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The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules.

Monday, January 24, 2011

CGI blood. Needs to go.

Am I the only one that fucking HATES CGI blood? It is awful. Totally awful. Anything that takes you out of the moment of a movie sucks. Take for example the movie I watched tonight, Harry Brown, a fantastic gripping drama starring Michael Caine. Every scene that featured Harry Brown enacting violence on the drug dealing thugs that killed his best friend, which all came off as incredibly intense and engrossing, were ruined somewhat by the use of CGI blood. You can't help but be taken out of the scene looking at how bad this special effect is. With all the money Hollywood puts into these movies and all the advancements in CGI technology, you would think that the blood they add into the movie would look less jarring then it does. Even though 300 and Watchmen use a lot of digital effects and backgrounds, the blood still looks incredibly fake. The fact that I can believe and barely notice Harry Potter carrying or holding Dobby at the end of Deathly Hallows part 1 makes me even more frustrated with CGI blood. How can they make that so realistic, but when it comes to a guy getting shot in the neck and blood pouring out in Harry Brown it looks like the type of special effects you would see in 70's sci-fi flick. Now I don't know the specifics of how much prop blood is, but whatever the price studios need to start investing more money in it. As fantastic a movie Harry Brown is, which I highly recommend, the CGI effects took some of the greatness away. Now I love 300, Shoot 'em Up, Watchmen, and Ninja Assassin, but, BUT, the fact remains CGI blood makes some of the scenes in these movies look like B-movie effects. The fact that directors would put something in their movies that would hurt it is something I still can't grasp my mind across. Whatever the reason, they need to realize that this is a failed experiment and it needs to go. Seriously......

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