This is a baffling thread from the title to the content because obviously the movie will have tons of CGI as we can see from all of the green screens in the photos and it's a Superman movie so it's impossible to do it with out lots of CGI and it's being directed by a director who has nothing in common with the way Nolan shoots his action scenes or films as a whole to be honest.
They've already made four Superman movies without lots of CGI.
Okay, here's the thing: I don't like CGI all that much.
CGI is useful for getting shots and effects that would be literally impossible any other way. But if there is an already existing practical effect to achieve something then it usually looks a lot better than CGI.
Now that's not always the case, sometimes there are older practical effects that the CGI equivalent improves on, and sometimes there are CGI artists who are so unbelievably good at what they do that they can work miracles, but for the most part practical effects just look better because they're things that actually physically exist. Most of the time, CGI stuff does't look real. It flows too smoothly, it's too shiny, it's too rubbery, it just doesn't look like a real thing.
Look at Star Wars. The original trilogy looks better, across the board.
So all in all I hope there's a lack of CGI.
There won't be, because Zak Snyder's directing, but I hope he goes much easier on it than he usually does.
I also don't care much about action scenes. I don't feel like there's a specific need to have, as the thread starter said " a few ( Holy ***** that WAS FREAKING AWESOME) moments," at least not for their own sake.
Action scenes should exist for specific reasons in the story, not just for the sake of having action scenes. Again, let us look at Star Wars. The smaller, less elaborate lightsaber duels in the original trilogy are much more exciting and engaging than the acerbating, heavily choreographed duels in the prequels because the ones in the original trilogy actually tie into and emphasize the emotional journey of the characters.
I don't really care if Superman never throws a single punch as long as the things he does and the actions he takes tie into the emotional journey of the characters and the themes of the story.
t: And like Snyder said, anything that Superman does, anything physical, is a special effect, because he's Superman. The difference between this and his previous movies (I guess, based on Snyder's comments) will be that MOS won't have a ´´stylized`` look. As in all other Snyder's movies (apart from DOTD) were stylized to compliment the fantasy worlds they took place in. MOS takes place in a ´´real`` world. So that's Snyder is referring to with his ´´real talk``. The VFX is really the one aspect of MOS I have zero concerns about. With WETA on the job and Joe Letteri as the VFX supervisor MOS is in good hands. However, I am sure MOS will have more practical effects than Snyder's previous movies and that's a good thing. If you can do something with special effects (practical) instead of visual (cgi) you should do it. If it's one thing I hate it's fake looking explosions or car crashes or whatever that use CGI and it looks fake.
