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Marvel Cinematic Universe Has a CGI Problem (screenrant.com)
Corey Hutchinson, writing for ScreenRant: The MCU may be the biggest thing in Hollywood these days, but there's no denying that its overuse of CGI is becoming more and more noticeable. Don't get us wrong; for the most part, the MCU's CGI has been great, even spectacular at times. Even at its worst, it's nowhere near the bottom of the pile in terms of poor special effects in superhero movies. And no single MCU entry has come anywhere close to the awfulness that is Justice League. But when a superhero franchise is pulling in this much money and getting consistently glowing reviews, the bar has to be set high, and several of the MCU's latest offerings just aren't clearing it. It's worth noting that the MCU's CGI shortcomings are a relatively recent thing. There's very little to complain about when it comes to the special effects behind their Phase One movies. They all hold up surprising well, in fact, and the same goes for the vast majority of Marvel's Phase Two films. There's a few dicey moments in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but it wasn't really until Captain America: Civil War kicked off Phase Three that any negative attention was paid to the MCU's effects work.
Take a moment to rewatch the second Black Panther clip that was released to the public a few weeks ago. Specifically, hone in on the 45 second mark, where you see Nakia shooting two guys, the second of which is very obviously computer-generated. Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?
Take a moment to rewatch the second Black Panther clip that was released to the public a few weeks ago. Specifically, hone in on the 45 second mark, where you see Nakia shooting two guys, the second of which is very obviously computer-generated. Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?
Some marvel acronym? seriously, your using it like it's as common as CPU
overuse of CGI is becoming more and more noticeable.
Yes, I can understand that, especially if your CGI script is written in bash and you haven't patched your system against Shellshock.
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Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
" Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask? "
I think a better question to ask is why anyone over the age of 15 goes to watch this sort of cookie cutter content free derivative crap with people in silly costumes doing not even suspension of disbelief believable stuff in the first place.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a get off my lawn rant, I love action films as much as the next guy, but the utter dross that are the "stories" from comics (no, they're NOT "graphic" novels, they're comics - for kids) don't deserve to be on daytime kids TV, never mind $100M+ spent on them per film.
Serious question: Why does the bar has to be set high? They are there to make money, not to tell a story. That is just the side effect.
As long as they are making enough by low standards, why do more expensive high standards if that means less profit?
These movies are the fast food of the movies. Low quality for the masses. Nothing wrong with that, but do not expect anything it is not.
The quality is good enough to make the most money, just as McD and others make 'food' that is just good enough. The principle was explained to me in this way:
Fast food chains deliver 80% of the quality that they could deliver. The reason is that they always can reach that standard. It is high enough for most and low enough that they ALWAYS reach it. Imagine that they would deliver 95% most of the time and then suddenly they get a few days of 85%. People would be pissed and that will cost customers in the long run.
With 80% they will create the expectation. You know what to expect and will not be disappointed. The same goes for these movies. You expect a certain standard and that is what you will get. All along with all other movies where you know that the most expensive actor will most likely survive till the end of the movie. Boy and girl get together or whatever standards are available.
It is fast food and do not try to pretend it is fine dining. That does not mean fast food it bad. It is different.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
It's getting to the point where they won't really need humans. Be cheaper to do it all CGI.
They're pretty much cartoons as it is, why not go the whole hog?
not consumers.
I skimmed it 10 times before I realized the story wasn't about running a webserver on a microcontroller.
get off my lawn.
I write my CGIs in C, you insensitive clod! (or failing that, in sed).
This says it well:
https://youtu.be/bL6hp8BKB24
TL;DW: There is a shitload if CGI in movies today, and 90% of the time you never knew or could even imagine that it was CGI.
The problem is, that you only start noticing it, when it is bad.
And that is why CGI becomes associated with bad SFX.
Is the premise. A super-advanced sub-Sahara African country that is at least a full century ahead of Europe, East Asia, the Americas and Israel... when in real life to my knowledge that region never even got to the level of the Roman Empire on its own before European colonialism?
Sorry, but as cool as some of it looks, it practically screams "we wuz kangz!!!11!" at the audience.
