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That's one of the most fitting uses I've ever seen of the flame warriors page. =)
While I don't share Skull's sentiments about everything new sucking, I do agree about special effects and Avatar not being an all-time classic. CGI, in general, looks like crap. You're aware that you're looking at a computer graphic, it doesn't look like it belongs in a movie. While real hand-built special effects are usually easily recognizable as such, it's not obtrusive like CGI, the stuff is still really there. Star Wars is a good example. Compare any of the creatures in the original trilogy to the CGI creatures that were added in the "improved" version.
About Avatar, while it will probably be lauded as a groundbreaking movie for years to come, and after that get honourable mentions as the movie that brought movies to a whole new level, as a story, it doesn't make the cut. Once new movies come that surpass it technologically, it'll be largely forgotten. Who remembers movies now that had nothing going for them except groundbreaking graphics 20 years ago?
I haven't seen Avatar, however, and I'm sure I will be blown away by the 3D when I do.
While I don't share Skull's sentiments about everything new sucking, I do agree about special effects and Avatar not being an all-time classic. CGI, in general, looks like crap. You're aware that you're looking at a computer graphic, it doesn't look like it belongs in a movie. While real hand-built special effects are usually easily recognizable as such, it's not obtrusive like CGI, the stuff is still really there. Star Wars is a good example. Compare any of the creatures in the original trilogy to the CGI creatures that were added in the "improved" version.
About Avatar, while it will probably be lauded as a groundbreaking movie for years to come, and after that get honourable mentions as the movie that brought movies to a whole new level, as a story, it doesn't make the cut. Once new movies come that surpass it technologically, it'll be largely forgotten. Who remembers movies now that had nothing going for them except groundbreaking graphics 20 years ago?
I haven't seen Avatar, however, and I'm sure I will be blown away by the 3D when I do.
