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Post by
Lombax
El Centro, best coffee around here. It's god tier.
Post by
Interest
Sorry- I very rarely drink coffee, and when I do I get it from a "coffee place" so I know it will be good.
Actually McDonald's coffee isn't too bad. At least around here.
Unless you spill it on yourself.
Post by
HiVolt
Tim Horton's.
lol @ the stereotype being true.
Tim Horton's does have really good coffee, though.
Post by
Adamsm
Tim Horton's.
lol @ the stereotype being true.
Tim Horton's does have really good coffee, though.
Yup...which is why Starbucks needs to go the hell away and stop trying to take over commercial places that would be better suited to have Timmy's there lol. Though, have been seeing more Coffee Cultures around here then the 'bucks.
Post by
Interest
*yawn* woke up early two days in a row...Ugh...
Post by
Rystrave
Never heard of Tim Hortons. Not a fan of Starbucks because well, it's just goddamn coffee and it's overrated.
Post by
Adamsm
Never heard of Tim Hortons. Not a fan of Starbucks because well, it's just goddamn coffee and it's overrated.
Timmy's is the national coffee chain of Canada heh; can get food and coffee drinks here, and it's cheaper then Starbucks lol...but somehow, Starbucks keep opening up up here.
Post by
Rystrave
Well that explains why I've never heard of it, although I'm like a less than an hour away from Canada.
I'm perfectly fine with my coffee pot coffee. Sometimes I like to spoil myself and get fancy by making someone else make my coffee.
Post by
HiVolt
Well that explains why I've never heard of it, although I'm like a less than an hour away from Canada.
That's surprising. I'm like a 12 hour drive from the border, and we have a Tim Horton's in my town, lol.
Post by
Interest
Who drinks coffee, really?
Post by
gamerunknown
Spirits Within failed because they marketed it as a Final Fantasy movie; as a straight sci-fi title though, it was a very good one.
But it got
bad
reviews
too...
Hell, briefly skimming
this list
, it didn't even beat movies which're like it.
Post by
Adamsm
Okay...and? Lots of movies get bad reviews; a lot of the complaints about Spirits Within, that didn't come from the fan dumb crowd, was about the fact that plot was all over the place, the voice acting was bad, and the ending was a tank...however, there are very few negative things said about the artwork, which was the best at the time, and in fact, wasn't really one upped till Advent Children came out.
Again though, the biggest issue with a Warcraft movie, is that if they went with real actors, then you'd have the Avatar syndrome, where 95% of the movie would be CGI anyways; so, just give up that last 5% of live human actors(the only role that wouldn't be CGI'ed) and just go 100%. And use Blizzard's in game CGI system, since they are better then any current studio, even Pixar, can come up with.
Edit: Also, that list that are like it...most of those are just sci-fi movies, but meh. I loved Spirits Within, and I still enjoy watching it.
Post by
Monday
even Pixar, can come up with.
Pixar doesn't try. They do what they do for art's sake.
It's like saying TF2 can't match Modern Warfare graphically. Sure, it's true, but it's because TF2 forsakes the awesome "realistic" graphics in exchange for art style.
Post by
Adamsm
even Pixar, can come up with.
Pixar doesn't try. They do what they do for art's sake.
It's like saying TF2 can't match Modern Warfare graphically. Sure, it's true, but it's because TF2 forsakes the awesome "realistic" graphics in exchange for art style.
Actually, I meant programming wise, and I choose Pixar as they are one of the few nearly all CGI programming based movie companies.
I'd compare it to Cameron's company that he used to make Avatar...but then again, if you ask me, Spirits Within looks better then the CGI stuff that he has produced.
Post by
gamerunknown
Okay...and?
There's an old Russian saying. If ten people tell you you're drunk, lie down.
If you'd really love to see a feature length film using the game engine and a canon plot, that's your prerogative (though I just realised you're probably talking about the trailer rendering rather than the in game engine itself, and the MoP trailer did make it into cinemas in the UK). However, it'd take a giant leap to go from that to "it'd be objectively better than something a studio could do" (on whatever metric) and "they'd make more money that way", as CGI is usually one of the most expensive components of modern film. Hell, even if it were 100% CGI, they'd probably still get actors like Andy Serkis for motion capture (he'd make a good Kobold) and famous voice actors.
I'm mostly arguing because I want to see Geoffrey Rush as Garithos though.
And now for something completely different: someone I know from the interwebs living in Sweden is in a club my friends go to in London. I find this extremely weird and I can't place the reason why.
Post by
Monday
Amazing
Post by
Adamsm
That's my point though, CGI and Live Action rarely flow together well, and such as in Warcraft case, where anyone not playing a human, a high elf or possibly a dwarf would have to be CGI'ed in; not even a wrestler such as the Undertaker or Kane could pull off a convincing Orc, considering how massive in the shoulders they are.
And if they went with Blizzard's in house system, they'd more then likely save some money on the costs as well.
Post by
HiVolt
First presidential debate starts in a few minutes. Anybody else watching?
Post by
Interest
Okay...and? Lots of movies get bad reviews; a lot of the complaints about Spirits Within, that didn't come from the fan dumb crowd, was about the fact that plot was all over the place, the voice acting was bad, and the ending was a tank...however, there are very few negative things said about the artwork, which was the best at the time, and in fact, wasn't really one upped till Advent Children came out.
Again though, the biggest issue with a Warcraft movie, is that if they went with real actors, then you'd have the Avatar syndrome, where 95% of the movie would be CGI anyways; so, just give up that last 5% of live human actors(the only role that wouldn't be CGI'ed) and just go 100%. And use Blizzard's in game CGI system, since they are better then any current studio, even Pixar, can come up with.
Edit: Also, that list that are like it...most of those are just sci-fi movies, but meh. I loved Spirits Within, and I still enjoy watching it.
But then they'd waste less money!
Post by
Monday
Poor Lehrer.
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