With Tarantino directing a scene in the upcomming Sin City, you wonder what his opinion of CGI is now, compared to what has been in print. Here are some quotes from interviews. If you have anything more recent, cue me in.
Q: One thing you didn’t do was use and abuse CGI…
Tarantino: Yes indeed! (Laughs) Well, you know, sometimes CGI is cool and amazing like when James Cameron sinks The Titanic, or Arnold is fighting the Machines in T3, but more often I’m bored with these effects because they take away from the emotion and the real feeling of the action we’re supposed to believe in. My feeling was, if we can’t do it for real, let’s not do it . Because I wanted a very real and visceral film and not a cartoon nor a comic book. You get more excited and more fun from looking at people really having their head cut or their limbs sliced! (laughs). I think CGI is getting in the way of filmmaking. You’re not going to impress me if you do a CGI scene with cars going full speed against the traffic, especially when I saw the same scene done for real in â€?To Live and Die in L.A. â€? â€?
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Tarantino resisted the temptation to use CGI to accomplish his special effects. “I’m not a big fan of CGI,” he says. "When it’s done really well, it’s fantastic. The Titanic going down was amazing, truly movie magic. And, for that matter, I thought the use of CGI in Terminator 3 was great. But that’s those guys. Now every time I see a trailer, it’s like I’m watching a special effects CGI reel. What’s even worse is that now they’re not using CGI to create what is impossible, but what people did as a matter of course in the 1970s: car chases. What’s that about? When you do stuff with CGI that people have done for real in other movies, you are not going to impress me. I decided it would be more exciting to do it old school, to know it was real human beings doing those tumbles, with no CGI sweetening it."
These are mostly about using CGI with Kill Bill.
