The most pointless uses of CGI effects in movie history

If movie or series have a huge dragon or located in a another world like game of throne or star wars, then conputer effects or C.G.I is the anwer. Ever since the late 1980s, CGI has become an affordable way for movie studio, it’s also not only for making great effect but also for the most arbitrary and minor reasons.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The character, Tobey Maguire in this film, must be bald. But doing so, his contract required $15.000 to shave his head. So the director, Terry Gilliam, used a bald cap with CGI instead. But it was more expensive for them in the end.

Ghost Rider
Appart from keeping his agent very bust, one of Nicolas Cage’s hobbies is to stay in shape. But unfortunately this 42 year old was not shape enoght for this movie, so the producers used CGI to make his abs bigger in the post-production.

Waterworld
The 1995’s movie, Waterworld, not only have script issues but it also have “water” issue. The water apparently not realistic enough, so the CGI staff added some blue stuff to fill out backdrops and they also improve splashes.

Your Highness
Because the movie is a R-rated movie, but there was a problem regarding Natalie Portman’s derriere is not suitable for young audiences. So they make a digitally shaped thong to solve the problem.

Blood Diamond
At the post-production, the tragic phone-call scene at the end of “Blood Diamon”, they decided that Jennifer Connelly’s expression was not distressed enogh. The CGI staff added some effect to add tears to her face.

Survey Finds Movie Actually Unite Countries

Whether “Iron Man 3” or “Gangnam Style,” movies, YouTube videos, music or tv shows are breaking the cultural and language barriers like never before. Supported through the growing of social media websites, entertainment is turning into a huge tool for connecting many countries around the world. That’s the bottom line of Edelman’s annual survey of consumer attitudes toward entertainment.

The survey firm asked consumers in 10 different countries and they found out that 67% of the respondents do believe that sharing and watching media has made them a stronger bond with other countries than before.

“In markets like Brazil and China and India, people are looking for more ways to interact with the rest of the world and they’re using entertainment to create a global link,” says Gail Becker, chair, U.S. Western Region, Canada and Latin America for Edelman.

The research has been excecuted for about seven years. But this year, Edelman’s research will go outside of the U.S. and the U.K. and will include other countries like Brazil, China and Korea that have become more important to Hollywood’s industry.

“I would like to think that the list of countries will be malleable as the world shifts,” Becker said. “I can’t imagine going back and just looking at the U.S. and the U.K. again. Global connectedness has really changed and transformed the way the world looks.”

More and more, movies such as “Iron Man 3” or “Fast & Furious 6” their stories are being made in foreign countries and with some actor/actress whom are drawn from a global talent pool. It’s an identification of a shift that has seen 70 percent of box office receipts come from abroad.

One year ago, as an example, China started to be the second biggest market for films, and experts now predict that it will exceed the U.S. in 2020.

Simultaneously, the booming of South Korean musician Psy’s single “Gangnam Style,” that has become the first YouTube video to achieve 1 billion views, indicates that although these cultural divides and yet they can be very successful.

But the survey says, U.S. and the U.K. people is still behind foreign consumers in regards to a willingness to watching a subtitled film. 60% of participants had watched or listened to entertainment in a language they don’t speak in comparison to 41% in the U.S., U.K. and Germany.