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Originally Posted by LoganSnake
I mostly hate it when they substitute it for things that could easily be achieved live.
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Exactly. The CGI vampires from I Am Legend drove me nuts (along with most of the rest of the movie). Did they need fully CGI vampires? No.
What I have to say has pretty much been covered. Basically without CGI movies would be way more limited in what they can do, and many movies would cost way more, so much so that they couldn't be made.
Think of the cost to create models for sci-fi movies for example. Star Wars would have cost a bajillion dollars to make with models today, and would still have to have guys in rubber suits. Really the reason I don't like the prequels isn't the CGI, it's the fact that the scripts sucked ass. The space dogfights kill the dogfights of the originals visually because the originals were limited by what they can do with models. Same goes for the lightsaber fights. Compare the Vader/Luke fight from Jedi to the CGI enhanced showdown with Darth Maul in Episode One.
Think of how much Iron Man would have sucked if he couldn't be done in CGI. A big lumbering guy in a suit. Instead we get a guy who moves like a jet.