Need CGI-free film recommendations (1 Viewer)

[Sergio Martorel]

what about the Amish, who would not touch anything that is modern?

Meh. Nobody likes the Amish as well, dude.

 

[Eric Eash]

i could see how some movies could be rated as very poor cgi. my wife always says, "that's so computer animated!". but movies like monster's inc, the matrix, SW AOTC. the cgi is amazing. tell your friends to go to roger and eberts home page and check out their top films of all-time. stuff like casablanca, raging bull, gone with the wind is in there. granted, they were great movies in their time, but i'll take Xmen2. i guess your friends don't make it to movie theaters either, cause it might not be as enveloping now, but cgi is getting better and more widely used. soon, all films will use it to a certain degree, like in 5 years. one last thing, do your friends actually watch any cgi movies and then say yes or no to them and just not buy them on dvd, or do they boycott them all together. sorry to beat the dead horse.

eric

 

[Sergio Martorel]

Please everyone, contribute. This is a recommendations thread, not a discussion about my friends' tastes in films.

I don´t think people here REALLY wants to contribute with people with that kind of tunnelvision. And the most alarming part is that you say "friendS", plural, as in more than one. Who are your friends, after all? Refugees from the fallout of the Cahiers Du Cinema magazine? Advocates of the failed Dogma 95 filmmaking style?

 

[Ricardo C]

What's next, David? Will you tell us your "friends" don't actually object to "tasteless" 3d CGI either, just "over the top, gratuitous" tasteless 3d CGI? What ridiculously subjective criteria will you throw at us next?

 

[Artur Meinild]

I'm not even sure I know what "2D" cgi IS.

That would include digital matte paintings, digital composition and computer enhanced scenery if I'm not mistaken. This makes the selection a whole lot broader, since most modern movies use one or more of these.
As I understand, the restriction is now: No intrusive and/or obvious CGI.

 

[Joshua Moran]

Kill Bill

 

[Sergio Martorel]

Kill Bill has CGI wire removal and a whole CGI airplane.

 

[Sergio Martorel]

HEY!

I got it!

The PERFECT movie for those guys!

 

[Joshua Moran]

Actually the airplane is a miniture from the Godzilla movies.

 

[Sergio Martorel]

It is? It looked pretty CGI on the trailers.

 

[Eric Eash]

here's 3 of my favorite non-cgi movies
sneakers
my blue heaven
strange brew

i think full metal jacket is non cgi too.

eric

 

[Simon Basso]

What type of friends will David invent next? Mr & Mrs No-Rear-Speaker-Sound perhaps?

The question of whether cgi is endemic in modern cinema is interesting, and worthy of discussion; but I'm not buying that these people actually exist.

 

[Ricardo C]

What type of friends will David invent next? Mr & Mrs No-Rear-Speaker-Sound perhaps?

No need to invent those. They're called "Bose owners"

 

[John Wielgosz]

Ya know, technically, DVD itself could be seen as a series of Computer Generated Images derived through MPEG-2 encoding that just happen to be based from a film source, so that would pretty much invalidate EVERYTHING.

Seriously, what films have your friends seen and enjoyed? Might make it easier to get a baseline for what they consider 'melodramatic' and such.

I'm going to put in for 'Glengarry Glen Ross' myself.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Ricardo,

Stop the thread farting AT ONCE.

This is the last time I want to hear
complaints about your negativity in this
thread.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Sergio,
That same warning about thread farting applies to you too!





Crawdaddy

 

[MarkHastings]

How about any movie made before 1990?

After watching the behind the scenes stuff in "Anger Management" where they CG'd all those people in Yankee Stadium, I'd have to agree with the above. Well, maybe not the date, but almost every movie uses CG, even the ones you'd never expect. It's gotten so good that it's almost impossible to watch an entire movie and figure out if there AREN'T CG effects.

Definitely stick to old movies.

 

[Kevin M]

I have to admit that your friends do sound, at the very least, stuffy....but nonetheless...apart from the digital image restoration work done by criterion how about The Third Man?
Or Dr. Strangelove?

 

[Patrick McCart]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit - CGI environment in some small sequences.

According to the making-of documentary and the commentary on the Vista Series disc, all the effects were acomplished using opticals and animation. If you don't believe that, check out some of Richard Williams' other work like The Thief and the Cobbler.

However, I think the 3 follow-up cartoons used computer imaging.

 

[Rob Dwyer]

Bah. Not that I agree with your friend's stance, I gotta few up here that really shoulda been mentioned.

- THE MALTISE FALCON (I can't believe Casablanca gets the mention but not this one... hrmph...)

- BACK TO THE FUTURE (nuff said.)

- ANIMAL HOUSE (unless the "Eat Me cake was CG )

- THE BLUES BROTHERS (why not? they really dropped that pinto!)

- TRANCERS (a guilty pleasure of mine)