CMV: The entertainment industry should stop using CGI and go back to practical effects.

Title basically says it all. Originally posted this in r/kingcobrajfs but it has about 38 subscribers so it got lost in the void.<br><br>I know that the Marvel movies and other blockbuster films are all about a realistic look, but in my opinion that doesn't mesh well with the entire "Movie" concept and would be more geared towards like Short TV shows (i.e. Black Mirror) or TV shows.<br><br>To me, whenever I see a move, I like to feel as though I'm seeing a live action cartoon. By that I mean that I want to be able to tell when whats real and when whats fake. It's the exact opposite with Marvel and Star Wars, where they go so far in their quest for realism that it's impossible to differentiate.<br><br>For example, whenever I see Iron Man or any of the huge action scenes in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it reminds me of playing a cut scene for a video game, where they show you what you're about to face, but then they'll just drag it on for 30 minutes at a time instead of changing the pace up at all.<br><br>On the other hand, if you look at movies like Alien, Terminator 2, or Robocop, you can tell what is fake and what is real, but they all have a realistic feeling to them due to the manipulation of shadows and lighting. It creates a more eerie, tense feeling to me because I can see a physical model or actor in front of me, whereas with CGI it just feels like a screen recording from a computer.<br><br>This is also true for Horror movies, i.e. The Thing vs. The Nun, where one is extremely suspenseful because you can see the terrifying creatures in front of you, whereas the other one is very bland and boring in comparison, and in my opinion, much less traumatizing because you can't really see the demons, they're just faces overlaid onto a screen.<br><br>I like to think of what they say in The Shining, which is "Only you can prevent forest fires." There's a true version where a live-action bear is set on fire, and it's obviously not a real bear, but that's not the point. The point is that you can look in that bear's eyes and see that he's scared, and that's what makes it (to me) so much more suspensful. When they recreated that scene with CGI, they obviously couldn't do that, because it's unlikely you can look into a computer algorithm and see emotion. It's not necessarily that it's fake, it's that it's not in front of you. You can't feel it's presence there, whereas any physical object you can touch, even if you're just imagining what's going on, can create that feeling of dread.<br><br>TL;DR: I think that the entertainment industry relies way too much on CGI to make it look "realistic" instead of using practical effects that can be seen and felt in front of you.