I absolutely adore the themes by Jerry Goldsmith, and Disney was right not to mess with them, but it feels like the visuals came first for Around the World. From there Bruce Broughton (excellent composer in his own right) had to cut and paste the themes with ethnically-appropriate instruments for each scene. So the transitions are super weird and feel like "oh, we need an erhu because now we're in China" etc. I feel like they could build a much better show within the confines of the existing score - or maybe write something wholly new if it can match the brilliance?
I'm with you on that! It might be the flat-looking walls and windows at the front behind the arches, but they look like that in real life. And CGI could create better models than that if the flatness wasn't real. It's said that the Paris scene is all CGI too. There, I've come out, with something that I've kept quiet about in the face of public opinion. But, you know, CGI is very good these days and it's difficult to tell what's real and what's fake. The obvious things to me are the elephants, polar bears, rowers, balloons, and all the transitions. And I do wonder about the camel and horse riders, people in general, and the waterfall mist. SoC had its share of computer generated objects too.
Feels good, doesn’t it?!
It's wonderful to just let it......no, I'm not going to do it.
To me, the rendering of the Taj Mahal scene looks like something out of Assassin's creed III on a PS3 console. There is definitely other noticeable and not great CGI in the film (on the drive?) but nothing hits you in the face like the Taj Mahal does. It is laughably bad.
I just don’t understand its inclusion if they couldn’t film there.
Having seen the real thing, I respectfully disagree.
I think we all agree that the real thing is impressive. But they don’t show the real thing. The entire thing is obviously CG. At least the polar bear is a small part of the screen, not the whole thing.
As I said, it doesn’t look obviously computer-generated to me. On the contrary, it passes for the real thing in my eyes, such that I used to think it was filmed with a drone (even if digitally touched up).
Since I haven't yet seen the real Taj Mahal (hopefully one day), I can't really dispute what you say. However, to me (who hasn't seen the real thing) it is the worst looking CGI, by far, in any version of Soarin'.
As I said, I’m baffled by the disconnect between my perception and others’ and really don’t know what to make of it! It seems like you view the Taj Mahal as I do the Polynesian rowers (they’re the only effect I find truly egregious).
The glacier calving also stands out to me because, having seen the real thing, there is no way you could time a moving shot to it happening.
I don't think there's ever been a better track of music in WDW, and of course never remove Patrick from pre show, ''Nice work pal ''
I don't think there's ever been a better track of music in WDW, and of course never remove Patrick from pre show, ''Nice work pal ''
Fwiw, I'm with you. The Taj doesn't look entirely fake to my eyes.
Visited Paris last year, to my amazement the Eiffel tower is straight.
