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This year, for the first time, I feel that in many of the action movies, the characters, plot/story line and other traditional stuff are simply the vehicles used in order to string together a series of costly and elaborate CGI special effects. In short, the CGI has become the movie and the plot, cast and characters are just the excuse for doing and getting fans to watch the CGI sequences.
Shouldn't it be the other way around? I would still like to live in a place where the CGI supports the cast/characters/story and plot development.
Interestingly some of the all-CGI movies (i.e. Ratatouille) hsave done a better job of story/plot/character than have the recent live-action movies.
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While watching The Searchers (in HD) with my son-in-law the other day he commented that some scenes in Monument Valley looked like "real good" CGI. The kid's bright and was referring to several implications.
CGI has been a blessing and a curse. Some directors made better movies when constrained by tradional SFX methods (Lucas, Spielberg) while other movies were now able to be made because of CGI (Lord of the rings and um....yeah).
CGI has been used very well in some cases for instance most outdoor scenes of Deadwood, the opening town shot of Copland, and as you mentioned, the Pixar films.
Tom §.
As all the *good* CGI films prove, the problem is not the technology but the people who employ it. I doubt CGI has particularly elevated the percentage of films that lack true story and texture. They've just migrated there. That's just the latest distraction from artfulness. Pixar has never made a bad film and that's because they always let the story and the characters drive the CGI. Of course it's different when CGI is employed to simulate something ostensibly real than when it creates a patently imaginary world like the Pixar films. But I think it nonetheless proves the point.
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