Guillermo del Toro shared an emphatic message about artificial intelligence in filmmaking while accepting the Vanguard T
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SpiritCookingwithLeo — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 07:53 PM)
The alleged bad cgi was actually just overly artificia looking color grading. I thought the arctic scenes with the ship were cgi too, but no, they built the ship. The scenery was real too. He specifically didnt want to use cgi for those scenes. Ironic because the color grading made everyone think it was cgi.
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Loki — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 08:41 PM)
I wasn't suggesting the use of real animals. I'm merely stating that those particular cgi wolves was bad cgi. The bear in The Revenant wasn't real but it sure looked a whole lot more real than those wolves and that movie was years ago.
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Booger! — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 08:50 PM)
No you did not and I'm sorry if it read that way. Totally get where you're coming from…better cgi
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Loki — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 09:00 PM)
No worries! Well now you're forewarned that while it is a good movie, there's going to be a wtf cgi wolf moment or two.
I don't have a problem with cgi either (I love a lot of the MCU movies so I'm accustomed to seeing quite a lot of it) but those wolves. Oh boy.
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Prince Mongo — 3 months ago(December 06, 2025 11:08 PM)
Like you I love his early movies and his newer ones haven't done much for me.
Pan's Labyrinth is in my top 10 of all time.
I found Frankenstein quite an odd movie: the first half is convoluted and turgid, then the second half is oddly derivative and feels like a children's tv show.
It barely feels good enough for cinematic release. Very much a straight to Netflix special.
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Prince Mongo — 3 months ago(December 06, 2025 11:45 PM)
What's also strange is it's stylistically beautiful (par for the course with del Toro) one moment then as you say it has garbage CGI.
Odd movie
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Loki — 3 months ago(December 07, 2025 12:17 AM)
Yes, that was my main issue. What I call the "video game treatment". Totally out of place here. And he managed to make certain set designs look both cheap and expensive.
. He even hammered home with the bluntest of objects one of the points of the film, just in case the audience is too stupid to recognise who the real monster was.
But I did enjoy it though. I'm only pointíng these things out because good it is, but film of the year? Well then you're not watching enough movies (not YOU you, the general form of "you"(. -
soapbox original gangster — 4 months ago(December 03, 2025 07:14 PM)
but what about a positive benefit from HollywoodAI? i would love to see AI and all its variants and capabilities bring to life the long, long dead from Hollywood. one example: Orson wells left behind tons of partially written/unfinished screenplays and story boards. why is it wrong for AI to examine the works, ingest the writing styles, ferment the ideas, and then birth "original" works by Wells? to synthesize brand new projects?
same for resurrecting and reanimating actors: let AI create them anew and have Bogart, and Cary grant come alive again on the screen!
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