This film jumped the shark VISUALLY with the HORRIBLE CGI at the end!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Passion of the Christ
Navaros — 9 years ago(September 25, 2016 07:38 PM)
The
HORRIBLE
CGI at the end of this film caused this film to
jump the shark
VISUALLY
, big-time!
Up until then, the film was a 10/10 in terms of visually creating a 100% authentic & believable world.
Then when the ultra-blatantly-obvious-uber-fake CGI appeared, the authenticity of the visual world instantly dropped to 0/10 and 0%.
I don't know what Mel was thinking when he decided to put that craptastic CGI into this film, but whatever he was thinking, it was wrong. Instead, he should have made this film with no CGI at all. The CGI in this film does to POTC the same thing as what Mr. Bean does to Whistler's Mother in the first Mr. Bean cinematic film. What a shame!
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marty-130-840283 — 9 years ago(September 26, 2016 08:46 AM)
what CGI? can you please be specific.
I know they used CGI to make Jesus torture wounds appear. And they used an animatronic dummy, when Jesus is nailed to the cross, and they turn it over 180 degrees with a thud. -
Navaros — 9 years ago(September 26, 2016 09:18 AM)
The CGI on Jesus' hands is indeed one major example of horrible fakeness and total visual unbelievability. My OP is referring to that, and also to things like:
- The ridiculous CGI-based aerial shot immediately after Jesus dies.
- The equally ridiculous CGI water that hits the ground in the next shot
- The CGI-based dust/debris/falling rocks/fog (although I'm not entirely sure if the fog is always or sometimes CGI or notbut I can tell the scenes with the fog in them have been digitally altered) etc. during the storm
- The ridiculous CGI blood that comes out when the soldier pierces the side of Jesus' body
- The CGI-based aerial shot when Satan is spazzing-out
- The CGI-based shroud
It's almost like Mel gave up directing in the last 10 minutes and gave the CGI guys carte blanche to do whatever they wanted. The result is a visual disaster.
"Science creates fictions to explain facts" Gilman
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Underdog_73 — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 07:48 AM)
This film jumped the shark VISUALLY with the HORRIBLE CGI at the end!
Without a doubt, the worst, incorrect use of the term "jumped the shark", I've ever seen. It's not even possible for a
movie
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Rumble_McSkirmish — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 08:10 AM)
It's not even possible for a movie to have "jumped the shark".
(of a television series or movie) reach a point at which far-fetched events are included merely for the sake of novelty, indicative of a decline in quality.
Please stop. Stupidity hurts
Panzer vor! -
Underdog_73 — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 09:57 AM)
(of a television series or movie) reach a point at which far-fetched events are included merely for the sake of novelty, indicative of a decline in quality.
Please stop. Stupidity hurts
Hey, dumbass, just because you found someone else who doesn't understand the meaning, and that someone put it on the internet, it doesn't make it so. The stupidity of people like you, who change the meaning of things, due to ignorance, and take those changes as fact, is infinite. It's sad. It reminds me of the idiotic non words Websters adds every year. Instead of educating people we make them stupider by enabling that stupidity. You are a perfect example. -
Rumble_McSkirmish — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 09:09 AM)
Well, that was google's definition, but if that's what you think, here's wiki
""Jumping the shark" is attempting to draw attention to or create publicity for something that is perceived as not warranting the attention, especially something that is believed to be past its peak in quality or relevance."
Movies and tv shows jump the shark all the damned time. Pretty much every sequel of a movie jumps the shark. Even video games jump the sharkI mean it's a friggen TV trope for god's sake. I'm sorry you don't seem to understand what the term means or how it is applied, but that's life for the idiotic
But I'm glad to see the fundamentalist attitude lives on here, and like them, you've chosen a very stupid hill to die on.
Panzer vor! -
Underdog_73 — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 07:16 PM)
Jumping the Shark, as Joan Jimenez's answer clearly states, is basically the point at which a TV show crosses the line into being completely ridiculous and unbelievable.
