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Oh, shut up! If there were a 'problem' with CGI then movies like Phantom Menace and Titanic and the Jurassic Parks wouldn't be right at the top of the top grossing films list.

And complaining about Lucas overusing it is stupid. Without Lucas and his billions of dollars and vision pushing ILM, his own company and now the premier effects company for all of Hollywood, CGI wouldn't look nearly as good as it looks today. Lucas' 'overuse' is going to lead to the era of computer graphic photo/videorealism, and without him it would have taken 10 or 20 extra years to get

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Adnan B.

I can't figure out a way to dispute it even though I hate George Lucas because he's a successful billionaire that's advanced film technology by at least a decade, probably two, with his efforts, and I am merely an underpaid Taco Bell employee that failed his GED test and has a low sperm count'

Yeah, but what about little stuff like plot and character?

Are movies really on average better than they were in the Seventies?

Put another way: 'Yor, Hunter from the Future' was a piece of crap. Even if ILM did all the visuals, and they spent a fortune on that dog, 'Yor, Hunter from the Future' would still stink. The effects didn't make 'Twister' or 'Armageddon' any better, did they?

Spider-Man's CGI must be worse, but it will be much better than THE PHANTOM MENACE. Try writing the code for a human acrobatically swinging around town on a string. And who isn't used to CGI now? It almost ALWAYS looks poor.

Actually the translation is this:

Moon Unit Lucas believes that GL is a God who *gasp* cannot make mistakes.

Adnan B.

I can't agree with that. Yes Lucas is supporting the advancement of CGI special effects, however this don't change the fat that he is overusing it. The Battle Droid/Gungan fight was like watching Toy Story. The bottom line is that CGI is not yet at a stage where a computer generated character can be believable, and IMHO this detracts from the entire film. The only place I think CGI can currently be really well used is in the form of sets like in the light sabre fight near the end. I think Gladiator is probably the best example of how CGI can be well used(with the exception of the fist shot of Rome). If you sit there thinking 'that looks computer generated' then it's failed as an affect.

Nonsense. You can pump all the money and technology into a movie and it still won't make it good, or necessarily profitable. Final Fantasy is a perfect example of that. For your information

Jurassic Park: only used 6 minutes of CGI. The rest was animatronics and models. It did so well because it was SPIELBERG, marketed well and was a fun movie. Not necessarily good, but fun for the kids who wanted to see it again and again.

Titanic: used very little CGI. The boat was a half-scale model. It made a ton of money because people wanted to go back again and again to see it, not to see the few minutes of CGI (who you trying to kid here) but to see the love story between Kate and Leo and the final sinking. They liked the characters, hence wanted to see them again.

Phantom Menace: was the next friggin Star Wars. That helped to put it at no. 1. Remember the most CGI heavy thing in PM was JAR JAR BINKS! Now, you tell me with a straight face that Jar Jar Binks was the reason everyone wanted to go see that movie.

Bullshit. Obviously you worship the water Lucas walks upon so nothing I can say can convince you. I'll try anyway.

Do you really think Lucas is the leader in videorealism? Give me a break. Go visit any university's computer science research department. Videorealism is years ahead of the movies, still at its research stage. Once it becomes marketable then the movies take over. Computer Science advancements aren't dictated by the movie industry or by His Majesty George Lucas. Especially now, since the big budget revolutionary CGI movie of last year, Final Fantasy, BOMBED at the box office, and the company which produced it as since gone out of business.

They keyword in movies is: Story

All the money and CGI in the world won't save a sinking ship unless there's a story there that people want to see.

Regards

- kentrel

Judging from the Sprider-Man trailers

The Phantom Menace had more real locations then A New Hope (which is mostly a closed set movie except what is shot in Tunisia) and the Empire Strikes Back (same thing, a closed set except the Hoth sequence filmed in

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