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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.
 

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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.
 
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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.
 

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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.
Same with blade runner. What they did was astounding
 
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Speaking of painted backgrounds, special effects, etc… I just watched this the other night. I think I liked it even more than when I was a kid. I love this story (Pamela Travers wrote the book)

Mary Poppins premiered on August 27, 1964, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.[37][45] The film's poster was painted by artist Paul Wenzel.[1][2] Travers was not extended an invitation to the event, but managed to obtain one from a Disney executive. It was at the after-party that Richard Sherman recalled her walking up to Disney and loudly announcing that the animated sequence had to go. Disney responded, "Pamela, the ship has sailed" and walked away.[20]

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Caught the first episode of Skeleton Crew and found it rather enjoyable.

I'm watching Dune: Prophecy because my wife is basically making me, but I find that one tedious. But then I also find the films tedious. I'm just not a Dune guy, I guess.
 

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Caught the first episode of Skeleton Crew and found it rather enjoyable.

I'm watching Dune: Prophecy because my wife is basically making me, but I find that one tedious. But then I also find the films tedious. I'm just not a Dune guy, I guess.
I just watched the first episode of Skeleton Crew. Liked it. I have the EXACT same food containers for my breakfast cereal. $51.95 for a set of three at Amazon:

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I just watched the first episode of Skeleton Crew. Liked it. I have the EXACT same food containers for my breakfast cereal:

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I love spotting props that I recognize. In Phantom Menace, Anakin had a ‘tool’ that was a toy that I owned several years later and recognized on a rewatch.


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Lord Defect

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Caught the first episode of Skeleton Crew and found it rather enjoyable.

I'm watching Dune: Prophecy because my wife is basically making me, but I find that one tedious. But then I also find the films tedious. I'm just not a Dune guy, I guess.
Is it a kids show that adults can enjoy or an adult show starring children?
 

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