CGI: Ad Nauseum

[asloki]

CGI - It's sodding everywhere and the latest sickener to come to my attention is "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow".

The director of the film wrote a CGI program to allow him to shoot the entire film against blue screen and fill in the background environments later.

I mean come on! How effing lazy is that? What sort of a performance can an actor turn in when they spend every scene in the same blue set?

I knew the use of CGI was getting ridiculous, but this really is beyond words...has nobody seen the cardboard performances in The Phantom Menace?

[philipswales]

CGI will fucking kill cinema off.


George Bastard Lucas has a LOT to answer for. Actors are supposed to emote with their surroundings and their co-stars, not a blue-screen and Jar-Jar Fucking Binks.

Quentin Tarantino famously rallied against CGI recently: "If I wanted to play with computer graphics I'd stick my dick in my Nintendo", or something similar.

When Lucas visited Scorsese's Old Brooklyn set, a massive and impressive piece of design and architecture, he took one look around and told Marty: "You know, you can do all these with CGI these days."


Fucking wanker.

[= KA$H =]

I have to agree, you can't beat the realism of set architecture and Lucas' comment was pathetic.

His CGI-infested The Phanny Menace was shite.