In Reply to: Like Hilary's fictional account of history.... posted by Rod M on June 23, 2003 at 18:34:44:
Bring back animatronics!!! These CGI characters have none. Yuck. The artificiality is distracting. While I admire attempts to push beyond the confines of the current envelope, it's failure detracts from the movie. Isn't that what makes a FX movie a classic? Ignoring Chuck Heston's remarkable performance in "Ten Commandments" & "Planet of the Apes" for a second. How much worse would those movies have been if the director pushed the envelope? EG: The director knew he couldn't do a convincing space re-entry/crash scene so he filmed it from inside the vehicle. In "Ten Commandments", the director knew some of the FX were hokey so he attempted to portray them as a bad drop whenever possible to accentuate them. Then, OTOH we have "Jaws". "Jaws" IMHO is a classic precisely because the mechanical shark broke down so much in salt water. Thus, Spielberg had to be creative shooting the same scenes shark less. Otherwise, I suspect it was destined to be another slasher movie with a modern sea monster. Hollywood still doesn't comprehend that "The Matrix" worked because the FX didn't overstep their bounds. Of course some help was innate to the script. A viewer can dismiss some lame CGI FX because it was a CG world. However, most were proven technologies professionalized, like the "Lost in Space" movie. Then, add a bit of "Avengers" slickness & we have a showpiece. It wasn't revolutionary at all. It was a polished piece of concurrent film neuer carried by Laurence Fishburne & Joe Pantoliano. (end of rant)♪ moderate Mart £ ♫ ☺ Planar Asylum
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Follow Ups
- yeah, the trailers look worse than spiderman & the one & matrix reloaded CGI scenes - Mart 23:28:06 06/23/03 (3)
- "...Chuck Heston's remarkable performance..." - No offense, but isn't that an oxymoron? - Audiophilander 07:43:46 06/24/03 (2)
- re: Jurassic Park series - Mart 08:07:26 06/24/03 (1)
- That depends, but it's the mid-range shots where the CGI looks best in JP. - Audiophilander 08:47:17 06/24/03 (0)