10 Movies That Changed CGI This Decade | Movies Insider

[theemii]

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We all know seeing a movie behind-the-scenes looks cool but what I really want to get at is how has CGI changed over the last ten years? Many of these movies bring up ethical questions - can you just de-age someone? bring a dead actor to life with technology? And is there such a thing as using so much CGI that you've actually just made an animated

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[richyrich909]

CATS isn't on this list? hmmf ;)

[cuteej4]

There are too many movies with terrible CGI but the Rise of the Planet of the Apes trilogy has AMAZING CGI.

Compare everything to Jurassic Park and so much looks worse than that

[lovelyluna34]

i still watch the 1st Jurassic Park and it still looks so good, how does it not age

[ms_mmelissa]

I really think the tech for de-aging isn't there yet and I find it so awful and distracting in movies. Sometimes I feel crazy for feeling that way because I'll look up reviews for TV shows and movies and no one will be talking about it. It's like everyone has accepted the creepy digital drawing look off of Instagram so it doesn't register as inhuman anymore and things that are human (i.e. pores, wrinkles etc) are what's seen as abnormal and off.

It made watching Captain Marvel such an uncomfortable experience. Same with This is Us.

[cuteej4]

I HATED HATED HATED that they used CGI to age up Peggy in Civil War (I think it was that one?) instead of using makeup. It was so distracting because they can't figure out how to naturally make lips move. They always animate the top lip and that doesn't move as much IRL

[zazie_toujours]

I really liked The Irishman but the first flashback looked like Snapchat filters

[blueberry01120]

IA. De-aging tech is still firmly in uncanny valley territory. The best I've seen so far Michael Douglas in Ant-man. The others haven't come close to looking realistic. Everyone de-aged seems to look so smooth like they're made out of the material they used for androids in the Alien universe, like the silicon-based prosthetics they use for practical skin effects. Their edges look oddly... blurred for lack of a better word too which is highlighted by Leia in Rogue One. It's like video game graphics run on a high-end machine. Good... but for video games, not real life.

I feel like it hasn't improved much either since its introduction [Spoiler (click to open)]Young Leia in TRoS and Will Smith in Gemini Man. We'll see what James Cameron pulls out of his pompous ass with the first of his dozen Avatar sequels.

[zazie_toujours]

yeah lotr, jurassic park, the host, 2046... when done properly and artistically of course cgi is great. but there's so much mediocrity and trash. the most egregious example i can remember is still that guy stephen sommers and his fx obsession, he was serving nintendo 64 graphics that looked dated even at the time. the scorpion king, lmao.

[ms_mmelissa]

Blade Runner 2049 was a trash movie but I didn't mind paying to see it on the big screen because it was soooooo beautiful.

I still love the scene with a giant nude Joi talking to Joe. That was incredible (and apparently done with an actual projector so Ryan Gosling really was "interacting" with her).

[tucker]

I loved that scene too

I also loved the dancing ballerina hologram

[fromahippie]

yeah that movie was very Aesthetics.
I enjoyed it, still.