r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 4h ago

Article ‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way | This year's breakouts like 'Project Hail Mary' and 'Obsession' were made by filmmakers who sweated. While CG-stuffed franchise disappointments such as 'Supergirl,' 'Moana,' and 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' looked lazy.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/odyssey-box-office-2026-practical-effects-1236652219/
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u/GayFesh 4h ago

Christopher Nolan uses a massive amount of CGI in all his movies. He just likes to keep the effects grounded.

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u/JamesTheFoxeArt 4h ago

Oppenheimer is basically an exception to his Filmography, basically only film he tried to do everything Practical.

I mean like one of his most praised movies, Inception and Interstellar, would be impossible to do without any sort of CGI

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u/BigTomBombadil 4h ago

Memento? Been a few years but I don’t remember it being a movie that even needed CG. Much smaller scope and scale though

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u/GayFesh 3h ago

His early work is sans CG, but from Batman Begins onward he was always very reliant on it.

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u/Reynbou 4h ago

If you truly believe the narrative that there's no CGI in Oppenheimer, you've bought in to the marketing. It absolutely has CGI.

https://www.nme.com/news/film/no-special-effects-in-oppenheimer-is-clearly-not-true-says-vfx-supervisor-3488035

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u/JamesTheFoxeArt 4h ago

Well obviously there was digital image editing, but when people are talking about CGI, they are talking about the 3D effects and simulations like the Black Hole in Interstellar, and in that case Oppenheimer did not do that.

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u/SquareAdvisor8055 4h ago

Depends. He will use CGI when needed but he always seems to favor practical effects. Which is how everyone should probably do it imo.