Yeah. Those movies spawned out of a renewed interest in propaganda based on what was origially literally the US equivalent of the Nazi Übersoldat (supersoldier) propaganda.
They are basically the US version of Kim Yong Un making movies about his many great feats for all to praise and love.
Of course they are shit.
The question is, why anybody gives a fuck? No life? Caught in the propaganda?
I think in almost all the group superhero movies, the story telling is kind of shit. And that's what movies, & comics should really be about... the story _telling_. The story has been here for decades, yet repeatedly they can't seem to properly tell it. Every time they just overpower the single bad guy, under power the heroes, and have a gang bang (really Aquaman couldn't hold a candle against Stephenwolf... underwater?!? I think Alfred & Gordon were more useful than Flash, Cyborg, & Aquaman combined.)
Maybe the formula shouldn't be "some guy's vision of the hero".... because outside of Wonder Women's movie, and Iron Man 1; they been shit. Maybe the directors should pick some older comic nerds and incorporate their opinions into the scripts. Also, why are the theater versions of these movies less than the Blueray? Isn't that a spiral of encouring less people to go to theaters and thus poorer theater versions?
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With experience, you start being able to tell that everything is retarded shit.
The US is special here, because you guys have a culture of peer-pressured nearly mandatory positivism.
(Here in Germany, and in most Slav countries, it's more the opposite. So it's especially apparent to us. Ours is just as bad, of course.)
I think in most of the world, it is just accepted, that it's shit. I'm sure it is why we and the Slavs drink so much.
While you Americans pop "happy pills" like candy to hold up a fake smile far past when you are aware of how shit it is.
So no, you are not a stupid grumpy old fart. You just aren't ignorant enoughh anymore, to run through life like a clueless moron (as we all did when we were young).
Move to another country and you won't be scolded for it anymore.
"...where you see Nakia shooting two guys...Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?"
Perhaps this is why you CGI shooting...
"Brandon Lee (son of Bruce Lee) died on March 31st, 1993 at the age of 28 after an accidental shooting on set of The Crow...In the fatal scene, which called for the revolver to be fired at Lee from a distance of 3.6–4.5 meters (12–15 feet), the dummy cartridges were exchanged with blank rounds, which feature a live powder charge and primer, but no bullet, thus allowing the gun to be fired without the risk of an actual projectile. But since the bullet from the dummy round was already trapped in the barrel, this caused the .44 Magnum bullet to be fired out of the barrel with virtually the same force as if the gun had been loaded with a live round, and it struck Lee in the abdomen, mortally wounding him."
One of the few cases where orange and teal color grading would work.
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From the moment I started reading I knew this was going to go negative about Black Panther.
Slashdot, you really have gone weird.
You're not actually watching the movie.
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Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?
That camera movement right after might give you the answer. There is probably not much non-CGI in that particular shot. Also, they know their audience who also likely play interactive electronic games.
In addition to not rotating when pushing or punching things that are more massive than they are; the protagonists also seem to have an infinite amount of friction when it comes to the bottom of their feet.
It really, really takes me out of the moment.
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Tickets are being sold and in time media will sell too. Those movies work as intended. No problem exists. Try to grow up and realize those are products intended for children and for adults who either have to take their kids to the movies or - more disturbing - actually enjoy them. Any adult who enjoys comic books, comic book movies, cartoons or anime is either socially impaired or mentally underdeveloped and should seek professional help.
Some of the best movies I've ever seen either don't have much CGI yet still managed to create awesome effects, or are at least ground breaking in some way. The scenes in Terminator 2, Running Man and Total Recall for example.. Like magic,I don't want to know how it was done because it completely destroys any future immersion. It's kind of insulting when movies like this are compared to movies that AREN'T.
Entertainment is not about who has the biggest budgets any more then silicone creates beauty.
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Or as I like to say, it's the black people's turn.
I did as Corey Hutchinson suggested and watched that moment in the clip, carefully, maybe a dozen or more times.
I'm most assuredly not a CGI specialist, or even anything to do with film or television. However, I would hazard a guess: the crew shot that clip as part of the entire end-to-end series of shots needed to complete that portion of the story. Then, when they got the prints back and were looking at it in editing, they realised that something which happened on the balcony [i.e. the second guy getting shot] simply didn't work as they wanted it to.
