I'm glad Adam mentioned how ugly and fake this movie looks.
When the trailer dropped, everyone was fawning over how "gorgeous" the cinematography was, and I had wondered if we were looking at the same movie. All the Marvel movies have cheap, ugly looking digital cinematography and are green screened to hell and back. The whole thing looks like an extended videogame cutscene.
That's true, and it was also way back in the day when they actually shot these films... on film. There is a huge difference visually between Iron Man and Iron Man 3.
Well that’s just it. You gave the exact reason why it’s some of the better CGI. It didn’t have very much compared to Black Panther. Black Panther’s final battle and the entire city is all CGI.
The movie having bad CG has been brought up by most critics especially the train fight. It's not like he's saying something radically bold here with regards to that.
If he said "the villain sucked" then that would be something that's not the common opinion
Cause the previous comment makes it sound like Adam is saying something radically bold when he says it has bad and overused CG. Even the biggest fans of the movie has said that in the reviews. It's a pretty standard criticism by now to this movie and MCU in general
I mean, the movie wasn't great either. I don't know if it's the writing or the acting, but the villain never seemed like this sympathetic deep character people are calling him. He's better than most Marvel villains but that's a low fucking bar. I'd have to rewatch the movie to properly put my finger on it, but I remember not caring if the hero defeats the villain or not.
It's not just "bad cg", it's that the whole look of all these movies is crap. Thor Ragnarok, Infinity War, etc... all look like TV shows. Even in scenes with no cg, the image is flat and murky.
Yea, so like the first clip here looks dimly lit. Everything is lit in a neutral, flat, boring way. If you squint your eyes, all the characters and backgrounds blend together in a muddy haze.
The villain's writing was excellent but Michael B. Jordan's acting was awful. Too over the top, borderline cartoony. Almost reminded me of Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man.
I agree, Killmonger is arguably one of the best written villains in the mcu. However I feel Michael B. Jordan hammed it up way too much. I truly feel it would have been better suited if he was more stoic.
I don't understand how movies are getting so expensive in terms of budget, but are still so ugly. It seems that the more money that gets thrown at a movie now, the uglier you can expect the cgi to be.
A lot of the budget is just going to the actors, RDJ made 40 Million alone in Civil War, in a film full of big budget stars who were almost all making multi-millions. Big budgeted movies also, to some extent, have to appeal to the lowest common denominator and can't take risks even with an expensive cinematographer. Big budgeted movies like Blade Runner 2049 that do take risks often don't get a return on that investment.
People now praising how georgeus Ready Player One looks and i'm just buffled because for me everything i saw from movie VR-chat or game or whatever this is is just poor mess that's very ugly.
I thought it was gorgeously shot. Academy award nominee Rachel Morrison did an excellent job.
Now that's not to say there aren't action scenes that are heavily CG'ed, because there are. But I don't think that invalidates the creative choices found throughout the rest of the movie.
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u/pitterpattern Feb 17 '18
I'm glad Adam mentioned how ugly and fake this movie looks.
When the trailer dropped, everyone was fawning over how "gorgeous" the cinematography was, and I had wondered if we were looking at the same movie. All the Marvel movies have cheap, ugly looking digital cinematography and are green screened to hell and back. The whole thing looks like an extended videogame cutscene.