I found Starship Troopers amazing

I found I am Legend god awful

5/27/2008 7:53:08 PM

I found all the Spiderman movies visually immaculate. I mean the colors were just outstanding, I love bright colors like that. I suppose they were not technically realistic, but its a movie, it's not supposed to be 100% real.

Besides that there have been quite a few movies that I think used CGI to good effect. Pans' Labrynth comes to mind.

5/27/2008 9:43:27 PM

^^

yeah, the effects/CGI basically saved Starship Troopers

[Edited on May 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM. Reason : .]

5/27/2008 9:49:57 PM

"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" used CGI wondrously

5/27/2008 10:00:22 PM

s1mone used it the best cause it was basically the point of the movie

5/27/2008 10:01:34 PM

Cast Away was good. I saw a "making of" show, and a lot of the island scenes (like when he's on top of the mountain) are bluescreen. you'd never guess it!

A movie with shitty CGI - 10,000 BC

5/27/2008 10:16:04 PM

I'd like to second 5th Element for great CGI.

5/27/2008 10:34:21 PM

what about prefect storm?

5/27/2008 10:40:40 PM

there are some harry potter movies that have some shitty cgi going on

5/28/2008 1:24:50 AM

i saw volcano the other night for the funnybad factor. that has some shitty cgi lava.

5/28/2008 1:42:11 AM

can't believe 2001: a space odyssey hasn't been said

[Edited on May 28, 2008 at 2:08 AM. Reason : !!!]

5/28/2008 2:07:51 AM

^I fell asleep before all the effects started.

5/28/2008 7:23:51 AM

Quote :

"plus it seemed like lucas filmed the entire film in front of a green screen"

seemed?

5/28/2008 8:14:06 AM

Van Helsing = shitty cgi

5/28/2008 11:04:00 AM

I, Robot

5/28/2008 11:27:04 AM

^I agree with that. That movie was done pretty well

5/28/2008 12:01:18 PM

boycott movies with cgi?

i have a friend who loves anything that uses tons of cgi

even king kong

5/28/2008 1:53:09 PM

cgi is so widespread, you'd have to boycott stuff you don't even realize is cgi

5/28/2008 2:12:03 PM

Escape from LA

Its like they had no money and could only afford atari/original nintendo style graphics...in 1996

5/28/2008 2:20:29 PM

^ I dont remember that movie well enough to visualize the cgi

looks like I'll have to rent it

I didnt think the cgi in die hard 4 was all that bad

5/28/2008 2:24:44 PM

for the budget starship troopers must have had, it's CGI was marvelous, i'd hire it's team if I was a producer

the spiderman series was fucking horrible CGI..whenever they did those roof top scenes in the first movie, toby was completely gummi bearing his way across...even worse than keanau in reloaded

[Edited on May 28, 2008 at 3:01 PM. Reason : .]

5/28/2008 2:41:53 PM

spider-man 3 ironically had the worst cgi in my opinion, doesn't make much sense to have the newest movie with the worst cgi

^^there's this boat scene in Escape from LA which is absolutely ridiculous looking. Very laughable. The rest of the cgi isn't too bad, probaly a big sub-par for the the day, but probably a look the movie was going for. At least I think its LA...if its NY then the very bad cgi would make sense.

5/28/2008 2:46:23 PM

Army Of Darkness

5/28/2008 7:26:38 PM

army of darkness had CGI?

5/28/2008 8:31:38 PM

The Fountain. A visual masterpiece made with absolutely no CGI

5/28/2008 8:34:37 PM

^

I couldn't believe it

but the internet says it's so

holy geez

well, that explains why the plantlife? covering up bit in the end was really choppy... it was stop animation... right?

5/28/2008 9:33:28 PM

Quote :

"The Fountain. A visual masterpiece made with absolutely no CGI"

not true, in the dvd extras they talk about the 1 thing in the entire film that was cgi. when thomas has all the plants burst out of him... all that was real (well, not cgi) except for the white flowers that bloom on him, those were digitally added. not that that detracts from the movie, or makes it any less amazing with what they accomplished visually.

5/28/2008 10:00:58 PM

I havent listened to the dvd extras, but were they joking around or anything? I had just read an interview with Darren Aronofsky where he mentioned something about the CGI. Either way, awesome movie, with or without the little white flowers

AVC: There's been a lot of press about The Fountain's special effects. You didn't use CGI at all?

DA: There's no CGI. Computers were used. CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all.

AVC: So when we're seeing the tree in a giant bubble, that's an actual bubble on a petri dish?

DA: We photographed soap bubbles and used their textures. We built the tree on a stage. We also built a model that was about six feet tall. And we used that as well for certain shots. We went back and forth.

AVC: Why did you decide to go that route with your effects?

DA: Because I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap. You don't know if you're watching a cartoon or something that's real. And I didn't want to fall into that trap. I really thought there was a way to use a lot of these old techniques to do some new and really neat stuff.

http://www.avclub.com/content/node/55490

5/28/2008 11:18:00 PM