For reasons we don't understand, they then set up a green-screen shot and had an actor repeat the moves as if being shot directly, then composited it in to the main take. Unlike Corey, I don't think that what we see is a CGI moment, I think it's a human actor painted back in during editing.
Does this quality as CGI or the over-use of CGI? I'm going to argue the negative and offer two reasons:-
1. I don't think this is CGI per se. I think this is two sequences shot separately and then brought together via compositing.
2. We have no way of knowing what the original shot looked like. But I'll give Marvel's editing team the benefit of the doubt and take on faith that this was the "least worst option". Marvel aren't in the habit of deliberately screwing up one of there movies when they have a better way on hand. [ Speaking of which, that would likely have been a complete re-shoot of that scene. We simply have no way of knowing if that was even possible... ]
Where are the Asians? The Native Americans? The Middle Easterns? The Hispanics? Considering the cast is 97% Black, this is hardly the bastion of diversity you think it is. Unless the definition of diversity has come to mean "more Blacks, only!", don't talk to me about "diversity" in Black Panther.
We still have Rick and morty.
Did you see how much CGI they got away with in The Incredibles? Plus it's so unrealistic, like anyone is that strong or can stretch their body that far!!
My usual problem with CGI is that it still looks the same as it did in Jurassic Park (1993!)
I don't know how they still, 25 years later, can't make a cityscape that looks 'real'.
Seeing that Marvel is first and foremost a graphic novel distributor, I really don't know why they just don't use all that marvelous Pixar tech they bought and push out animated versions. I know Spiderman is slated for the end of the year, and the trailers look ok, but seeing all these movies get storyboarded to begin with, why not just continue with a toon?
"Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?"
I've not seen the clip but:
No actor to pay, just a CGI company already commissioned to work on the project. No cameraman. Get the shot exactly as you like, and do it years after shooting. No studio required. No casting agent. No wardrobe. No safety equipment or risk. No insurance required for stuntmen. Get the perfect shot and adjust as you go. No working hours. No rights.
No worker's unions for all those groups of unnecessary people. No royalties to them, either.
To be honest, I don't like the way movies are all about the CGI either. But they are also STUPENDOUSLY expensive, if you look at their budget figures. In some cases it would be cheaper to actually launch a shuttle and film scenes in space than it would be to make a studio set and film that way. But it's EVEN CHEAPER to just CGI everything in on footage shot on a backlot with a greenscreen. Even main actors (e.g. the "old" Terminator in Terminator:Genisys).
I think, while we still care about "it looking exciting" over "it being a good movie" we'll have an inexorable slide towards this kind of "virtual" studio.
Even great movies. The Shawshank Redemption. Two main actors. A disused prison. A library room. A sewer pipe full of chocolate sauce. A couple of outside scenes. No clever CGI or big stunts. Sort of thing you could film on the smallest of budgets. It cost $25m to make, in 1994. And that's chicken feed by modern movie standards.
This is why the independent studios are popular among people who like movies to have plot, storyline, acting, etc. No big budgets, no eye-candy. Sure, "dull" by comparison but that's like saying that the book of 1984 is dull compared to a movie version. It's almost a different media in that same way.
My ex- was European and hated anything that came out of the Hollywood... it was all the same dross with different explosions to her. I can see that point. Though I can turn my brain off and watch something mindless, I don't go to the cinema or watch most of the movies that everyone else does precisely because of that. I've got through any number of movies for about ten minutes and then just think "I'm bored".
Hollywood is bouyed up by CGI, big-name actors, famous franchises, lots of comedy in even the biggest of movies, and loud music which follows the action. It's like a fast-food meal. Maybe satisfying and quick and mindless, but after a while you do get a bit sick of it.
Video games are no different, though. This is why things like scandi-drama crime thrillers are now much bigger than they ever were... they are just actors acting in front of a camera with a decent plot.
For the whitty pseudo-intellectual banter, the inability of supposedly criminally insane and violent criminals to kill the vigilantes, or the super cool modified lincoln with the totally fake jet turbine farting flames out the back?
