蛇？ 蛇! Nooooooooo…

感谢调整对PTD杂志的第四个问题。 抽我们导致我们的第一个主题的问题关于夏天电影! 我希望您喜欢读，当我们左右批评影片搭卖计算机游戏。 很好，那是被期望的计划，至少。 读更多

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蛇神 意志 吃您的面孔

Welp，我们去 观看蛇神吃人 在10月。 如果您能认为一个更甜的组合星期四夜，您必须是一些疯狂的brainiac。 有您的免费入场券，闲逛我们 免费电影票 呼叫并且有下载。 请注意颤抖在壁角的那些票…他们可以出去吃您。

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Nick and Norah Screening

PTD Magazine is continuing to hook up our Oklahoma readers with free movie passes. This week we’ve unlocked the passes for Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, which will be screened on September 25th at the AMC Quail Springs Theater. Hit the Free Movie Tickets page to download your free pass and check out the movie trailer. We’ll see you at the show!

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Sam Jackson is staring at you

Hey guys, just a quick heads up on the latest of our free movie passes for readers in the Oklahoma area. In case you’ve not noticed the new addition to our navigation bar, we’ve dedicated a page to the passes, making it easy for you to bookmark and check out the updates as we post them. Read more

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American Teen in Tulsa

There’s nothing better in life than a free lunch, and coming in a close second is a free movie.  Although we would love to take all our readers out to lunch, it would probably be difficult to find a table for 15 thousand.  Instead, we’ll all cram in a theater built for a few hundred and call it a day. Read more

The death of special effects

My son and I went to see The Hulk when the new Marvel Studio film opened in Oklahoma City recently, and we were both impressed with the seamless nature of the CGI elements in the movie.  As we drove away from the theater, we started talking about how filming technology has evolved, making films like The Hulk and Iron Man possible. Read more

Hang with PTD, American Teen

We scored some free passes to the screening of American Teen this week and want to pass the love on to our fellow readers. If you’re pumped for a little teen-angst documentary style, then drop into our forums to download your free pass. Thanks to Paramount for hooking us up. Read more

What will happen when special effects aren’t special anymore? [Vertical]

My son and I went to see The Hulk when the new Marvel Studio film opened in Oklahoma City recently, and we were both impressed with the seamless nature of the CGI elements in the movie. As we drove away from the theater, we started talking about how filming technology has evolved, making films like The Hulk and Ironman possible. I told him about the ‘gee-whiz’ feeling I had when I saw Star Wars for the first time in a little movie theater in Sugarland, Texas back in the late 70s, and we started brainstorming about the future of film. Soon, popular stars will develop that are completely created - that is, their voices and features will be entirely generated by computers. With the inevitable improvements occurring in CGI, soon movie-goers won’t be able to tell the difference between live actors and computer-generated characters. And suddenly, we’ll have ‘actors’ who can look the same for literally hundreds of years. Imagine a storyline that spans a couple of centuries - or even a millennium - it could happen.

But what happens when the ‘gee-whiz’ wears off? My grandchildren will take CGI technology for granted, because they’ll grow up in a time when it’s the norm, instead of something that’s new and exciting. I’ll admit, I’ve gone to a few films where the only redeeming quality was the power of its special effects. But what will happen when special effects aren’t ’special’ anymore?

That’s easy - writing will become more important again. The story will become more critical to the success of a film than its visuals. Hollywood comes full circle.

Just think about the ‘website craze’ when the Internet was relatively new to public use. A million sites sprang up that had plenty of flash - but no real content. Predictably, those content-poor websites withered on the vine, and justly so. As the World Wide Web has become more mature, the emphasis has shifted away from sites with scrolling marquees to sites that are content-rich. Only the strong survive.

The same thing will happen in film. Great CGI effects won’t be enough to keep an audience’s attention. In fact today, the best movie is the one with both: great special effects and a great storyline. Marvel’s Spider-man franchise is a good example.

So, I’m excited about the future of film. As a person who would rather read a well-written book than see a poorly-written movie, I’ll welcome the soon-to-appear improvement in scripts and dialogue.

And besides, with all this new CGI wizardry, maybe someone will be brave enough to make a movie of the Foundation Trilogy. You could stretch that excellent storyline over a couple of centuries!