Pshaw !! Who needs all that ?

*looking around*

:D

I went last Sunday and took pictures of the decorations, original figures, etc....

I wrote a little recap of the day with photos and posted it on MC. You can CLICK HERE to see it.

I'm still hoping to catch it somewhere, if not at the El Cap.

But frankly, I'm dismayed by the method that was used to make the film 3-D. Apparently, every character and set and object was scanned into a computer, and everything was completely recreated and recomposited as computer imagery. Reportedly, this results in seeing even more detail of the original puppets and sets .... but I feel as if I'm not watching the original puppets and sets.

I guess, in a way, photography provides just as much of a false image of the puppets as a computer scan of those puppets ... but I feel very odd and displeased that I would not be seeing the painstaking stop-motion work done by human artists, but rather computer scans of that work. It just doesn't quite sit right with me.

Strangely, I wouldn't so much mind a computerization of hand-drawn 2-D animation ... but computerizing the stop-motion work sorta bugs me.


(And I also find it strangely amusing that the new Aardman film, Flushed Away, uses computers to generate characters in the exact style of their previous hand-wrought claymation efforts.)

PEZZ Lightyear, heehee. You Goon, you. ;)

Great report!

Here were my thoughts on it. It comes from the perspective of a person who isn't a big fan of Nightmare Before Christmas (I like everything about it except the songs, which are repetitive and too long).

Its still not perfect (at least to my vision, but I complained about things other people didn't notice), but I was impressed by the 3D.

And now, from what more I've learned, you view the digitized new film with your right eye, and the original puppet film with your left.



weird.





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I have the day off on Halloween, so I think I'll go up the El Cap and see it on the appropriate day.

Back in '93, I had the same reaction to the music as Alex, but once I came to view the piece as an operetta rather than a musical ... overlong and repetitive music became acceptable part and parcel of the genre.

Maybe that is why I'm not keen on opera like other forms of musical theater.

Wait, where's the link?

Overlong and repetitive??? <faints>

Dido..