Wednesday, January 6, 2010

When CGI takes over, they make movies like Avatar.

Admit it. When You saw the trailer for Avatar, you were blown away by how "realistic" it looked, and how it gave you a natural high when watching it. I, wasn't impressed. I guess that's because they keep calling It the next Star Trek and Star Wars. I wouldn't go that far.. people just aren't used to the new technology in the filming industry called CGI. It's basically the art of creating moving images on a computer. Which is pretty impressive if you see how far we've come with animation. (especially when the rate of CGI is an average of 24-30 frames a second) here's an example of how CGI looks when being made:

If you haven't already heard, James Cameron waited 15 years untill he made Avatar, just because he didn't have the animation for it. It was supposed to be released in 1997, the same year he made Titanic. I'm glad he waited, because honestly the movie Avatar would look like a piece of shit without CGI.
I'm not trying To bash James Cameron's work, Titanic, The Abyss, The Terminator, and Aliens were all very enjoyable to watch, but I feel as if Avatar was more impressive on the technical level of animation than a good storyline. I felt like I was watching a video game for 2 hours..It was a different aspec on the rest of Cameron's films..

Also! The fact that the movie was made in 2D and 3D ruined it. When you make a movie in 3D, you should have things jumping out at you. I went to go see it in both versions, and i didn't see a difference at all. The 3D version was just an "airbrushed" version of the 2D, and the color wasn't that great. It definately wasn't worth paying extra money, and having my eyes hurt for 2 hours.Another thing is, when I see a movie like that in 3D, i think of how it would feel watching it on my tv at home. It's not something I would want to watch again. If anything the experince in the Theater was better.


As Much As he spent on this movie, ($237 million) I think he could've made a better storyline. I will give him one positive critique though, he does have an eye for imaginative filmmaking.

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