A Scanner Darkly

[cowboykurtis]

these stills are underwhelming

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I hated Waking Life, but this looks fucking KICKASS.

me too!      

[Pwaybloe]

who wouldn't be interested in seeing this?

Ha ha!

Ok, let's get serious for a second...

[matt35mm]

This is the only movie I can think of that will actually look like a moving comic book.  Unless I'm forgetting a movie that looks like pages of a comic book coming to life, this may be a first.  It looks great to me.

[cowboykurtis]

This is the only movie I can think of that will actually look like a moving comic book.  It looks great to me.

scanner darkly isn't a comic book, thus this technique seems like a novelty act to me

[matt35mm]

This is the only movie I can think of that will actually look like a moving comic book.  It looks great to me.

scanner darkly isn't a comic book, thus this technique seems like a novelty act to me

I don't see the need for it to originate from a comic book to have the movie look like a comic book.  And I don't see it as a novelty act, but rather a stylistic choice that will enhance the movie.  There are certain things that work best in animation, and this looks like it'll have those things.

As a Waking Life fan, I'd say that the decision to rotoscope the movie wasn't a novelty thing at all.  That movie wouldn't really work in live action and especially on DV.  The animation is part of what makes it all work (for me, anyway).  So I think that Linklater is going to take advantage of the things that one can only do in animation.  I trust the mofo.

[Sleuth]

I wonder if there's any particular reasoning behind its being animated?

hav u read the book?

there are parts in it which would benefit from the freedom animation allows. the suit/mask that the dude wears that distorts his image and voice would hav to be CGI'd anyway if it were live action. not to mention the transcendent moments, the weird morphing moments, other spoilerful things too.

i'm really liking link's approach.

[cowboykurtis]

I wonder if there's any particular reasoning behind its being animated?

hav u read the book?

there are parts in it which would benefit from the freedom animation allows. the suit/mask that the dude wears that distorts his image and voice would hav to be CGI'd anyway if it were live action. not to mention the transcendent moments, the weird morphing moments, other spoilerful things too.

i'm really liking link's approach.

i think parts will, but to do the whole film animated/rotoscoped is a shame in my book

[RegularKarate]

why?


I think you just like to be grumpy sometimes.

[cowboykurtis]

why?


I think you just like to be grumpy sometimes.

sometimes?

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[Ultrahip]

downey looks great. he better still have that line from the kaufman script,  "hey bob, want some dog shit? to chew on?"

[The Perineum Falcon]

A Reason Dial-Up Sucks

[Stefen]

damn, when did ifilm get all bogged down with ads and corporatized? I havent been there for awhile, but it sucks now. I wont even watch that trailer, ill just wait for mac to post a link to a standalone quicktime version, fuck ifilm and fuck my beliefs.

[El Duderino]

it looks fucking awesome...i saw the trailer at constantine.