Reply to: Has CGI ruined cinema?

[cojak]

Where's it heading? How much more unrealism can you pack in before it gets silly? What are action films 20 years hence going to be like? 3D and total visual immersion maybe. Speaking of which, I've got my 3D specs ready for channel 4 3D week next week.

They've run out in Sainsbury's

Anyone know where I can track down a couple of pairs?

[TimberWolf]

Where's it heading? How much more unrealism can you pack in before it gets silly? What are action films 20 years hence going to be like? 3D and total visual immersion maybe. Speaking of which, I've got my 3D specs ready for channel 4 3D week next week.

[xoggoth]

Terrible, why they have to ham them up and make them almost comedies.

Unrealism in films is hardly new though. How often do we see murder or manslaughter cases where somebody died from one punch? Yet big blokes like John Wayne etc would knock each other about for 5 minutes, roll down cliffs, fall of off balconies, get hit over the head with chairs and emerge with a thin trickle of blood on one corner of their handsome mouths.

I'm amazed nobody has used it in a defence. I had no idea blowing someone through a plate glass window with a hand grenade was dangerous, mlud, it never hurt Bruce Willis.

[Doggy Styles]

Come back Ray Harryhausen all is forgiven

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

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Zippy]

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

Ooh! Get 'er

[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]

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

[TheFaQQer]

As ever, poor application of technology is no answer to the problem.

[TheFaQQer]

The last star wars was a bit of a joke, sure you got to see full landscapes of futuristic alien cities but so many scenes would have been 2 actors running around on a blue set, I kind of think the actors lost the sense of context and it showed.

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