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

[terry78]

In stills it looks decent. I'll have to watch the whole movie to see if it bugs me.

 

[Schlosser85]

In stills it looks decent. I'll have to watch the whole movie to see if it bugs me.

In stills it does, but it’s movement gives it away IMO. It has that too smooth subtly unreal vibe.

 

[Kane52630]

So I posted those gifs on tumblr and I noticed one person left a comment which is fair...

Until I looked at their profile pic...

 

[Dark Raven]

They should've just put a dog in a mo-cap suit. It would've looked more realistic in its expressions and the way it moved.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Sanders does understand why “people would have an immediate problem” with choosing to use CGI animals, but feels that some of these people are just doing to take issue with anything. One of the first things he felt was important with his decision was that the situations they put Buck in are ones that “you just could not safely put a real dog into,” while also seeing the animation route as a way to allow them to “change his appearance.”

“In a situation where you’re using real dogs, you would have a number of dogs playing Buck,” Sanders described. “So you might have two, three, four or more dogs that are specialized in different behaviors standing in for Buck, which means you’d have a huge inconsistency with these characters. But the most important thing is that we wanted this character to act and to be a character, this is a fable about a dog. The human beings are characters that come and go in Buck’s life, but he is the constant and he is the one that book is about. So the idea of animating him does not sound very strange to me because this is the first time we’ve really been able to bring the character, the full character, of Buck to screen. I think that Jack London would be very excited by the idea of that, and certainly, this dog looms larger in his imagination.”

CS Interview: Chris Sanders on The Call of the Wild - ComingSoon.net

 

[terry78]

I get the reasoning as the dog is the main character and technically the lead, which marketing is kinda hiding due to Harrison Ford. But he basically wants to make a live action Toothless or Stitch.

 

[Micromind]

But many of Disney movies have unperformed too. Many of them were big budgets movies, people just look at successful Disney movies and forget the bombs. I mean just look at -

Lone Ranger, John Carter, The BFG, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, A Wrinkle in Time, Mary Poppins Returns, Dumbo (2019)

 

[Dark Raven]

But many of Disney movies have unperformed too. Many of them were big budgets movies, people just look at successful Disney movies and forget the bombs. I mean just look at -

Lone Ranger, John Carter, The BFG, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, A Wrinkle in Time, Mary Poppins Returns, Dumbo (2019)

Whose idea was it to call this film John Carter and drop the "Of Mars" bit? Of course, they couldn't call it John Carter: Princess of Mars. But still, their idea that "John Carter" would have broader appeal and that he only became "of Mars" at the end was ill thought out.

 

[Micromind]

Whose idea was it to call this film John Carter and drop the "Of Mars" bit? Of course, they couldn't call it John Carter: Princess of Mars. But still, their idea that "John Carter" would have broader appeal and that he only became "of Mars" at the end was ill thought out.

Well, till then, several movies that had "Mars" in the movie's title had failed at Box Office, one of them was again from Disney, Mars Needs Moms (2011), Mission to Mars (2000), Red Planet, so maybe they were avoiding that.

 

[Dark Raven]

Well, till then, several movies that had "Mars" in the movie's title had failed at Box Office, one of them was again from Disney, Mars Needs Moms (2011), Mission to Mars (2000), Red Planet, so maybe they were avoiding that.

They should've called it "Confederate Soldier and the naked damsel in distress Princess of Mars" to be accurate to the characters of the source material, and then await the backlash.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Well, till then, several movies that had "Mars" in the movie's title had failed at Box Office, one of them was again from Disney, Mars Needs Moms (2011), Mission to Mars (2000), Red Planet, so maybe they were avoiding that.

Then The Martian came out a few years later and blew that theory out of the water.

 

[terry78]

They're chopping up Fox basically and keeping the sure things.

 

[Micromind]

They're chopping up Fox basically and keeping the sure things.

I wonder if they've put Ice Age movies in cold storage.