shadow said:
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm really beginning to get a little ticked at CGI. At times, it can produce amazing results in movies, but to much of it just makes me sick.
Ticked off? Why are you letting something as simple as computer animation even making you mad in the first place?!
Do we really need a CGI yoda, when he has been doing fine as a puppet in the last 4 Star Wars movies? What about the CGI Scooby in the upcoming Scooby Doo movie? (yech!!!) Take for example the famous T-1000 is T2. The T-1000 couldn't have been done in any other medium. That was a great example of early CGI. Now think of the CGI abomination known as Jar-Jar Binks! Now that CGI allows cheap and versatile special effects, Lucas and other movie makers are only thinking about whether or not such a CGI character is possible, not whether it is necessary.
I suppose the idea that creating a CGI Jar Jar Binks was more realistic than having some guy walk around in a suit just isn't a realistic reason huh?
Methinks that Lucas added Jar-Jar to show off the capabilities of CGI rather than to make a real character.
I think you are judging Jar Jar not on the fact that it is CGI but by the FACT that you simply didn't like the character. I think computers has nothing to do with it.
Some of my favorite movies such as Aliens and the original Star Wars trilogy were filmed before the advent of CGI. They still have good special effects, without CGI.
Interesting, well what about the fact that the origonal star wars were later redone with CGI? I suppose that was bad as well despite the fact that it improved the film?
Moreover, often CGI and real actors just don't combine.
Now you are just being silly and nitpicky! Using real actors and CGI combine about as well as using
real actors and puppets, if not more so! At least with cgi the character looks natural. Not a lot can be said of the puppets.
There just is something that doesn't look right with slick CGI images superimposed upon scenes of real actors and real backgrounds. There are plenty of cheap CGI scenes to demonstrate this.
Well it is wrong to judge all of CGI in all movies based upon poor work. Not all cgi is cheap looking. The backgrounds from the star wars films are examples of about as good as it can get.
Don't get me wrong. There are some places where CGI works really well, and I think that some all CGI movies such as Toy Story were great. However, too much CGI in the wrong places is just sickening.
Oh thats not so sickening, what I find truely sickening are all those nut jobs who go out and spend tons of money supporting cinematic trash like The Scorpion King and other films that are at best, mediocre as heck, and at worst, total garbage. NOW that is SICKENING.
K Koie