What about the singing and dancing?
Or was that the Monkees?
Biggest problem I have noticed is gravity. It's not correctly represented. Things and people tend to fall too fast, it isn't 32 ft /second / second like it should be.
Marvel Characters, much like the Disney Conglomerate itself believe that the world centers on them and as a result an infinite amount of force directed against them is simply redirected somewhere else, whether it is the ground they are standing on, the air surrounding them, or deflected off into something else nearby.
Marvel Characters epitomize Disney's corporate structure and public personality :) Also their cult of personality. Just imagine if we have a merger between Scientology and Disney. Indoctrination and financial extraction for all ages! :)
While you Americans pop "happy pills" like candy to hold up a fake smile
This is really funny to me as an American. I'm not a terribly chipper person, just got my annual performance review, and one of the comments was basically "You aren't happy enough".
God I need to move to a country that doesn't expect people to always be happy.
So, I started watching "Wonder Woman", and stopped in disgust - not because of the woman empowerment, whatever that is, but because of how it shat all over World War I history, because of how ignorant it was of any historical martial arts, and because of how plot-hole-riddled it was.
You are watching a movie with a woman who can fly, fights gods, and has a magic truth telling lasso and THAT is what bothered you? Maybe you need to lighten the hell up and just enjoy the movie for what it is. Or try to up your dose of whatever medication you are on so you stop taking things that aren't important too seriously.
It's a popcorn super hero movie, not a historically accurate period drama. Try to figure out the difference. You'll enjoy life a lot more when you don't take everything so damn seriously.
Maybe I am just an old fart, unable to enjoy the lighter things in life?
Gee, ya think?
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Sorry - but this article is just clickbait. Someone is getting paid for the number of watches of black-panther-clip-dora-milaje-fight-scene at screen rant.
Move along. Nothing interesting at all.
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There is a very simple reason to CGI that shot - complexity. There are actually 2 shots here. The first is the 1st where the camera travels up to the top floor - that's all CGI except for the extras. Then the 2nd shot as it lifts over the edge of the banister. It's technically very challenging, if not impossible, to do that shot in one continuous movement. Just on a simple level, the camera in the 1st shot is on a crane - they would need to remove the banister mid-shot for it to get the final angle in her fight.
If you've got to split it up like that, why have all the expense of having everyone on set? It's a 2nd unit shot with 4-5 extras and a stunt double for the gunshots and some CGI, or insane complexity getting the choreographing just right. Between the gun angles, timing, and framing her face so that we see who's fighting right as the camera lifts over the edge - that'd be horribly difficult/expensive to do.
To your greater point that the MCU has a CGI problem - I don't think it's the MCU. I think it's an industry problem as a whole. Between video games, TV, and movies the amount of CGI being done is huge. There is only so much artistic talent to go around and eventually something is going to go to the B or C team. A couple long distance henchmen is a normally good place to compromise on CGI rather than on your primary visual effects where DC seems to like to compromise. In this case it was a mistake because the gunshots were drawing your attention to them as a connecting visual so it became very obvious.
What I think is a bigger problem is that because CGI is so "easy" they aren't putting a lot of thought into what they're actually creating. Wakanda's city was pretty but it was very rudimentary from an architectural perspective. That city is likely something that could be built with normal technology. They didn't think through what vibranium would allow them to create. It's a small detail but if you're bothering to do these long "inspirational" sequences showcasing your visuals - make sure they evoke something other than "here's a city".
It is far cheaper to create cartoons than it is to pay actors.
Seem apropos for the cheesy escapism that dominates cinema in the US.
"CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now?
When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts.
They're really doing it and risking their lives.
But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over." - Quentin Tarantino
Originally it was an actor who eye-raped somebody in post production stage
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I didn't really notice that the second guy shot was CGI while watching Black Panther. What I did notice was that everything was SUPER NOTICEABLY CGI when the climactic fight scene on the mag lev track starts.
To me, that was the worst CGI I've seen in the MCU.
