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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Film Not To Get All Melodramatic or Anything, But This Kind of Makes Me Think About Killing Myself a Little Bit.
Posted by on Thu, Jan 25 at 12:33 PM
… Fox is expected to cast a comic actor in the role of Dave Seville, pal to the three chipmunks, Alvin, Simon and Theodore, who will be computer generated….
Goddamn I loved that cartoon when I was a kid. Really can’t wait for the shitty live-action-with-cheap-CG version starring Freddie Prinze Jr. or whothefuckever. Jesus. The whole dark, ugly scheme can be found here. (And thanks for ruining my day, Dark Horizons.)
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More than likely they'll REALLY fuck it up and cast Mike Meyers or some other crap, talentless, Sat. Night Live has-been.
Why mess with a classic? It'd be like doing a live action version of Thundercats or something. Wait, I DO want to see a live version of Thundercats!
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This is so wrong! Computer graphics are simply not sophisticated enough yet to match the original cartoon's appearance! If I remember correctly, each cel was actually hand-painted by a classically trained artist. It was so photorealistic that, even though you knew chipmunks couldn't talk, you still found yourself believing it.
But while the art will inevitably suffer by comparison, I still think this movie could be funny if (1) Dave yells "Alviiiin!" and (2) One of the non-Alvin chipmunks sings the line "Alvin wants a huuuuula hooooop". Especially point 2. That makes me crack up every time.
Plus, computers have greatly simplified the process of producing a realistic chipmunk voice, compared to the old process, which involved recording the actors talking veerrrrry slowly, pressing that on to a 33rpm record, and then playing that record at 45rpm.
Oh, wait, I just remembered that I have my own blog. I don't need to write so much here.