Why do people not like CGI today (and dont tell me they dont)?

[LilyRT]

personally, it ticks me off that movie studies think CGI will make up for a crummy script (i.e. Star Wars EP 1-3) and bad acting (Star Wars EP 1-3).

In animation, I'm a big fan of Pixar, but people seem to think CGI vs. handdrawn was the reason Disney films weren't doing well. They were flopping because the stories weren't any good. I like computer animation, but hand drawn has a distinctive look that's also appealling and shouldn't be abandoned wholesale. One of the best animated movies in the past ten years (Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Wererabbit) was stop-motion, which has been abandoned by everybody. IT'S THE STORY NOT THE CGI THAT MAKES A MOVIE!!!

Plus, part of the fun in older movies, was being amazed at the stuff people put on screen and wondering how in the heck they did it. That's when people talked about "movie magic". But nobody talks about movie magic anymore. They just assume it was done on computers and complain that they'd do it differently. The thrill isn't what it was.

EDIT: yes, I realize I just said how excited I was by the Tron sequel. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

 

[markwillstar]

Seems like ever since the Star Wars prequels were made all i hear is people complain how CGI ruined Disney and other movies. They talk of why dont we see 90's style movies where they were hand drawn.

But then i commented on a question a minute ago, where TRON was made.

In 1982 when TRON was made, Disney refused to directly participate all though it as their computer company that made the movie, because they felt Hand Drawing was the only way to go.

20 years later Hand Drawing department was closed to let CGI dept take over fully.

I dont get why people put down CGI.

Star Wars EP 1-3 was put off for 20 years because Lucas wanted better ways to do his movies, and CGI was that way.