Photoshopped movies?

[nancylebov]

I was reading this discussion of the evils of extreme photoshopping of models and celebrities, and ended up wondering how long till we get equally evil photoshopped movies?

It would take clever programming and huge amounts of bit-bouncing, but the programmers and Moore's Law are still in play, so I assume it's inevitable. Five years? Ten?

The good news is that those capacities can also be used for whimsy, weirdness, and exaggeration rather than just making all the women look boringly identical.

The bad news is that too much CGI just looks like "I have a morphing program, aren't you impressed?", and I expect that a lot of photoshopped movies will be no better.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

This has already happened. So far, mostly for 'good': e.g., in XMen 3, the opening sequence shows a "young" Professor X and Magneto, with their wrinkles and liver spots digitally removed. Adding, say, firmer boobs and slimmer stomachs would only be two steps past that...assuming you get good 'backing' footage, so that you know what to fill in behind the now-absent stomach.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

This blog is often fun, on that front:
http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

For a not-notably-effective recent example, there's the appearance by Laurence Olivier in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Where I think this technology may eventually be headed, rights issues permitting, is to home remakes of your favourite movies with your favourite actors regardless of timing issues, or indeed recreation of versions that did not get off the ground; not that I think either the Bogart/Lancaster or the Newman/Redford attempts at The Man Who Would Be King would hold a candle to the existing Michael Caine/Sean Connery one, but on the other hand, I'd go see a version of The Dark Knight Returns with a mid-80s Clint Eastwood as Bruce Wayne like a shot.