Monday, July 14, 2008

Why did he do that?

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was about Hancock, wasn't it.

Anonymous said...

or hellboy 2.

Alexander Volfson said...

Guys... what about Beowulf?

Ritesh Kalati said...

help me here. CGI?

Anonymous said...

A = anything ever made by Michael Bay

Anonymous said...

The Incredibles is a notable exception.

Anonymous said...

ritesh kalati, CGI = Computer Generated Images.

what about Wall-E? :)

j. foor said...

This is truth. But is there a point where CGI becomes truth?


More on superheroes:

http://aubonparadox.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-superheroes-part-1.html

Clarity said...

This is split for me, it's a comment on my art and medium. I agree with your veiled comment about the industry, so yes, CGI can get in the way of story - but if you get the writers (real writers) and artists involved then the result is not so bad, sometimes it's even fun, superficial, but fun.

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Kokonad said...

You would hold your head up and roll over in laughter if you see the CGI and visual effects in "Wanted"... it fits in the very tail end of the curve here! :-)

Anonymous said...

or Wanted... what a let down. The previews looked so good.

Anonymous said...

I weep for what the Matrix Revolutions might have been, had they limited themselves to the same budget they had for the first movie.

Anonymous said...

So true !
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C said...

this is probably true of Wanted, or Jumper or movies like that. but some are actually pretty durn good. i've actually heard that Hancock almost has too much plot, with like a bunch of stories going on at once.

side note: i don't think wall-e really counts as a CGI movies. cgi usually references digital inserts into live-action movies. where as pixar stuff is all computer animated. but i'm just thinking out loud

Tyler Cooper said...

This definitely doesnt refer to films made completely with computer software, just the live action superhero movies with lots of cg added.

But this does tend to happen, Typical conversation during movie:

"Umm.. what happened?"
"I dunno but that looked cool"
"yeah"

Unknown said...

Wall E doesn't count. 1. Not superhero movie. 2. It's pixar, which defies the CGI/plot trends (why they rock)

Whats funny is how this applies within a movie. Somehow as a movie progresses, cgi increases, and plot decreases.

Fernie Canto said...

"The Incredibles is a notable exception."

Because considering X = CGI and Y = Plot, Pixar would be a dot located on ([infinity], 0).

 
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