What live-action films would be impossible if CGI had not invented?

Too many times CGI is just icing on the cake and seems to overwhelm the viewer. The story is the real key issue in any movie. (If there was no CGI, movie makers would still tackle stories and create excellent movie experiences) You don't need CGI artists to make a movie better or great, you just need a quality story, quality acting and directing.
 
[snip]True, but I saw both the Bashki LOTR and Wizards and IMO, that was a subtraction from the experience. I really wound disliking both films for it's use.

I really feel WIZARDS wouldn't be WIZARDS without the rotoscoping. As for LOTR, I still do like it - I have yet to see the Jackson films.

[snip]In it's day, Waterloo was one of the most expensive movies made, and literally took 17,000 Soviet Army soldiers for the battle scenes. That level of governmental support requires diplomacy and big money. That's not always a possibility.

Don't forget KONIGSBURG, Goebbels's propaganda masterpiece shot in 1944. Thousands of troops pulled out of Russia who were desperately needed to hold the line to use as extras, thousands of uniforms and blank musket rounds manufactured despite a lack of uniforms and ammunition on all fronts. All for a film now banned almost everywhere...
 
Harry Potter would be impossible without CGI. All the magic effects, strange creatures and the fantastical locations require CGI in order to work.

I might direct you towards The Dark Crystal, the Neverending Story series, Labyrinth (featuring David Bowie), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and so on. It wouldn't look as spectacular, but it could still work.

Although, it might be better off as an animated film series, if only to get around the terrible child acting issues the first films suffered from.
 
Top