The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Gold Trumpet · January 20, 2005, 10:45:33 PM

Quote from: themodernage02
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetWas going to disagree, but I won't. I liked it was the one aspect that did look fake, but I kept thinking during the film they could have found a better fake representation of sea creatures than those 8th grade CGI attempts.
for the millionth time...
www.imdb.com/name/nm0783139/

Well, the 8th grade CGI I think is what they were trying to achieve (just not my description of it). I liked it but yet...there was a feeling they maybe could have chosen a better way of representing the sea creatures. But, if CGI is the way, they did the best they could.

modage · January 20, 2005, 11:02:29 PM

dude, its NOT CGI. its stop motion animation. the only thing a computer is doing is compositing the images.

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2328

Gold Trumpet · January 20, 2005, 11:13:01 PM

Quote from: themodernage02dude, its NOT CGI. its stop motion animation. the only thing a computer is doing is compositing the images.

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2328

OK, its stop motion animation. You're right, I'm wrong. I promise to write it 100 times on the next chalkboard I see.

sickfins · January 23, 2005, 06:09:41 PM

Quote from: The Gold TrumpetI promise to write it 100 times on the next chalkboard I see.

AntiDumbFrogQuestion · January 24, 2005, 07:48:30 AM

8th grade or not, whatever....
But come on..
The JAGUAR SHARK?

Pretty fucking incredible
It worked because it didn't seem cheesy, nor look it. That can be hard in mixing live action with animation, or just in animation ALONE, believe-you-me

meatball · January 31, 2005, 05:34:42 PM

I saw Life Aquatic a second time. There is still a lot of things I think are gratuitous, but I actually enjoyed it this time around. Maybe I was influenced by the drug-induced cackles of the woman a few rows up. She laughed at everything. Absolutely everything. When Cody is hit with the magazine. When the first hint of blood starts to wash up into the camera. Good times.

Sleuth · January 31, 2005, 06:14:21 PM

There was a guy like that the second time I saw it, and his laugh was completely terrible. I thought he was faking it at first, like being sarcastic "aHUH HEH HUH HARN HIGAGIGIGGALAGOO, that was REAAAL funny

" but it continued through the whole movie, even at those parts

Henry Hill · February 04, 2005, 02:55:30 PM

I loved this movie, but I have to say, Cate Blanchett stole this thing. Between her subversively cute British accent, her Chuck's, the bubble gum...and she was pregnant to top it off. I don't see how she was not the first choice for that part.

ono · February 04, 2005, 04:20:08 PM

Because both Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman would've both knocked that role out of the park, and Blanchett just illustrates how underwritten it is?

Like the movie, just saying.

tpfkabi · February 04, 2005, 06:03:33 PM

yes, CB was a real surprise to me.

i can't even being to imagine Nichole Kidman or Julianne Moore in a Wes Anderson film.

meatball · February 05, 2005, 02:09:41 PM

Quote from: bigideasi can't even being to imagine Nichole Kidman or Julianne Moore in a Wes Anderson film.

In complete agreement about Kidman and Moore.

Blanchett was the most enchanting thing about the movie.

socketlevel · February 06, 2005, 11:22:57 PM

Quote from: Meatball
Quote from: bigideasi can't even being to imagine Nichole Kidman or Julianne Moore in a Wes Anderson film.

In complete agreement about Kidman and Moore.

Blanchett was the most enchanting thing about the movie.

i would have thought the same thing about paltrow but she dominated. i think wes can bring that dry dead pan style out of a lot of actors. moore and kidman can be weird enough that you never never know...

-sl-

Jeremy Blackman · February 07, 2005, 12:41:57 AM

Quote from: The Gold TrumpetI can't believe I missed this....room for a sparring match!

Quote from: Jeremy BlackmanGuns and CGI in a Wes Anderson movie is just wrong. I felt like those scenes should have been more theatrical (and less cinematic) like Max Fischer's Serpico production or something.

First, because I'm American, about the guns...

I like the guns. They scared me at first, but now they've grown on me. That scene with Jeff Goldblum playing cards is just beautiful.

It's just that when I saw Team Zissou frolicking flamboyantly/haphazardly with guns that were actually shooting and actually killing people I think my "this is wrong" sensor was activated.

Sleepless · February 08, 2005, 11:36:55 AM

Anyone know where you can get a replica red hat? They've got the swim shorts and the sneakers on the official site, but no hat. I really wanna hat...

pete · February 08, 2005, 11:38:05 AM

I have the hat from working at a stupid "indie" theater. it says "the life aquatic with steve zissou" on the back of it though.