OT: The Movie/TV/Streaming Thread

[Magua]

Some of the CGI in Dr. Strange Multiverse of Madness are just laughably bad.

I think Marvel CGI is cartoonish in general and one of the worst offenders.

Listen, practical effects is a lost art. I always think about the brilliance of LoTR in that front, compared to The Hobbit CGI f***fest that looks worse with better tech. And we’re two decades and a decade removed respectively.

Godzilla: Year One showed it’s not strictly a money excuse. You can go back 15 years and see that in District 9. Dune (Nolan too) shows a visionary director can get the breathtaking CGI they desire. It’s all a choice.

Saw Gladiator II. The CGI is distractingly bad, particularly the animals. It just feels rushed as all hell.

I read the DP shitting on Ridley, saying he rushes production these days and lazily films with multiple cameras, so the lighting is just very bland.

 

[Rebels57]

Saw Gladiator II. The CGI is distractingly bad, particularly the animals. It just feels rushed as all hell.

Yep...it was ridiculously bad. Especially when you compare those animals to something recent like the Apes trilogy.

 

[Lord Defect]

practical will always be better than cgi for things that can be achieved practically.

 

[TCTC]

practical will always be better than cgi for things that can be achieved practically.

There's a reason The Thing, a movie from the early 80's, still holds up today, while lots of the stuff created two or three decades later with lots of CGI in it has aged really badly.

And they even used matte paintings in The Thing. Obviously you don't need it anymore today, but the people who created those were true artists.