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Spielberg’s slow-motion capture: How CGI can cause great film-makers to take leave of their senses
Posted:Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:00:18 +0000
Thirty-four years ago, Steven Spielberg created the just-about perfect family movie in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. So his reunion with that film’s screenwriter, Melissa Mathison, should have been something to cherish.
But for the first hour of The BFG, I watched in bafflement, amazed that this writer-director partnership could have created something so lifeless. And I couldn’t help wonder whether the film’s narrative weakness was fatally bound up with one of its undeniable strengths – the motion control techniques used to render its titular character.
My uneasy feeling is that CGI has the potential to make even the most accomplished genre film-makers lose their instinct for looking critically at their own work.
Derived from Roald Dahl’s hugely popular novel, The BFG is the tale of orphan Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) who is taken away by a giant (Mark Rylance), with no apparent hope of return to the human world.…
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IS THERE A “PERFECT” MOVIE? Review of “GROUNDHOG DAY”
Posted:Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:00:13 +0000
Have I written this column before? Have I written this column before? Steve asks, as he takes a closer look at Groundhog Day, a classic “time-warp” movie with Bill Murray. -
The Retro Look and Stranger Things
Posted:Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:00:47 +0000
Designer M. D. Jackson defends the visual style of the Netflix series Stranger Things, saying that its retro 80s look is a deliberate homage. -
Computer Generated Images and the Eye of the Beholder Part 4
Posted:Fri, 12 Aug 2016 15:00:20 +0000
M. D. Jackson's final installment on the history of visual effects in cinema takes us from the CGI revolution of Jurassic Park to the present. -
De Razas y Sexos Pasando por Gente que Parece no Tener una Vida Real
Posted:Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:01:07 +0000
Tanya Tynjala takes on sexism in Spanish fandom. -
Do Not Barco Engage Yet, Mister Sulu!
Posted:Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:59:00 +0000
One screen good, three screens better? Not, as Ira Nayman found, in the case of a screening of Star trek: Beyond in Barco Escape. -
Computer Generated Images and the Eye of the Beholder: Part 3
Posted:Fri, 05 Aug 2016 15:00:52 +0000
In the third part of his history of computer generated imagery, M. D. Jackson takes us from The Last Starfighter to Terminator 2, with a side trip to the Italian renaissance. -
All Sci-Fi Friday Chat – Earth vs the Flying Saucers!
Posted:Fri, 05 Aug 2016 14:59:16 +0000
Washington gets attacked tonight by flying saucers with death rays! -
I finally saw Avatar and I’ve rarely been so conflicted.
Posted:Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:01:17 +0000
Darren Slade has come late to the Avatar party, and has mixed feelings about what he found there. -
San Diego Comic Con and the Ungrateful Fanboys
Posted:Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:03:30 +0000
We live in a golden age of science fiction and fantasy as highlighted by San Diego Comic Convention, but all some fanboys know how to do is whine about it.
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