"Gemini Mission": 6 points Recommended crowd: Ang Lee fans, film and television practitioners, film technology enthusiasts, audiences who think the ending of Game of Thrones is good
The reputation of Ang Lee's new film in North America has suffered a cliff-like decline. Now the score on IMDB is as low as 5.6 points, which may be the worst of Ang Lee's directorial career. I think the main reason for such bad reviews is the text of the movie. Frankly speaking, the movie is obviously not up to the standard in terms of the story.
I can totally understand why the audience doesn't buy it, because what Ang Lee has always talked about the most is his control of the text, and this time the story is really too mediocre, and the logic is completely unreasonable, Seeing that the screenwriter is the screenwriter of Game of Thrones, I probably understand why.
But from another point of view, I don't think "Gemini Mission" is a bad film. I can only say that Ang Lee has reached this stage and has completely focused on technological innovation.
As we all know, this film, like his last "Halftime", still uses 120-frame high-definition footage. The movie itself is technically an upgrade to the previous one, with a large number of action scenes and CG special effects, completely immersive.
Kashen started the 3D era with "Avatar" on the computer. Later, a bunch of movies with uneven 3D effects followed, but few were actually shot with 3D cameras, and most of them were converted into 3D later. And Ang Lee this is a real 3D movie.
To give the simplest example, the 3D effects of ordinary movies are mainly placed on special effects, such as flying meteorites, raindrops when it rains, etc., and in "Gemini Mission", you can clearly feel the real space presented by the scene. sense of distance and distance between characters. None of these require special effects, but still deliver a realistic feel.
There is also a technical innovation in the film, which is to use CG to create a Smith, which is completely different from the face-changing technology of previous films. Every inch of the skin of the teenage Smith is made of special effects. Why is it so troublesome, because the film is a At 120fps, any imperfection in the face may be noticeable to the viewer. So he wanted to capture all of Smith's movements as much as possible, to present a real person, not a simulated CG character.
In addition to technical innovations, Ang Lee also presented two extremely exciting action scenes in the movie. Both are middle-aged and young Smith duels. It is particularly worth mentioning that the first scene was not directed at Guan Guan at the beginning. The public revealed that the pursuer was the young Smith, but used the mirror to continuously pave the way. The mirror chased the two from the street after the shootout, and ran through to the end, which perfectly matched the theme that the two were two sides of the mirror.
I don't know if Ang Lee has played a lot of AAA games before filming. Several fight scenes in the movie are very game-like, the thrill of shooting, the cool fights on motorcycles, and the confrontation with the army in the final climax scene. These are the thrills that can only be felt in 3A games. However, in the 120-frame 4K viewing, Ang Lee used this audio-visual experience to let the audience experience it once.
Having said so much, it is not to prove how excellent "Gemini Mission" is. The advantages of these films mentioned above still cannot cover up the shortcomings of the text. But I am still in awe of Ang Lee from the bottom of my heart. Whether 120-frame movies are the general trend of the future film industry, no one can know. Ang Lee is constantly exploring on such a road. He is trying to be a pioneer, but he is still the only one walking on this road alone.
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