I don’t have a problem with CGI. But I do have a problem with it’s use sometimes. It’s seems everytime there’s CGI there’s some monster film which earns $400 but has zero watch quality. But CGI can be used for great things. Sin City for example.
By the way has anyone seen the making-of documentary of The Thing? Most of that stuff is made without CGI (cos it’s from 1982, obviously), but it’s really creative the way they did it.
Example: the part where the doctor is examining a comatosed guy and suddenly the stomach opens and eats his arms. Here’s how it was done:
- Only the face of the patient was real. The rest was a dummy. The guy laid under the dummy, inside the table.
- The ‘eater’ in the stomach was a mechanism, and to get the doctor’s hands to fall off, they used a guy with no arms, put fake arms on him, and put a mask of the doctor on his face.
It actually looks pretty real too.