Implying modern CGI can ever compete with this

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No but I got pulled off watching a movie if you know what I mean

Tilted set

I think the whole set is set at an angle. And they either fill in the water really quick or dunk the whole set inside a pool or something

Still never seen this. Looks pretty awesome though.

you should see it, user, you won't regret it

I have no excuse, I love Cameron's older movies.

You should read about the underwater filming of "The Abyss" where Cameron almost killed the actors and himself.

They tilted the water

There's a reason it's one of the biggest films of all time.

CGI is for stuff you can't do with practical effects, too bad most Directors/Producers abuse it, instead of using it properly.
t.3D artist.

> While filming one of many takes of Mastrantonio's character's resuscitation scene—in which she was soaking wet, topless and repeatedly being slapped and pounded on the chest—the camera ran out of film, prompting Mastrantonio to storm off the set yelling, "We are not animals!". Cameron replied that humans were indeed animals.

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> Harris recalled: "One day we were all in our dressing rooms and people began throwing couches out the windows and smashing the walls. We just had to get our frustrations out."[6] Cameron responded to these complaints, saying, "For every hour they spent trying to figure out what magazine to read, we spent an hour at the bottom of the tank breathing compressed air."

holy frikkin based, lois...

Yikes

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>he never heard of Noah's Ark by Michael Curtiz

ah-bloo-bloo

>modern CGI can ever compete with this

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Maybe it's the compression but leos face looks weird af in that.

Name a more based director, come on, I'il wait.

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I remember when they rereleased to theaters in 2012 and holy shit those CGI boat scenes with people walking around looked horrible. All the people were the same render.

How did he go from that to making alienshit movie that is almost entirely CGI?
It's like he gave up on the art

>CGI is for stuff you can't do with practical effects,
This right here.

Peter Jackson's LoTR series is probably the best use of practical effects, old school film trickery, and CGI that's been done so far.

The T-Rex still looks as good as it was back then.

youtube.com/watch?v=WSM8GcShChk

>looks really dangerous
its water moran

>modern CGI can ever compete with this

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some people say that they faceswapped the actors face onto body double stunt people

kids in mauritania could drink this water

That's dudes hand right on the matte box. I bet his finger made an appearance in that shot.

the OG independence day is fucking GREAT because it's all practical effects

Retard

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stuntmen, you sjw cancer

>sjw

wat

But there's a man and a woman body double, therefore saying stuntpeople is not wrong you sensitive faggot. Also telling someone to use another term because the term they used offended you is the most "sjw" thing one can do, so really you're no better/different than the "sjw cancer" you hate so much.

How will actors ever recover?

I thought Winslets face looked off more than Di Caprios. Makes sense

>T-Rex still looks as good as it was back then.
It really does. And yet today film makers are just letting CGI do all the work and it looks like ass.

A lot of the dinos were animatronics though. In one scene the T-rex was animatronic though the legs were CGI for example.

Right, it was a good blend of all the techniques available, and arguably a better job than a lot of films today that just rely on CGI.

That's because they were pioneers and inventors making use of a newly expanded toolkit, not hacks using a crutch like the people who followed them. All the designers had experience with models and puppets and knew how to make those look real, and applied their expertise in this new way. One guy even studied elephants because they were the largest land animals around to study.

Only scene you need to watch
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They definitely did, zoom in on Kate Winslets.

That's impressive

That's a visual representation of the actual wave of stench washing over people at the mall when OP and his mother go shopping.

That's almost entirely animatronics, there's only like 6 minutes of CGI in the entire film

How do they get the water to make those slopes?

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The entire set was built inside a giant water tank and it gets dropped into the water to flood it for each take and then it gets raised back up again

Wut movie?

How did he go from this, to fucking Avatar?

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It looks like they're having so much fun.

Why does the water look fake?

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You've never seen a ship flood and sink from the inside before so it's easier for your brain to think it's fake than to imagine how complicated it is to make that happen for a movie

Anti gravity device

>conquer practical effects
>move on to conquering digital effects
That's my theory anyway, shame about the actual film though.

>mfw i banged her chubby cousin
>mfw she stole my watch
it wasn't even a fancy watch.

based

Can someone put joaquins joker face on leo in this scene??

They built sets that could tilt, the water is filling from the floor of the set

Peter Weller was amazing in that scene. I don't know why the abyss got shit on its a great movie.

nah cgi is for everything you're too lazy to do with practical effects

Tell that to David Fincher, his movies use a ton of CGI for things you'd never even notice

I definitely notice. That's why Fincher movies look so artificial and unnatural.

How many people died?

They had Moses on set.

cameron is a sadist

6 million

>How did they get the water to rise at an angle like that at the start?
Cameron invented an anti-gravity device for the movie. It only works on water. The government tried to make him sell it to them, so he threatened to drown the entire Pacific Fleet with it. Then he shot it into the sun so that nobody would ever get it. Don't fuck with James Cameron.

Only women and fags like Titanic. Gay ass movie.

did they just get a bunch of really experienced swimmers for this or something? looks super dangerous

Probably plus a fuckton of divers and rescue equipment everywhere

this

You should see the video where he talks about the helicopter stunts from T2 and how none of the camera men wanted to be the ones filming it so he did it himself

It's a good movie. The characters kinda suck and Dicap can't act outside his persona but the effects and climax are great.