The Call of the Wild reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2020
- Mark Kermode reviews The Call of the Wild. A sled dog called Buck struggles to find his place in the Alaskan Yukon when he is moved there from his idyllic Californian home.
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I like to imagine this as a prequel to Blade runner: 2049.
Now there's a movie
I don't know, ask him.
Joel Woods Er........ Blade runner?
Heck, screenwriter Michael Green is involved in both movies.
So far, 2020 is the year of "it should've been a cartoon, instead." The uncanny valley has been strong, this season.
Well, starting in December, but yeah.
I loved it, the kids loved it and the grandparents loved it.
somebody somewhere now has "dog balls animator" on their CV
0:40 Its like poetry, it rhymes
I may have gone too far in a few places
I may be missing something here, but if the dog is meant to be photorealistic and doesn't talk etc, wouldn't it have been more sensible and arguably better to use a trained actual dog and accept the limitations of that? (sure, the trained dog probably won't raise an "eyebrow" on command, but that makes it more realistic and doggish)
I don't think they wanted true photorealism. They wanted a dog whose body would look realistic but would have a face that shows thoughts and emotions like a human. They are going for augmented realism; realism plus.
"but if the dog is meant to be photorealistic "
...is it tho?
It does way too much stuff in the movie that a real dog could never be trained to do. And the dog isn't exactly photorealistic as a dog - the face is made a bit more expressive. From what I've heard it works well.
@simongreco Listen to Mark near the start, once he stops talking about the logo, he reads a quote from Fox where they themselves say it's meant to be as photrealistic as possible. So yes it is.
lwaves you are right
CGI Harrison Ford played by Andy Serkis in the sequel
I have a dog who happens to love the deep cold and snow (Chicago). I’d rather walk in the woods with my real dog than pay money to see a fake dog played by a human, pretending to be a human.
Definitely with you there bud.
Isn't it a bit ironic that a movie called ''The Call of the Wild'' stars a CGI dog and not a real one? I guess nature is better experienced through the eyes of a computer...
So for any scenes where Harrison Ford is cuddling with or belly rubbing the dog...... he is doing it to some dude in tight green suit? Well, I hope both Harrison and the other dude were well compensated for this ;)
I laughed so hard reading this comment. Filmmaking never got weirder than this...
I liked the scene in which Ford takes the dog's temperature.
I thought it was surprisingly okay. Reasonably faithful to the novel until the end, even if the tone is far less brutal than the book.
This was one of my favorite stories growing up, and I would have seen this if it was a real dog.
I love White Fang and have read it many times but for some unknown reason never got around to this. It might be time to dig up an audiobook and finally experience this story.
If it had to be a real dog then it would of got abused and that’s the reason there using CGI dogs now.
That noise Kermode made sounded more like a seal than a dog.
Every bit as classic as any Disney film, from Old Yeller to Lion King.
This movie surprised us. Totally great and funny and exciting throughout.
casually making him repeat his dog impression before moving onto a different question, without smiling, brilliant classic british humour
I think it’s widely acknowledged that the best films that use cgi, the ones trying to achieve a degree of realism at least, are the ones that use it sparingly. Where they don’t 100% rely on the effect and mix the techniques between live action, animatronic and cgi, so that you’re not holding on the cgi for too long to the point you start to see the trick.
This film, I think, would be a hard one for me to immerse myself in as they seem to be using only one technique, going the mo-cap/cgi route. I’d be constantly looking for flaws in the animation, trying to identify why it doesn’t look right. I’d have preferred to see a mix of real dog and animation for this.
But this is sight unseen and I’m not intending to rubbish the movie. I’m just someone with a long standing interest in vfx, it’s development and its history.
The Jurassic Park movies handle CGI animals pretty well. I think the problem with this one is that we are very familiar with dogs and how they look, move and react. I wasn't convinced by the short clip that this is a movie I would want to see.
@Sean Elstob I've heard a number of VFX artists say that the best ones, and the ones they are most proud of, are the ones that you don't notice.
The CGI is pretty crap
cgi beard
This looks like a picture of Bill Oddy. I literally thought it was.
This film has the inverse of the issue with the new Lion King.
I have always loved dog movies.. Air Bud ( the golden retriever one), that Ethan Hawke movie, Hachico was also wonderful.. Just cut Harrison Ford some slack.. Hes such a likeable stoic humorous actor. I like that he tries this genre :)
OK, try these 2. Bombón: El Perro and Amores perros.
If only 2009 Kermode was here to see through the sickening schmaltz of this endeavor.
