My feelings on the VFX are much the same as my feeling on the movie.

looks like a Scooby-Doo movie instead or a proper horror comedy like the original movies. Cheap as fuck

Next week: Germain will discuss the amazing voice acting in Tobey Maguire’s 2001 movie, Cats & Dogs.

What makes them beautiful? I saw the same effects in the Scooby Doo movies and better in The Frighteners, which is now twenty years old.

I don’t think your opponent here is anything more than a construct. There were some people who were vocal about the film looking stupid and unnecessary from its inception, but I don’t think anyone got to Phantom Menace levels of nerdrage over it.

I didn’t care for how Technicolor they were. Yes the ghosts had color in the original Ghostbusters but they weren’t nearly as in-your-face, Vegas-after-dark as the new ones were. It was like they were in a circus parade or something.

Everything’s political lately.

Most of the FX are recycled from Amazing Spider-Man 2. Both films use the same virtual Times Square set. The same techniques used to transform Jamie Fox into Electro are used to turn some of the actors into ghosts. Electro’s energy attacks are the streams from the proton packs.

It’s that everything is bright neon. There’s no subtlety.

Yeah, that reel demonstrates one of Paul Feig’s greatest weaknesses as a director: lack of restraint. I don’t find any of his movies funny or entertaining... and Ghostbusters was, while not the total trainwreck I was expecting, neither funny nor entertaining nor scary. It was just meh.

Some pretty crummy VFX.

I feel like I’m never going to entirely understand the need to prop up what was, on the whole, a singularly unimpressive cinematic outing.

I thought the movie was “meh”. The ladies did a good job and were the best part of the movie, but the movie just wasn’t put together well. I thought the effects of the ghosts were the worst part of the movie. I just didn’t like how they were done.

Yeah fancy CG tool you got there too bad it has no substance or soul. It’s spoiled animators who have no ambitions because there’s no roadblocks. They know they can do anything. They’re just going through the motions.

It was the effects that actually turned me off seeing this movie. I'll check out the blue ray after seeing this effects reel though.

“The Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed VFX reel is beautiful.”

I was planning to avoid it anyway, if only because of how utterly pretentious it looks. So I guess the dog dying kind of seals that deal.

I kinda stopped reading when I found out he just recently put the proposal in there. Ruined it for me because as I started reading it I had thoughts that maybe he put the note in there 5 years ago figuring if they were still together after 5 years it’d be time to pop the question. That would have been fucking awesome…