Saville wrote:
I don't mind CGI.
In fact I recall some trailer footage of Pearl harbor that was actually very good.
I mind the scenes they create with CGI. Wholly impractical super crowded formations that never existed and maneuvers that defy physics.
For example if you go the the PH trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGYcxjywx0oMove to the 1:10 mark. And watch it as the Zero flies across the screen (you are looking down on it). It's only on for about a second.
That is an amazingly good rendition. Freeze it and look at the details near the leading edge of the wings. You see rivet dimples. The
aluminum is not perfectly smooth. You can't ask for any better than that. Looks real to me.
Now go to the 1:17 mark. Here the CGI is beginning to be used ineffectively with the number of planes flying past the kids how close they are together
It isn't awful, But a few too many planes a little too close.
1:31-1:35 - a few too many planes though I've seen worse.
Now go to the first dogfight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jXy9L4lgMMYes some of the maneuvers were cheesy. But I think most of this was CGI and if you watch it only from the
standpoint of the rendition and some of the flying I thought it was pretty good an example is here at the
Go to the 3:47 mark. A P-40 is flying toward you. Notice how it's not on rails but bobs up and down a little
and skids - as you would expect. Perfectly fine.
Yeah some of the explosions weren't great.
But as I say, it's the use of CGI - not CGI capabilities themselves - that's the problem.
Look at This clip from Tuskeegee Airmen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=267Ngt1mPE4Freeze it at the 46 second mark - way too close.