Extremely bad kinetics break the illusion for anybody who has any experience with the real world. Today, it seems that a larger portion of the population grows up watching so much TV with it's slight to severe errors that peoples' grasp on reality is WARPED. Another example would be fights... depending upon the plot: heroes have built-in helmets with perfect aim and the grunts pass out from a bitch slap while being unable to shoot any primaries with an Uzi.
Super powers and fantasy do not matter; the whole point of having REAL human actors and expensive realistic looking scenes is to make it look possible; like magic. It's almost funny how a cartoon will be more realistic than the expensive "real-action" remake... this is especially bad with superman movies.
Too many people onscreen - who the hell cares what happens to the thousand CGI extras that just got squished by Thor or Hulk? Their sheer number means I am instantly desensitised to whatever happens.
They are just getting lazy on the cgi, I am sure they know that ANY marvel movie will make XXXX dollars. what is not being talked about is full CGI characters, even Hollywood recognizes them and has a term called Syn thespians. One day most likely less than 10-20 years. we will have fully CGI characters. instead of paying a actor 20 million, they can use a cgi for 10. Two movies have touched on this subject. Simone and Looker
If you don't like the CGI in Black Panther, you need to GTFO and go back to Europe.
The things is super mutant with power is the basis of those universe. If you can't suspend belief about that, you won't watch those film. but even within those universe some thing are more difficult to swallow than other: e.g. your belief has to be suspended far harder. Alien with advanced tech ? Yes sure. Some part of human advancing far more than the rest of the world ? Be it Atlantis or Wancanda or whatever ? Nan. See most tech is based on advanced from earlier tech. This is why the world advanced more or less by period, the WHOLE world. But having par utterly isolated and having such advanced tech ? Difficult to swallow especially when the isolation ITSELF require already existing advanced tech like that shield. See tech would have spread to neighbor city BEFORE that shield would have been invented. That is why this is far more difficult to accept that suspension. There might be a bit of prejudice, I have no doubt of that, but for some people like me such highly advanced isolated iv is utterly incompatible with trying to suspend belief. Even in spite of accepting a boy bitten by a spider.
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The first time I saw the all-CGI action scenes which cut or swing the camera more than once-per-second was Transformers, hence the name.
Black Panther suffered from this in most of its action scenes - and the ones which didn't, I wish it had. Avengers Civil War had some problems, but not as bad nor as frequent as BP.
Its... like the director couldn't figure out how to orchestrate a fight scene, so they don't let you see it well enough to register how horrid it is.
I think a better question to ask is why anyone over the age of 15 goes to watch this sort of cookie cutter content free derivative crap with people in silly costumes doing not even suspension of disbelief believable stuff in the first place.
Who peed in your cereal this morning? If you don't like it don't watch it. Nobody cares if it isn't your particular brand of vodka and I don't agree with your assessment of it's artistic merit either. You aren't convincing anyone so I'm puzzled why you would hang out in a place like slashdot that clearly and overwhelmingly does not agree with you.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't a get off my lawn rant,
Yes it is.
I haven't seen Wonder Woman or Black Panther, but even the supposedly good Marvel movies have been a disappointment.
You're entitled to your opinion but I (and millions of others) don't agree with it. Literally every marvel movie I've seen in the last several years has been reasonably well done and fun to watch. Some better than others but none of them sucked and I've considered the time spent watching them time well spent.
So you end up with Jackie Chan fighting an unarmed guy with a ladder being 100% more entertaining because you know he's really doing it and can get hurt and the stakes are realistic.
So there has to be real risk of bodily harm to the actors and stuntmen for you to find it entertaining? Wow, that's kind of barbaric of you. How about you just go watch some MMA fights if you want to actually see someone get hurt.
With MCU, Marvel has a believability problem, perpetuating the stupid belief that if it weren't for colonialism, Africa would have magically transformed itself from the stone age hunter gatherer society it was into a technologically advanced continent, catching up with thousands of years of Western progress within a few centuries.
And (judging by the clips), in the Marvel alternate reality, the path to progress for Africa seems to have been violence and resources, which, ironically, is why African societies keep failing.
If the move is good, then bad CGI won't ruin it.
If the movie is bad, then bad CGI won't redeem it.
