re: #245 Higgs Boson’s Mate

3D modeling (Blender + Photoshop, with NifTools for game mods) is one of my hobbies so I see the possibilities of CGI in movies as breathtaking. From my jaundiced, Old Guy perspective it seems that Hollywood often uses CGI as a hammer wherein all of the other elements of film making become nails. To me, Luc Besson made excellent use of CGI in “The Fifth Element,” itself another example of a movie that would be very difficult to make without CGI.

I’m still waiting for CGI as Fritz Lang or Jaques Tati or Buster Keaton might have used it.

Oh yeah, CGI is the lingua franca for effects these days and I love how it’s used most of the time. I often kick myself for not seeing certain movies in the theater just for the effects. But there have been a lot of movies where the only selling points are the special effects.

Speaking of CGI and movies the wife and I watched X-men: Days of future past. I enjoyed watching it, then realized it was just the plot of Terminator 2: Judgement Day with mutants ><