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Originally posted by: jimbo
Today computers have got to the point were you can put anything on screen in 100% photorealism. After seeing Final Fantasy I believe that actors days are numbered.
By "100% photorealism" you mean that it looks 100% as realistic as real life, with no possible way of telling the differance...CGI is FAR from that.
By the way, Final Fantasy did so poorly in the box office that the studio that made it went bankrupt. I think actor's jobs are safe for quite awhile...
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Originally posted by: jimbo
First of all Terminator 2 is an Ok film. I see it as a dumb action movie. I enjoy it the same why I enjoy Van Helsing great effects but all the substance of the first Terminator movie is gone. What about the Matrix. You say CGI can never look good in slow motion but The Matrix is filled with slow motion CGI that looks excellent. Not to mention slow motion in movies normally is bad even in live action form.
What substance of the first Terminator film? Terminator 2 added substance to the first movie by fleshing out the story. Terminator 3 was a dumb action movie that was tacted on hoping to be a box office success, completely scrapping the story and plot of the original movies. Most of the slowmotion CGI in the Matrix looks like CGI. Most of the slowmotion effects in the Matrix is real actors on wires in slow motion. The Neo vs. Many Agent Smiths scene in Matrix 2 is obviously CGI, as is the final showdown in Matrix 3.
CGI is a long long way from replacing actors, sets, or traditional special effects (despite GL's efforts), because it's obviously not real and looks cheesy to film goers.
Science Fiction and Action movies generally utilize special effects WAY more than any other gengre (another reason actor's jobs are safe), and if you look at the best and most groundbreaking movies of those gengres, special effects were used in a traditional nature and CGI was used sparingly, if at all.
I'm talking about movies like Bladerunner, 2001, Predator, the Road Warrior, Terminator 2, Aliens, the first Matrix...