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I love old school effects, and I have more respect for them, but I don't mind CGI at all if its done well. Old school FX, you get to play with blood , limbs AND GUTS!! totally awesome! With CGI, you dont get that same gore feeling as what you see in the old films were they used make-up and costumes. CGI is just like any other tool. It's all in the way it's used. CGI has advanced, I think and in the right places can enhance a movie esp if old school FX is not optional. For the most part, what made old school FX better was it looked real, felt real and you could sense that it could be you in that situation. CGI is too obvious someimes and when it's used to cover the majority of flaws in a movie, it lends nothing new. My problem is that because CGI is so much easier to use, the old school methods have been withdrawn out completely and becoming less and less dominant. I want a gore fest with the original effects. I like the fact it can take a whole day to do an old school FX gore scene. The love and care the artists must put into it :heart:. Sometimes they can pull it off with a smooth merry of the two like Jurassic Park, but most of the time a movie like J Carpenter's The Thing, is going to do more for me.
This is too cool, I wanna play and touch in someones awesome wound and blood.
The Australian Spierig Bros, who made the zombie flick Undead, created a low-budget zombie film that has done well internationally and looks way more expensive than it was. It's full of CGI -- CGI that they created themselves on their home computer.
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