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[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

He doesn’t hate cgi though. He just uses CGI to enhance in camera special effects. Also he has more respect for CGI workers than any of the directors that produce CGI shlock.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

People who claim he doesn’t use CGI probably haven’t seen inception or interstellar.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? They didn't actually navigate through the time dimension?

You mean the didn't actually generate a 1000 foot wave?

Next your gonna tell me they didn't even fly a space ship.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Isn't the point that's all been with special effects and not CGI in the past?

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

how did he do the endless spinning top?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

His production team built one that keeps spinning for longer. Something to with it's shape. It's been a long time since I read about it.

Sometimes it's pretty straight forward to just do stuff for real.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

They could have made an indefinitely spinning one by sticking a ring of copper wire and running power through it while making the top magnetic, building a type of brushless motor.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago

Yeah he just hates CG workers

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 11 points 7 months ago

This is a really good video. Must be disheartening to work so hard on VFX shots, only to be dismerited in promotional material.

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

He uses plenty of CGI just fine. For example: the whole batmobile in batman begins is cgi. This myth has to stop.

Edit: it was the bat copter not the batmobile: No CGI is good cgi

[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

you're wrong. Nolan inked a contract with Bruce Wayne for $12 million for rights to use him and his Batmobile in the movie.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

He invented a parallel universe traveling device so that he can go to a parallel universe that has a Bruce Wayne who looks just like Christian Bale and asked him to star in the movie.

The only acting Christian Bale did is to pretend that he's the actor that plays Batman and Bruce Wayne in the Dark Knight trilogy.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What? No it isn't. Here's a behind the scenes featurette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8tD8K-2Bo

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

See the edit to my comment. It wasn't the batmobile I misspoke.

[–] cryptosporidium140@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That's funny, it's usually the other way. A director will get their start in horror due to lower budget and work their way to sci fi epics and superhero movies. Sam Raimi and James Wan are prime examples

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He’s probably not as famous, but there’s this Peter Jackson guy as well

[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah he did some mediocre horror but then he sadly drifted off into some niche nerd movies

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Like so many of his movies, we won't be able to understand the actors. Although that might be OK when the demons talk.

[–] Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Okay but did anybody read the Darren Shan Demonata series when they were younger? This is literally the plot of the third book.

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Wait, was Oppenheimer a rom com?

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's called animatronics and fantasy movies were made with them before cgi. They were actually more "real" than computer 3D.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I miss practical effects, and animatronics, and even cheesy latex masks. The fact that half the movies today are just in essence long videogame cutscenes with no playing the game yourself is a large contributing factor of why I no longer enjoy most movies. If I wanted this I'd just replay MGS4, Make Movies Great Again!

[–] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

You described it perfectly

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The screen would be black the entire time, when people complain about not being able to see the movie, he'll give a pretentious answer about how it's our fault for not being real cinema fans.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

it’s a bit hard to make a horror movie when all of your scenes have to be under a minute long and packed to the brim with overly dramatized dialogue

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

We already have real demons running half the world, it couldn't be worse than that. Could it?