I love the transition of CGI over time:
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Hokey crap because the tech just isn't there yet, but it's still exciting because "graphics".
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Blurring the lines, it starts becoming "scary" because it's almost realistic.
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Effectively "enough", it's possible to make most things photo-realistic.
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Cheaping out on the labor costs is ubiquitous so eveb though realism is possible, everything starts to revert to 1.
Absolutely. That's why so many of these recent goddamn movies are DARK. You can't see how bad the graphics are because they are so DARK.
The best way to make CGI look good is to make scenes dark so I don't know I can really fault anyone for that. People always bring that up about Jurrasic Park and the Trex scene, or Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean, or Alien (which was a puppet I guess but same principle maybe?), and so on and so forth.
I mean I can fault them for it. There are plenty of great looking movies that have CGI in them and sometimes the CGI isn't perfect but often times movies will just be squint-inducing the entire time and the CGI isn't even that convincing, it's just that if you turn up the brightness you can tell it's super garbage with tons of blurry shit lines around it
it’s just that if you turn up the brightness you can tell it’s super garbage
Another thing that makes Avatar: The Way of Water impressive is that large parts of it are set in BRIGHT TROPICAL SUN and it still looks great.
Spy Kids is special ha. They fully committed to "we're gonna get weird with this stuff"
I don't know how much of it is "cheaping out" so much as it's pushing the limits of the amount of CGI you can fit in a movie. I guess that could still be considered cheaping out. But most movies just keep a real-world setting and edit in or out parts of a scene. Looks especially dumb when you have things happening that make no sense physically, like super heroes jumping too high or falling too hard. Or materials and construction that doesn't exist in real life. But it does seem like a lot of the CGI is pretty "muddy" looking.
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Shark boy and Lava girl went kinda hard ngl
Dream dream dream dream dream dream :cat-vibing:
Low budget Robert Rodriguez goes hard. When he gets a big budget you end up with Book of Boba Fett and Alita Battle Angel
At the very least it was miles ahead of Ghost in the Shell (2017). I've been interested in the Gunnm comic and OVA, but haven't gotten around to them.
it looks silly but i take more of an issue with every marvel movie currently being time travel stuff to undo some event in some way and/or multiverse shenanigans that allow for self-referential insertions
"I think we're stuck in a timeloop! We just fought these guys!!"
"Nope, that just happened."
Literally the thing that made Marvel / DC so obnoxious twenty years ago was the constant need to recon what the last writer did. Whole dissertations have been written on "The Death of Superman" and how it didn't kill Superman so much as the very idea of death itself.
Between Multiverses and Time Travel and Clones and Androids and literal straight up Magic, you'd think they would have a toolkit to be a bit more original with their stories and settings. But any given arc can't seem to get beyond the Simpsons trap of reverting the entire premise back to where it was in :19: :84:
Occasionally, a creative team can get a few years, but the toys go back to the status quo as determined by the EIC who takes orders from the ownership.
It’s like pro-wrestling if they never aged, injured, or went to work at other promotions.
I mean lbr there was never a chance of not making MODOK look goofy.
But it didn't have to be this bad
Goofy is the point of MODOK. This just looks awkward. It's a normal looking face stretched over the MODOK body. That ain't right.
In Marvel vs Capcom he looks goofy but also terrifying. They could have nailed that if they wanted to.
Yeah, this looks like the sort thing you'd find on YouTube ten years or so ago as a fan film.
it’s not even the fact that the design is goofy it’s that the cgi is just absolutely horrible
I'm glad MODOK is goofy cuz those gold metal face leaks looked even worse
I just feel like the guys with the shoe-string budget used to film Dr. Who could have made something more creative and fun.
Maybe not modern Dr. Who, but - like - Christopher Eccleston / David Tenant folks did more with The Face of Bo than what I'm seeing.
the one-time budget boost they clearly got to make The End of Time had elite results
While i agree that this is silly, I disagree that its bad. I want more of this. I want the silliest, weirdest, whackiest comic book movies. I want them to lean into the last 100 years of comic book writers putting the absolute dumbest shit on paper. The writing in Marvel movies already undercuts any serious pretensions since it can't let feelings happen without a joke to kill the mood, so lean into it. I want the evil professor velociraptor man make a base on venus and the only hero that can stop him is the Cock Knocker from jay and silent bob 3 who had a redemption arc in the last Avengers movie
Keep in mind he was created by middle-aged guys in the 60s, so very much grandpa humor/ideas of what was cool.
I'm pretty sure MODOK is (originally) a silver age villian, it's par for the course. And with the way things are going, no doubt they'll eventually bring shit like mister mind back
I didn't believe you, and thought this was a shop you did on your phone until I watched myself. That's really funny.
The Patton Oswalt M.O.D.O.K. is pretty good, and also cancelled for this presumably.
I got no clue what’s happening in this arc and you can’t force me to care.
Honestly I might go see it just because I thought Jonathan Majors was good in Loki, but none of the Ant-Man films have been amazing so far so I'm not expecting much from this. Goofy MODOK should be good for a laugh though.
