(I mean: it's clever, an' all that. But clever isn't everything.)
(, Mon 21 Sep 2020, 9:25, Reply)
Imagine someone trying to pitch Roobarb & Custard nowadays
(, Mon 21 Sep 2020, 10:00, Reply)
I’d like to see what kind of terrible unholy mess this would make of Roobarb & Custard
(, Mon 21 Sep 2020, 21:22, Reply)
but then it became integral to the show's appeal and slightly frenetic atmosphere.
(, Tue 22 Sep 2020, 11:49, Reply)
I'd like to see it on some Harryhausen
(, Mon 21 Sep 2020, 10:38, Reply)
But the principle stands.
I can sort-of-see a rationale for the Harryhausen idea, insofar as that he was using stop-motion as a means to try to give us something realistic. But nobody would use stop-motion for that nowadays.
(, Mon 21 Sep 2020, 13:07, Reply)
It's the same kind of Train Pulling into a Station 60 fps vandalism that made the Lumière brothers turn in their grave, at 78 rpm
(, Mon 21 Sep 2020, 11:42, Reply)
That's a fundamentally different enterprise from what's going on in stop motion.
(, Mon 21 Sep 2020, 13:05, Reply)