Does anyone else think CGI effects are ruining horror movies nowdays?!
Question: I don't know if its just because I grew up in a generation where special effects just meant extensive prosthetics and giant machines to create monsters and things in movies. I think CGI effects in movies look way more fake than the way things were done right before it got popular.
Anyone else agree?
Answers: I don't know if its just because I grew up in a generation where special effects just meant extensive prosthetics and giant machines to create monsters and things in movies. I think CGI effects in movies look way more fake than the way things were done right before it got popular.
Anyone else agree?
CGI is one of the most uses in horror films nowadays that it is just a disgrace for it to be seen now. It is used be for the movies that were the cornerstone of effects and movie, but this is just ridiculous.
Years ago when this came, it looked so real and far beyond our hands to do this type of thing...now its like this extensive, cheap added plot that makes the audience wonder whether the characters are on hallucinigens or some obsessive special effects supervisor got so tired of 'film' and wanted to just fill the audience's eyes with cheap tasting eye candy that makes our eyes cringe as the sight that even the plot is taken down with it too...like the Titanic (the boat, not the movie). tragically down the cold waters of hollywood's grips.
Why won't they ever learn that its about the movie itself that can make a movie good, not its effects. Hollywood got dumber and dumber every year.
Exactly...
I think it depends on the movie and if its really necessary to do the effects or not. I recently saw this movie called Are You Scared which was basically a cheep rip of of the Saw movies but done really crapy. There were parts in there that were so obviously CGI that it hurt. I think if its something like the Final Destination movies (the part with the ladder in the eye) then its ok because it was actually realistic.
I really think it depends on if its something that can be accomplished with out CGI then do it that way but if its something that needs CGI then hope to god they know what they are doing and they make it look good.
CGI just makes things too real and unbelievable. They should have stuck with the more traditional ways which were more believable and far better.
as a horror movie fan, i have to agree for the most part. However some movies are enhanced by it, while most seem to under budget it, thus leaving the effects obvious and tacky. I would like to add that i think a good portion of it is really just piss poor directing and bad movies...lol
the problem with using CGI in horror films is that there is longer such a thing as a horror movie. it's all torture and needless violence covered with a bad plot to string together the best effects they could muster. I'm a bit fan of films like saw or hostel, simply because i think for a Torture/senseless violence film they go very far in depth, even if hostel is just a porn movie for the first half an hour. The problem is that writers are afraid to do what's been done before, another Freddy Kruger or Jason style film. mass production has killed the horror industry, but i will say that some of the special effects are very well done. For instance (it doesn't fill the gore and blood needed for a horror these days but i like it) sleepy hollow was a brilliant film, it had the headless horseman and the director used effects sparingly. It all depends on preference, but it seems that you can no longer have a horror film without cutting people to pieces. Gore is fine in a film though but it doesn't have to be animated, they've just taken it a step too far, i started filming my own "horror style" film a few months ago and you can make the effects just a good with tissue, marmite and some syrup. If they cut the budgets on films then the quality would go up because they would have to think of the most effective way to do the shot rather than saying "eh...we'll just edit it in later."
short version, yeah i agree
most people do. i only wish the producers and directors of the world would listen. it not only makes for a more realistic movie experience, but it's cheaper as well.