FX Overkill ?

[todd philip]

Look i really love the mummy movies, and every other stephen sommers movies, but van helsing was just TOO DAMN MUCH FX? do you agree?

[WDTSF]

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[MagsXGill29]

well, for a horror/scifi movie, what do you expect. It's not like you can go out and live right on location, with real werewolves ?

[Sock-Man]

Yeah there was way too much special effects in this movie. Fair enough with the monsters, but it seemed every 2 seconds something else was blowing up or there was some ridiculously elaborate set piece for the characters to prat around in.

[rayzor09]

mags has a point... butyou could use costumes and animatronics.

[MagsXGill29]

an animatronic werewolf ? That would look ever worse. Fur would be hard to get to look real.

[rayzor09]

or a COSTUME

[todd philip]

Originally posted by rayzor09
or a COSTUME custome would of been better then just pure cgi!

[dustindame]

there was to much.

[cerealkiller182]

there was way to much fx. when van helsing jumped from horse to horse trying to get back to the wagon, that could have been done with a stuntman. They've been doin that stuff for years. Also, did we really have to see the electricity inside frankenstein's head. That was a little stupid. Overall the monsters were pretty good, they flowed together with the rest of the film well.

[Inval1d]

the CGI and FX in VH were actually better looking than in the trailer. the trailer really made it look bad.

[Boods]

no i think its fine

[true fan11212]

For me, the fact that there were alot of VFX didn't bother me, but that they looked completely fake was the problem. I like CGI, unlike most, but it was just poorly done in VH.

[redorangeflower]

yes! way too many special effects in movies, Van Helsing was so overdone, no story what so ever!

[droidguy1119]

:rolleyes:

I dunno, I'm just getting tired of this discussion, because there's no point. The movie industry is not going to slow down their FX habit.

It has become cheaper to use effects. Also, a lot of what you might think is CGI is not, really -- for instance, say, Lord of the Rings, while almost all of the battling was CGI, very few of the backgrounds were. Underground and aboveground Isengard, the giant stairs, Mordor, the Black Gates, Minas Tirith, and Fangorn Forest, for example, are all models and not CGI.

[redorangeflower]

yes WAY too many special effetc. I do not mind if it is a good story, but when the story is scarificed for the lure of big effects then we all loose out as movie watchers!

[Andrey83]

Then dont watch it.....I dont see the problem here.....

[Alien]

It wasn't over kill of FX just over kill of bad FX.

[PsYkOoOoO]

Too much effects is fine.

But,too many lousy effects.Thats a pain in the ass.

[Andrey83]

^^ agree!

Some movies just need to have effects. But they have to be good to be enjoyable....