7 Baffling Uses of CGI in Movies!
948The general consensus nowadays seems to be that practical VFX are cool and CGI is lame.
But in our opinion, any form of VFX has merit. If you can make us afraid of something we know doesn't exist, or believe in something that is truly impossible then that has to be worthy of praise no matter what medium you use.
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However, even though a lot of VFX shots make us wonder if they were real, or who did them, or how they did them, the ones we're going to look at today simply just make us ask, why?
Green Lantern.
Ok, so you could probably argue that the entire Green Lantern film was a pointless use of CGI, but the Green Lantern Suit itself really did not need to be fully CG.
In general, superhero movies tend to use practical suits, and then all the digital components and effects are added over the top as needed.
This is because, designing, sculpting, animating, texturing, and lighting a full CG suit is a tremendously expensive and time-consuming process, especially when, as is the case with Green Lantern, that suit has to hug each individual muscle contour.
What makes the decision to go with a CG Suit all the more baffling is that it meant that Sony Pictures Imageworks had to achieve some of the hardest things to achieve with digital VFX.
Eyes Wide Shut.
Stanley Kubrick showed Warner Bros his cut of the 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut just one week before he died from a heart attack. The original cut featured a rather extended orgy scene that meant the film would have been given an NC-17 rating. Warner Bros wasn't happy because they felt an r-rating would make the film more lucrative so they used CGI.
Halloween H2o: 20 years later.
This film was the seventh film in the Halloween series. It's a fairly low-budget slasher movie from the late 90s so it's not a film that you'd expect to have CGI, and it would probably be better if it didn't. The filmmakers couldn't decide on the design of Michael Myer's mask during preproduction and so its design evolved as they shot principal photography.
Once they started post-production they had gone through 4 different designs and decided on a final one which they used to re-shoot the scenes where Michael was wearing a different one.
However, the scene where Charlie comes face to face with Michael couldn't be re-shot and so they decided to use a CG Mask instead.
Daredevil.
At the very start of this film, a rat scampers across a street in Hell's Kitchen and then gets scared by a blast of steam coming from a grate.
During principal photography after trying numerous times to get a real rat to move and react exactly how the director wanted it to, they decided to give up and to "Fix it in Post".
Rhythm and hues dealt with all the VFX for this movie and in general, they did a good job, but although the CG rat they built for the sequence looked fairly realistic, its movements, did not, and this is helped by the fact that the CG rat also lacks "Weight" and seems almost as though it's floating across the street.
Public Enemies.
Public Enemies is a 2009 film that has some really good VFX, so good that it's shocking to hear it has 400 VFX shots!
One shot is particularly shocking, not for its seamlessness but rather for its cheap video game quality and pointlessness.
During the first bank robbery, John Dillinger, AKA Johnny Depp, vaults the counter in an impressive action shot, but it's not really Johnny Depp that actually vaults the counter but a stunt double.
Twilight: Breaking Dawn-Part 2.
The Twilight saga has got some impressive VFX work, digital environments, set extensions, and digital wolves were all done well and it made sense for them to be done digitally.
The baby Renesmee, on the other hand, is a different story, on set they actually had an animatronic baby that was, to say the least, pretty creepy.
The cast found it incredibly had to work with, not just because of the puppetry involved but because something about the doll itself instantly caused revulsion, after numerous attempts they eventually decided to use real babies and toddlers instead, up to here it's all pretty logical, but now it gets baffling.
John Wick.
In the first John Wick film, the budget was fairly low, around $25 million, so CGI had to be used sparingly, this being said, for the scenes where John's establishing a relationship with his dog Daisy, one-shot required Daisy to poop on the lawn. The film crew didn't have time to wait for her to poop naturally and they weren't allowed to give the dog laxatives either so they decided to do it digitally, this CG poop allegedly cost around $5000 to create!
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