doubleofive said:

DominicCobb said:

I think many of us don't see those big CGI laden shlockfests. You won't find many here who went to see Trans4mers. You are again misinterpreting our issue with CGI. It's not that we hate it, or think that it should never be used, it's just that we are annoyed by its overabundance in mainstream films today.

I don't hate the Transformer movies because they used CGI to create robots that change into cars, I hate them because they insult my intelligence.

I think in a world without CGI, we'd still be complaining about practical effect shlockfests. We're blaming the hammer for the carpenter's shoddy work. And I mean the studios/directors are the carpenters, not the VFX artists who work their butts off to try to make whatever it is look good.

No, I don't blame CGI itself or the people who create those effects - they have all my respect. I completely blame the directors and the studios. My point about TF4 specifically was in response to DrCrow, who said we should stop seeing movies that feature oodles of CGI and stop perpetrating the trend if we don't like it.

There are two issues here. One is that there are movies that over rely on effects. You're right, there will always be these types of movies and there's nothing we can do about it. My main issue is that there is an over reliance on CGI in particular. This is a problem with both good and bad movies.