CGI fighting - Road House (2024) Discussion

[–] 123Guy (6188) a month ago

I've enhanced fight scenes in the editing room before....

What did you see to think it was cgi?
Frame skipping/ dropping is pretty normal but that is not cgi

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[–] unlockingfreedom (93) a month ago

Well it is blue screen background, the fighters are there, but when the dynamic camera moves round there is CGI fighters. The camera angles are not possible to film traditionally, so CGI fighters are interwoven.

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[–] 123Guy (6188) a month ago

Shame. CGI ruining yet more stuff.
I got into film for the LIVE stuff. If I ever land a budget, I will not use CGI on purpose.

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[–] unlockingfreedom (93) a month ago

Completely agree. CGI only stands out as destructive to films claiming authenticity. My feeling is that what is possible is that the cameras have changed to become small. What can be dynamic is the camera motion capturing real life content.

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[–] legnadibrom (5721) a month ago

i watched 1 fight scene and some of the physics don't match reality,
also every punch that connects is CGI

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[–] enriquesingh (1772) a month ago

Yeah, watchable movie (by the numbers) but some scenes look like shit.

Also the bridge scene where they try to run him over with a truck reminded me of terrible CGI from the early 2000s... What Lies Beneath and Along Came a Spider used similar looking effects.

The director has been bad mouthing Amazon saying this movie deserved to be released in theaters... but they didn't really upgrade much storywise... I can't rate this movie more than a 5 or 6 at most.

Definitely deserved going straight to streaming.

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[–] FilmBoy (1085) a month ago

That 'bridge truck speeding up to hit him' scene look like stop-motion from an old Godzilla movie. Quite bad.

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[–] darkpast (8060) a month ago

looked like shit

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[–] Kowalski (58664) a month ago

I DID NOT THINK SO.

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[–] AviAAksenazi (568) a month ago

The director made a big deal about the fighting sequences and how its all barebones and non-CGI and it turns out to be CGI.

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[–] TandyMan (10372) a month ago

There was a number of scenes, in particular when people are getting thrown around, across the room, suplexed into bars and what not, that are clearly CGI. I especially remember Jake in the final fight careening back into the drum kit or whatever where he turned into a cartoon. It's a split second shot but it was obvious.

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[–] TandyMan (10372) a month ago

The fights in the movie were interesting. Some of the camera tricks looked brilliant, some looked absolutely terrible. Pretty innovative for the most part and we may as well all get used to it, they're gonna start doing more and more of this kind of thing.

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[–] AviAAksenazi (568) a month ago

Actors probably need less prep time, a shorter shot, cost savings.

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[–] TandyMan (10372) a month ago

Traditional film fighting also looks like butt in modern HD. Ya can tell the swinging fists and feet aren't coming anywhere near the head as they flinch and fall. That's why a lot of these crazy actors started actually hitting each other to make it look good and now they keep hurting themselves.

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[–] AviAAksenazi (568) a month ago

They go above and beyond for the art!

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