Why don't we see practical effects of this quality any more? You'd think with modern technology...

Why don't we see practical effects of this quality any more? You'd think with modern technology, we'd be able to see a lot of quality messed-up shit. And yet, it's all CGI - and not even good-looking CGI.

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It looks fake.

costs more money

it looks fake.

As opposed to realer then real life CG? Give me a break. Practical effects in this day and age would look amazing, I bet.

Yeah, but what about muh artistic vision and creative integrity? Is every director a sell-out? I can't believe it.

>is every director a sell-out?

No, but most producers are.

because producers want shit on time. with practical effects you have to wait for the stuff to be made, tested, fine tuned. then placed on set, then camera tested and if something goes wrong it holds up production until its fixed, which can cost studios lots of money. then it may not even look as good as they hoped and then everything has to be scrapped and either done over again or whatever, which can again cost dones of money and push dates back and fuck schedules up.

CGI is you film in then worry about shit later. To the producers and fat cats who are signing checks and who only care about dates and deadlines and budget, they dont give a shit how it looks, because thats not their job.

movies are shit today because people dont have to be as careful. Same goes for Digital vs Film. Film you had to worry about running out of reel, with digital it doesnt matter.

This shit is all common sense.

people would rather have a jerky CGI puppet than an animatronic puppet with jerky movement.
I'm not sure why

Brundle's head bursting open is actually the worst SFX shot in the movie.

if he was the protagonist how is the fly a horror movie?

>if the protagonist undergoes a horrifying transformation then how is this a horror movie

wut

I was hoping there was a more interesting reason for that besides "le greed".

I just think that all that hard work pays in the end. Movies like The Thing are still considered classics, and the practical effects, while wonky by today's standards, still look good - especially if you know what went into making them.

Yeah, interesting. Reminds me of the whole Yoda in Ep1 situation.

Seen plenty of worse, and I'm not even much of a movie buff.

What exactly are you implying? That protagonists can't be the monsters in horror games? That they can't get something scary happen to them personally? Your definition of horror is pretty narrow, it seems.

i don't know i hate horror and never seen this movie lol.
i saw like 3minutes as a kid and i noped the fuck out.

Yeah I saw it when I was like 9 and I couldn't sleep for like two days. I was a widdle scawdy baybee.

I really need to rewatch the fly.

Rewatched it today, together with the sequel.
The Fly is just as good as I remembered it, and The Fly II wasn't as horrible.

There's also a comic book sequel to The Fly II. Will read it tomorrow.

Lets do dis.

And execs who greenlight productions.

Which is why we never see HK-Jackie Chan-tier fight scenes in Hollywood ever

Kek, it's the exact same torrent I got.

>the fly is actually about racemixing

>brundlefly actually says, I'll be more human if I combine brundlefly with another human

>accidentally a machine

look at this pussy

>Wheels On Meals

Fuck me that film is amazing.

The sequel did a much worse job with the transformation stages, tho.

>ywn be fused with jeff goldblum

why bother living

Felt like they poured all their effort into the kill gore effects.

>that acid face
>that lift head crush

Bottom left looks like a White Walker from GoT.

I've seen this image several times on Sup Forums, but only today I realized where it's from.

Looked great, tho.

The effects in "The Blob" are even more disgusting than those in "The Fly II".

I opened up the first issue of the comic book sequel and... what the hell?

Jeepers Creepers 2 had god-tier practical effects OP. Watch it.

Did you know the director of the Jeepers Creepers movies is a convicted child rapist.

>Why don't we see practical effects of this quality any more?

Because we don't see any practical effects anymore. Even when they tried to do some puppetry in the new Star Wars movie they were total shit tier compared to puppets in the earlier films. It's a lost art form. I don't know why they don't just get the guys making real robots like in pic related here to do movie special effects.

The best of the best

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>the why does CGI suck meme
You realize you only notice the CGI that does suck, right?
The other 90% of it goes right by you without anything being seen.

My favorite example.
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>I was hoping there was a more interesting reason for that besides "le greed".

you're in for a rough life

What? Jem can turn into inanimate objects?
Gonna have to rewatch now

It's a damn shame. One of the few horror franchises I like. The first had me by the balls for a while. Gave me nightmares. The way he stalks his prey throughout rural america. Fucking cozily eery. Much much more interesting than Hauntedhouseshit

>the you only notice CGI that sucks meme

No duh dipshit. Nobody cares about CGI being used to make matte painting backgrounds. Most of the shit in that video you posted isn't even CGI it's just composite shots. They took a shot of a real lion and mixed it with shots of people to make it look like they were all together. They didn't just take a shot of people and add in a CGI plastic lion that doesn't look real.

Don't worry. He got out years before he made Jeepers Creepers. Hollywood covered up his crimes and put him right to work for Disney making Powder. He's working on part 3 now. You should check out Clownhouse. That's the movie he raped a kid while making. Scary fucking movie. Dark illuminati child sex magic going on.

