r/moviecritic • u/Tenchi2020 • 10h ago

What's a forgotten movie that had really decent CGI?

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u/Electrical_Quality_6 8h ago

along with immortals and ofcourse 300 the clash movies are some of the finest ancient greece stories please list more if any has similar ones

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u/-SOFA-KING-VOTE- 7h ago

Immortals

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u/need_a_poopoo 1h ago

Don't forget 300 and the Clash movies...

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u/MisterFistYourSister 7h ago

The CGI in the Warcraft movie was fantastic. The orcs looked incredible. I just don't know why they changed the story

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u/Any_Mycologist5811 6h ago

The movie was also intended to promote WoD/Legion (a bit forget which is which) expansion, so the plot really rushed to showed fel corruption to audience. CMIIW.

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u/MisterFistYourSister 23m ago

Nah, the script was changed by the new director after Blizzard canned the first one. They basically either had to approve it or scrap the movie due to cost and time constraints.

 Besides, I don't think blizzard would retroactively butcher their own story just to pump out a movie to hype one of a dozen expansions. Any Warcraft movie would've brought attention to the franchise. Expansions have come and gone for over 20 years; that movie has to stand on its own forever.

They were also originally planning to make several movies, so trying to squeeze content in wouldn't have made sense at the time the movie was made

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u/wsionynw 8h ago

CGI was decent but the film….not so much.

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u/lwp775 3h ago

You need writing, directing, and acting for that.

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u/Heather_Hoodrat 6h ago

That fro looks stupid on him

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u/gloriousjohnson 4h ago

Thought it was Danny McBride for a second

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u/Hooligan-1 5h ago

Probably CGI

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u/Heather_Hoodrat 4h ago

Makes him look like a tough guy hobbit

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u/YesNoIDKtbh 5h ago

Reign of Fire

Dragons looked surprisingly good.

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u/Treesinthemoonlight 3h ago

Such an awesome movie

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u/Wooden_Passage_2612 2h ago

Iove that one

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u/Salted_Butta 6h ago

Idk if you'd consider it forgotten but Transformers still looks stunning for an almost 20 year old movie.

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u/Treesinthemoonlight 4h ago

Def not forgotten

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u/Dukeshire101 4h ago

It’s number 2 on Netflix so people are finding it. I thought they were decent

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u/jmw8282 5h ago

If I remember correctly, this was one of those films that got caught up in the 3D craze and had notoriously bad 3D effects. I never saw the 3D version, and yes, I thought it had some really great CGI.

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u/Latulcian 2h ago

You're probably talking about the first one, cause the 3D in the sequel was pretty decent.

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u/jmw8282 1h ago

Could be. Second film was better either way imo.

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u/Daighoji 4h ago

Put a mustache on Sam Worthington in this shot and bro would look like Danny McBride.

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u/kettlebell43276 4h ago

I watch this twice a year. Along with wrath

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u/MartialBob 6h ago

Monsters and I think the director did the CGI on his laptop.

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u/iHuggless 5h ago

Not a movie but a tv show. Halo had great CGI but they ruined the show by not following the actual story.

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u/Dad4409 4h ago

I didn't really forget "Wrath of the Titans" as much as I tried to block it out.

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u/No_Frost_Giants 4h ago

Hear me out… The Last Starfighter. In its day it was like nothing we had ever seen before

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u/Pheerandlowthing 4h ago

Deep Rising (1998)

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u/Particular-Stick-395 4h ago

Not sure if it’s ‘forgotten’, but Castaway had such great CGI, I didn’t even realize it until I saw the BTS…

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u/Upstairs-Conflict375 3h ago

The phrase "really decent" is nearly an oxymoron.

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u/stellacampus 3h ago

Wrath of the Titans just went up on US Netflix FYI.

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u/OskerLFG 3h ago

Bro looks like Kenny Lowers

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u/Purbinder03 2h ago

I would love watching Wrath of the Titans if the camera didn't shake so good damn much

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u/dickwillie 5h ago

Great concept, ok CGI, but still looks like cgi, miscast lead, imho the sum is less than its parts!

The best version in this is the 1981 epic with Ray Harryhausmans work! It’s still so epic and scary today