Has CGI ruined cinema?

[Zippy]

No, I wouldn't say it has.
The problem with the last Star Wars film was a dodgy plot and piss-poor acting.

[TheFaQQer]

No, I wouldn't say it has.
The problem with the last Star Wars film was a dodgy plot and piss-poor acting.

I refer the honourable lady to the reply I gave some moments ago.

FWIW, the last Star Wars was a cartoon. They generally have a lot of CGI in them these days.

[Zippy]

I refer the honourable lady to the reply I gave some moments ago.

Ooh! Get 'er

[Doggy Styles]

Didn't the last Bond film go back to non-CGI basics? With stunt men, special effects and all that?

If so it had some great parkour, and I'd enjoy that more than actors running about on empty blue sets.

[norrahe]

If the CGI is applied in the right way and hidden enough so it's not glaringly obvious, then it's not so bad.

Come back Ray Harryhausen all is forgiven

And to add to bad plot and p!ss poor acting wall of fame the latest tripe from the indiana jones stable.

And yes, it has been a poor year for film.

[TykeMerc]

True it's been a fairly pants year for film, but I did enjoy Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince which has heaps of CGI, but it fits well.

[TheFaQQer]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Cr@p adaptation of a good book. Cuts loads out from the book, to include a load of irrelevant stuff that adds nothing to the story (or else it would have been in the book).

Better than Order of the Phoenix, though, which is a cr@p adaptation of a cr@p book.

[RichardCranium]

The Missus & I sat through John le Carré's "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" in July and were utterly engrossed.

Sat there in silence, staring immobile into the middle distance; the imagery was fantastic. The encounters, the court room scenes, the events at the Berlin Wall: fantastic stuff.

But that was radio where the pictures are always better.

[EternalOptimist]

I caught the last Die Hard on TV the other week, Was expecting some mindless nonesense that would be mildly entertaining. In the previous films, they were a bit daft but within the realms of possibility. Many of the films relying on stunt men with a few special effects. However, the latest film used so much CGI it was almost like watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon. It seems Mr Willis doesn't die hard these days more that he is an indestructable super human. He can jump onto a fighter Jet and jump off as it's crashing, he can get alsorts of heavy machinery thrown at him and remain unscathed.

There was this one time, I was flying my fighter with some food on my lap, and this idiot right, well, he just came out of nowhere

[Doggy Styles]

Come back Ray Harryhausen all is forgiven

Now you're talking. That Talos was terrifying to a young lad.