11.25.09 ZEMECKIS THINKS MO-CAP SHOULD GET ITS OWN OSCAR
The original article is in Spanish, but FilmDrunkard “argentino” helpfully translated for me (even though his non-Spanish-sounding name leads me to suspect he’s descended from escaped Nazis). The gist is that Robert Zemeckis, a once-good director who’s been torturing his audience with pointless motion-capture animation for his last three movies, thinks motion-capture should have its own Oscar category.
“I’d say that the appropriate thing would be to create a new category, like when Walt Disney made the first animated movie. He got a special award since no one had ever done that.”
In 1939 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Disney received an honorary Oscar for innovation resulting for the film. [LaTercera]
Say what you will about Zemeckis, he did sort of pioneer the technique of motion capture, which is kind of like animation, but creepier and less creative, and kind of like live-action, but not quite lifelike and everything looks like it’s wearing a condom. (I hate this, there’s no feeling!). And for that he deserves to be recognized. I say they give him the Smellovision Memorial Do Not Want Award.
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ZEMECKIS THINKS MO-CAP SHOULD GET ITS OWN OSCAR
I’d be ok with giving him his own televised award show.
*does secret CJC handshake with boPa*
Kids, don’t listen to Lince! Always double bag it!
Didn’t Walt get that award YEARS later? It’s not like he made a movie, and they said “Oh shit, we don’t have a place for this, let’s give him something to make him feel better!”
In conclusion, fuck you Zemeckis.
If I want to be skeeved out by something with dead eyes I’ll continue watching porn.
Robert Zemeckis is the reason that the kids on the worst soccer team also get medals at the end of the year.
If I want to be skeeved out by something with dead eyes I’ll continue
watchingmaking porn with Bryce’s grandmother.Hey Stoney, Lisa Rinna posted a pic of herself without makeup on Twitter!
http://tweetphoto.com/vweladtp
I think MoCap deserves to go fuck itself.
You know what I really hate? Low slope roofs! I’M 6′5″ WITH BAD KNEES YOU SONSOBITCHES!! Fuckin three and a half foot attics.
I have a MoeCap for my 3 Stooges Role Playing Game. You’d think I’d play Curly, since I’m bald (and for another reason), but I’m just not fat enough.
MoCap is like those tuxedo T-shirts. The people who use them think it is awesome while the rest of us just wonder why they aren’t just wearing a tuxedo.
Meanwhile, James Cameron and Michael Bay can’t agree on what to call the award for the most awesome filmmaker of the year that they want the Oscars to start handing out.
Jack!- you gotta get the “Scooby Doo meets the” expansion. It comes with Scooby Snax attack modifier and a 1/10 replica die-cast pewter Mystery Machine. The only downside- the monster/ghost is pretty much NEVER who you think it is. It always ends up being the owner of the carnival, or the farmer’s banker, etc.
Wes Bentley’s still waiting for his EmoCap award.
Dude, that was 10 years ago. Get back to work.
They should have MoCapped THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY.
If they ever start MoCapping porn, and you know they will, I imagine they will use the genital warts and herpes instead of those little green tracking dots used now.
So I missed a thread about following 4 kids around for the first year of their life? Something in me feels like I only half missed out.
I seriously want to pop a MoCap in this douchebag’s ass.
Later fuckers. Happy Saintsgiving to all!
Oh he’ll get his Oscar, after he MoCap’s this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj78anyCkM.
My pubes should win an oscar for lotion capture.
Mocap has it’s place, I’m looking at you Smigel, but I just don’t get what Bob is dooing with it.
Disney used his Oscar to club a Jew to death round back of the Brown Derby.
My grandfather escaped FROM the nazis in poland, to live in a country that welcomed escaped nazis
Film Nazi, shouldn’t you be trying to get rid of all the Jews in show business? Why are you bothering us?
Also deserving of it’s own Oscar, sideboob.
Anybody else think that the Line Producer credit goes to the best coke dealer?
Good lord that Public Ememies ad is shit. From Depp looking like he’s splooging, or trying to read the title, to the ridiculously photoshopped tommy gun… Fuck whoever got paid to make it.
Well ciao all. I’m gonna go gorge on free food and fuck a cousin.
Happy Thanksagiven Day, all.
Al, Rock, Argentino, CB, have fun playing with yourselves for the next two days.
Diremutt out!
I deserve my own category of the “It feels bigger than it looks” award. I always wear condoms because they increase the girth.
I’m just trying to make new friends :)
Oh sure. I finally get five minutes of pooch-screwing time and you guys go and have a holiday. Get stuffed.
Whoa! *pulls pants up, realizes it’s Al, drops them again*
If you absolutely must swing that thing at me, I prefer counter-clockwise, CB.
Al, swear again.
COCKSUCKERS!
(if you don’t get it, you’re deadwood2me)
I don’t get it.
I shot a rap video with BroCap. Really, it’s just everyone wearing do-rags. Time to poke Paula Deene in the mouth with my ham! Peace!!
That’s like creating a new category called “funnier movies”.
Doesn’t Zemeckis know that Highlander already won the Academy Award for The Greatest Movie of All Time?
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