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7 - They make good actors look terrible
Just stand in front of this green screen and wave your arms around. An Oscar's a shoe-in.
The acting world appears to be divided into good actors, bad actors and good actors unless they’re in a CGI-heavy film. Some people, such as Christopher Lee, can somehow manage to garble any old gibberish about trade federations while surrounded by shiny robots, yet still come across as a respectable elder statesman that you’d be proud to introduce to your grandmother. Others, such as Ewan McGregor, can demonstrate great acting ability in other films, but might as well be in ‘Byker Grove’ when they have to enact a whole film in front of a blue screen.
It can’t be easy acting in front of a green screen, of course. You might have some idea of what’s going to be happening around you from the storyboard, but you don’t really have any concrete context to base your acting around. This would easily be solved by using real scenery and real models as much as possible, and then using computers to clean up the effects, or to add a few bits here and there.
- 10 - Monsters mugging for the cameras
- 9 - Jar Jar Binks
- 8 - They make 'Making of' documentaries really dull
- 6 - They can ruin classic films
- 5 - Models just look more real
- 4 - Size, scale and movement are all virtually impossible to get right
- 3 – The compulsion to make everything unfeasibly shiny
- 2 - Animals look like they're floating
- 1 - Overcomplicated and overlong
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