If You Could Only Watch ONE Movie Forever

[Laderlappen]

That movie is 17 years old and it STILL has some of the best CGI I've ever seen.

Not some. THE.

I guess I would pick Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I just dont think I could make it without comedy.

 

[Nivek]

Fight Club

 

[Spidey-Bat]

That movie is 17 years old and it STILL has some of the best CGI I've ever seen.

The Wolfman had a terrible CGI bear and elk. All I thought when I saw it was "How do they make those living animals look terrible when Jurassic Park had incredible looking dinosaurs 17 years ago?"

 

[Nivek]

It's called Universal and their low CGI effects bar. Only reason Ang Lee's Hulk had such good CG at the time is because Ang Lee camped out at ILM and kept pushing the artists.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Goodfellas, probably

or The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

 

[dark_b]

The Wolfman had a terrible CGI bear and elk. All I thought when I saw it was "How do they make those living animals look terrible when Jurassic Park had incredible looking dinosaurs 17 years ago?"

dinosaurs have dry dull skin and a bear has f.... billion hair strands that absorb light,bounce light,.......there was no muscle movement with the dinosaurs. not that it is important right? they also didnt show a lot of stuff with hte dinosaurs. they did very little with the CGI. they never had them in close ups. but hey why use logic right?


JP is a fantastic movie and has fantastic effects. in the context of the shots they hold up very good.

 

[SuperFerret]

The Wolfman had a terrible CGI bear and elk. All I thought when I saw it was "How do they make those living animals look terrible when Jurassic Park had incredible looking dinosaurs 17 years ago?"

I wonder why they didn't just get an actual bear and elk. The bear especially, it's not like trained bears are hard to come by in Hollywood. Plus if anything goes wrong, Anthony Hopkins would've been there to wrestle it to the ground.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

dinosaurs have dry dull skin and a bear has f.... billion hair strands that absorb light,bounce light,.......there was no muscle movement with the dinosaurs. not that it is important right? they also didnt show a lot of stuff with hte dinosaurs. they did very little with the CGI. they never had them in close ups. but hey why use logic right?

Did you see The Wolfman? Obviously not because you would know how terrible it is. If you want a more accurate comparison, the hippogriff from Harry Potter looked more real than the bear in Wolfman.

 

[dark_b]

Why don't you go see The Wolfman instead of acting like a condescending prick?

i watched the movie and i am a bigger ILM fan then you all will ever be.

 

[dark_b]

I wonder why they didn't just get an actual bear and elk. The bear especially, it's not like trained bears are hard to come by in Hollywood. Plus if anything goes wrong, Anthony Hopkins would've been there to wrestle it to the ground.

because they are idiots.

 

[SuperFerret]

I recall some very realistic muscle movement in the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park. In fact, I'll go out there and say that the life-like movement of the dinosaurs is the biggest factor in keeping Jurassic Park's effects that much better than those in more recent movies.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

i watched the movie and i am a bigger ILM fan then you all will ever be.

I edited my post. I apologize for my comment, I've been in a bad mood the last few days.

But anyway, no matter how you slice it, the bear looked like crap and could have been done much better. As I said in my above edit, a fictional animal looked more real than it.

 

[dark_b]

I recall some very realistic muscle movement in the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park. In fact, I'll go out there and say that the life-like movement of the dinosaurs is the biggest factor in keeping Jurassic Park's effects that much better than those in more recent movies.

if i rmember they didnt even have muscle simulations or muscles in the body rig.

 

[SuperFerret]

Oh, okay.

Either way, I'd put that under the category of minor details.

 

[dark_b]

I edited my post. I apologize for my comment, I've been in a bad mood the last few days.

But anyway, no matter how you slice it, the bear looked like crap and could have been done much better. As I said in my above edit, a fictional animal looked more real than it.

no need to edit. i am a pick but because its wrong to compare the two animals IMO

 

[Bunker]

Apocalypse Now or Fellowship of the Ring, I guess.

 

[DACMAN]

It's called Universal and their low CGI effects bar.

You do know that Universal did Jurassic Park right? It has nothing to do with the studio and everything to do with the director. Which is why JP3 looked like a cartoon.

 

[War Party]

I would probably pick a real bad movie and constantly make fun of it and comment on every stupid line in it. It would keep the entertainment factor alive.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

This is a huge question and one that'd be almost impossible to answer if it wasn't for Ghostbusters.

Friggin' love that movie.

 

[lime]

Uuugh tough one.

I will have to choose between: Titanic, The Dark Knight and Avatar. They are the kind of films that give you almost everything. Romance, Action, Preformances, and all.

 

[matrix_ghost]

The Wolfman had a terrible CGI bear and elk. All I thought when I saw it was "How do they make those living animals look terrible when Jurassic Park had incredible looking dinosaurs 17 years ago?"

Because with movies like JP , the VFX teams are really going for realism. Realism in a sense that you are looking at the movie and completely forgetting that you're watching CG creation.
It's the same thing with Avatar. In cinefex ( a vfx mag.) the guys at WETA really did a year long study to figure out how create photorealistic characters.

With Wolfman ,even with advancements in CGI , there never really is a priority to go for (photo)realism. It's more about just having a good time at the movies. Which in my case didn't quite work out

 

[Ratcrawler]

If I could only watch one movie for the rest of my life, I'd pick one I already hate. No sense in picking my favorite just so I could get sick of it.

I guess Elektra?

 

[RoboAmish]

The Godfather. But then I'd probably have to bring along Part Two. This monogamy business was never my thing

 

[Laderlappen]

Uuugh tough one.

I will have to choose between: Titanic, The Dark Knight and Avatar. They are the kind of films that give you almost everything. Romance, Action, Preformances, and all.

is it a coincidence that you picked the 3 biggest movies in the world?

 

[Casius--J]

Black Dynamite