Comments | tmwriter70: Soapbox: Alien vs. CGI

tmwriter70

Soapbox: Alien vs. CGI

Oct 14, 2010 15:47

Here’s a soapbox moment: The scope of this movie is something that is unequaled today. I personally think that one of the worst things to happen to modern cinema is the inundation of computer generated graphics. Sure, they help when things get kind of dicey for the production staff, they can be used in the right manner without being showy and over ( Read more... )

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mike_brendan October 15 2010, 02:18:27 UTC

Lucas lectured Scorsese? Ol' George is a bigger tool than I thought.

narfnitsirk October 15 2010, 12:41:33 UTC

I agree. When CGI is used as a tool, not as a crutch, it's excellent. I Speilberg's technique for Jurassic Park was brilliant...he used both early CGI and models, but they took the time on this one to make the CGI dinos NOT look blatantly like animations. I think JP is one of the strongest uses of CGI we've had yet. Stan Winston, who did the amazing creatures in The Thing, did the animatronic dinosaurs.