If the movie is mediocre, bad CGI might tip it into the "bad" category, but who cares? The movie was mediocre to begin with, and with so many movies being released, there's no reason to settle for watching mediocre ones.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
While looking good the physics in these movies make me cringe now.
Lots of the Marvel characters have mutant powers, sure, however impossible. However, there are exceptions. Doctor Strange studied magic, and became extremely good at it. A few characters are the product of scientific experiments (Captain America, Black Widow, Winter Soldier) where the science has been lost. Some are gods from elsewhere (Thor, Loki). More to the point, Iron Man is nothing more than an unstable narcissistic supergenius with an alcohol problem and superscience. Vision is the product of Iron Man's meddling with superscience. It's just as vital a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as helicarriers, maybe more.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
I think the main issue is not CGI can't be great but that the short timelines don't always allow for perfection. Superman's moustache is a prime example. You'd think that it's trivial for a special effects company in general to remove his moustache but why was the effect so bad? Someone looking at the timing of film argued that given the change in directors, story, and re-shoots, the CGI company might have had a few weeks at best to do all the new CGI that was required including removing the moustache.
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If all my assets were liquidated, I would still have enough cash to buy a new car and head off to Mexico to find a chica to marry.
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You're aware that are some states in the U.S. that allow underage marriage as young as 14 years old?
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As for my comment, I've heard stories of engineers retiring at 50, moving to Mexico and marrying underage girls. Since I work with ex-military, the Philippines is a popular retirement spot for marrying underage girls as well. It's all about getting the most bang for your retirement dollars.
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That only works if you retire to Mexico, build a mansion (by local standards), marry an underage sweet thing and bequeath all your possessions to the village.
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You need to be more specific. I wrote 3,000+ comments this year.
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Nah... I just do it to piss off my trolls and make coffee money off of them.
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We have different priorities. You want to climb the corporate ladder. I want to own the corporate ladder.
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Your bitch licks your balls. Most people don't brag about practicing bestiality. Is there a reason why you married a dog and not a goat?
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My employers don't care about what my Slashdot trolls think. Now go off and lick your balls somewhere else.
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iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete. As a Sprint customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always offer me a new iPhone if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.
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Miracle workers are never afraid to ask for a second opinion. Supervisor gave me his opinion ? and a mess to clean up. Lesson learned from this incident: if something isn't quite broken, break it.
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So you can turn around call me a liar again? People have been playing that game with me for years.
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Based on what I've read about Uber, he need to tell the boys to clean up their locker room behavior, zip up their pants, and attend sensitivity training until everyone agrees that women are not sexual objects.
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Which doesn't violate the Slashdot TOS. If you got a problem with that, take it up with management.
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This year I've posted ~4,000 comments.
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I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the
Specifically, hone in on the 45 second mark, where you see Nakia shooting two guys, the second of which is very obviously computer-generated. Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?
I'd wager, it's cheaper to toss in some CGI victim, than paying an extra to fill that role of guy getting shot.
I think an unnoticed detriment of CGI is simply employment in this industry. You can really see it in a lot of small screen shows. They are really skimping on extras and supporting actors. They use camera trickery to make a line of people seem like a crowd, sometimes they bother to fill in the backdrop with more CGI crowd, but hell, some small screen doesn't even bother with that.
I worry about what potential talent is missing out on their break cuz studios are hiring graphic designers and CGI technicians rather than extras to fill in roles and possibly impress someone. Oh well.
Suppose you were 15 years old, had never heard about the 6-day war, and you saw a superhero movie set in the backdrop of that war. Whatever happened in that movie, even if you knew it was fiction, would become your first impression about the war and the people.
Grow up. It is not and should not be the job of fictional superhero movies to educate people on world history. Stop being such a kill joy.
The writers should take some caution when using a historical or cultural event as a backdrop.
