Poll: Movies: CGI or puppets?

[Just Craig]

Is CGI really a superior method for producing quality special effects, scenery, and characters?
Or do you think that old school effects using models, costumes and puppetry are better?

So which would you rather see used more in a movie?

 

[DM master]

CGI all the way,

I find it to be alot better, old school effects just always seem tacky and even more obvious than CGI

 

[silver wolf009]

CGI if they can get it to work. If not then puppets. Although even if CGI dosent work atleast it looks corny enough to give a laugh.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

What about stop motion Clay-mation? If it weren't for Ray Harryhausen we wouldn't really have CGI.

 

[Dango]

I quite like CGI, but if Team America didn't have puppets I don't know what I would do.

 

[Matt_LRR]

Models. 100%.

Compare the old star wars films to the new ones, or the locations in Aliens and Total recall to something made more recently.

CG always looks fake or plastic. Miniaturs have an uthenticity about them that CG has difficulty replicating. If I werer george Lucas, and I wanted to Special Edition the New Star wars movies, I'd go back, and redo all the CGI as modles.

-m

 

[Good morning blues]

Photography always looks considerably more 'real' than CGI, and since it's more difficult, it's used sparingly, making the effects "special" again. Live Free or Die Hard, for instance, looks infinitely better than something like Wanted. This is why the old Star Wars movies look better than the new ones.

There are, however, some things that you just can't do well with photography. Creatures and monsters and stuff look crummy in CG, but they look a lot better than stop-motion or models or whatever.

 

[Broken Orange]

There should be a combination. Predators did a good job with it's effects. they did practical effects when they could and used CGI when they couldn't.

 

[The Root Beer Guy]

I can appreciate the work that goes into puppetry, but CGI is always superior if done right. The exception is Yoda. I'll take puppet Yoda over CGI Yoda any day.

 

[linwolf]

Puppets, more often than not CGI ruins my suspension of disbelieve.

 

[MykFreelava]

I prefer CGI, simply because I'm shallow and enjoy the "realistic" look.

Also with all the advancements in CGI hopefully soon we'll get one of my dream films, which would be a Zombie Apocalypse happening I don't mean after the main event when there's around 10 people and however many extras you can get for zombies, I mean as society collapses, watching how governments react and all that (basically World War Z the movie, I figure it'd be a cool way to waste two hours).

 

[Axolotl]

CGI doesn't really look good enough in my eyes to work outside of "computery" effects like Tron for example. Otherwise it just looks too fake in my eyes, even Avatar which I loved in the cinema when I see it on a TV even a HD one it looks like an animated film.

I can handle CGI mostly but I love stop motion with a passion. Ray Harryhausen's films helped define my childhood and I haven't seen CGI come up with something half as good as his skeletions from Jason and the Argonauts or his Medusa from Clash of the Titans.

 

[Thaius]

CGI is worlds better if it's done well. If not, I almost would have rather had puppets.

 

[imnot]

CGI, but i must admit the puppets in Jason and the Argonauts are awsome.

 

[2fish]

Puppets and costumes all the way! I might change my mind when these youngins figure out all their new technology gizmos. CGI just seems to mess up a little too often for me right now. Now which one of you young whippersnappers is gonna come help grampa set the clock on his tv?

Puppets all the way THE THING anyone.

oh yeah

Spoiler: you have got to be fucking kidding

 

[Devil's Due]

CGI if done right can look well done and sometimes beautiful, puppets have their place, but I rather dislike them. Maybe combine the two and make some movie with all grounds covered? Who knows.

 

[Canid117]

Oh yeah CGI often works better (not always but often) but it has a big problem. The cost. Blockbusters spend so much on CGI now that they don't spend the cash on other stuff that can make a movie great. Like... acting lessons for those who got the job by giving the director a half and half.