Hhhmmm..... I thought "what to write about?" and a friend gave me an idea to blog about movies that have so much CGIs in them that it went to overkill.. so I thought .. why not .. but just blogging bout that I would have little to write about, so maybe I would write a little bit more than that and provide the movies that I had savoured for the past year and movies that I loved with CGI and without.
Anyone who knows me well, knows that I love movies. I'm completely crazy bout them no matter in forms of live-action or animation. Hmm... when was the first real movie I saw with CGI that blew me away... I think was .. 12 years ago, Jurassic Park. Since then we've seen a lot of fake things made real =). Well, the path had been bumpy, for every wonderful movie with CGI you had 5 more that were bad. Bad as in not the quality of CGI most of the time, but the movie that it came in - the acting, the dialogue, the story. It seems as thought the moviemakers think that just having superduper CGI or special effects would make us forget we paid RM 9 - if ur watching in a cineplex ( or RM 5 on student discount) or RM10 ( if ur buying a good quality pirated dvd) and spending 2 hours of our lives to see flashlights. Sigh...
But I have to admit some of my best moments I've had on reel is made up of movies with loads of CGI's - and with strong stories!!.
Anyone of you Tpgites who are old enough surely would still remember Lido ( Leh Tor in hokkien ) Theater - some refer to it as cinema. Where people que up for hours for any blockbuster movie and push/shove each other to get into that large theater. Well my best movie experience during the first few years of my life was at that place, watching JURASSIC PARK. For a lot of people a generation before us, the defining moment for sci-fi or movie experience was Star Wars. For me, it was Jurassic Park. The moment the awesome Brachiosaur stood up on its 2 hind legs to feed on the leaves of a damn tall tree, I was lost in awe.. and when I think back, I can still feel myself sitting in that theater with the only thing I was aware of, was the dinasour in front of me. I was totally transported into the world. That was the defining moment for me when it came to CGI and was never surpassed at all, the closest any movie with CGI ever came to overwhelming me was the LOTR trilogy ( which I can tell you sits firmly at my top 5 movies - live-action- that I love . It certainly made me fell head over heels again.. but it was still second to the moment I had in Jurassic Park. I guessed I was spoiled by too much crappy CGI in too many bad movies.
Actually I can't take a stand between CGI and non-CGI.. because to me ... ultimately its the story that counts and it depends a lot on the story. Who can imagine LOTR or Jurassic Park without CGI?? haha ... But I have to admit there are a lot of crap out in the market nowadays.
But if you look at the past year, there were a lot of good films that used little or no CGI at all.. classic old-school story telling on celluloid I would say. Films like Million Dollar Baby ( Eastwood at his best.. highly recommended), American Splendor, Hotel Rwanda ( the ever likeable Don Cheadle in top form) and PTU from Hong Kong ( Johnny To and Simon yam - brining Hong Kong back to style) were films which I enjoyed and liked the most. If u asked me to name a CGI filled movie that I liked for the past year.. I'm hard pressed to give an answer really.
Maybe most of the filmmakers are losing their touch with story telling... consequences of the MTV generation maybe?? Who knows haha.
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