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Batman Returns
1992 · Film · 126 min
Part of Batman Collection
Directed by Tim Burton
The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck's timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shreck tries to kill her, she's transformed into the sexy Catwoman. She teams up with the Penguin and Shreck to destroy Batman, but sparks fly unexpectedly when she confronts the caped crusader.
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Craig Reynolds - Original 1986 Boids simulation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86iQiV3-3IA
Boids Demo Reel 1987 — Part B:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBniZYiyrb4
>Early motion tests of the boids model of flocking and related collective motion (herds, schools, crowds). Recorded on a Symbolics Lisp Machine between 1986 and 1987.
Stanley and Stella in “BREAKING THE ICE” - Original Symbolics Tapes Restored & Remastered, 1080p:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYEp26g14Wk
Craig Reynolds #SCCS2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqP_c5zm89Q
>Pioneer Craig Reynolds shares his groundbreaking work in artificial life and computer animation. Reynolds describes his lifelong fascination with simulating natural complexity computationally. By modeling flocking birds from the bottom up, based on simple rules for how individual birds move, Reynolds made the astonishing flock emerge. This agent-based approach allowed new insights into collective behavior impossible to gather from nature alone. Reynolds reflects on the significance of his iconic 1987 "Boids" model for animating birds in films like Batman Returns. But its influence extends further - to complexity science and understanding real-world systems like traffic flow and crowd dynamics. According to Reynolds, the beauty of simple models is their emergent properties. By distilling phenomena to basic rules, computer simulation uncovers new truths about the world. Join this fascinating conversation with a legend of artificial life and computer graphics.
Blender Tutorial - Full Guide to Boid Particles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3TUPYVsxow
"Concierge" clip from 1968 Mel Brooks' "The Producers":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL6mTMShVyk
>Doity, disgusting, filthy, lice ridden boids.
This could not be further from the truth. Reality is almost the exact opposite from what you are saying. Practical effects are severely limited and if you look at movies in the 80s and 90s you can see the exact same model + foam + air brush + balsa wood breaking + cocoa for dirt + mist canon in one shot after the next.
Meanwhile in modern times you are watching movies where virtually every shot is somewhere between subtly modified to mostly CG and you don't notice. Then people see one awkward shot out of 400 and declare that "practical effects are better".
Watch batman returns to see a high budget comic book movie before modern film making and compare that to the summer block busters from today.
Hopefully a nefarious actor doesn't start training the orcas to engage in criminal activity. It has happened before with penguins, please refer to the excellent documentary, Batman Returns.
> Nothing against enjoying childish things as an adult, but it's notable that those movies do a lot to pretend they are actually thought-provoking culture pieces dealing with current issues - and not the latest adventures of characters which were invented almost 100 years ago to amaze children.
This is particularly notable with the recent Batman movies vs. say Batman Returns (1992). That was not a "gritty" or "serious" movie but still earned its PG-13 rating.
>> They were visually dark, sure, but that was Tim Burton's aesthetics, and it was a package deal that came together with at least a few glimmerings of that same twisted sense of humor that got him fired from Disney for making Frankenweenie.
Heh. Like in Batman Returns were the Penguin yells at Batman: "You're jealous, because I'm a genuine freak and you have to wear a mask!". I loved that bit :)
Danny DeVito, man. A comedian playing a deformed super-villain. That was cinema, once. That was even superhero movies, once.
one of the top movies ever, unfortunately the sequels were really bad (Batman returns is still ok) until The Dark Knight come out, which is as good or better.
For me Jack Nicholson Joker > Heath Ledger Joker.
The interplay between Catwoman and the Penguin in Batman Returns is a fascinating bit of cinema. You get two different people, crazy in different ways, but equally crazy in magnitude, trying to work together, to get along for a common goal. It's a wonderful bit of underappreciated cinema from Devito and Pfeiffer.
Well, I suppose we can do what the batman movies, or Gundam series do. Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman Begins. Gundam Wing, Gundam Turn A, Gundam Seed.
Web. Web Social. Web Ubiqu. Web Singularity.
I guess most hackers don't like the term web/bubble 2.0/3.0 is because it's overloaded, and hence, imprecise. Thus, ripe for exploitation by marketers, which generally have a bad rep with hackers (sometimes with good reason).
I think the author just means "the next evolutionary step of the web" Just as when people are talking about 2.0, they just mean that the web now was far different than it was back in 1996.