I hate CGI F/X

[shellyindallas]

Yes! It's like, how old do I have to be before they can make this shit look realistic.

Not to over-saturate the comics topic--but the last fucking Spiderman--what a joke!

And fucking Titanic. That movie was ridiculous anyway, then they made such a huge deal over those effects and it was clearly tiny cartoon people sliding off the deck of what looked like one of those toy tug boats toddlers play with in the tub.

I can't think of a movie w/ decent/realistic cool effects. I'd would like to though--do you know of any?

[Tracy]

i just can't possibly pass up this topic without putting in my 2 cents...

i have to say, as much as i love a really really good CGI effect (uh, the ENTIRE transformers movie, for instance. F-ING SPECTACULAR. even if the plotline was fairly thin. but it was a movie about alien robots based on an 80's cartoon based on a series of toys... so all i was really asking for was really good CG, and hell if they didn't deliver), practical effects (if at all possible) beat CG any time. the vampires in 30 days of night vs. the dark seeker things in i am legend, for example. the first being guys in makeup with a little added CG creepy, the second being well, ridiculous.

or, if you really want lots of CG, it can work, but it can't be attempting to be too photo realistic, because that's when it starts looking off and uncomfortable. there's some effective, heavily CG movies out there (see anything by guillermo del torro) that veer a little toward more illustrated and almost cartoonish, and don't appear so freakish, because they're not supposed to look "real."

[Hertzan]

King Dinosaur,
you're right - 3D SFX suck the big donkey one. Remember an amazing film like American Werwolf in London or John Carpenter's The Thing or even something loony like Society. You just (still) can't do this prosthetic shit with rendered pixels, it's weak.

Weak.

[Nikki]

CGI is the reason I will never see the movie "I am Legend." From what I understand, the director used CGI to make the vampires into scary monsters. But when reading the book, my understanding is that what makes them (vampires) so frightening to Robert Neville is that they were human, not monsters. And isn't that what the whole ending was about? The vampires as humans?

[Rusty]

Nikki, the CGI is but one of many reasons that you will not Like the movie “I Am Legend”, if you like the book. There are very few similarities besides the fact that the protagonist in each is named Robert Neville.

[Nikki]

Thanks for the warning, Rusty. My husband keeps trying to get me to rent it, but I've been a little resistant.

[Tesse]

If you are bothered by movie "adaptions" that bear little resemblance to the original story give "I Am Legend" a pass.

I HATED that movie, but I can be a little hardline with movie adaptions, if they are going to radically alter the story it had better contribute something to the film.

The film "I Am Legend" took a solid, well executed story and made it into a crappy one.

[Charissa]

it was still better than the one starring Charleton Heston

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omeg...

although, it was worth watching just for the amusement factor of vampire monsters running around looking like medieval religious fanatics and operating wooden carts set on fire. Also, the dialogue is some of the lamest exposition ever.