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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I guess I'm too old school to appreciate certain things anymore. I guess I'm tired of all of the animation and computer work that goes into movies nowadays. I find myself being pulled out of the immersive feel that you need to have when your watching a movie. While Avatar was incredibly pretty, and Pandora was beatifully done, it just felt fake and unrealistic.
I'm tired of all of the wire fighting and unrealistic fights in movies. I miss the old movies where Clint Eastwood would punch a guy in the face and it would look real.
Star Wars to me was special because the effects had substance behind them. The ships looked like they were really floating through space. The opening scene which changed movie experiences forever was a model and a camera and it looked like it had weight and that you could almost reach out and touch it, The ships in Avatar just looked like ghosts to me.
The light saber fights in Empire and return of the jedi looked real and emotional, a lot of the emotion is sucked out of fights because they look like dance moves.
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It's funny you say this, because I know exactly how you feel, I just didn't get that feeling with this movie.
I did however get it for the new Star Wars trilogy. Special effects orgy with no substance. Course, there's a lot of reasons a lot of people didn't like those movies.
In comparison, the LOTR trilogy was very special effects driven too, but it seemed to be with soul and was used very well. As well they had real sets, and actors for the CG parts (like Gollum) and so it didn't look as fake as the new Yoda (IMO)
I'd take the puppet Yoda over the CG one any day.
But I do know what you are saying, I just didn't get that feeling with Avatar. I thought the effects were used with purpose in most parts.
I also get what you are saying about the fight scenes in most new movies, though I never really go to the movies for fights anyway (unless it's a good Kung Fu film or something). Like in the third (and second to a degree) Matrix film. It just started getting so over the top it was dumb.