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Agreed. Alien 3's problem was that it came out when every action movie thought it needed CGI, even though CGI wasn't ready at the time. So scenes with the alien
by Touche 9y ago
Agreed. Alien 3's problem was that it came out when every action movie thought it needed CGI, even though CGI wasn't ready at the time. So scenes with the aliens look comically bad, like a cheap video game.
- hmstx 9y agoI'm not sure whether you mean the alien shots look bad because they had to use primitive CGI? That movie's pretty much all man-in-suit and practical props, with a number of shots using rod puppets on blue screen. Those shots do look bad, but it's because of the bad compositing (not sure if optical compositing or bad, early digital compositing, the blacks and matte lines are horrible). True CGI would have looked and moved worse. There's pretty much one CGI shot in there though, and that's when the alien's head dome crackles under thermal shock in the foundry (looks like CGI crackles comped onto man-in-suit plate, from memory). Haven't watched the "behind the scenes DVD" features in a couple years though. I think it even has Richard Edlund and Tom Woodruff talking about how they were one of the last movies to do most everything the old way at that time. I'd say Alien 3's bigger problem is the development hell it suffered from, as mentioned by others.
- Touche 9y agoThank you for the info! Very interesting. I always though it was bad CGI, couldn't imagine it was anything else.
- ekianjo 9y ago> even though CGI wasn't ready at the time. Excuse me ? Terminator 2 came out in the very same year, and had fantastic CGI. It's just a matter of who works on them, even at the time.