Re: CGI or Live Action Stunts?

Posted by Mark Indy from prc-resnet39a.pr.erau.edu on May 05, 1999 at 13:42:13:

In Reply to: CGI or Live Action Stunts? posted by Major Paul on May 05, 1999 at 02:46:49:

: : What do you think is better, computer graphic imaging (CGI) or live action stunts?
: The thing I love most about the Indy series is that it gives a nod to the great stunts of earlier movies. Yes, I too get excited by the use of CGI to "wow" the audience - The Matrix really blew me away on that score (I love the slo-mo bullets) - but there's something about knowing that it's a real human being up there on the screen actually doing the stunt which still gets my vote every time. When I see a CGI "stunt", it still looks like, well, a fakie computer graphic. -MP

Absolutely, that time-freeze sequence has been overdone in everything from The Matrix to Wing Commander, it was cool in Lost in Space but now that everybody's doing it it just seems too fake. There's nothing like camera and plain old fashioned acting. At least Lucas went with models instead of CGI for the space sequences in Phantom Menace.

Mark

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