Am I the only one who thought the CGI was shoddy?

[machinelover]

I mean, there were a lot of sequences that looked worse than animations in SM1 or SM2. The beginning of the Peter and Harry fight, when he first yanks him up and stuff was bad. The bluriness used to disguise the swinging into the alleyway was pretty obvious and bad. The CGI in the alleyway was pretty bad, as was most of the bluescreen tactics used during this entire movie.

Sandman represented the pinnacle of their CGI and it showed enormously. Great CGI creations there. Black Spidey was also well done for the most part.

However, when people started fighting, especially during the construction site scene, the CGI just ripped you out of the movie it was so sub-par to what we've seen before. You look at Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean, or even some of Spider-Man 2 and I felt you saw much better and articulatued CGI sequences than what we saw in SM3.

Just bad....thoughts?

You should've seen the film in IMAX trust me the cg was incredible during the harry peter scene, especially at 3 stories high. I saw it in a regular theatre first and thought the same thing, but in IMAX omfg.

 

[Dragon]

Where the hell was the 300 million dollars? Seriously...where was it because it wasn't on the screen.

You and others who ask this question, simply don't know how expensive CG is. This movie involved hundreds of of CG shots, including alot of stuff that was seamless like backgrounds. CGI costs more than building sets and is extremely time-consuming. And the official number was 258 million.

 

[machinelover]

You and others who ask this question, simply don't know how expensive CG is. This movie involved hundreds of of CG shots, including alot of stuff that was seamless like backgrounds. CGI costs more than building sets and is extremely time-consuming. And the official number was 258 million.

lol, they expect sony to spend all the cash on computer graphics and pay the actors with bread and water. but honestly, they were great. all these people whining are expecting godlike perfectness. it will be years if not decades before we see something that good and perfect people. YOU WILL NEVER BE STATISFIED.

 

[J.Howlett]

Dragon,

I know how much it cost to do what....it just didn't look like a 300 million dollar film.

And sure, 258 million is the "official" number but it's not the real number according to a lot of sources.

Even still, this film doesn't look nearly as good as Spider-Man 2, in terms of visual effects. It's not even remotely close.

As bosef stated in his initial post, The Prequels, Pirates of the Caribbean, and other recent films, with less money for visual effects looked much, much better...more polished and realistic than this film.

 

[Dragon]

Dragon,

I know how much it cost to do what....it just didn't look like a 300 million dollar film.

And sure, 258 million is the "official" number but it's not the real number according to a lot of sources.

Even still, this film doesn't look nearly as good as Spider-Man 2, in terms of visual effects. It's not even remotely close.

As bosef stated in his initial post, The Prequels, Pirates of the Caribbean, and other recent films, with less money for visual effects looked much, much better...more polished and realistic than this film.

Well, I completely disagree that it didn't look as good as Spidey 2. It looked just as good, the difference being that they were working on different characters. And do these sources work at Sony? Have they seen the balance sheets? Or are they simply rounding the number off to between 250 & 300 million?

But moreover, I'd love for those griping about the CG to point to the movie with perfect CG in every shot. But here's a hint- That movie doesn't exist. At this point, we need to accept that this is how it goes: CG isn't perfect, and some shots will look like clear CG. Just as back in the Harryhausen days, those effects looked like Stop-Motion.

 

[SFII]

some of the action scenes seemed a bit too fast, and the camera angles were confusing, i couldn't figure out was the hell was going on.
sloppy.

 

[zanos]

Truth be told, although I was impressed with the CGI (it doesn't take a lot to impress me, though) I really couldn't find where that $300 million budget made the picture shine.

Kirsten Dunst looks better doesn't she? You can't say they didn't improve the cgi. She's proof.

 

[magus]

Watch the first movie again and come back and tell me this one looks anything like that movie.

 

[xwolverine2]

Not only shoddy but many many Spiderman's swinging was S-M1 and S-M2 CGI re-cycled!!! Most of the Spiderman rescuing Gwen from thne building was made out of those. Big shame.

oh man!!.. u noticed that too!

LOL.yea they totally copy/pasted that one shot where spidey comes swinging in.

terrible CGI in many shots.

sandman was great though.... except for the giant CGI MONSTER at the end lol

 

[Keymaker]

oh man!!.. u noticed that too!

LOL.yea they totally copy/pasted that one shot where spidey comes swinging in.

It could be a nod to the 90's cartoon where recycled shots were nothing unusual t:

 

[El Payaso]

oh man!!.. u noticed that too!

