[star wars] How Much Better Movies Look WITHOUT CGI and Green Screen!

all this because I said

In response to

And you just don't wanna let it go?

You win. My plot is foiled, and I now retreat to wikipedia to lick my wounds. Or not. Perhaps I'll simulate it with a blueish green screen technology, to cover my bases.

 

[PONG] How Much Better Video Games Look WITHOUT CGI!

 

Earlier I mentioned people's THINKING about special effects. Though I never said any of them were better than the other.

Very much DISAGREE on that opinion about Transformers.

Transformers was THE franchise that absolutely HAD to have the most advanced special effects to put it into live action film. CGI straight allowed for Tranformers.

If TF was done around even Jurassic Park and back, it would have looked dumb like some Power Rangers on the big screen. The wait was long but worth it to have believable looking, swift moving transforming robots on film.

TF's problem is the bad idea to use those irregular shaped, scouring pad looking robot body designs (and perhaps using M. Bay as the director). The robot characters are indistinguishable when they're together. Thats the design team's fault, not the special effect's.

 

Agree x 1000. I think that's what generates so much ire from fans: the franchise was this close to finally getting a proper treatment in Hollywood. The effects were great, the budget was big, the tone was (at least initially) serious...but then the whole thing was torpedoed by too much Michael Bay-ness, too much Shia, too much goofiness. All these things could have been forgiven (or at least overlooked) if the robots were awesome. But they weren't: they all looked the same. They were animated well, but the individual characters were completely generic.

But I think it's beyond argument that the effects in both movies were pretty darned impressive.

 

Behold Transformers: the perfect example of a CGI effect that had a movie built around it. Movies start with an idea, plot, moral to the story, character development; not a bunch of cartoonish action sequences and a drowning impact wrench type noise.