Word has recently reached the bullpen that Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith are set to team for Emancipation, a runaway slave thriller from the pen of William N. Collage. Based on a true story, Emancipation will tell the distressing story of Peter, a runaway slave forced to dodge a band of blood-thirsty hunters as well as the horrors that lurk within the…...
- 6/15/2020
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Will Smith faces his younger self in Gemini Man, but it is a literal '90s high-concept that's dead-on-arrival in this high frame rate mess.
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While watching Gemini Man, I was taken back to the ‘90s, although not necessarily for the reasons you think. Sure, the movie stars one of that decade’s biggest names, and it’s definitely based on a relic from a pitch meeting of that era, but the real nostalgia here is for the point-and-click puzzlers it so eerily resembles with its deadly photography.
If you’re too young to have been blessed with classics like The 7th Guest or Tim Curry’s Frankenstein game, back in the day they hired Hollywood talent to act before blue screens that would be filled out with digital photographs of real sets. The characters were real, their conversations had conviction, but they were doomed by uncanny valley visuals and stilted presentation.
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While watching Gemini Man, I was taken back to the ‘90s, although not necessarily for the reasons you think. Sure, the movie stars one of that decade’s biggest names, and it’s definitely based on a relic from a pitch meeting of that era, but the real nostalgia here is for the point-and-click puzzlers it so eerily resembles with its deadly photography.
If you’re too young to have been blessed with classics like The 7th Guest or Tim Curry’s Frankenstein game, back in the day they hired Hollywood talent to act before blue screens that would be filled out with digital photographs of real sets. The characters were real, their conversations had conviction, but they were doomed by uncanny valley visuals and stilted presentation.
- 10/8/2019
- Den of Geek
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