LOL.yea they totally copy/pasted that one shot where spidey comes swinging in.

terrible CGI in many shots.

sandman was great though.... except for the giant CGI MONSTER at the end lol

Man, the "Hulk was too big in the movie" lesson meant nothing for Raimi.

 

[Dragon]

The CGI Monster Sandman was f-in' cool.

 

[SuperAl]

Sandman's transformation looked pretty cool but everything else looked pretty bad. You could easily tell the cgi from the real thing. Venom didnt look very good, it was always quick glances whenever they showed his face

I was expecting superman returns type cgi with that budget.

 

[SuperAl]

Sandman's transformation looked pretty cool but everything else looked pretty bad. You could easily tell the cgi from the real thing. Venom didnt look very good, it was always quick glances whenever they showed his face

I was expecting superman returns type cgi with that budget.

 

[Keymaker]

You could easily tell the cgi from the real thing.

Maybe it's because you know there can't be real things like that? t:

 

[amazingdm]

you guys have NO effin clues about movies

 

[Comicfan]

I think Venom looked great as well as sandman and most of the CGI except:

the first fight of peter and harry... that was very bad the movements were to "animated"

each time venom retreated to show eddys face that was REALLY bad it looked like a CGI goo pasted/moving in front of and actor face (i know that it was excactly that, but it looked like CGI fluids from 10 years ago), the "skin" of venom changed from opaque to really shinny and the texture of the of the CGI changed to much and the color-light source too

 

[Cinemaman]

It was terrible, looked like cartoon animation

 

[Docker2.0]

lol, they expect sony to spend all the cash on computer graphics and pay the actors with bread and water. but honestly, they were great. all these people whining are expecting godlike perfectness. it will be years if not decades before we see something that good and perfect people. YOU WILL NEVER BE STATISFIED.

Agreed! The effects were not perfect but they was almost the same like the last 2 movies. And for those who keep saying SR had better graffics is smoking superman's g string. There's no way any sane person can say that SR's special effects exceeded those of this movie. Other than the plane scene, I really can't see where the $250 million went to. In S3, there's Venom, Sandman, Spidey, and the Goblin. And the audience really love the effects, it was the story that confused some but most agree that the effects were...........amazing(pun intended). Once again fanboys piling on when they think they can do better but can't direct brown stuff out of their arses!

 

[Docker2.0]

The effects in Superman Returns BLEW AWAY the effects in Spidey 3.

With a statement like that its easy to see you relapse on drugs again.......not just crack but crack and prozac.

 

[chaseter]

Sandman at the final battle looked so bad. like the lighting was off or something

it was like they couldnt completely mask him smoothly enough behind the steel beams of that building cause he looked so grainy moving behind it

poor thomas handen chruch = /
he was a cgi monster most of the film
he need more lines and interaction in this film cause i really liked him when he was just sandman and not some monster

oh, and the voice they used when he was a towering monster. good greif. not a fan of that, haha

The Sandman effects were suppose to be grainyt:

And I sadly agree with you about the lack of THC and the overabundance of monster Sandman. He groaned more than he had dialogue.

 

[xwolverine2]

Man, the "Hulk was too big in the movie" lesson meant nothing for Raimi.

nah.. the hulk was fine. it was just the movie that sucked lol

the CGI MONSTER in spidey was just a glob cgi.


i bet raimi never saw hulk anyways..lol

 

[the a1ant]

The first Harry/Peter fight was a mess, imo. It looked fine on the internet clip, but on the big screen looked too blurry, fast, etc. I thought Sandman and Venom's effects were great.

For me, nothing really compares to the last scene in Spider-Man 1, in regards to the CGI quality of Spider-Man.

 

[7alex]

The part for me that i thought was a big let down as far as CGI goes was when Spiderman was falling and fighting Venom at the same time. His face didn't look 3D or realistic whatsoever. It's like they forgot to fix a rough copy or something. Some of you know what i am talking about...

Here is the shot from the trailer that i guess they didn't bother correcting for the final film.

Thats the only one i caught. I also have to point out that Spiderman 3 looks so much better on a small screen than on the big theater screen. It seems that the projector decreases the quality by some percent. The Harry vs Peter scene in the air looks better on the 7 min Spiderman 3 clip than in the actual theater. Some of you might have noticed too.

Overall for me Spiderman 3 was a great movie and i loved it very much.

 

[Bana]

I couldn't figure out what the hell was happening during the first fight between Harry and Spidey, but that could've just been cause it was all happening really fast :/