Damn, so that's why the movies had such a creepy stalker vibe to them

No, it looks real because it's real, but clumsy

I always wondered why that dude tore off his own face

This shit is gravy

Oh yeah. Also, correct me if I'm wrong I haven't seen the movies in years but Jeepers Creepers only kills boys in the movies, right?

Despite being a pretty terrible follow-up, the gore in the sequel is top tier. The screaming bloody skull and the realistic breathing really sell it. It's a real treat

Wait, that wasn't an actor pulling that face off?

Either he was trying to get the acid off and his face just sloughed with his fingers, or he was trying to get it off before it started eating through his skull. Losing a face will fuck your shit up, but at least it's a chance for survival no matter how slim.

> or he was trying to get it off before it started eating through his skull. Losing a face will fuck your shit up, but at least it's a chance for survival no matter how slim.

Haha, holy shit. Flat out one of the dumbest things I've seen here. That impressive.

>Gone are the days when good directors combined good use of CGI and practical effects

this is the wrong timeline.

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BITE had some cool shit in it. Real slimy body horror stuff, insect eggs, decomposing bodies, the whole vomiting on people to melt them like The Fly. If you're into shit like that go check it out. All practical effects, even if the movie itself is pretty dumb.

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Because it looks like shit you underage twat. Stop praising old garbage thinking it will make you look more adult and refined cause it's really the most childish thing one can do. I bet you're one of those shitheads who pretend the original Star Wars trilogy was good. Just do us all a favor and fuck off back to Sup Forums with all the other children.

>We will have a director's cut with the practical effects added back in

No justice in this world.

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when CGI is done right, you can't even tell.

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the practical shot looks even worse

>Which is why we never see HK-Jackie Chan-tier fight scenes in Hollywood ever
That's more because of lawsuits/workers' unions things. Jackie has pretty much talked about how when he first went into Hollywood, he encountered a lot of red tape when it comes to shooting action scenes. HK movie industry, for good and for bad, can pull off this shit because they don't give as much shit.

That was garbage compared to Vermithrax in Dragonslayer. Not all practical effects are created equal.

the CGI is a much better design, simply because the real one is too busy.

Too bad all the orcs were completely forgettable compared to the orcs from the original trilogy.

Nah, he killed a high school couple off-screen in the first movie. He does kill a lot of guys though, probably because he kind of assimilates their body parts into his own

Both are too blurry to make a judgement on either one.

I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this user, but I think you might have cataracts.

So you're just a retarded pussy
Ok

That looks real only in the sense that it looks real because it is real, as in it's a real life prop. It doesn't look real in the sense of oh shit look at that REAL fly man hybrid!

It's the same problem with The Thing. You fucks love to meme about how real it looks but ignore that it animates like dog shit and is obviously puppetwork slathered in goo. Yeah it looks real because the prop is actually on set but that's it. That doesn't automatically make it good or better than cgi.

Case in point, I challenge you to find an animatronic creature that looks better than pic related, in terms of aesthetics and ANIMATION.

You need to post practical shots in that movie that aren't shitty. Practical effects are superior but you're posting crap that makes practical look worse.

>there's always that one kid

>why they don't just get the guys making real robots like in pic
Because it's lifeless uncanny valley. The same problem with bad cg only done with practical effects.

Now show us the practical version MOVING. The large Thing at the end of the first film was literally stationary and just stood there as mcready threw dynamite at it and rolled away.

Shit looks ok standing still but that's it.

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the dog every time awooo
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>I don't know why they don't just get the guys making real robots like in pic related here to do movie special effects.
They actually got some guys at Lucasfilm who make shit like that but I don't think they used them for Episode 7.
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Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors. Puts most lip CG animation to shame.

Nah it's because the director likes to fuck young boys

I'm not saying they should use this specific robot that wasn't made for movies in movies to replace human actors for no reason. I'm saying they should apply the same techniques for special effects.

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So pretty

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>not having night terrors for the rest of your life about brundle fly puking all over you and melting your face off because you're parents let you watch age inappropriate movies at an impressionable age

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>if you do cgi right you cant tell its cgi

Early CG was pretty bad but its mostly passable now, depends largely on the artists. The bear in the the Revenant looked fucking real for example, that was the result of talented animators and 3D sculptures. The bigger problem for me is poorly implemented green screens, where its painfully obvious the entire setting is fake like in the Hobbit.

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Great counter point

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>people paid money to see the hobbit

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>That looks real only in the sense that it looks real because it is real

Are you retarded? Have you seen real gore? It's fucked up how often it looks like a troma movie.

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>most
Ok name 5 examples

The Force Awakens did that

All that Hobbit shit makes me wanna vomit. I had forgotten all about those movies.

fucking lucas

I read a theory that the sequel was made to look more natural since he was born as a fly hybrid, to contrasr with Seth's more forced evolution