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/Training_Pirate1000 4h ago

WHAT! I can't believe I watched CGI-slop and enjoyed it! I thought they were actually in space.

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u/CainFreemont 4h ago

The space was CGI but they went out and found real alien life for the film. Pretty dedicated!

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u/kfpswf 3h ago

CGI-slop

Is everything being labeled as slop now?... I'd like to call the current state of economy a capitalistic-slop.

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u/Training_Pirate1000 3h ago

That was a joke

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u/kfpswf 3h ago

No, I get that. But it is strange to see 'slop' being used for CGI instead of the usual 'AI'.

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u/Training_Pirate1000 3h ago

True. But the reason I’m using -slop to refer to CGI is to dilute the meaning of the word. I despise when the word -slop is used to refer to things unironically. Or things that aren’t A.I. People use -slop as legitimate criticism and it annoys me. So I use it ironically.

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u/1ndori 2h ago

The language-slop is getting ridic

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u/keptpounding 4h ago

I get what your saying but also Rocky being a puppet made his character look better then if it were cgi

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u/Training_Pirate1000 4h ago

Mandalorian and Grogu used legitimate puppetry for many of the aliens, including Grogu. CGI isn't why Mando underperformed

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u/keptpounding 4h ago

Yeah no one cares about Mando or star wars for that matter. Disney ruined it as expected.

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u/PRSArchon 3h ago

Except he was CGI in most scenes..

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u/FribonFire 4h ago

You mean in the very few scenes it was a puppet, and even then they went over the top of it with CG to touch it up and make it look good?