Why do people complain so much about CGI in movies?

**markwillstar** · 10-20-2009, 06:06 PM

I swear everytime i come in here, "Why do i have to live with so much CGI in movies", or one i saw earlier "Do i have to live with CGI in the summer"

Seems like ever since Star Wars came back with Ep 1-3 people started crying that computers were being used too much. But yet Lucas waited this long to make 1-3 because there wasnt the CGI he wanted in 1983.

Personally i dont see whats so wrong with it. Its easier to make a movie with CGI then have to work with props, and dummies, but i guess people are blind.

**Charlotte** · 10-20-2009, 06:06 PM

because it often times doesnt look real enough to not be cheasy. narnia used great CGI for the animals....

but like in zombie movies, it completely kills the scariness. there were several zombies in dawn of the dead (1978) that would kick any CG monster's ass

**Broncosox** · 10-20-2009, 06:06 PM

CGI is a good thing for movies, making it more realistic looking.

However, what these people are annoyed about is when CGI consumes the movie, taking out any plot or story. Transformers 2 is a good example of CGI taking over.

**Free Spirit** · 10-20-2009, 06:07 PM

people who have time to complain about such trivial things are trivial themselves

**just drunk? All the Time?** · 10-20-2009, 06:07 PM

what the heck is a CGI......?????

**Kirsten** · 10-20-2009, 06:07 PM

I think CGI is good. But when it starts replacing the performers, etc that's when it gets out of hand. Part of the mystery in watching something with CGI is blending it with real surroundings/objects/etc to make the person feel an element of "this could happen" or "what if". That's the magic of it. But if it's overdone, that's when it becomes annoying.

Personally, I'm for it. But in moderation.

**C.W.** · 10-20-2009, 06:07 PM

because all the creativity and fun is taken away from movies by using CGI.. Sure, it looks neat.. But where is all the fun fake blood? where is the actual explosions?

More so with Horror movies, they just suck now.. There isn't any fun effects like having to use chicken skin to make human skin.. It took a lot away from movies.

**Dog** · 10-20-2009, 06:07 PM

It's not the CGI that's bad, it's the awful garbage movies that rely on CGI that suck! Can anybody try to explain what Transformers was about with a straight face? No - so why did they decide to make a movie with an absolute nonsense story?

Gee, maybe because they could throw together a bunch of half decent CGI (even the CGI wasn't that good) and make a quick $1/2 billion off of the spectacle. Someday someone will make a great CGI movie (just like it took a few years until the "sound movie" was perfected), but until then CGI will be associated with idiotic nonsense.

The bad reputation has been well earned!

10-20-2009, 06:08 PM

Some people just need to find things to complain about.

Personally its mostly good but every now and then here's a movie where its overboard. Same can be said about anything.