Sentences with phrase «cgi action»

Along with local leaders of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, President Clinton will officially launch the CGI Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery on April 3 in Miami, Florida.
It's the fourth movie though that everyone takes issue with and for very valid reasons; a stupid plot, bad characters, CGI action scenes and Shia Labeuof.
What's worse, the movie abandons the franchise's carefully - cultivated trademarks in favor of a lot of nondescript CGI action sequences which feel interchangeable with similar flicks like Transformers and Doomsday.
While most of those movies relied on high - octane effects and a multitude of characters led by one or two big name stars, San Andreas amps up the levels of CGI action, though chooses to focus most of its attention on just the one troubled family, led by man - mountain Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson in perhaps his biggest, and indeed most important film role to date.
The first half is somewhat bogged down by scene - setting but the second half offers an exhilarating rush of dazzling CGI action and high - stakes drama.
Her extensive practical lighting compliments the cast's perfect complexion while diverting our eyes from the lazy backdrop and several weightless CGI action sequences.
A pleasing mix of old and new, «The Jungle Book» is a fine family film with CGI action and just enough musical numbers.
It's done with Jackson's usual aplomb, as cameras sweep like birds high over the CGI action and swoop in and out of various individual conflicts.
Filled with nostalgia for the kind of future Disney envisioned when he built the original Tomorrowland theme park in the 1950s, Bird's film borrows sci - fi tropes from «The Matrix,» «Stargate» and other films, mooshing them together with CGI action sequences (one of which, a rocket lifting off from the Eiffel Tower, is truly spectacular) and enough philosophizing to fill several TED talks.
Whatever its faults, at least Michael Bay's Transformers had the guts to film CGI action in daylight.
Running time: 87 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video DVD Extras: Deleted scenes, alternate opening, alternate ending, director's commentary, interviews with co-stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Laurence Fishburne, Patrick Stewart and the filmmakers, and a side - by - side comparison of the storyboards and corresponding CGI action.
While there are definitely some entertaining moments and it's performing well so far at the foreign box office, the film lacks in most areas and only offers mild appeal for serious CGI action enthusiasts.
It's also somewhat of a box office risk given the current CGI action - based film craze at the moment, however, the superior quality of the film speaks for itself as well as the box office.
I wish the movie weren't so visually junky - looking, and that the CGI action sequences (involving sand, and weapons, and the possible destruction of the world) weren't so vacant.
When there is no elaborate CGI action set piece on screen to wow the audience that is when the cracks really begin to show.
If you're looking for epic CGI action there is plenty, but if you're looking for more than that, see Man of Steel.
Waititi, lately of «Hunt for the Wilderpeople» and the fantastic vampire parody «What We Do in the Shadows,» has no discernible interest in delivering the usual CGI action blowouts (more on those later).
With previous director Tim Miller departed (to take on an actual Terminator movie), David Leitch steps into the breach and proves himself just as capable with this kind of heavy - CGI action as he did with the more grounded combat of John Wick and Atomic Blonde.
In a day of CGI action movies on steroids, this one is a throwback to a simpler time of «lonely girl desperately seeking love.»

