Lucas is sooo out of touch

[Too Much Garlic]

Show him the original versions.

 

[Solo4114]

Yeah, and then ask him what he thinks of them, considering they were made in the late 70s/early 80s.

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

CGI all too often looks too fluid, too smooth, too perfect, too well lit, etc. It doesn't feel like it's "there."

Yet this was never the case with the Tyrannosaurus in the first 2 Jurassic movies. It can't be stressed enough: CG, once a tool of the Gods, is today all too often in the hands of bunglers. That T-Rex was the greatest single FX miracle I've ever experienced in the cinema, trumping anything in Star Wars even. All cg studios should be force to sit down and watch that movie for several months on end and GET A CLUE.

Further required watching should be Starship Troopers. The film was very restrained in its cg camera motion, which lent the shots of the teeming swarms of bugs a terrifying vastness and grandeur. A grandeur which should have been present throughout LOTR, but which was so often blown by having the camera racing, twisting and diving impossibly - across the orc hordes in Isengard for instance - with the result that all sense of scale was wrecked, making it feel ironically like we were moving over a flipping table-top miniature.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Both Phil Tippett shows. JP and ST.

I was okay with those moves in LotR, as it seemed to fit the style of that movie, as it had flyovers over everything. That same technique just didn't feel believable or fitting for King Kong, for me. There it felt forced and out of place, where they should have kept the camera near the ground or at people-eye-height shooting up, to give a more majestic feel to Kong... and not just make him just another monster creature.