Movie, 'Battleship'...define CGI: $100,000,000 to photograph a yawn

Flying Penguin said:
And that's a great film, in fact one of my favourites. But it's as much a clever character piece as an alien invasion epic (as in scale, not quality).

Different films for different audiences. Escapism complete fantasy rather than a serious attempt to answer 'what would really happen if aliens landed?'
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I found 'Falling Skies' very disappointing at that, despite Speilberg putting his name to it.

Going back to CGI or the dislike of it, I am a bitof a fan of this sequence ( computer controlled cameras than than computer 'imagineered' graphics ), and I'm a sad enough git to have this on the boat as 'Enterprise Clears Moorings' ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKogc14hHtQ
 
Seajet said:
I found 'Falling Skies' very disappointing at that, despite Speilberg putting his name to it.

Going back to CGI or the dislike of it, I am a bitof a fan of this sequence ( computer controlled cameras than than computer 'imagineered' graphics ), and I'm a sad enough git to have this on the boat as 'Enterprise Clears Moorings' ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKogc14hHtQ
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Sorry, raises another major gripe with me: wrong aspect ratio :(
 
What has spoilt CGI for me are the 9/11 attacks on New York and "Hollywood's" lack of dealing with what happens in real life.. The devastation caused when the two buildings collapsed has never been repeated in a film.

A CGI building collapses and the actor can be a few yards away and not suffer anything more than a dirty shirt.
 
George Lucas has a habit of repeating scenes from famous movies with added **** CGI and Special FX.

Why would anyone bother watching a series of movies which are a badly stitched together set of scenes stolen from Lawrence of Arabia, 633 Squadron, The Dambusterd, Battleship Potemkin and the Hidden Fortress?
 
elton said:
Sorry, raises another major gripe with me: wrong aspect ratio :(
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Elton,

agreed to a point; aspect ratio may have been a tactic to avoid boiler-plate spec' corsets on Kirk & Scotty !

Still like the sequence though.

After 'Battle of Britain', '633 Squadron' ( thanks for both Mr Goodwin ) 'Star Wars', 'Blade Runner' and 'Star Trek II' - all notable for outstanding music - there wasn't any place to go...
 
halcyon said:
Am I the only one to find Avator a worthwhile film ?


Brian
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Enjoyed it to, good story, visually stunning. I think the CGI worked well because the scenes were so exotic and other worldly that you had no earthly reference to suggest they were not real.
Equally District Nine worked well because it had a brilliant story and the CGI was a small part, used sparingly, to enhance the story rather than being the story.
 
Re. Avatar...

...umm...I only saw it for the first time last week...

Did anybody else recognise the mouse of a plot, the same little plot used in all James Cameron's films?

Basically, some big, hateful, inhuman corporation plays fast and loose with the soldiers/workers/victims' lives, for raw profit...

In Aliens, the 'company' lets the crew incubate the unborn monsters to get them through customs for weopons research...

...in the Terminator movies, the faceless future 'Skynet' corporation sends back murderous cyborgs to rewrite company fortunes...

...in Titanic, the White Star company's schedule, prestige and class-consciousness crush the underdogs in steerage...

...in Avatar, the innocents have their paradise-home-planet attacked by a company determined to find mineral resources...

I wonder if James Cameron knows more than one basic plot?

And...

...has anybody noticed the extraordinary similarity between:

the Avatar scene where Sully's avatar walks into the camp hoping to be heard despite being an outsider, from the 'Skypeople'...

...and the scene in Michael Mann's Last Of The Mohicans, where D-Day Lewis walks into the hostile Huron camp, to plead for sexpot-Stowe's life?

It's straightforward idea-theft. Conspicuous, undisguised, instantly recognisable.

I didn't dislike Avatar, but I can't see any reason for it to have done so well. Original, it was NOT. And, did you know the star was from Godalming? I discovered that, halfway though. Hard to take the out-of-this-world plot seriously, thereafter. :D

Not that I dislike or disrepect Godalming - but I lived down the road when I was a kiddie. That tends to erode stars' brightness. :rolleyes:
 
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