OncomingStorm93 Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 IMO, not best to judge the VFX based on a compressed/sub-1080p/not proper frame rate/not even fullscreen Twitter spot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wild Eric Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 Honestly I don't get the VFX backlash here. I think it looks fine and the characters feel like they are underwater to me. It's not Avatar good, but I'm not going to expect that and Marshall's take is more fanciful compared to Cameron's more realistic approach. I have doubts of the film's quality, but I disagree with it looking like Halle's swimming in air. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WittyUsername Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 I’m not interested in this movie, but I don’t see a need to roast the CGI. Does every movie that isn’t Avatar need to face these complaints? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 of course this is going to look bad visually. Did anyone expect any less? also the last time Disney planned a Superbowl spot for something and then pulled it was...Alice Through the Looking Glass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMan89 Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Hatebox said: All Disney live-action remakes have been mediocre to bad but yeah, this will surely be the one that’s finally amazing. Aladdin was very entertaining and improved over the animated one in some ways. And I say that as an adamant “hater” of the live action remakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 (edited) On 2/13/2023 at 5:22 PM, WittyUsername said: People have been griping about the lack of originality in Hollywood at least since the 2000s, but probably even earlier than that. It’s not a particularly recent complaint. I remember when District 9 came out (I was in middle school at the time), and one of the things it was praised for was being an original sci-fi movie. Hell, you can read people complaining about the lack of originality in Hollywood in the 1920's. It has, quite litereally, been a gripe with Hollywood for a century. Edited February 16, 2023 by dudalb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey Freak Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 7 hours ago, WittyUsername said: I’m not interested in this movie, but I don’t see a need to roast the CGI. Does every movie that isn’t Avatar need to face these complaints? Ever since Halle Bailey's casting was announced, an unexpected LEGION of people suddenly had lots and lots of opinions and concern for The Little Mermaid 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustLurking Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, Eric the Conqueror said: Honestly I don't get the VFX backlash here. I think it looks fine and the characters feel like they are underwater to me. It's not Avatar good, but I'm not going to expect that and Marshall's take is more fanciful compared to Cameron's more realistic approach. I have doubts of the film's quality, but I disagree with it looking like Halle's swimming in air. It's not so much a VFX thing but rather something I saw brought up in an A2 VFX reaction video with one of thr guys from WETA, which is basically that when you aren't really underwater but try to act like you are, you end up overacting because it's extremely hard to imitate the natural resistance from water. That said I don't think it looks worse than most other water stuff like Aquaman, it's mostly fine, the only reason it looks worse than them if anything is because Avatar 2 exists now as a (mostly unreachable) bar, whereas before there wasn't really anything to set the gold standard for underwater stuff. But I don't think the GA will be anywhere near as picky in their comparisons. Edited February 16, 2023 by JustLurking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyxx Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 14 hours ago, Hatebox said: All Disney live-action remakes have been mediocre to bad but yeah, this will surely be the one that’s finally amazing. The Jungle Book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedijake Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 (edited) When people saw the second Aladdin teaser, they complained (rightfully so) how Smith looked as the genie. They saw the pics which were not so bad but laughed at the genie in the teaser. That was a legit complaint. Looked a HELLUVA lot better in the full trailer but the sting still hurt until the movie came out. For this, I am not sure what people are complaining about. Color pallet? Darkness/lightness? These are technical things that even depend on the screen you are watching. Seems a bit of hyperbole to state the vfx look horrible based on that. Gotta remember two things. One-we are living in a world where hating on something is the norm. Two-visually speaking, Avatar has an unfair and unfortunate monopoly of sorts over the tech and visuals it uses. Oh, I forget a third thing. It's fashionable to hate anything Disney related. Edited February 16, 2023 by jedijake 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderByte Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 Yes, this 20 seconds of footage in this is probably not a solid representation of the full movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptNathanBrittles Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 7 hours ago, JustLurking said: It's not so much a VFX thing but rather something I saw brought up in an A2 VFX reaction video with one of thr guys from WETA, which is basically that when you aren't really underwater but try to act like you are, you end up overacting because it's extremely hard to imitate the natural resistance from water. That said I don't think it looks worse than most other water stuff like Aquaman, it's mostly fine, the only reason it looks worse than them if anything is because Avatar 2 exists now as a (mostly unreachable) bar, whereas before there wasn't really anything to set the gold standard for underwater stuff. But I don't think the GA will be anywhere near as picky in their comparisons. THE ABYSS. Jimmy C strikes again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipDerby Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 Could be worse, the mermaids could all look like they're holding their breath, like another Disney film... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 9 hours ago, eddyxx said: The Jungle Book I would love somebody to do a Jungle Book movie that goes back to the original Kipling stories which are a LOT darker then the Disney version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poseidon Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 22 hours ago, OncomingStorm93 said: IMO, not best to judge the VFX based on a compressed/sub-1080p/not proper frame rate/not even fullscreen Twitter spot. It already looks way smoother in 1080p, so I'm quite confused, why nobody bothered to post the cleaned up not Twitter compressed version. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WittyUsername Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 3 hours ago, dudalb said: I would love somebody to do a Jungle Book movie that goes back to the original Kipling stories which are a LOT darker then the Disney version. That’s what Andy Serkis tried to do. It didn’t work out too well. Anyway, as far as the live action remakes are concerned, this looks slightly more inspired than most of the others, from what little we’ve seen of it, but that’s faint praise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustLurking Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 14 hours ago, Poseidon said: It already looks way smoother in 1080p, so I'm quite confused, why nobody bothered to post the cleaned up not Twitter compressed version. Why are all the comments to this "I loved the part where ariel said" plus some dumb quote. I dont get it. Am I missing something here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adaros Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, JustLurking said: Why are all the comments to this "I loved the part where ariel said" plus some dumb quote. I dont get it. Am I missing something here? looks like bots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddddeeee Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Looks visually rancid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marveldcfox Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 19 hours ago, dudalb said: I would love somebody to do a Jungle Book movie that goes back to the original Kipling stories which are a LOT darker then the Disney version. Mowgli says Hi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...