It originates from an episode of Happy Days, when the Fonz decides to literally jump a shark.
I can find countless definitions that support my point as well. It means nothing. If you're too dimwitted to do your own research and conclude correctly, you're beyond help. A guy coined the term in the 80s. It was solely pertaining to TV series. He even started a website of hundreds of TV series, and the point in time they jumped the shark.
Just because the majority of the population started using the term incorrectly, and that caught on, it doesn't make it right. Though society usually bends to the morons, so majority will probably win. Be stupid with the mob, or not. Your choice. -
Rumble_McSkirmish — 9 years ago(December 08, 2016 06:53 AM)
I can find countless definitions that support my point as well.
Your "point" was that a movie couldn't jump the shark when it quite honestly can and does happen. Here's some popular ones
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Home Alone 3 (1997)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Jaws 3-D (1982)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Rambo III (1988)
Batman Forever (1995)
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
A guy coined the term in the 80s. It was solely pertaining to TV series.
If you're too dimwitted to do your own research and conclude correctly, you're beyond help
I hope you're trolling at this point, because Jesus christ..
Just because the majority of the population started using the term incorrectly
Hahahhahahahait's gotta be a kibl sock. It has to be, there can't be two people in the world this stupid.
So tell me, do you think the term "son of a gun" actually means someone was birthed by cannons? That the term "bite the bullet" means to literally bite a bullet? Do you think "throwing someone under the bus" means a group of people literally throws some poor soul under a bus?
It's like staring into an abyss of retardation.Do you think that means there really is a physical cavern to stare down?
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Underdog_73 — 9 years ago(December 08, 2016 08:27 AM)
Wow, you truly are too stupid for words. I can't compete with a brain that can't work on a normal human level. I don't speak moron.
None of your examples even make the slightest bit of sense. I mean you're even too stupid to know the meaning of "literally" Is a son of a gun an actual son of a firearm? Does bite the bullet mean to go bite a bullet? Huh? Those both sound like they came out of the mouth of an insolent, learning disabled, sarcastic, middle schooler. Where did I, or anyone, say the term "jumping the shark" means to go out and actually jump over a shark. If this is your level of comprehension it all makes sense to me now.
There's not a doubt in my mind, in real life, you're a failure and are constantly belittled. You win. Stupid is a language I don't speak, and don't want to speak. -
Rumble_McSkirmish — 9 years ago(December 09, 2016 07:11 PM)
Where did I, or anyone, say the term "jumping the shark" means to go out and actually jump over a shark.
you're the one complaining about the original term being the only term, and the original term does mean literally jumping the shark. Fonzie literally jumped a shark.
The phrase jump the shark is based on a scene in the fifth season premiere episode of the American TV series Happy Days titled "Hollywood: Part 3," written by Fred Fox, Jr.,[5] which aired on September 20, 1977. In the episode, the central characters visit Los Angeles, where a water-skiing Fonzie (Henry Winkler) answers a challenge to his bravery by wearing swim trunks and his trademark leather jacket, and jumping over a confined shark. The stunt was created as a way to showcase Winkler's real-life water ski skills.[6] However, the scene also was criticized as betraying Fonzie's character development, since in an earlier landmark-episode, Fonzie jumped his motorcycle over fourteen barrels in a televised stunt; the stunt left him seriously injured, and he confessed that he was stupid to have taken such a dangerous risk just to prove his courage.
If you're gonna dick around with this, at least be concise.
Panzer vor! -
Underdog_73 — 9 years ago(December 10, 2016 02:29 AM)
the original term does mean literally jumping the shark. Fonzie literally jumped a shark.
The "term" is used for TV shows, OTHER than Happy Days, and it was NEVER meant literally. You clearly don't know the English language and should stop using words that are too big for your tiny brain. The term itself is quite the opposite of literal. The fact you think any of it has to do with actually jumping over a shark, tells us all we need to know about you. Thanks for doing my job for me.
If you're gonna dick around with this, at least be concise.
