That was a really interesting article. I wonder why Seth is still shilling for the movie. Maybe it was a mutual decision or something....
Or a contractual obligation...
The article does point out the absurdity of having thirty-something Seth Green be the physical doppelganger of a kid, then having a kid come in and do the voice for a motion-capture kid acted by said thirty-something. Again... why do we do this?
At least this time Zemeckis realized that having an adult mimic a kid's voice isn't the way to make an already-creepy-looking mo-cap performance less disturbing. Eddie Deezen's voice coming out of a kid on the Polar Express was one of the creepy, weirdest things in a terrible movie full of creepy weird things.
"Ta ta ta taaaa! Look at me... I'm a snowman! I'm gonna go stand on someone's lawn if I don't get something to do around here pretty soon!"
Well, in Zemeckis' defence, it wasn't the first time Deezen provided the voice of a child. Dexter's Lab, anyone?
That said, Milo still looks like Seth Green and Green is probably still credited at the end of the movie. Nonetheless, I'm glad Zemeckis is leaving motion-capture behind for Roger Rabbit 2.
"There are two wolves and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. Which wolf wins? Whichever one you feed." - Casey Newton, Tomorrowland
estefan wrote:Well, in Zemeckis' defence, it wasn't the first time Deezen provided the voice of a child. Dexter's Lab, anyone?
Yeah, but "Dexter's Laboratory" and "The Polar Express" were hardly striving for the same level of realism. "Dexter" skews cartoonish, as is its intent, and thus it's not strange to hear Christine Cavanaugh's voice coming out a little boy's mouth. On the other hand, when three of your four main child characters are voiced by actual children, an adult doing a kid's voice sticks out like a sore thumb.
"Ta ta ta taaaa! Look at me... I'm a snowman! I'm gonna go stand on someone's lawn if I don't get something to do around here pretty soon!"
But the movie that all of Hollywood was talking about Friday is Disney's lamely titled Mars Needs Moms 3D. Why? Because this is going to be one of the biggest money losers of all time. It cost $150M but, even with the higher 3D ticket prices, it'll be lucky to pull in $10M this weekend -- that's right all weekend. "It's about as bad of an animated miss as possible," one rival studio exec emailed me. It's rare that any Disney toon flops at all, much less this badly. But my insiders say this movie is why, after Rich Ross screened it, Disney a year ago shuttered Robert Zemeckis' Imagemovers Digital which also produced Disney's A Christmas Carol.
Conversely, Disney’s performance capture Mars Needs Moms fared dismally in its first day, grossing roughly $1.8 million. The family film -- costing a pricey $140 million to produce -- could only gross $8 million for the weekend, one of Disney’s worst openings
We wasted our time seeing this movie yesterday. What a disaster. And the motion-capture is excellent, but the story is very slow to develop and my six-year-old grandson fell asleep about half way through it.
There is no character in this film that you even want to care about. The music is very lame, and has that "I've heard that before" rhyme to it.
I hope Disney rethinks any plans they have for any more of these motion-capture films.
Let's get back to the drawng boards, men, and produce a real animated film!!
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dvdjunkie wrote:
I hope Disney rethinks any plans they have for any more of these motion-capture films.
Well, they apparently closed down ImageMovers Digital because of this movie. So, yeah, I think they're done. Robert Zemeckis will likely make the Roger Rabbit sequel next, while Simon Wells returns to DreamWorks.
"There are two wolves and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. Which wolf wins? Whichever one you feed." - Casey Newton, Tomorrowland
Conversely, Disney’s performance capture Mars Needs Moms fared dismally in its first day, grossing roughly $1.8 million. The family film -- costing a pricey $140 million to produce -- could only gross $8 million for the weekend, one of Disney’s worst openings
I am so happy that Mars Needs Moms bombed completely at the box office. I mean, this, Red Riding Hood, and Battle: Los Angeles will be the films I will never see!
Sotiris wrote:I really hope that Mars Needs Moms' low box office earnings will result to the cancellation of the mo-cap remake of The Yellow Submarine.
Heck we should post that on some Beatles Fan Forum....This Project would disappear by May at the latest in a heartbeat
After this there might be more traditionally animated films would open possibly....or other shelved project such as The Snow Queen
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Sotiris wrote:I really hope that Mars Needs Moms' low box office earnings will result to the cancellation of the mo-cap remake of The Yellow Submarine.
Weekend estimates are in and Mars Needs Moms only made $6.8 million. Ouch.
"There are two wolves and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. Which wolf wins? Whichever one you feed." - Casey Newton, Tomorrowland
