Help me remember this movie:

#1

Alright guys I need your help again.

This is a scifi movie which was done completely in cgi. I remember that the cgi looked very weird. It looked like they put a cgi effect on top of real footage so everything looks like it has been made in cgi.
The story is about a crew flying through space in a post apocalyptic time. They are trying to find some place where all the dna of everything on the world is archived so that you can rebuild everything.

Google didn’t give me any good results. So I put my hope in you.

#2

Star Gate of the Trek Wars: Firefly of the Event Avatar.

But in truth your description is not ringing any bells in my brain.

#3

Titan AE with Matt Damon and Bill Pulman.

#4

Seems like it’s about time I watch that movie.

#5

Yeah, that sounds like Titan AE

#6

Titan AE, I’ve heard of that. I should also watch it.

Also, the subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/ is made specifically for this kinda stuff.

#7

Yeah, that sounds like Titan A.E. all right. It was actually CGI and cel animation. It was Don Bluth’s last direction project for the last ten years. Sadly, the film flopped in theaters, despite having a solid plot, good voice cast, and Joss Whedon doctoring some of the dialog.

So yeah, see it. It’s pretty awesome.

#8

Titan AE was a great movie. I haven’t seen it in years, either…

#9

It’s on Netflix, I watched it not long ago. I didn’t realize until I watched it again this last time that I realized that it’s kind of weird. Not like the aliens or anything was weird, just…like pacing and dialogue and stuff. It felt weird. I couldn’t really relate to or care much about the characters. The soundtrack was funny too, it was all these unknown rock songs and stuff. Strange movie, but undoubtedly an influential part of my childhood.

#10

I like the movie a lot, but I wouldn’t say that it is great or even worth watching. It’s an odd one. There is something not-right about it. Also, the villains are very one dimensional (in motivation, they are actually 3d renderings visually).

#11

I figured that was the point.

#12

There were a couple of books that shed light on the Drej’s motives. Apparently, the Titan project scared the shit out of them because of it’s ability to create planets from nearby celestial bodies and energy. It’s basically the ultimate superweapon against Drej because they are pure energy. So the Drej Queen is basically like “We need to nip this in the bud,” so that’s why they blow the fuck out of Earth at the outset of the film. But you’re right, it should have been more explicitly covered in the film’s plot, rather than leaving such an important detail out of the final script.

#13

Sounds more like Final Fantasy than Titan A.E.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173840/

#14

Oh man, I remember when the CGI characters in that movie looked really amazing at the time.

Now a top-tier PC can render this in real-time:

1920×1080 467 KB

1920×1080 473 KB

Soon, whole characters will be as detailed as that, not just the face.

#15

I can remember when The Last Starfighter was the best CGI I had ever seen, and that could be processed on a phone from two/three years ago now.

#16

Just watched Titan AE.

Movies like this shouldn’t suffer from such a short run-time. An hour and a half is not enough time to flesh out everything and the story suffers for it. Everything felt compressed: not enough time for proper character development, plot points come and go too fast and events happen too quickly.

Also, they should’ve stuck to either CGI or cel animation or just make them more consistent between each other. The transition between CGI and cel was too jarring, since at times the CGI looked too realistic.

Overall, I thought it was good, it just needed a longer runtime.

P.S.: Titan was basically an even more advanced version of Star Trek’s Genesis Device.

#17

#18

Thanks guys. Surprisingly I remember that I found out about that movie already a few months ago but forgot it again because I couldn’t find a download.

Thanks for that subreddit Pyro.

#19

Yeah, that’s p.cool

not bad for reddit

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