True, up to a point
But I also have a fondness for Texan bars, though I wouldn't want to eat one now as I have to pay for my own dentistry.

The good thing about shit special effects was that they realised they had to use it sparingly and pad out the running time with, you know, ideas, and snappy dialogue and acting and stuff. Rather than just do endless CGI action sequences.

It doesn't have to be that way, though; the recent trend to 'reimagine' superheroes generally comes with a requirement to write better scripts and use better actors, and get them to behave realistically (as realistically as an invincible alien or billionaire costumed vigilante can). Compare the first Christopher Revve Superman film to Man of Steel, for instance. The effects in MoS are miles better (so 'realistic' that much of the second half of the film is lost from view behind the CGI smoke and dust which, let's face it, would be billowing around if two invincible aliens were throwing one another into buildings, etc.) But the new boy is just a better actor that Christopher Reeve ever was called on to be, bless his rusty iron lung.

I'm all for these reimaginings for those very reasons. What I really wanted the remake of Total Recall to be was a shot-for shot remake using CGI instead of stop-motion for close-up FX and models for long shots. Ideally using the same actors, even the original footage as much as they could. But no, they had to go and 're-imagine' it in a bollocks way instead. Wankers.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 15:15, 2 replies)

You make some good points
...but your argument was let down by how relentlessly shit Man Of Steel was. Seriously, one of the worst films I've ever seen, and one that would have benefited from having its effects "used sparingly".

Actually, that would have left very little of the film... So, a plan with no drawbacks!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 15:58, closed)

I ate a Texan bar, once.
I think it was Hooters.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 30 Aug 2013, 17:54, closed)