Originally posted by: lordjedi
Um, yeah, good luck with that happening. CGI may look a little faker, but it's usually far cheaper than using puppeteers and models. If a model doesn't blow up right, the whole thing has to be rebuilt. If it doesn't quite blow up right in a computer, you just change a few parameters and re-render.
Originally posted by: Dug
As for the CGI effects, I was very disappointed. What did CGI offer that good makeup and stuntwires couldn't? I think a slightly slower monster would have been more effective instead these superspeed zombies. If they had been real actors, it would have worked better. Hollywood really has to get over this CGI fascination and get back to some roots.
As for the CGI effects, I was very disappointed. What did CGI offer that good makeup and stuntwires couldn't? I think a slightly slower monster would have been more effective instead these superspeed zombies. If they had been real actors, it would have worked better. Hollywood really has to get over this CGI fascination and get back to some roots.
Um, yeah, good luck with that happening. CGI may look a little faker, but it's usually far cheaper than using puppeteers and models. If a model doesn't blow up right, the whole thing has to be rebuilt. If it doesn't quite blow up right in a computer, you just change a few parameters and re-render.
Right, but we are talking about infected humans here, not exploding cars and space ships, or complicated puppets. We are merely talking about using makeup instead of CG monsters. If you havent seen the movie you wont realize how very akward and ineffective the infected of I Am Legend appear. It seriously brings what could have been a great movie down to something to laugh at the cheesiness of. The whol thing about the adrenaline gland is retarded, if something doesn't work, don't do it. This simply doesn't work. The CG in this thing seemed extremely bad, it is very comparible to that of the Mummy, and the Mummy is a pretty old movie now.
Anybody else read the book? I found it interesting that they kept the title "I Am Legend" since it did not fit too well with the new plot and ending of the film. The name I Am Legend implies that he is refering to himself, which is the case in the brilliantly ironic ending of the original novel, but in the movie he never even comes to realize that he will one day be a legend and it is somebody else calling him a legend. Just thought it was kind of interesting, doesn't seem like it would make sense to people unfamiliar with the novel.
While I would have enjoyed seeing this follow the book more closely to the book (i.e. hoards of undead/infected people attcking his house every night, waking up every morning, going through the daily rutine of preparing the house for another nights attack) but that whole theme has been copied by so many other stories and movies since IAL was first published the whole thing has become a little cliche. I do feel they did a good job capturing the whole "last man on earth" aspect. It is ashame to see the actors, Smith and the dog namely, go through such an effort to deliver such a preformance, then have the whole movie drug down by poor CG models.