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Originally Posted by Stumptown
Maybe I'm just too old, but CGI, no matter how "advanced" it is will always look fake to me. I'd honestly rather see a guy in a rubber suit, it will always look more real. I think too many directors start out with good intentions of using digital effects to tell the story, then get too bogged down in post production and the effects take over. And the rest of them are just lazy. Technology should a tool, not the result.
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You've likely watched many movies and saw digital effects but did not even realize they were there. And to say that
"a guy in a rubber suit, it will always look more real" is interesting, because unless you want to always see a character that can be played by a guy in a rubber suit, other methods are necessary. Movie making is about advancing, moving forward with new ways to tell a story. You can tell a bad story using special effects, you can tell a bad story using visual effects. Or you can tell a great story using whatever is available to you. James Cameron falls into the category of using technology as a vehicle to tell a great story.
And you also have to realize that without digital effects, it would be impossible to make many of the best movies released in the last decade. The Lord Of The Rings trilogy comes to mind. Some of the visuals in that movie are suspect, but it doesn't matter. Take Gollum for example. The look is not the greatest, especially in some scenes. But the character is unforgettable, and would have been absolutely impossible to pull off by someone in makeup.
And remember with Gollum, the acting you see in the character is the performance of Andy Serkis, the digital imagery is not there just for the sake of using digital effects. The tech that was jused to capture the performance for Gollum has been taken about 20 steps further in Avatar. The digital characters are an extremely accurate representation of the actual performances by the actors. So even if the digital images are not perfect, the performances will be true to the original actors.
But there are always detractors and haters of new technology.
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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
How do you know? have you already seen it?
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Have you? My opinion is just as valid when I say it will be great as you saying it won't.