Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: OT: Hollywood and it's SPECIAL FX movies. Overdoing it or just right?

josterD opened this issue on Jul 23, 2010 · 47 posts


Photopium posted Sat, 24 July 2010 at 1:06 AM

That scene of the city folding in on itself in the "Inception" commercials is just effing breathtaking!  How could anyone NOT want to see that???

2012, Avatar, The Star Wars Prequels, The Airplane scene in Superman...Titanic for pete's sake...

Special effects are our friends.  Occasionally a movie like 2012 comes along and story be damned, it's just plain fun!  If I want story I'll catch an indie film.  There's plenty of different films out there and we can pick and choose from the movie buffet of life any time we'd like.

By the way, if you want a really GREAT movie, check out "Whip It!"  Starring the Juno girl and directed by Drew Barrymore.  HUH?  Yeah, it's really, really good.  Strong Indie vibe without being pretensious....skirts around formula but manages not to fall into the forumla pool.  No CGI, as far as I can tell.

By the way...good CGI is infinitely better than claymation, stop-motion, scale models and the like...although Pupppet Yoda is superior to CGI yoda for some reason.