That's not their job and expecting it to be their job is irrational. Their job is to write an entertaining story and to make money doing so. Historical accuracy only matters insofar as it results in more people paying to see their work. Their job is not and never will be to educate 15 year olds about history. That is the responsibility of parents and teachers.
both the food and the people. The food gets massive farm subsidies, the employees are subsidized in the form of food stamps, low income health care, etc. There's also a ton of hidden subsidies around the wasteful packaging (oil subsidies make the cheap plastics possible and we shift the cost of the waste disposal). And the farming techniques used to keep those prices down have a ton of long term issues (that's where the "sustainability" comes in).
Fast food is 'cheap' because the costs are externalized.
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Personally I found the obviously fake punches (kicks) to be more of a distraction than the CGI. If you are going to miss your punches by that much make sure the camera angle is such that it at least looks like contact was made.
Who do you think Thor and Loki are?
Now stop complaining about a box-office crushing epic movie that everyone of all races loved.
No, we're not going to CGI in more Star Wars tropes like you want.
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I would like to know what percent of the pixels in the whole movie were created in a computer.
At what point is it just a cartoon? (With some faces added).
Fencing is no more related to a sword fight than tournament martial arts are related to a real fight. There are no rules in real fights. None. A "touch" isn't a worthy blow, and real fights don't proceed along straight lines and flat surfaces and without obstacles and etc. What you "know" is mostly not applicable.
The parent comment wins the thread as far as I'm concerned.
Watching entertainment as entertainment is entirely pendant upon your ability to suspend your disbelief and enjoy the ideas. Kids tend to have fewer disbeliefs to need to suspend, so they're good at taking a movie as entertainment.
If your idea of consuming these things is to analyze and pick them apart wherever possible, then you're going to be a lot less entertained unless simply being a whiny bitch entertains you. I have to say that listening to someone take apart a movie doesn't make me think less of the movie...
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so performer either wasn't out of shot fast enough or some other issue where they needed existing footage to be altered at the last minute in order to make something work. they probably did not intend to do that.
After the principle shoot someone probably said, "Let's crane up to the balcony to connect these two shots" and someone else said "We didn't shoot for that" and then a third person said "Don't care". That's how these things usually happen. I've been asked how much for CG chickens because the actual chickens were one hour late to set.
Ahh yes. Just finished my daily cdreimer downmoderation session. Always feels satisfying even on days when nothing else seems to work out for me. I know I can mod down your two daily nuggets-o-shit and if I'm lucky I'll get to mod down a crunchy sockpuppet as well.
Why don't you post more creepy female role play? You can be the nerd girl we all wish existed in our youth. Ahem, "back in the day". I'm also disappointed you think that namefagging attention whore FatCashewsLovesMe is your only troll. He's at -1!!! How on earth could he be your only troll.
@FatCashewsLoveMe. You need to exchange keys with me. We can contain creimer much more effectively with a small amount of coordination. I will provide you with a large quantity of ladyboy pron as a reward for your effort.
...everything looks like a nail.
I don't think this is limited to Marvel. This is across the industry. CGI is "relatively" new, and as technology has increased has become increasing popular. However there are many examples of not only overuse, but misuse. I think like the title of my comment many have become either over dependent upon it or just lazy. However I think the trend is only now just starting to correct itself where perhaps movie makers are realizing that CGI like anything is just a tool, and like any tool it is good for somethings and not so good for others. Really good movies depending on the need are going to use a lot of tools in the toolbox. Some might just need a screw driver, while others might need extensive use of the hammer so to speak.
I think a perfect example of this was the latest Star Wars. The didn't use CGI on Yoda, but rather went back to the roots and used a puppet. I enjoyed it much better. The other side of that coin is I recall in one of the prequels an extensive lighsaber battle between Yoda and Count Dooku. I remember laughing out loud, but not in joy, but rather in the total ridiculousness of it. Perhaps they felt CGI was required to make that happen, when really someone should have just said "nooooo!".
The CGI crew don't get royalty checks like actors do. The CGI artists only get paid once.
Some part of human advancing far more than the rest of the world ? Be it Atlantis or Wancanda or whatever ? Nan. See most tech is based on advanced from earlier tech. This is why the world advanced more or less by period, the WHOLE world. But having par utterly isolated and having such advanced tech ? Difficult to swallow
Meh. Wakanda had access to a very flexible and easy-to-use energy source that the rest of the world didn't have. This enabled them to become relatively advanced early on and convinced them that they needed to hide themselves. They were also in a position to coopt all of the advances made by the rest of the world while keeping their own secrets. Works for me.
