast). Speaking of which, is this show aired live or not? If it is, then that pretty much kills the idea that it's CGI, on the specific issue that they'd be very quickly outed as having broadcast something that never actually happened.
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But yeah, the special effects in that movie are just awe-inspiring.
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unlike Iron Man where they constructed a fully functional mech suit inside a computer and made it look believable, or Dark Knight where they just decided to take a city and digitally blow the hell out of it.
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And you do realize that this isn't even equivalent to the deficit spending we did to get us out of the great depression. So if your grandchildren will be pissed at anyone, it will be the conservatives who pissed away their natural resources, bankrupted them because of Iraq (which is still more expensive than the surplus), and turned them into drooling morons by excessive interbreeding.
Unless you were satirizing the short sighted, idiotic, uneducated, ditto head neo-con trolls that frequent these boards, and amuse us to no end with their goldfish like memory. In that case, well played.
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^-- this is my visualization of a trillion-dollar stack, using 1/2 trillion dollar bills (human provided for reference).
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Damn. That is a shit-ton of money.
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It's for my stimulus check, honest.
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"Gee, I would love to get a monster truck and shred all of those neat stacks of money."
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With a live studio audience they couldn't use CGI, but that doesnt' mean they can't swap out a real ball for a CGI one between the performance and the broadcast. That's what China did for the fireworks footsteps, after all (only they had to have the CGI version ready to air during a live broadcast). Speaking of which, is this show aired live or not? If it is, then that pretty much kills the idea that it's CGI, on the specific issue that they'd be very quickly outed as having broadcast something that never actually happened.
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Really thin strings and a really lightweight ball.
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