CG in Movies

[GALACTUS]

Hey

Has anybody seen this...

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/08/30/cgi_gone_awry_uk/

What the hell is the dude talking about. So some times the cg is obvious but there are heaps of VFX that go into these movies that largely go unnoticed till you read or see some information on how the shot was compiled.

Do movies primarily fail because of noticable or bad cg or because of bad Scripts or plots.

Is the same true for computer games, do we prefer graphics over gameplay or it the reverse. Tetris for example had simple graphics and addictive gameplay and we are still playing it today.

Or maybe am just getting grumpy as I get older

Colin

[panthon]

Digital democracy gives everybody the possibility to do everything they can imagine but that doesnt mean their imagination should be exposed. More and more people doing VFX, more and more possibilities of huge and stinky loads of crap coming towards u, the viewer...It´s pure statistics, I guess.
However i prefer the situation right now. A few years ago nobody but big companies could do anything remotely related to VFX. Now, despite the crappiness associated to any transitional era, the chances are high to catch some independent productions that often are far more interesting than commercial ones...

[GALACTUS]

I did not like the hulk for many reasons, but I did not think the cg character was bad. The modelling, and shading with attention to dust,dirt,sweat etc was quite good imho, and yet people rip into it. So what do they not like, is it similar to what I did not like which was bad storyline or did they enjoy the the storyline but felt the cg was so bad and as a result did not like the movie.

It kinda hard to tell, hence my comments above about what we as individuals assign greater importance to....visuals or storytelling obviously both being present would be ideal but........

[Clifton Santiago]

Hey, Colin. Maybe its just because I had a couple pints a lunch for a mates birthday, but I only had the patience to read the first paragraph.

Based on what I read, I don't think we should give this review any credit. He starts off by saying that that the Abyss is an under-rated masterpiece? While there we some cool special affects, the movie is a stinky pile of doo-doo. I downloaded a copy off bittorent recently and every time the actors opened their mouths I cringed at the piss-poor dialog that sounds like it was written by an pre-pubescent american school boy.

[panthon]

I downloaded a copy off bittorent recently and every time the actors opened their mouths I cringed at the piss-poor dialog that sounds like it was written by an pre-pubescent american school boy.

[GALACTUS]

Hey Clifton

You really can't beat movies produced in "Beerovision", the dialogue maybe garbled but you can't fault the the VFX.

Colin

[Clifton Santiago]

Hey Colin. I meant to say I agreed with you, but it didn't come out that way.... No more 3 pint lunches

[cpnichols]

From an insiders perspective, I tend to agree with clifton's pov... who the hell is this guy, and what are his expertise in VFX?... but he does makes some interesting observations (albeit unintentional). Favreau is well known in the industry to hate VFX, and has always been difficult when presenting him work. He always crys about how he wants to do everything in camera, and he managed very well to do so with the scale thing in Elf. He also points out, again unintentionally, exactly where the director and vfx supervisor started to make some poor choices on Day After Tomorrow. OK... I better shut up now.

[Da_elf]

huh? elf? someone call me?