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Summer Wars

Directed by Mamoru Hosoda

Japan | 2009

Even the pervasiveness of CGI in modern science fiction films is a (frequently lame) attempt to incorporate that abstract and creative freedom. But what most Hollywood studios haven’t figured out is that the reality in front of a camera’s lens and the reality created out of a nothing on a blank page will inevitably clash. The more they integrate, the more we fall into that nasty Uncanny Valley. I simply couldn’t imagine the finale, which features an enormous hulking shadow monster of the AI battling against Kazuma, Natsuki and Kenji, ever being replicated in CGI-integrated live-action.

21 Apr 2011 by Jonathan Henderson | Comment [2]

Tagged: 2000s, adventure, animation, anime, artificial intelligence, comedy, fantasy, internet, japan, momoru hosada, sci-fi, virtual reality