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Harrison Ford in.....Call of the Wild

At one point I had at least 6 versions of this on DVD. Of all the things for him to make a movie of....why this over used story?
 
I suspect they're gonna use Jungle Book tech for this.
 
I think Netflix has a new animated version showing.
 
At one point I had at least 6 versions of this on DVD. Of all the things for him to make a movie of....why this over used story?

Because even with the amount of adaptations, they’ve yet to make a really great version of the novel.
 
These are the ones I can think of that I have (could be a couple more foreign made ones)....I think I have at least one animated version too.

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997) - Rutger Hauer
The Call of the Wild (1972) - Charlton Heston
The Call of the Wild (1976) - John Beck
Call of the Wild (1992) - Ricky Schroder
Call of the Wild (1935) - Clark Gable

I remember the Beck and Schroder ones being pretty good.
 
None of them have been all that great. The Clark Gable and Charlton Heston ones have their moments. Chris Sanders is a great animation director so maybe he has it in him to make a really great live-action film ala Brad Bird.

If Sanders can make us feel for the Saint Bernard as he did for a dragon then it'll be a success.
 
Haven't read the novel or see any of the old films but I like that trailer!
 
Wonder why they used a CGI dog throughout and not just the action parts?
 
Expressiveness probably.
 
The unnecessary CGI really hurts the verisimilitude that a movie like this should have.
 
If you read the book you kinda see why they need to be CG, as a lot of the **** the animals go through is pretty dark from a violence standpoint.
 
Dodgy CGI aside I really love the look of this, an oldschool adventure film in a great setting with one of my all time favourite actors, and I love a man and his loyal dog stories. :D
 
I'm probably gonna check this out one day on the weekend, as the cast is pretty impressive and I'm used to how CG the dog looks at this point.
 
The CGI dog totally pulls me out of the movie and kinda makes me not interested. It just seems silly to have a 100% CGI......dog. There's ways they could have done the more brutal stuff without having Harrison Ford spending the entire movie with an obviously fake dog.
 
Yeah, movies are made out of puzzle pieces, and you need to find the best piece for each part of it. They could've 100% used a real dog without putting him through dark and dangerous ****, for close ups, interaction with Ford and all non-action scenes, and use a CGI stunt double for the rest.

This is Just a ****ty choice which strikes me as them wanting to ride the coattails of how The Jungle Book and The Lion King looked. "It's CGI, Kids MUST love It."
 
I kept expecting that dog to talk. I thought he might even sound like Scooby Doo.
 
Look who directed it. A CGI animation director who made Stitch and a dragon. Both who don't talk. I think he thought he could do the same with live-action. I bet it was his creative choice.
 
The CGI dog totally pulls me out of the movie and kinda makes me not interested. It just seems silly to have a 100% CGI......dog. There's ways they could have done the more brutal stuff without having Harrison Ford spending the entire movie with an obviously fake dog.

I thought the same thing when I saw the preview for this. Dogs are real. And tame. And Smart. And AWESOME. Seeing a CG dog just makes me sad. It may be a good story, but I find it hard to get invested in a movie that didn't bother using a real dog for at least SOME of it. I mean, Harrison Ford was more likely to get hurt during filming that a dog would have.
 
Yeah it's definitely his trademark so you see why he did it. Basically making Alita in dog form.
 
I thought the same thing when I saw the preview for this. Dogs are real. And tame. And Smart. And AWESOME. Seeing a CG dog just makes me sad. It may be a good story, but I find it hard to get invested in a movie that didn't bother using a real dog for at least SOME of it. I mean, Harrison Ford was more likely to get hurt during filming that a dog would have.

They should've CG'ed Harrison Ford too. :o
 
I thought the same thing when I saw the preview for this. Dogs are real. And tame. And Smart. And AWESOME. Seeing a CG dog just makes me sad. It may be a good story, but I find it hard to get invested in a movie that didn't bother using a real dog for at least SOME of it. I mean, Harrison Ford was more likely to get hurt during filming that a dog would have.

Right, the whole crux of the movie is supposed to be the bonding between man and dog, but the whole time you're acutely aware that it's Harrison Ford pretending to interact with a CGI dog.
 

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