Having never heard of the movie before, my first reaction to seeing that poster at the start of the video was 'oh the dog's CGI?'. Seeing the clip in motion, the effect is even more distracting. The CGI isn't bad, but 'convincing' it isn't. I have to feel limited use of real animals and then using CGI for any action elements (i.e. avoid being A Dog's Journey) might have been better than scenes where a character in talking to a dog and the dog is acting like a human while looking weirdly silky just don't work so well.
Wow I must have been seeing a different movie here.
The Call of the Wild (2020) isn't a bad movie, it's just an instantly forgettable cinematic piece of "meh". Harrison Ford is charming, Terry Notary's physical work as the stand-in for the dog is pretty good. Their chemistry is the closest the movie has to a heart and soul. There are a few moments of visual language that reminds me of Chris Sanders' work in How to Train Your Dragon. I appreciate the fact that these animals aren't talking.
Having said that, I was never as engaged with the movie as I would, especially for a movie about a man's relationship with a dog which I have a soft spot on. I was having trouble adapting to its CGI look throughout the movie and never quite buy into the illusion. The dog just looks weird, especially with the dead eyes and herky jerky movement. At times, there are scenes when he's running across fields and they look like video game cut sequences. The scenery themselves look as artificial as the CG animals. The pacing of the story is a bit of all over the place, too rushed in certain parts and suddenly too slow in others. Dan Stevens is bizarrely over-the-top as a cartoonish, moustache-twirling bad guy who has the most abrupt character shift I've ever seen in movies, going from a clean-cut aristocrat to an 1800's Jack Torrance.
5.5/10 for me.
A wonderful family film. I loved it. Very satisfying. I was a wreck.
Love...Love...Love 💘
Wasn't Sting in a Mad Max film? Or am I thinking of Dune?
The CGI dog is terrifying though, let's be fair. Should've just gone the Babe/Homeward Bound route.
unfortunately, a lot of these mountains have been blown up to get to the all sacred oil!
Kathleen Lowy that’s not how you get oil...
Mike ok., you’re right, coal..beautiful mountain remains destroyed
Chewbacca coulda played the dog, right?
6:45 the birth of a new meme
This is a top film.
Interesting fact - Harrison Ford was talking to an imaginary dog throughout the whole shooting of the movie. Luckily that wasn`t much different from his normal daily routine anyway....
With the caveat that I am judging this movie by the effects in the trailer...
This is a movie aimed at people who love dogs, but the effects are not really acceptable to people who love and know dogs. So that cuts down your potential audience. I might have gone to see it, or at least bought the DVD, but... nah. Not even on TV.
Not as bad as Mark says in all honesty I thought Harrison Ford showed heart
Yeah, dog looks fake, but in that scene it works because Call of the Wild as a story kind of needs the dog to have an inner life and understanding that wouldn't have come across with a real animal.
The Call of the Wild is far too brutal and raw a book to end up in this schmaltzy film.
It's 2020! 1080p at least please.
Alexander Smith why?! don’t waste your bandwidth it’s about what he’s saying not how it looks
Humanie
Harrison Ford wants to poop in the wild!
It's not that it's a cgi dog, it's a cgi dog that's being humanized. Kind of makes the CGI even more apparent. I don't believe you are a real dog person Mark
I have loved this story since I was a kid.I turned this off after the first 30 seconds because of the terrible fake cartoon dog. Is Kermode having cataract problems? He just can't be trusted anymore.
So coming in late 2020 is a remake of Lassie starring another old actor because Hollywood has lost so much of it's ability to inspire us with new movies. Pathetic.
I prefered Togo over this, did every decision better than this movie
Oh god that animation from that clip looks so bad. It would have been better with 2d animation
Harrison, it's time to retire.
Long overdue
He should've gone right after Blade Runner 2049
I just saw that soon Indiana Jones 5 is going into production. I am scared witless about the possibilities for disaster lurking around...
I respectfully disagree with all of you.
Why should he retire ? He making great stuff.
I'll stick with Jurassic Park, thanks.
Too many animated animals lately! Stop!
Way, way, way too weird.
Just read the book.
The CGI ruins the film
Just use a real dog FFS
You can't use a real dog in a story like this...that would be called animal abuse
@@tygalatians stunt dog
@@danieljohn3498 yes throw a stunt dog under a sheet of ice in a river ...good idea
@@tygalatians you can use affects without it all being CGI.
William Dafoe has a movie coming out with actual dogs
The dog looks crap
Harrison Ford ls too jarring and weird for me to comfortably watch any more
Does Mayo realise he's on radio? Is he always this gloomy?
Yes, he has clinical depression.
Honestly the CG looks terrible, it's awful.
Meh, still better than BR 2049.
erlend steine I call to order the first agm of the BR 2049 hating society. Hang on, where is everyone?
@@floaty10 on lockdown, re-watching BR 2019