Best and Worst CGI Ever seen in a movie????

[Doctor Jones]

Cool, I thought I was actually pretty much alone on these boards today.

My midterms start today and end on Thursday, I have to be there by 10:45 to take my Living Enviroment midterm. It's kinda nice, I'm home alone and my brother is at school taking his geometry like everyone else, and I don't have to go in for another hour and a half.

 

[Eggyman]

I thought that shot of him swinging into the garden with Mj was practical?

Yeah, I think it is. I don't think I mentioned that one. What I was meaning was the shots previous where you get the perspective of people on the street.

I felt SM2 had alot better CG. That close up shot of him just swinging in slo mo at night and Doc ock in his last shot.

I never really counted the CU shot into the mix really because I was referencing more the mechanics of his swinging - the CGI along with the physics - and you don't really get much of an idea of that in this shot. It is a great shot though... very peaceful, and it just shows the emotion of him clearing his head going for a nice evening swing

Plus, the shot that I felt was so damn Spider-Man and felt like he had real weight and felt real was when he was trying to catch up to the train with Ock, when he stamps his foot on that thin thing of the building it actually felt like he really did that. hell, I could feel somthing like that it looked so real.

I do like that scene, but Spidey came of as a lil rubber to me in it. You know, a lil chunky.

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The final swing in the first Spidey is easily my favourite of the three films, my least favourite being the pizza swing from #2 and the getting to Gwen in #3. Something about the CGI in the latter shots just doesn't sit right with me.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, I think it is. I don't think I mentioned that one. What I was meaning was the shots previous where you get the perspective of people on the street.

I never really counted the CU shot into the mix really because I was referencing more the mechanics of his swinging - the CGI along with the physics - and you don't really get much of an idea of that in this shot. It is a great shot though... very peaceful, and it just shows the emotion of him clearing his head going for a nice evening swing

I do like that scene, but Spidey came of as a lil rubber to me in it. You know, a lil chunky.

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The final swing in the first Spidey is easily my favourite of the three films, my least favourite being the pizza swing from #2 and the getting to Gwen in #3. Something about the CGI in the latter shots just doesn't sit right with me.

Oh, yes that shot was fantastic.

I always felt they did that because it was more realistic, plus at a distance perhaps? Kinda like Alex Ross and his drawings he draws the same way.

I do love the final swing in SM2, along with that score it's so damn good. My favorite bits are him swinging in between the cars in the street and then running across that radio tower or whatever and jumping back into the air.

Yeah, I always thought that shot of him with the pizza was off. hell, when I first saw it it looked off to me.

But another thing they got right was the facial expressions of the CG characters. Pause Ock's face for every frame on the DVD and each one is different in some way.

 

[Octoberist]

In Spider-Man 2, the only time when I thought the CGI was really really bad was when Doc Ock kidnaps Mary Jane from the coffee shop; her CGI stunt double was funky looking.

 

[Ratcrawler]

It's funny how the CG Brachiosaurs in Jurassic Park 3 looked less realistic than those from the first movie.

Anyway, I feel a little inclined to defend Van Helsing's CGI. If only because the flight pattern of the vampire brides looked really believable. I remember watching Angel take off in X-Men 3 and think "he looks like he could fly without those wings" Like Superman who just happens to have some extra appendages growing out of his back and flapping them for show. The brides looked like they actually had their animators study aerodynamics of large bats and condors.

The rest of the film's CG was typical. Not really bad, just something that got churned out to fill a quota. And personally, I liked VH's werewolves. They were unpredictable animalistic juggernauts that could take down a bull elephant by themselves.

 

[Brian Braddock]

^^^I'm biased when it comes to approaching Werewolves on film;

It's practical effects all the way for me when it comes to Lycanthropes. At a push, I'll accept minimal CG touch up's, but generally, I prefer stand alone in-camera make-up.

Come to think if it, the same appies to Vampires too.

 

[dark_b]

In Spider-Man 2, the only time when I thought the CGI was really really bad was when Doc Ock kidnaps Mary Jane from the coffee shop; her CGI stunt double was funky looking.

climbing on the building was CGI. but coming out of the building was a real actress.

 

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

Kirsten Dunst in funky looking shocker!

 

[WeaponXProject]

^^^I'm biased when it comes to approaching Werewolves on film;

It's practical effects all the way for me when it comes to Lycanthropes. At a push, I'll accept minimal CG touch up's, but generally, I prefer stand alone in-camera make-up.

Come to think if it, the same appies to Vampires too.

Me too. I thought the Van Helsing werewolves were 'toony' looking and the hair on their bodies moved worse than most modern videogames.

 

[Sam Fisher]

The first post mentions King Kong and i have to say that is some of the worst CGI I have ever seen.

Seriously? The CGI in that movie is amazing.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea for Kong himself it was, but that dinosaur stampede and the T-Rex's looked atrocious.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Yea for Kong himself it was, but that dinosaur stampede and the T-Rex's looked atrocious.

Eh, I've seen worse.



I watched the extended edition yesterday and I do think Jackson went overboard with the CGI creatures.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Oh yea it's definitely not the worst, it shouldn't really be mentioned in this thread.

 

[WeaponXProject]

Yea for Kong himself it was, but that dinosaur stampede and the T-Rex's looked atrocious.

I agree, there was just too much CGI in the movie and the T-Rex fight was just too much for me. If they would have kept it simple the movie would have been drastically better than it was.

 

[dark_b]

Me too. I thought the Van Helsing werewolves were 'toony' looking and the hair on their bodies moved worse than most modern videogames.

there is no hair movement in games from what i remember.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

hames?

Edit: Ohhhh games. In decent games there is.

 

[WeaponXProject]

there is no hair movement in hames from what i remember.

WTF is "hames"?

In VH, when VH becomes a werewolf his hair moves when he roars and fights.

If you mean games, then alot of games have hair bouncing and moving...what games are you playing?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

probably space invaders!

 

[dark_b]

WTF is "hames"?

In VH, when VH becomes a werewolf his hair moves when he roars and fights.

If you mean games, then alot of games have hair bouncing and moving...what games are you playing?

games have werewolves that have hair on the whole body? and its moving?

 

[WeaponXProject]

games have werewolves that have hair on the whole body? and its moving?

Sorry dude, I don't play WoW or other games that have bad F/X in them. In Gears of War, Oblivion, Fallout 3, they have characters with hair or hairlike flow to them. Whatever your point is...I'm saying that the movie had CGI that wasn't that good. I don't play any games with Werewolves, there might have been one in Oblivion, whose graphics were so good that tree branches swayed and grass moved with the wind fluently.

 

[Brian Braddock]

I'm a huge advocate of CG for sci-fi and comicbook movies but I honestly just dont think CG is effective in Horror films in general; I've always felt it loses some of the 'eeriness' that old school fx brings for some reason.

It's hard to put my finger on it and nail it down; I dunno, maybe because it's so slick or something.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea that's why I'm not happy about this The Thing prequel rumour. They will just throw a load of CGI at it. The great thing about the old one is that it looked so real and visceral. Even with truly brilliant CGI you can't get that same effect IMO.

 

[Brian Braddock]

Exactly; 'visceral' is a great way of describing it.

Imagine if Poltergeist, or the Entity got remade now - it's the old school fx that give those films such atmosphere.

 

[dark_b]

people are just used to watch puppet heads in horrors. the best horror movies were in hte 80's right?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Definitely