Yea, Raimi Spiderman films had some of the best CGI action. Spiderman 3's action was better than most superhero films today too in my opinion, the Peter Parker vs New Goblin fight, and the black Spidey vs Sandman fight was amazing.
One of my favorite action/fight scenes has always been the final fight between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin in the first Spider-Man movie. It's one of the few fights where the hero gets completely thrashed by the villain. It all looks and feels real too with minimal CGI. I dig the mix of slow mo and real time and Raimi's classic editing. It always felt like a real fight without excessive choreography or wire work. Just two guys beating the **** out of each other.
I think I've mentioned this before (maybe in one of the old ASM or ASM2 threads), but I remember when Spidey is getting his face smashed in, a mom took her kids and left that showing.
The CGI was awful.
Peter Parker vs New Goblin fight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmbtYr-47O0
Man, that is painful to watch. I think a lot of the CG in LOTR was even better.
Black Spidey vs Sandman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL2HhkpyBBE
While not quite as bad as the above scene, this one still reeks of bad CG.
Bad CG in a bad movie.
Love that goblin vs Parker fight, exhilarating as hell
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One of my favorite superhero action/fight scenes has always been the final fight between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin in the first Spider-Man movie. It's one of the few fights where the hero gets completely thrashed by the villain. It all looks and feels real too with minimal CGI. I dig the mix of slow mo and real time and Raimi's classic editing. It always felt like a real fight without excessive choreography or wire work. Just two guys beating the **** out of each other.
I think I've mentioned this before (maybe in one of the old ASM or ASM2 threads), but I remember when Spidey is getting his face smashed in, a mom took her kids and left that showing.
Doesn't look that bad for a movie almost a decade old, hell, Spiderman and Black Panther didn't really hold up CGI wise in CW by today's standards in my opinion.
Man, all the folks at both the CW thread and this thread are talking about are the fight scenes. The DC fraction proclaims their action better (and treats it as fact), and the Fox-Men fraction proclaims their action is better (and treats it as fact). But hey, the MCU is getting trashed in both threads, so I guess there's a constant amongst the sea of opinions...
Man, all the folks at both the CW thread and this thread are talking about are the fight scenes. The DC fraction proclaims their action better (and treats it as fact), and the Fox-Men fraction proclaims their action is better (and treats it as fact). But hey, the MCU is getting trashed in both threads, so I guess there's a constant amongst the sea of opinions...
I don't get the whole dated argument. All movies with action sequences or heavy special effects become dated at some point...all of them. The Matrix is dated as hell, but the action was innovative and it influenced many Hollywood films, and yet despite the dated action the film and those sequences are still awesome.
Yeah, I was also going to bring up some action stuff from the '70s and '80s as not looking dated at all. Freaking Predator! Looks more "realistic" than any comic book movie, and it came out in 1987. But they weren't as over the top, and when you got to more fantastic stuff like the Alien Queen from Aliens or massive nuclear-type explosions, of course that stuff does look better nowadays. Not withstanding the Final Countdown, which is still the high water mark.
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