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"...Chuck Heston's remarkable performance..." - No offense, but isn't that an oxymoron?

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In Reply to: yeah, the trailers look worse than spiderman & the one & matrix reloaded CGI scenes posted by Mart on June 23, 2003 at 23:28:06:

With rare exception, whenever I think of Charltan Heston's acting an image of the world's biggest ham sandwich comes to mind, and how much better off we'd all be as vegitarians! ;^)
FTR, I don't like badly done FX either, but animatronics? With rare exception animatronics draw attention to themselves by the very nature of their unnaturalness. I agree that what Spielberg did in "Jaws" was inspired, necessity being the mother of invention as the saying goes, but occasionally, whenever one gets a near field glimpse of that animatronic shark it still looks REAL hokey. I'd wager that, if Steven were filming many of those same shots today, he'd employ cutting edge CGI to great effect. Note: My all time favorite Spielberg movies are his Jurassic Park series, which do employ some animatronics, but in those films the effects shots which work the best are the CGI shots.
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re: Jurassic Park series - Mart 08:07:26 06/24/03 (1)
Yes, Spielberg did use CGI on distant shots, because CGI looks really hideous in a close-up. Plus, I found animatronic hokiness is a direct function of the puppeteer more than technical limitations. At least manipulation is far more convincing than hi-tech gooing of actual creates like "Cats & Dogs", or pur CGI like the dead soldiers in "Mummy".

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- That depends, but it's the mid-range shots where the CGI looks best in JP. - Audiophilander 08:47:17 06/24/03 (0)
  That's also where animatronics tend to look more fake, even when in the hands of competant animatronic operators, but you're right about the degree of hokiness being directly proportional to the skill of the puppeteer.
  As far as Jaws is concerned, the few mid-range shots of the shark lurching up on the boat, etc., look pretty fake to me. The best stuff is always the brief glimpses of a fin, a shadow, surface agitation or those moving-in-for-the-kill shots taken from the shark's perspective.
  AuPh

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