Star Trek Into Darkness [** SPOILERS FROM POST 147 **]

SarahBM wrote: »

but I like CGI

I'm perfectly fine with CG effects, Terminator 2 for instance is one of my favourite films. There was a perfect blend of CG effects, with live action effects, miniatures & all the other tools needed...& the results still hold up today {for the most part}. But nowadays, its CG characters, CG landscapes, CG explosions, CG blood, CG this CD that...its so overused that literally everything you see on screen is quite apparently fake. Its become quite frankly, downright boring.

I watched Alien & Aliens there recently, real sets, real people, incredible model work, miniatures, live action - it still stands up to this day when you look at it. When your watching it, your there on LV426 * fully immersed in the film. When you watch Avatar in comparison, at no point do you feel like your actuall on Pandora, nor does it feel like Pandora is a real place

SarahBM wrote: »

I hated Alien *ducks for cover*

Let me guess, your under 21? Did you like Aliens?

Perhaps just wait til you have seen the actual entire film before judging it. did you like Star Trek XI?

Aye, sure its impossible to judge from what we've seen so far. What does stand out in the trailers though, is that its one CG landscape & scene after the next. The lava parts just scream Mustafar from Episode 3 {Star Wars}

love your avatar btw

Ah see now you've totally redeemed yourself after your Alien comment

seamus wrote: »

Admittedly I wasn't crazy about Alien either, I much preferred Aliens. From watching in more recent years, I realise this was because I was far too young watching the original (probably 10 or 12) and so I had difficulty following the story. I think I may have also seen Aliens first, so when I saw Alien, one of my first thoughts was, "What, only one Alien?"

Well films aside, the reason I brought both Alien & Aliens up was a measure of how well they've stood the test of time, based on the quality of their special effects. In comparison, I watched Star Trek XI, Avatar, [insert recent blockbuster here] & effects wise its all just meh. After watching Alien & Aliens recently, I kept getting distracted thinking "Most of these sets are actually real, they were built by people, Ripley is actually there, facing a 16 foot Alien Queen...look how f**king amazing it looks!" whereas with modern ones, I see past the effects straight away and see only this



CG is relied on far, far too much for my liking. Sure its cost effective, & you can do things otherwise impossible...but its used for the most mundane things these days, practical effects stand out so much better. A nice blend of both, a la Terminator 2 type stuff is the perfect balance.

Regards Alien & Aliens, I think I like them both equally. Alien has that tense, claustrophobic, being picked off one by one feel. Aliens, has the foreboding LV426, the incredible model & set builds, & the third act is a masterpiece of sci-fi action

SarahBM wrote: »

I have seen half of Aliens but I was so bored I turned it off *ducks* I might try it again, just to appease the gods. :rolleyes:

Do yourself a favour & watch it in its entirety, its really really good