This year's breakouts like 'Project Hail Mary' and 'Obsession' were made by filmmakers who sweated. While CG-stuffed franchise disappointments such as 'Supergirl,' 'Moana,' and 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' looked lazy.
Counterpoint, Godzilla Minus One was very well received and it’s 100% CGI. People aren’t against CGI, they are against shoddy work, which includes bad CGI.
Hail Mary had a ton of CGI too. You can’t tell because enough is real that the actor behaves like it is, the camera moves as if it is, and the artists know what real looks like.
A major reason the first Transformers looks and feels as good as it does, even so long after it came out, is that the director has an incredible ability to imagine where something will be after the CGI pass. He could shoot entire action scenes with the camera behaving as if it was reacting to what actors did, not an empty street.
Godzilla Minus One was directed by someone with a background in CGI. We don’t want movies made by people who care about the movie. We want movies made by people who care about how the movie is made.
Yeah, like actors. It’s definitely not as CGI as Shrek or Toy Story. I find it honestly really weird to call a live action movie “100% CGI” when there clearly are human actors on screen.
One of the shoddy things that audiences really don’t like (even if they struggle to put a name to it) is flat, boring lighting that’s super nice for post. All of these movies don’t have that.
Counterpoint, Godzilla Minus One was very well received and it’s 100% CGI. People aren’t against CGI, they are against shoddy work, which includes bad CGI.
Hail Mary had a ton of CGI too. You can’t tell because enough is real that the actor behaves like it is, the camera moves as if it is, and the artists know what real looks like.
A major reason the first Transformers looks and feels as good as it does, even so long after it came out, is that the director has an incredible ability to imagine where something will be after the CGI pass. He could shoot entire action scenes with the camera behaving as if it was reacting to what actors did, not an empty street.
Godzilla Minus One was directed by someone with a background in CGI. We don’t want movies made by people who care about the movie. We want movies made by people who care about how the movie is made.
Exactly. A great movie with a lot of CGI is still a great movie and a shit movie made entirely without CGI is still a shit movie.
A great movie with a lot of CGI is also great when you barely notice the CGI.
More like 60/40 CGI. There were still a lot of practical things in that movie.
Yeah, like actors. It’s definitely not as CGI as Shrek or Toy Story. I find it honestly really weird to call a live action movie “100% CGI” when there clearly are human actors on screen.
One of the shoddy things that audiences really don’t like (even if they struggle to put a name to it) is flat, boring lighting that’s super nice for post. All of these movies don’t have that.
Godzilla isn’t real? 😰
Yeah his name is Gojira
Neither are any of the people in the movie.
A shame Japan isn’t real. It’s such an interesting concept.
Other way, Godzilla is real, but they CGIed the people for safety, because being around Godzilla is pretty dangerous.
Of course Godzilla is, it just wasn’t available for filming because it had to pillage some east Pacific cities.
“they”, please.
Maybe it’s because I’m a non native speaker, but I thought this was only used for sentient beings?
Or I just don’t get the joke, possible as well.
I’m being somewhat silly, though possibly Godzilla identifies as enby.
Same and agreed, but possible that I’m Godzilla and I know better.
Not probable. Just not completely impossible.
That said, my tummy hurts, that last village had some sort of disease I think.
What makes you think Godzilla isn’t sentient?
I know almost nothing about it.
And it behaves like the rooster my granddad had.
Except the fire breath.
Yeah. Most of the public simply doesn’t care. They just want a good movie\story.