The Ghost and the Darkness

[dazie]

This recent news article: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-09-15T225701Z_01_N152213_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-LIONS.xml

wow.  Long link...

Anyway- that recent news article made me think of the movie that starred Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas.  I showed it at my theatres and was always stunned at how many stupid people brought their little kids to see it.  I could hear them screaming over the roars of the lions.

Good movie though, and I think I'm going to netflix it.

That is all.  I just got tired of seeing no new posts.

[Beefy]

I haven't seen it since the theater, but I remember being underwhelmed, and having a huge WTF at the pointless CG smoke coming from the train.

[dazie]

I guess actual smoke wasn't fancy enough.

[Gamplayerx]

Your story link doesn't work anymore (yeah, I a bit behind in my unread threads), so I just imdb'd the movie which I never saw. 

Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine month period

WTF?  They had man eating lions on the loose back then??

[dazie]

CGI ones.  Like the smoke.

Good movie.

[Gamplayerx]

Man, for all the advanced computer graphics they had back in the late 1800s, you'd think they could stop a couple of lions.

[Jessie]

The only thing better than reviving a random thread from the past is reviving a random thread from the past about a random movie from the past.

[Gamplayerx]

I could do that for hours.

[Beefy]

Hey guys, instead of generating real smoke, which is pretty damn cheap and easy to do, let's spend a ton of money generating CGI smoke for no good reason!

Whoever made that creative choice is now flipping burgers, mark my words.

[Jessie]

You really took that smoke personally, huh?

[Beefy]

You really took that smoke personally, huh?

It was really stupid.  Perhaps if the movie had been better it would have been overshadowed, but since it wasn't, all I associate with that film is the stupid smoke.

[BigDun]

There was smoke in that film? Gee, I liked the film and have no memory of any smoke.

[Beefy]

There was smoke in that film? Gee, I liked the film and have no memory of any smoke.

All the better reason that guy is flipping burgers now.  If you can't remember seeing the multi-million dollar smoke then that guy failed.

[Alice]

They have a whole display at the Field Museum in Chicago about the Ghost in the Darkness.  Not the movie, but the situation.