Hahahaha..another word you don't understand. Concise? Seriously? Please stop. You're just embarrassing yourself further. Another word you clearly don't understand. It makes zero sense in the context youbused it in, unless you truly need me to use less words because you cant keep up. You're ignorant to quite a few definitions. I wonder how many people are subjected to your stupidity on a daily basis. I'm sure they're too kind to let you know you sound like a moron. You're truly a mental giant. Stick with one syllable words. -
Underdog_73 — 9 years ago(December 10, 2016 02:27 PM)
Alright, ya got me troll.
9/10, got me to reply, used kibl tactics
I'm sure what you said made sense in your head, but I'm sorry. I don't speak idiot. Why you want to continue showing the world just how completely void of intelligence you are, boggles the mind.
By the way, we've added another word to the list. The definition of "troll" is lost on you as well. Maybe you'd succeed if you try to just use grunts to communicate. It's more up your alley. Words are just too hard for you. -
uther8 — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 09:55 AM)
Hey, dumbass, just because you found someone else who doesn't understand the meaning, and that someone put it on the internet, it doesn't make it so.
Jumping the shark is a term than can be applied to TV show, film, book or any other narrative form. It applies when a story goes beyond it's source's believabilty, beyond suspension of disbelief etc. The Serpent and the Raimbow, for example, is accused of jumping the shark because of it' over the top effects-ridden climax, when no such event ttook place in the original text.
Just because you're ignorant of the term doesn't mean you're right - it just means you're ignorant.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free - Goethe -
Underdog_73 — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 07:18 PM)
Just because you're ignorant of the term doesn't mean you're right - it just means you're ignorant.
Without a doubt the best example of irony I've ever seen. You're too stupid to waste additional time on. See my reply to the other genius. -
uther8 — 9 years ago(December 08, 2016 12:53 AM)
Without a doubt the best example of irony I've ever seen.
Clearly you haven't been reading your own posts then.
You're too stupid to waste additional time on. See my reply to the other genius.
Proving that you can't refute the facts and thus have to resort to personal attacks. Well done. You prove my point succinctly.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free - Goethe -
Underdog_73 — 9 years ago(December 08, 2016 08:42 AM)
Clearly you haven't been reading your own posts then.
The "I know you are, but what am I?" retort is never used by anyone over the age of 10. Then again, it seems you're emotionally stunted, void of the ability to think like a grown up, so it must seem valid to you. Sad. The last resort of the intellectually bankrupt.
Proving that you can't refute the facts and thus have to resort to personal attacks. Well done. You prove my point succinctly.
I did refute your "facts". I told you to read the other post. I'm not surprised that was too difficult for you. I dont have the patience to type the same thing to 2 morons.
Furthermore, look up the definition of the word fact. You clearly aren't intelligent enough to comprehend the meaning. I refuted your stupidity. None of it was fact.
by uther8 (Wed Dec 7 2016 09:55:04)
it just means you're ignorant.
As for personal atracks, are you seriously as brain dead as you seem to be? You came out of nowhere and started with the insults. Idiot. I just replied in kind. The fact that you start a conversation with insults, cry when it's done back to you, and worse, completely miss the fact that you started it, well, that's a case of stupid that can't be cured or even treated.
Nothing further can be gained by wasting any additional time on you. You're a moron and you're content to be a moron. I'm sure I'm not the first to try to convince you of that. I bow and concede. Like I told your lover, I can't compete with this level of stupidity. -
uther8 — 9 years ago(December 09, 2016 12:26 AM)
I did refute your "facts". I told you to read the other post.
Just repeating your own erroneous assertions does mnot refute anything, it just repeats your error. The fact that I was responding to your idiotic "refutations" in the first place merely underscores your ignorance.
But like a baby you cry "you called me names" of which is absolutely a lie - check this thread, no name calling from me - and then continue to call names like the baby you are yourself because you are intellectually stunted. Yes, you're a feckwit. We get it
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free - Goethe