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Unnescissary CGI

posted 15 years ago by Master_X_3_1_1
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Ok, some things would obviously need to be CGI such as him daydreaming about blowing up the office, but I hope others would agree that some of the bits were totally unnescissary. For instance the hummingbird, especially the slow motion shot. They could have used high speed photography there and it would look spectacular, but instead it just looks like really fake mediocre CGI. Ditto for the planes passing overhead, him looking out his window, the landing gear (and what was even the point of that scene?).

And if you are going to say that it was appropriate because it was meant to convey the fact that we are not in reality, then at least give a good explination of how that is supposed to fit into the overall look of the movie, because that is the one reason I could think of for it, but due to the plotting, and the conventional look of everything else I am not sure that is the case.

"No man is just a number"

[–] Travesty_42 15 years ago

the landing gear (and what was even the point of that scene?).

The point of that scene was to show that even in his own fantasy world, he still can't be important or popular. The news of him being a hero was taken over almost right away by the news of the plane's landing gear falling off, and he was forgotten again.

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[–] nick_lewis2002 15 years ago

this movie had so much promise from the opening 10 or 20 minutes but completly let itself down. CGI was a big problem which was completly overused and made the movie seem gimmicky.

The 2 office guys that initially ridiculed and then befriended christian slater were awfull. They just didn't sit in this film and mixed the tone up too much.

I think slater's performance was about as good as he could have made it. From the cool guy we saw him play in true romance to this ultra geeky social outcast, well I was convinced by it.

The CGI was the main let down but there was plenty of other things that let an otherwise promising film down.

[–] Master_X_3_1_1 15 years ago

The point of that scene was to show that even in his own fantasy world, he still can't be important or popular

Tell me how that makes any sense?

"No man is just a number"

[–] Travesty_42 15 years ago

Tell me how that makes any sense?

You need to elaborate. What doesn't make sense?

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When you're right you'll never fear the wrong.

[–] Master_X_3_1_1 15 years ago

Well yeah the scene did show something that overtook him in the news.

But I'm not sure why he would suffer such restrictions in his dreams.

Perhaps that is a bit off the CGI topic though.

"No man is just a number"

[–] Travesty_42 15 years ago

But I'm not sure why he would suffer such restrictions in his dreams.

Because he's that pathetic. He can't even imagine himself as a popular or heroic person, so once his dream steered him that way, he had to change it. The plane incident taking him out of the limelight did that.

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My God, it's full of stars!

When you're right you'll never fear the wrong.

[–] trigun_78 15 years ago

The point of the wheel falling was because obviously he didnt like all the media attention he was getting (falling asleep on his couch with 2 guns in hand). So he made the wheel fall and kill some people (he can do wat he wants, its his own fantasy world) to take the attention off of him and make the media go focus their attention on a more interesting story.

Im the boss.

[–] LightUFO 15 years ago

What was up with those CGI cars? Every time you saw him on or near the road all you would see on the road were CGI cars that would speed by 9 times faster than his car. What was up with that?

Also, I don't think this is a real toilet

[–] Travesty_42 15 years ago

What was up with those CGI cars? Every time you saw him on or near the road all you would see on the road were CGI cars that would speed by 9 times faster than his car. What was up with that?

I'm pretty sure that was supposed to represent his sort of disassociation with the real world.

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My God, it's full of stars!

When you're right you'll never fear the wrong.

[–] Farnicerous 15 years ago

Honestly, I think this movie was about an hour too long. I reckon it would have made a great short.
I think the CGI needed to be used either a lot more, or not at all. Really, the CGI was probably my favourite aspect of the film. It just looked so (intentionally) silly and out of place, I thought it worked really well at the beginning. But as you said, it doesn't work with the conventional look of everything else. It might have, if we were switching out of Bob's perspective every now and then, but that wasn't the case. Instead it just feels like they just forgot about it every now and then. It was almost like an exquisite corpse between two different directors.
I think I get what this movie was trying to do for the most part, and I think it had a lot of potential, but in the end it was, at best, pretty dull and forgettable.

[–] WatchTheSkies 15 years ago

hmmmm... you should stick to music videos... they;re only 3 1/2 minute and should hold your interest long enough... I thought the overly saturated digital video look mixed perfectly with the over the top unrealistic in his head visuals... seemed to me a stylistic choice. You dont like it.. fine.. then make your own.

[–] Farnicerous 15 years ago

Seriously? Wow. You should stick to youtube. Completely asinine and unprovoked remarks seem to go down well over there.
I'm well aware it was a stylistic choice, I just didn't happen to agree with it. If you liked it, good for you. That's your own, entirely subjective, opinion.

[–] audiopinions 9 years ago

I was thinking about this while watching it, but I was fine with it. Given that everything is imaginary, there's no reason it should look perfectly photo-realistic.