Movies and Me

It's recently come to my attention.... wait... did I write about this already? whatever. Ima write about it again. I do what I want. right... so anyways...
I've recently realized that I've become very picky, and somewhat "anal" about the special effects in movies. Mainly the quality level of computer graphic special effects. For instance, in the newest xmen movie: Wolverine, I had a issue with the green screen effects of Hugh Jackman and the exploding helicopter. The worst and most frustrating part was watching him play with his knew metal claws in the bathroom. The cheesy-ness of the claws and unrealisitc interaction between them was retarded and child like. Now don't misunderstand me. The movie was pretty awesome. The story was decent. I give it a solid B for a movie rating as superhero movies can go. Plus, as suprising to most of you, I really don't know that much about the X-Men. I know enough to get by, but I don't know backgrounds on most of the characters or who they are for that matter. But ya, I felt that the some of the cg in it was less than par and could have been SOOO much better.
I really didn't want to talk about X-Men, but instead, G.I. Joe. Growing up, I watched Transformers and other random cartoons, G.I. Joe wasn't really one of the major ones that I watched. I still watched it and knew of it, and some of the characters. So as for story goes, and the movie as a whole, I liked it. It was good, decent action scenes, I think seeing it on a big screen does it justice completely. But of course the green screen effects were quite horrible, and in particular some of the beginning cg stuff was really bad as well. There were some really good effects in the movie too of course; the hologram effects were pretty awesome. Watching the Eiffel Tower fall was also pretty fun. But there's just some other random effects that really went bad. Almost the whole G.I. Joe base was poorly done, so much green screen used. Even watching people get off of a jet was green screened. If it's a tight budget then I understand, but I'm almost positive that it wasn't. And after seeing other movies with examples of cg in them, it's tough to understand why these movies couldn't bring it up a notch. Deadlines prehaps? No clue.
I really blame my ridiculousness at critqueing such things at the fact that I've been drawn more and more into my artwork, and I worked in the industry for a little bit. Granted, I didn't study animation programs, I haven't done any animation, but I've gone to movies in the past with animators and I hear what they talk about afterwards and then see it for myself. I've played with the programs, I know it's complicated, but seeing what is capable of being done, even in a simple video game, I would imagine that they could easily do something even better in the movie industry. I'm just sayin'. Good movie, but some of the effects need more work.

Another blog for another time: The lack of creativity in Hollywood.