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Of course the product placement does take you “out of the film”. The 2nd appearance of the Heineken bottle – coincidentally happening to be the same brand another service man drinks is that moment I briefly left.
It isn't something that has started with the Craig era.
The Heineken bottles are barely seen. Maybe they are CGI too...
I have seen it only once too. For most of the time, it looks fine to me.
Exactly. And does anyone go on about the awful use of bluescreen in the 60s and 70s films. Always noticeable, especially in YOLT when Miss Brand parachutes from the plane, a really bad bit of blue screen, worst ever in a Bond film and probably any film made at that time. But do people drone on endlessly about how crap is was? No they watch the film and enjoy it - not my favourite, but there you go. CGI is here to stay, it is just another tool in the filmmakers arsenal to get the story told.
Having seen Skyfall I think it is a brilliant Bond and at no time was I going 'ooo cgi' - well apart from the one obvious scene with Silva, but it didn't make me think any less of the film. I'll be going to see it again soon, and will probably enjoy it just as much or even more.
I don't think Michael Bay will ever direct a Bondfilm, and I'm pretty sure we'll never see something like DAD again, at least not during Craig's tenure.
I don't think it's anal, if you're interested in that kind of thing and watch a lot of films it's obvious.
I still don't see how the helicopters are blatant CGI. The only times are Silva's deformity (actually, only the eye looks really fake to me) and the Komodo dragons, especially in closeups.
If you want to spot everything that's "wrong" in a movie with a microscope, you can't enjoy movies anymore.
We have had much worse CGI & action sequences in the past.
You're assuming I'm complaining. I'm not. I don't mind it, what I'm saying is I find it easy to see.
And the things I listed are the only obvious uses of CGI for me.
You find yourself becoming an insider on what techniques are used to make a sequence. You see a sequence and start to think, I bet they did that with CGI....they could have only done that with CGI....it must be CGI!...its obvious!!
See what’s happening- a different thought process occurs.
I believe if people get too deep into the making of's, it can then be hard to detach yourself and go back to viewing films for pure entertainment - being immersed in the illusion it’s trying to create.
Double Negative. A company I've been admiring since 2005.
Example: a certain part from the car chase during QOS's PTS was CGI, with added debris. Only the airplane chase looked fake, much more than anything in Skyfall tbh.
The dragons were good - a real dragon would not have been used because you can't control them, they would have attacked everyone on set. And their bite, even their saliva is deadly, ask Sharon Stone.
The helicopters were a big let down - it was the pay off for 'his line' after the awesome island section - they should have rocked out with real ones.
Seriously, you do? I watched closely the second time to see if I could see how fake the helicopters looked, and they still looked like bloody helicopters to me, damn them.
So, how do you tell when you see that they are CGI? I'm genuinely interested.
And DC did a lot of his stunts himself. True story.
Not all of them. He did do the shower stunt for real. That was a cunning stunt.
Ok, I'll admit it.
I stood in for Craig during the filming of SF. His face was superimposed on mine and he recorded his dialogue in the basement of the SIS building.
So there you have the obvious CGI. I'm sorry!!!
She whispered back, "what are you going on about?"
You see, women! They really aren't on the same wavelength are they? Apart from Germanlady of course.