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(YAWN) Yet another CGVM! (CGI Greenscreen Videogame Movie)

posted 7 years ago by [deleted]
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I mean the type of movie which is not filmed on real locations but on sets covered with green cloth, and the actors have to use their imagination to react to things that aren't there, and mostly fail, miserably. And CGI, too! LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of BORING CGI! And it's all ridiculously over-the-top and FAKE, too! I just can't get interested, let alone invested, in two or more fully CGI characters fighting for "high stakes", and the whole thing feels like a fucking videogame (most of which suck these days) and I cannot figure out why people just don't bother watching the movie and play the real videogame version instead, they're nearly the same!

Wow, people are stupid: they bash the Star Wars Prequels for the moderate amount of CGI and greenscreen they used, yet here's these stupid movies that come years later that use 100x more CGI and greenscreen and yet they are praised because they have people in spandex doing silly things they saw in paper periodicals with bright colours and silly stories as children.

Grow up and put away childish things, for crying out loud!

[–] ace2 (607) 7 years ago

Completely agree. And DC just isn't getting it and is doubling down. Judging from the amount of CGI in the Justice League trailer that is going to make this look like an indie movie.

Also the villains are too over the top and ridiculous to suspend disbelief.

[–] TwistedAcrobat (1725) 7 years ago

so basically you are ok with Star Wars, a CGI shitfest, but you are angry because there is CGI in a comedy Superhero movie...

... and you say people should grow up and put away "childish things"?

Bwahahahahahahahah XD

yep, people are indeed stupid. You are such a good example, dare I say.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4497) 7 years ago

Yet another unimaginative “I’m a big boy into big boy things” Marvel-comic-film put down (YAWN).

I’d like to argue why all the green screen and CGI effects actually succeeded in Ragnarok and were a benefit to it. But from the looks of things (hard to see you wasting your time with these movies, so your opinion is truly banal), I see it’s not worth it.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I watch these movies, just ONCE each, so I don't speak from ignorance.

[–] darkpast (9030) 7 years ago

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I disagree. It’s in another world or universe so it worked for me.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Agreed. On top of that for me the effects were secondary to the performances which I really really liked! Some movies use special effects as a crutch to make-up for lack of character development and that wasn't an issue in this film.

[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

I very much agree with the CGI points you make, however, comicbook and Star Wars movies are inherently childish pursuits so I don't find the arguement to "grow up" compelling...

There was an amusing period after Nolan's Batman movies where critics and comicbook fans were taking these movies way too seriously and trying (unsuccesfully) to argue that they were somehow not just childish entertainment... Thankfully that period is over, but it would be interesting if filmmakers at least tried to retain some realism in the effects so that the spectacle of these movies would be exciting to the casual moviegoer, i.e. non-fanatics...

But in reality, these are CGI cartoons (i.e. comicbook movies) with a few name actors thrown in... it's fine... the fans love it... Not my kind of movie, but I don't tend to watch cartoons either... The CGI bothers me more in non-comicbook movies and non-Star Wars movies, where the idea is to make a movie that isn't targeted to kids...