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Acting Before the CGI Looks Silly

Thursday, 31 August 2017, 14:45 BFH Uncategorized 25

What Am I saying? Acting AFTER the CGI is still silly.

Petrus, who sent it in, sees this as Antifa as they see themselves versus how we see them.

25 Comments on Acting Before the CGI Looks Silly

  1. if directors were smart, they would go backward, not forward

    break out the old technologies, film as they used to

    they have lost their way forward, no creativity left, looking for the newest technology breakthrough to save their sinking asses

  3. ” they would go backward, not forward break out the old technologies,”

    Absolutely. If you were ever lucky enough to see How The West Was Won in the theaters back in the mid 60’s and compare it to any release of Star Wars or what ever, there’s no comparison. That old stuff was awesome.

  6. Movies once employed people, epic movies employed, “A cast of thousands.”.
    Today movies employ few “people”, they use pasty faced computer boys, making armies out of ones and zeros.
    The good news, unless Hollywierd changes their way, it will become Detroit.
    They refused to change their collective Prog mindset too.
    You can build it, doesn’t mean they will come.
    Those pasty faced keyboard wizards don’t really need Hollywierd ideology anymore.

  8. @:
    How The West Was Won was shot with a three step process and projected on a curved screen. Just like the new BIG dollar high def TVs. But those images flew off the screen. And I didn’t need to plug my ears because they had the volume cranked up so damn high. Another great movie to see in the theaters back then was The War Wagon. There were a few that I think probably used that process. Much better than the digital shit today.

  9. yep, saw that masterpiece @ cinerama in hollywood, incredible experience

    add to that the music of alfred newman (i went to school, played baseball with his sons thomas and david who are both in the music score business) and you have a national treasure

  12. Star Wars at the Cinerama Dome was pretty damn impressive even without *special* brownies.
    Fury Road used very little cgi I am told.
    Not sure about Apocalypse Now, Silverado, Shoot ‘Em Up, or Streets Of Fire,(a couple of my favorites.)
    Period aircraft were used in The Battle Of Britain.
    Jackie Chan does all his own stunts, and Van Damme too I believe.

  13. this CGI (or as i mistakenly called it last night “AI”) is what turned me off of movies. A very low threshold of creativity needed. The older movies involved using your imagination to complete the scenes. Casablanca needed none of this CGI. Hitchcock, Orson Welles. Great B and W movies. Incredible directors. This new stuff is boring.

  14. CGI is simply a tool. An artist can use it to make art. A hack director can only use it to make crap. The main problem isn’t the tech but rather the inartistic, untalented, unimaginative, unbearably arrogant directors and producers, not to mention the dearth of fine acting talent today, as distinct from cap-toothed, overly cosmeticized ego zeppelins whose primary audience is their similarly encumbered peers.

    I’m holding back, I know you can tell! (-:

  17. Harryhausen stop-motion, rubber lizard suits, “3D” and frame by frame cel animation were early special effects methods. The film maker’s vision was limited by the technology available at the time. Green screen and hybrid techniques (i.e. Tron) allowed advances in cinematography, as well as widescreen, surround sound and Smell-a-Vision.
    These techniques are not substitutes for plot, theme, character, dialog etc. It is certainly possible to make a crappy hi tech movie.
    And CGI is by no means a requirement for a first-rate movie.
    Currently the film maker’s vision is limited more by his imagination than by technology. Wall-E, Ice Age and Rango- all CGI, and all worth a look. I won’t blow off a movie just because it has CGI.

    That being said, among my favorites are The Quiet Man, and Streets of Fire. Also Shane, Cool Hand Luke, and Alien.
    Avatar, not so much.
    Shrek had its moments.
    Never saw LOTR or Titanic.
    Refused to watch Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy or Sisterhood of Traveling Pants.

  22. P.S.
    I neglected to mention a few milestones along the way to movies as we know them today. These include the stereopticon, magic lantern, zoetrope, movies, talkies, Technicolor*, cinemascope, streaming and home theater.
    You will also note the advances in recording, storage and playback technology. Professionals (and amateurs**) are no longer hampered by the limitations of film.
    Now, I still have my dad’s old Argus C3, and a couple of 35mm SLRs.*** Pretty sure they still work, but I haven’t used them for years.
    Somewhere around here is a wind-up 8mm movie camera. And some embarrassing home movies I reckon. (Bugs have probably eaten the film by now.)
    But the projectors are Gone With The Wind. And so is the Instamatic…
    Digital is here to stay, though the media will doubtless evolve.

    Enjoy movie night, folks!

    /Steps off soapbox/

    *Which reminds me- How do we feel about colorized movies?
    I thought so…

    ** It would be nice if those amateurs would learn how to hold a cell phone. Access to good equipment does not necessarily make one an expert.

    *** Also hundreds of treasured analog LPs.

  23. “*Which reminds me- How do we feel about colorized movies?”

    They did that to High Noon once. ONCE. Another awesome movie. Got another one for you. “The Searchers”. They still use that film to teach with at UCLA Film School. Movie theaters would make more money showing the classics mentioned on this thread than the new garbage. It’s true.

  25. Well yeah.
    I also left out fail compilations, vines, funny cat videos and Russian dashcam videos.
    Because I doubt they can be considered Movies in the sense of cinematography.
    Well, maybe The Story of “O”, or Lady Chatterley might qualify. And I am told Andrew Blake films are a cut above…

    Something you might see at a place like this
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DPvn7Mm4XQ
    probably not…

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