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The difference is that they could have filmed the whole of the Pre-titles sequence using CGI, but they chose to have the actors on top of the trains. Even the race over the rooftops they used stunt actors, rather than CGI.
If you want to see CGI overused then go buy Tnansformers or some other similar crap.
When Bond and Patrice are fighting on the train, the trees which you see passing by in front of them are CGI.
When Bond falls off the waterfall after he is shot in the PTS, his body which you see dropping is CGI.
The scorpion from the drinking game scene.
In the scene where Patrice goes up the glass elevator and Bond jumps and grabs the lift shaft, that's a CGI body aswell.
I thought the scorpion was real... It looked incredibly realistic though...
As for the one with Bond jumping and grabbing the elevator, I don't think that was CGI.. It was probably a stuntman that did that move as we only saw the back of Bond doing it. After that, we cut to Craig dangling on the elevator with the green screen. It was a nice move by the way to grab the elevator!
I hate to be mr negative here, but... the long shots of the island are real, it's Hashima island in Japan.
They filmed the "inside" of the island at Pinewood and the only added CGI are the helicopters.
On a side note: the CGI in Inception looks more than realistic, and was done by the same company that worked on Skyfall (& CR & QOS).
And again, the inside was constructed at Pinewood. I'm not saying they didn't use CGI, but most of it is real.
I'm pretty convinced the first shot of Bond seen close (with handcuffs, seen from the back) with the 12 or so storey building in the back is green screen.
As for the long shot, I think the island is CGIed, even just to make it "more abandoned" than it is (ie : no sign of the growing vegetation that must be all over the real place, I think).
But, well, frankly it looked quite fake to me, it felt to me so far away from the huge sets of the past. The camera was so static, etc.
The long shots are not fake. And how a static camera takes you away from the sets of the past is something beyond me. Believe, they used CGI/green screens on those as well.
Here's the island, looks like it was shown in the movie:
http://www.google.be/search?num=10&hl=nl&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1680&bih=801&q=hashima+island&oq=hashima+island&gs_l=img.3..0l2j0i24l3.691.1966.0.2097.14.7.0.0.0.0.252.454.2-2.2.0...0.0...1ac.1.DqUrgsoqgpE
http://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=10109&catid=107&s=bond23
Too bad you can't visit Pinewood Studios. #-o
As the images you link to show, after 40 years of abandon, the vegetation has started to come back like in any other abandoned places. Silva's lair had to look abandoned less recently, and it means at least the vegetation was CGI cleared I think. And from memory, the long shot is a static one (with some pan at best) with the boat approaching, it could even be 2D matte painting. I remember no flyover of the zone in particular.
Because with a true set you can have a sense of space by moving the camera everywhere, having focus reacting realistically (obviously, since it's real !).
Very costly to do with CGI, even today miniatures would be used first I think.
When Bond is fighting in the tanker of TSWLM, you simple "see" he's inside something huge indeed, no CGI/green screen there.
This is the exact shot I was talking about. It's definitely CGI. The rest of it might not have been, but that one shot is definitely green-screened. Maybe they didn't like the original take of it so they redid it virtually. No way to know, but it's green-screened.
A little off topic, - did anyone notice in the Skyfall trailers, there's a shot of Patrice falling from the Shanghai building after the silhouette fight, but in the trailer it looks completely different to the theatrical release version?
And the trailer one was so much better. There must be a reason why they dropped it.
I have to say, the entire final sequence of the film was immaculate on the technical front, superbly lit especially.