Not exact matches

Since the «Star Wars» prequels, in which George Lucas was heavily criticized for using too much CGI to create the worlds and characters, many big - budget movies have tried to find that happy medium of practical and visual effects to give the action on screen a more grounded feel.
Advancing Women - Owned Businesses in New Markets, a «Commitment to Action» announced at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York City was created to address the challenges associated with advancing and promoting women in a competitive global economy and their effective integration into global supply chains.
Shooting the live - action backplate that the CGI flocks will «fly over.»
But a few others among us have the ability to become fully - fleshed comic book action heroes and perform amazing feats of strength without any CGI help — again, as long as they're given the right training regime and diet plan.
An exciting sequence at the Wizarding Bank Gringotts soon kicks off the action, with the inclusion of an extremely impressive looking CGI dragon.
You may not be able to remember the specifics of Rogue Nation's plot for more than a few weeks and yet you will remember how much fun you had letting it take you on its ride of high - octane spy action for which there is clearly still a place in today's CGI and green screen - heavy Hollywood.
One thing's for certain, Po is the perfect role for Jack Black, who I'd argue hasn't made a good live - action film in years, but nails it when made into a CGI panda.
It becomes less of a problem when we enter into full blown CGI - laden action sequence territory where fire and orcs are being flung around the place or when we get far away shots of the sweeping landscapes.
Other than a budget boost which means better CGI and more muscular action set - pieces, you'd be hard pressed to spot any major differences in the craft behind the two films, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
There's no reason the imaginative freedom that animation allows shouldn't be unleashed on adult themes, especially when graphic novels have entered the literary mainstream and when CGI has blurred the line between live action and animation in films like «300.»
I've read some reviews that really slam his direction and fumbling of the action scenes not to mention amateurish CGI.
Sure, some of the action scenes might have looked even better with stunt people instead of CGI fighters, but the wonderful production design more than makes up for it.
Using a crass mix of CGI and live action, this version bastardises her trickster bunny, reimagining him as a smirking «young rabbit in a blue coat, with no pants».
The sharp screenplay penned in part by Deadpool himself (Ryan Reynolds) never ceases its wit, and the comedic timing throughout is perfectly bolstered by the fast - paced cinematography and polished CGI that convincingly depicts interesting locations and frenetic action scenes.
Blending CGI and live action, this «squeakquel» to the witless 2007 kids» film proves just how dangerous such technology is when placed in the wrong hands.
And as the CGI effects aren't particularly sophisticated, they give the action sequences a cheesy feel.
If the prolonged fashion for action / CGI movies is based on dumbed - down Adventure movies without the heart, this show is all heart.
But then the action is muddled by some unnecessary and meaningless CGI pyrotechnics, a holdover character from a previous MCU film (a white dude, naturally) is shoved into the spotlight, and we all brace ourselves for the typical post-credits stinger.
The only thing that got this movie a 5 for me was the action and cinematography / CGI.
Despite the medium acting, the way too over the top and unrealistic action sequences, the bad CGI and the lack of great one - liners, the movie's biggest flaw is probably that it doesn't feel like a Die Hard movie.
While Harlin's big action sets in other films like Die Hard 2 suffered from an unfortunately dated sampling of CGI, everything you see in CutThroat Island has been constructed — and destroyed in grand fashion.
In fact I enjoyed it a lot more than most of the original trilogy, although much of this is down to natural progression with special effects and much less hokey - ass CGI laden action sequences.
Black Panther's third act is less impressive by comparison, as the movie's action gets bogged down in CGI overload and its plot beats lack the emotional resonance of earlier moments, either because they are rushed or a bit too conventional (re: predictable).
Bloated with CGI overindulgence and dialogue that is embarrassing the film relies on its action, which it hands out in spoonfuls.
The body movement of the characters in wolf mode is also impressively done with live action stunts and wire work I'm guessing, didn't look like CGI.
But if it may not sound quite right, the production certainly looks splendid, with the natural live - action backdrops (filmed in England's Lake District as well as in Sydney, Australia) doing idyllic justice to Potter's world, while the CGI hits impressively photorealistic fresh heights — right down to the rabbit fur that oscillates convincingly in those gentle country breezes.
While Iron Man 2 had some ups and downs like a rollercoasters, it still delivers high quality entertainment with its action scenes, less CGI, and solved the problems of the first Iron Man.
The CGI was ropey in places and what the hell was with the action scenes?
As Butch's cronies catch up to the train to free their hair - lipped leader, so begins one of many boisterous, off - the - rails set pieces, with justice - conscious John forced to step up and take action, and the whole thing coming to a dusty, inches - from - death halt after a few million dollars worth of CGI wreckage.
I'm not Marvel fan and I rarely watch anything that involve action / cgi.
i only wish those thousands went to work on movies of more substance than fighting robots... and you don't have to apologize to me, i can in fact compare «Real Steel» to «The Fast and the Frivolous» films because in essence they are one - in - the - same, simply just the flavor of the week kind of flicks that have no real pull behind them other than big name actors, CGI and a promise of action.
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