Fearfull AI in LOTR

Forty-six & Two · Post by **Forty-six & Two** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 11:41 pm

http://www.canada.com/montreal/montreal ... EFCC111ACC

Funny tidbit about AI.

Apparently they forgot the code for courageus thinking

iohkus · Post by **iohkus** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 1:14 am

lol articles a little short though.

i wonder if they'll include the scenes of the 200,000 ai characters fleeing from battle on like a special dvd or something.

Trakocian · Post by **Trakocian** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 4:34 am

If they show any of the fleeing soldiers in a scene on the add-ons dvds, odds are it will be a pre-render simulation.

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 4:45 am

It will still be funny. Plus even if it was prerender, it would still look semi ok due to the fact that the director is probably not really up on his computers and wouldn't be able to tell what was happening if it didn't resemble what he wanted it to.

You would think that they would just tell the computer not to run away rather than wasting two years messing around.

PerroViejo · Post by **PerroViejo** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 5:37 am

Funny to realize that computers being given the odds, facts and options, made a less heroic choice than Tolkien's characters.

That promts me to ask: Does this mean that if they used the same algorithms for the AI in the Matrix, the Sentinel (squids) would've figured out how pointless it was to go into Sion and would've just hung out playing cards or doing Rockette routines?

- "The sad fact remains: Asimov's Laws Of Robotics are meant as much to protect us from our creations as they are meant to keep our mechanical children from becoming as debased as we are. Why else ask of them to treat us in a manner in which we seem unable to treat each other?" - Ben Bova

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 6:33 am

I hope that's a special feature on the DVD...I planned on buying all 3 together at the same time (like most people)...I've never seen any of them in the theater, and I've only seen the first two while drunk at friends houses....When the third hits store shelves, I'll probably watch all three sober.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 8:10 pm

Don't, you'll just get disappointed.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 9:16 pm

I wouldn't mind watching them all while drunk again...

The Gaijin · Post by **The Gaijin** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:29 pm

Y'know, after watching the extended DVDs (away from the smelly theater with the fucking slut who always brings her babies to the 10:00 showing of an inappropriate movie) of the two released ones, it's not as bad as I remembered...little heavy on the vaguely homosexual staring, but not that bad.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 11:01 pm

Heh..I noticed it was a bit OH SHIT I HEAR THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!!!111!1111oneone-tacular, too...But so were the books, if you think about it...A group of hot, sweaty men, and some child-like midgets going to save the world together...with no women...It's like the boy scouts..

American Tourister · Post by **American Tourister** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 11:14 pm

I going to have to read the books again, to see how much the movies deviated from them, but overall I rather enjoyed the LOTR movies. Would have liked bloodier battles, but what can you expect from a PG-13 movie?

Have to admit I just love big battle sequences in any movie, if they're well done. Such as in Glory. Gettysburg, or Braveheart. I about jumped out of my theater seat to charge the screen several times during Braveheart, and got some of that same feeling during Return of the King.

Damn, think about it. What sane Orc wouldn't turn and run when about 6000 lancers are going to hit you in the right flank?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:07 pm

ExtremeDrinker wrote:Heh..I noticed it was a bit OH SHIT I HEAR THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!!!111!1111oneone-tacular, too...But so were the books, if you think about it...A group of hot, sweaty men, and some child-like midgets going to save the world together...with no women...It's like the boy scouts..

The German boy scouts to be more exact:

The Gaijin · Post by **The Gaijin** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 8:29 pm

ED-That is true...and there is an awful lot of hugging and crying. Maybe Tolkein was trying to tell us something?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 8:35 pm

Don't get all Freud again.
Maybe action just gets dull after pumped into the viewer's brain for 3Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â½ h straight? Maybe hugging, crying and hot manly sex on the beach just softens the movie and makes it easier to swallow... or something.

Grey Fil · Post by **Grey Fil** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 6:31 am

... or something.

You got that part right at least

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:57 pm

What the fuck happened to that article?
"This document is no longer available"