Now, the fact that they seemed to have only a single research scientist in the entire nation, that was hard to swallow.
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Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... was interesting.
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âoeSpecifically, hone in on the 45 second mark, where you see Nakia shooting two guys, the second of which is very obviously computer-generated. Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?â
Because if you look at it carefully, that shot is actually a number of shots composited together. A camera on a giant crane would have been used to push from the ground floor up to the railing. The camera would be big enough, that the railing was likely in the way, so even though it appears to go over the railing, in real life it would have had to go through. The camera then appears to switch to a new shot done with a steadicam on the upper floor. Overall it's very well done and totally believable that a single camera was used here, except for the animation on the henchman that gives away it's a gag.
Pay attention to this dude. If anyone knows anything on this site about arse contamination it is the Drinker of Poo.
Exactly - the real problem is that Wakanda became super advanced by building a wall and making the rest of Africa pay for it.
Yeah, yeah it was. The very fact that the first thing you have to write is a denial means it was a primary thought. It's called projection, aka a guilty dog barking, and you were barking pretty loud. I mean, you immediately followed it up with a shit comment about Black Panther and we weren't even talking about that movie. I'm surprised you didn't start the comment about it with "I'm not racist but..."
You have some issues, bud. The first remedy is to stop voting Republican.
You took the time to know the proper spelling of the white nation, Atlantis, but couldn't give two shits to even google how to spell the black nation Wakanda. Yeah, there might be a bit of prejudice here whether you know it or not. THAT is what is meant by systemic racism.
You should add to your rant, that isolation usually slows down scientific progress, as you can't discuss your ideas with people from the outside your own circle.
Then again, while you argue some good points, you are wrong. As soon as you accept Tony Stark, lone genius capable of putting together any tech he needs from whatever he has at hand, places like Wakanda are reasonable. we are talking about whole nation - what stopped them from having their Tony Stark's three generations in a row?
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sharpen (a blade).
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refine or perfect (something) over a period of time.
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"Hone in" is not a thing. If you heard someone else say it, they said it wrong or you heard them wrong. The appropriate expression is "home in" \pedentry_end.
You know what else was a big stinker? That wet spot you left on the bus this morning!
You took the time to know the proper spelling of the white nation, Atlantis, but couldn't give two shits to even google how to spell the black nation Wakanda.
Because we've had 2500 years of tales about the hidden nation of Wakanda, right?
Wakanda is a recent invention. Atlantis has permeated Western culture since the time of Plato. Don't put Wakanda on too high of a cultural pedestal.
Here's from the post: "hone in on the 45 second mark". You "hone" a razor, or, metaphorically, an argument. You "home in" on a target, like a homing pigeon. "Honing in" makes no sense.
I'm trying to parse out your comment (it's amusing trying to figure out why this is where you draw the line) but the grammar/puncuation is just too much for me to decipher.
I just cant get on the MCU hype.. there are really just dance movies. Like the hobbit. what a joke. you KNOW no superhero is dying, so - ofc. they will manage.. and while fight scenes are endless.. you just see CA or Thor - bashing one after the other while jumping around like a dancer. boring as s..t. The effects however, are no doubt worldclass, perhaps even leading. But like transformers from 1 to 2, it went from awesome to "what am i looking at".. a soup of cramped-in effects.
i know this is unpoopular, but i dont care :D
Just FYI: I don't hate Americans. I generally don't hate. Because grown-ups can separate criticism and personal attacks.
I am not perfect either. I'm still fat for European standards, and that is a bad thing, and you can happily tell me that I am fat and that is bad and hence I suck. Why would factual reality bother me? Somethig about me being bad does not imply that I am bad! Something bad about you does not imply that you are bad.
I disapprove of some of your properties. I do not disapprove of you
DC is praying that they can mimic even a fraction of Marvel's success. They're copying Marvel's formula as closely as they can...
Actually, I didn't see the CGI'd guy so thanks for ruining it for everyone.