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angels & frogs........................................>>>Sunday, May 18, 2003
"Only an asshole gets himself killed over a car."
-Repo Man'
The Matrix car chase:
okay, i think it would be the best car chase ever (like everyone is swearing that it is), except i have to immediately disqualify it for use of computer effects. that's just so wrong to me. i take best car chases about as serious as my friends take their "best song" lists and there is NO reason to make a digital images of a car. OR a digital crash to wreck it. you can make a digital alien, you can make a digital spaceship, a digital ass fucking a television, but that's because they can't exist.
a car blowing up, or two trucks hitting head-on is something in a movie that you CAN do and SHOULD do whenever you can. and that's what i wanted to see. i could instantly tell when they'd switch to computer cars and trucks and it fucked up that scene. i know they were reaching for something new with the virtual camera stuff, and where that worked in, say, Panic Room, here it just made it easy to pick out the computer cars when the camera went through them. that means that those were not cars and those things that were not cars were in no danger of hitting the girl on the motorcycle. it's a fatal mistake to take danger out of the stunt. people never really separate themselves from the knowledge that there is a human being in danger when they were driving against traffic that day on the set, and that's what makes good car chases great. that and the actual destruction of vehicles. Matrix 2 drops the ball on both of these things.
and i really wanted to call that the greatest chase ever (Morpheus cutting that car with a sword was very impressive) but that's like saying the Phantom Menace podrace is the greatest race ever. it can't be. it's no Ben-Hur simply because it does not exist, therefore that shit just don't count. when the Matrix switched to cartoon cars, it was videogame time. no stuntmen were in danger, no metal and oil burning on the road after they yelled "cut." it's just a cheat. tommorrow i'm going to list the greatest car chases tonight because that's all i've been thinking about since i left that theater.
::: david - 2:40 PM [+] :::
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