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[jonnyp]

Can't stand CGI most of the time.

 

[Chuckie]

Couldn't that just be a mannequin or something? You know, how when they do car crash scenes and they replace the actor with a prop?

Yeah, I read somewhere that the only CGI in The Raid was the muzzle flashes and casings coming from the guns.

 

[Camp Lo]

But Gravity was just terrible beyond the effects.

 

[Jal]

Ruins every horror movie, is the only good thing about Pacific Rim.

 

[zoukka]

http://i.imgur.com/PcJQI.gif

Tell me one good thing about Gravity that wasn't the special effects?

Acting = stiff
Writing = horrendous
Pacing = monotonous

Even the effects had their limits. Some of the surface materials looked rather fake in harsh lights. Like I was looking at a normal mapped texture in Max (well it WAS a normal mapped texture :b).

 

[Mr. Desu]

I liked it in Pacific Rim.

 

[Platy]

I think CGI heavy movies should be segregated to the "best animated feature" oscar like full cgi movies

 

[Dead Man]

I think CGI heavy movies should be segregated to the "best animated feature" oscar like full cgi movies

I could get behind that.

 

[Valhelm]

The problem isn't CGI, it's replacing quality characterization and plot with CGI ala Avatar, Star Wars Prequels, and Transformers

CGI has nothing to do with it. Filmmakers have been placing effects over plot since the 1950s.

 

[TasTokyo]

I will never understand their decision. WTF were they thinking?

The crazy thing is they had them all designed and even started using make-up for them. Then the director decided it wasn't good enough and they needed to be CGI. Which increased the budget and gave a terrible result. Looking it up his excuse was that actors running at night barefoot were too careful and they needed to constantly hyperventilate. Both terrible reasons. Just have the stunt people with concealed padding on, or something easy to blue screen out. In terms of hyperventilating I think good non-hyperventilating practical work would be better than awful CGI that is hyperventilating.

Although in terms of offensive uses of CGI, just google Wolverine origins gif and look at the first result of him in the mirror. The director that let it be used in the film should never be allowed to use CGI again.

I will add a link here and hopefully it's from an okay site.

Like seriously a professional film director decided that was better than the amazing prop claws they have.

 

[Messofanego]

Tell me one good thing about Gravity that wasn't the special effects?

Acting = stiff
Writing = horrendous
Pacing = monotonous

Even the effects had their limits. Some of the surface materials looked rather fake in harsh lights. Like I was looking at a normal mapped texture in Max (well it WAS a normal mapped texture :b).

I was disappointed with Gravity but wouldn't say it's terrible. Bullock was alright, it was just her character that was just too dumb like a comedy of errors to give a shit about. Aside from the

Spoiler

fetal

shot, didn't find much memorable about it. Would have preferred a less action, more hard sci fi path for the movie but then I already got that with another movie this year. So not that chuffed.

 

[PhantomZone]

I hate cgi in films, until they get it perfect in every aspect (which has not happened in any movie) i will continue to trash it.

 

[Dead Man]

I hate cgi in films, until they get it perfect in every aspect (which has not happened in any movie) i will continue to trash it.

Lots of movies have done CGI very well, either so it is not noticeable and for backdrops and things like that, or as a stylized choice. No part of film making is perfect in every aspect.

 

[wonzo]

Zodiac has some of the best use of CG you'll ever find in any movie.

 

[JackAubrey]

Zodiac has some of the best use of CG you'll ever find in any movie.

Some amazing stuff there. Fincher has been great at this kind of thing.

There's a lot of that kind of realistic set replacement in The Avengers too that people won't have noticed at all. Lots of street scenes aren't real at all. But it's the big special effects people notice.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Some amazing stuff there. Fincher has been great at this kind of thing.

There's a lot of that kind of realistic set replacement in The Avengers too that people won't have noticed at all. Lots of street scenes aren't real at all. But it's the big special effects people notice.

IMO, a lot of the street scenes in The Avengers stand out as obviously shot in front of a green screen because of how flat the lighting is in those scenes.

 

[Madness]

I hate them. I love special effects, huge stunts, and on-locale shots. And it's funny, because I read a Reddit iAmA with Renny Harlin, director of Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger a few days ago, and he said the same thing. That green screens and CGI effect have taken the heart out of action movies. That it looks fake, and takes away from the intensity of seeing an actual 747 get blown up on a runway or actually having stuntmen scale mountains.

One of the reasons I really disliked Revenge of the Sith, despite it being the best of the three, was the fact it was entirely green screened. At least the first two had the odd shots in New Zealand, forests, large outdoors shots. You can just tell when it's green screened. Same goes for Hobbit recently.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

IMO, a lot of the street scenes in The Avengers stand out as obviously shot in front of a green screen because of how flat the lighting is in those scenes.

Yet most people who did catch that thought it was just live background plates composited in place of the green screen as opposed to actual digital CG buildings and set dressing (cars, props, debris, etc).

I hate them. I love special effects, huge stunts, and on-locale shots. And it's funny, because I read a Reddit iAmA with Renny Harlin, director of Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger a few days ago, and he said the same thing. That green screens and CGI effect have taken the heart out of action movies. That it looks fake, and takes away from the intensity of seeing an actual 747 get blown up on a runway or actually having stuntmen scale mountains.

One of the reasons I really disliked Revenge of the Sith, despite it being the best of the three, was the fact it was entirely green screened. At least the first two had the odd shots in New Zealand, forests, large outdoors shots. You can just tell when it's green screened. Same goes for Hobbit recently.

You do know a number of scenes in RotS actually used practical miniatures? Or did you also think that was all CG?