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Top Gun 2 was full of CGI…

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True, what people want is seamless VFX.

I watched Argylle and everything looks so fake. Most of it was shot on a green screen. Half the charm of an extravagant spy movie is taking us to exotic locales.

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Yes, but Argylle doesn’t take itself seriously at all. Which for me was a good thing

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Yeah, I didn’t mind the light tone but still felt like a fake movie. Like something you would see a fake trailer for in another comedy.

Super-fake looking locations and stunts.

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But also a ton of practical effects. The CGI was mostly there to help the practical effects, the movie wasn’t full on CGI like Avatar.

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None of the planes shown in the film ever left the ground.

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It was full of good CGI

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The cgi was used to remove the pilot of the f18. It wasn’t all cartoon look physics bending bs.

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Sure the physics of the flight were real as they were flying real aircraft.

However, it is against the air forces rules to fly so closely in formation. CGI was used to bring the jets closer together to look better on camera. The majority of the environments were CGI as they were not permitted to fly so close to the ground or obstacles. The entire opening sequence with the advanced fighter jet was entirely CGI as that plan does not exist. That’s what CGI looks like when you have the means, time, and budget. Plus combining that with practical effects, leads to the best results.

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Lots of practical effects as well. The flying was mostly practical. The used cgi to make the f18 look like a one seater but the flying was legit

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The flying was legit when looking at cockpits, but the planes were all fake. They actually created plane models that don’t exist in real life. You can bet that unless it was a scene with several humans on screen talking face to face, about 90% of what you were seeing was made by a computer animator.

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