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On 12/1/2023 at 5:04 AM, Cult Icon said:

I watched Fury Road in the theaters and loved it but unfortunately the next installment looks off. The main issue is the whole film looks like too much CGI. the original was shot in a way that the CGI looked minimal.

There was lots of CGI in Fury Road too but it looked better.

I think the problem might not be Miller but just CGI crunch. These companies are overworked and have to deliver in ever shorter deadlines.

Hence why CGI actually looks worse now than it did a decade ago. I cannot even begin the enumerate the amount of truly horrendous shots I have seen make the theatrical cut of big Marvel and DC blockbusters. It's a bit loony that things have regressed this much.

Speaking specifically about Furiosa, I like Anya Taylor-Joy a lot as an actress but I don't think she works that well as young Furiosa. I think the biggest problem is that Charlize Theron caries herself in such a specific way - across all of her roles as well - and because of that I don't really buy Anya as the young version of Furiosa.

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12 minutes ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

There was lots of CGI in Fury Road too but it looked better.

I think the problem might not be Miller but just CGI crunch. These companies are overworked and have to deliver in ever shorter deadlines.

Hence why CGI actually looks worse now than it did a decade ago. I cannot even begin the enumerate the amount of truly horrendous shots I have seen make the theatrical cut of big Marvel and DC blockbusters. It's a bit loony that things have regressed this much.

Speaking specifically about Furiosa, I like Anya Taylor-Joy a lot as an actress but I don't think she works that well as young Furiosa. I think the biggest problem is that Charlize Theron caries herself in such a specific way - across all of her roles as well - and because of that I don't really buy Anya as the young version of Furiosa.

TBH Anya's appearance is always a bit weird to me. She looks like a high fashion model all the time which doesn't suit most of the roles she is in.

Charlize Theron is a very good actress and has a strong 'queen bee'/ alpha female vibe. I like her in Fury Road.

Fury road in the theaters was one of the best viewing experiences I've ever had. It had very convincing action that CG disbelief barely registered to me.

From what I see in the trailer the story is heavily related to the tie-in comics and the film:

Mad Max: Fury Road: Furiosa comic | Read Mad Max: Fury Road: Furiosa comic online in high quality (readcomiconline.li)

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Miller is very old now and CGI reliant is much easier to shoot.

Overall action films have massively declined in quality due to streaming & woke so I no longer have much interest in them.

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I think blockbusters have declined outside of any ideology. They just look shit compared to ten, twenty, even thirty years ago.

Part of that is the loss of some older movie techniques that honestly looked better than CGI.

Part of it is the "we will fix it in post" trend in which they don't properly get something in camera, decide to fix it in post only then don't do a proper job at that. So that's how you end up with truly shit shots making it into the finished movie (or TV show). It's embarrassing.

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This movie comes just in time as the US gov't is starting to admit to the public that they are losing the war in Ukraine..

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On 12/3/2023 at 9:56 AM, SympathysSilhouette said:

I think blockbusters have declined outside of any ideology. They just look shit compared to ten, twenty, even thirty years ago.

Part of that is the loss of some older movie techniques that honestly looked better than CGI.

Part of it is the "we will fix it in post" trend in which they don't properly get something in camera, decide to fix it in post only then don't do a proper job at that. So that's how you end up with truly shit shots making it into the finished movie (or TV show). It's embarrassing.

I recall in the mid-2000s there was news in film magazines that the practical effects industry was rapidly deteriorating / closing shop. So we don't see amazing real life set pieces much anymore.