No new podcast? :(

@DrRMc: I asked about it in the forums, and it is coming. Apparently a video version is coming too. Here's the thread if you want to see: http://www.screened.com/forums/general-discussion/8/this-weeks-podcast/17398/#6

@Rorie said:

@SethPhotopoulos said:

The last Exorcism was reviewed quite well Rorie. The only compliant people had was the ending which did the same thing as the Exorcism of Emily Rose.

If you go back and read the comments on the review I wrote, though, a lot of them were fairly dire, and not just about the ending. I actually really liked that movie.

I'll back you up Rorie.

@Luthorcrow said:

Come on, the special effects in Phantom Menace were absolutely terrible. That whole series is a train wreck of ham-fisted digital effects that just fail. Matrix deserved to win because the digital effects worked in that film. Special effects need to be believable and work within the context of the style of the film.

The new Star Wars films effects fail on points: they look bad, are unbelievable and most important are not exciting. When effects bore the audience something is clearly wrong.

Are you thinking about now or back when it was released. Because back when it was released everyone raved about the effects even though the Matrix probably holds up more now.

@SethPhotopoulos: Well, I am sure there were a lot of people that felt that way but I was not one. The first thing any special effect must do is look at least within the reason of suspense of disbelief. The Prequels all suffer from a complete break of even a slim belief of being possible. The effects just looked silly, gloss and cartoon like. So on a just basic eye candy level they fail. Then when you combine that how static most of the scenes really were even with all of the nonsense movement on screen.

If you want to talk about what film should have actual won for digital effects that year it was Fight Club. All of the digital effects are not only completely convincing but do what the best effects do, serve the story and blend in so well that you don't even notice that they are effects the first time you see it. Fincher uses digital effects more artfully then anyone in Hollywood. Lucas on the other hand should be banned from ever making a film again with effects because the man uses like a blind painter.

I hated The Prequels effects then, was confounded by the reviewers that said otherwise and think they look even worse as the years pass.