17th January 2013, 2:52 PM
A little less running around from orcs would have been good too.
Other than that, I really didn't like the white orc being entirely CG. Jackson's special effects crew performed some miracles with makeup in the original trilogy, and I had hoped to see that in play here. Instead we got the orcish ghost of Sparta chasing them around all the time. For my money, I don't mind CG, and think it works well when it does what it's best at, which is adding things in the background, like filling out a 10,000 strong army. I'd rather not main characters be entirely CG if it can be avoided. Yeah, Gollum's an exception, because the only other way to make that guy work would be stealing an Ethiopian boy in the night. Ol' Whitey could have been done with makeup though.
Other than that, I really didn't like the white orc being entirely CG. Jackson's special effects crew performed some miracles with makeup in the original trilogy, and I had hoped to see that in play here. Instead we got the orcish ghost of Sparta chasing them around all the time. For my money, I don't mind CG, and think it works well when it does what it's best at, which is adding things in the background, like filling out a 10,000 strong army. I'd rather not main characters be entirely CG if it can be avoided. Yeah, Gollum's an exception, because the only other way to make that guy work would be stealing an Ethiopian boy in the night. Ol' Whitey could have been done with makeup though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)