Saw this and thought it was very cool. http://mp3content01.bcst.yahoo.com/bmfroot03/BMFShare03/yahooent/11/13012066.mov Reminded me a lot of that game XIII. (Not the storyline, but the graphics).
Good looking movie, plus it's based on a Phillip K Dick book so the storyline should be decent (provided they don't fuck with it too much).
It will be a cool competitor to Sin City (that is keeping the same style of the comic book, which is great)
Man, I so wish they would remake/port Flashback to a handheld system. Its one of the few games that I really want to see ported to a newer system.
MOTHERF*CKER! GODDAMNIT! This is the SECOND time now that they've comitted to making a movie about a P.K.Dick book that I was writing a script for!!! I hate not being famous or rich and having my ideas come to fruition! ~Krelian
Which would the first one be, Krelian? Poor Dick. Lives his life with little recognition, and then has his literary empire plundered posthumously with no less than 5 decent - not excellent, but decent - movies based upon his works. I'm personally waiting for a film adaptation of The Man In The High Castle.
Paycheck The first I was adapting was Paycheck. Truth be told I haven't gone to see it.... although I heard the adaptation was pretty bad. ~Krelian
Cel shading is a game technique, where the animation is done to look like cartoons. It usually meads a 2-D 3-D look, i.e you get perspective by the shading used, as opposed to having an engine that might calculate lighting effects. A cel, of course, is a piece of acetate that has one frame of an animation drawn on it. Hence the term "cel shading" in games. I don't think you can really say a cartoon is drawn with cel shading, because that's just a standard cartoon look. Different animators have different approaches, and hence different feels. Look at the difference between, for example, Walt Disney, Warner Bros. and Manga. Also, animating a film with the characters looking like the voice artists? Hmm, interesting gimmick to draw attention to it, at least! Still, doesn't look half bad
Cel-shading is kinda cool on Wild arms 3 and Zelda TWW. But on WA3 it makes the game more odd looking, IMO. I am sorta glad Wild arms Alter code F isnt cel-shading. Or is it???
I've not read the story, but the movie, as a standalone movie, wasn't too bad. Then again, Dick movie adaptations are rarely easily comparable to their source material anyways and are better taken as standalone movies - watch Blade Runner and Total Recall and then go read Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep and We'll Remember It For You, Wholesale and try to find where the movies adhere to anything other than the most basic of plot outlines. :smt043
