Best use of Blue/Green Screen in a film?

PullMyFinger!

For me it would have to be War Of The Worlds, its incredibly realistic.

Yours?

Rabies

Sin City

J.R.HARTLEY

episode III, most of the movie was green screened

missingtime

Lord of the Rings, Matrix 2 (the reproduction of all The Smiths) only when you see the same type of thing done badly can you really appreciated it.

lodgepole

Wasn't the Smith fight created entirely digitally?

missingtime

Probably was. But I was thinking of when they are all standing around looking at each other.

johnny_ultimate

As much as i liked Episode 3, the green screen was a bit OTT. Sin City was a great use, and the Harry Potter films are surprisingly efficient in the old coloured screens.

Rhyme

War of the Worlds was pretty impressive

Crucifix

Sin City gets my vote.

projectmayhem

Lodgepole wrote:

Wasn't the Smith fight created entirely digitally?

no they built the set, shot a fair bit of it, then captured it as a quicktime-VR image type thing, then made loads of smiths and a neo and so on and so forth...

obviously the matrix movies get my vote. M1 for revolutionising it particularly

sin city for mastering the art

merlinsmerryman

Sin City (though Jessica alba dancing around in a bikini helps:D )

MisterAnarchy

Ye should watch 'A sound of thunder' to see prob the worst use of a green screen in decades.
The special effects are atrocious.

Dragan

I'm actually gonna go with Adaptation, strangely enough.

I just think that Cages interaction with himself is somewhat marvelous and so subtle it's amazing, and while blue screen was only used as a small aspect of the effect, it still kinda qualifies.

madrab

i thought sky captain looked really good

Pigman II

Ep3 was all greenscreen apart from the scenes on the tantive-iv which was a deliberate decision to tie it into ANH better.

Everything in SkyCaptain is greenscreen

Bacchus

The Matrix (not the sequels) -> Perfect example of using special effects to service the plot. The sequels are a perfect example of letting special effect dictate the plot :mad:

LOTR -> Best use of blue/green screen and CGI to date.

Sin City -> Essential to the look comic book feel of the movie.

Necronomicon

Lodgepole wrote:

Wasn't the Smith fight created entirely digitally?

Not sure which particular fight you're talking about, but the one in Revolutions at the end when they are both flying was done behind a green-screen. Keanu Reeves had to be spun around in one of those hamster-wheel type things (I know, my movie-production lingo is great:) ) and kept getting sick!
My award would go to Sin City though. The setting was matched inch-perfectly to it's source material.

lodgepole

Bacchus wrote:

LOTR -> Best use of blue/green screen and CGI to date.

While the CG was good in general, some of the green screen composites were awful... Particularly anything involving Treebeard close ups.

captain P

Lord of the Rings and Sin City I think... Here's hoping King Kong too (i assume they used it)

madrab

captain P wrote:

Lord of the Rings and Sin City I think... Here's hoping King Kong too (i assume they used it)

even though im really looking forward to king kong, the cgi in some scene doesnt look the best, but maybe thats the look pj was going for (as it is similar lookin to lotr)

maquiladora

The best use of green screen is when you cant tell a green screen was used. In that case, the best examples are probably ones we don't know about.

Tusky

I think the best CGI is when you dont even notice its there. That rules out Star Wars and things similiar. Things like, war of the worlds or Batman Begins used some really nice CGI. It all looks like real shots...thats the way I like it.

maquiladora

Regarding Kong....It's hard to judge the CG quality when the resolution and quality is poor on compressed formats taken from TV broadcasts.
Have a look at this short scene, it was shown on Conan O'Brien but its in HDTV format. Apart from the slight floating sensation of Darrow in Kong's hand at some point, Kong himself and the V-Rex look stunning :
http://rapidshare.de/files/8446425/king.kong.conan.footage.xvid-fty.avi.html

Regarding the film itself, the first press screening was held this morning in NY.

The director's vision is almost without equal in film today. Jackson reaches for the stars time and again pushing every situation to its limit and almost all of the time manages to pull it off.

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Kong - the film - accomplishes something pretty astounding. It carries the weight of a gigantic spectacle of a film but it also is able to hoist and run with its own history.

PullMyFinger!

Having watched it since I think Kong is a CGI/Green Screen disaster. The "running away from the Dinos" bit especially.

PullMyFinger!

[nerd]Watched The Bone Collector last night and thought it used blue screen very effectively after listening to the directors commentary. It was used in a non sfx way but rather for background, the train that comes towards Angelina Jolie's character etc. Good job[/nerd]