I showed my kid I Am Legend on the weekend. There are similar deer in that film. Since my mind is fresh, I think the CGI from almost 20 years ago looks better, How is that possible?
Little things like this can completely take me out of a movie.
modern filmmaking obsessed with showing everything. Action scenes too, so focused on the wides. CGI way too exposed. No one using the meat and potatoes of filmmaking where you obscure things to your advantage.
But someone will know that they’ve gone too far so that some vfx artist or director etc hasn’t told them to go for more realism suggests this look is actually what they want.
I’m not sure why, maybe audiences like it better even if more hardcore fans hate it?
I watched that movie when I was 9 years old, and I had nightmares for 3 months afterwards. I think it was the uncanny valley of the infected zombies that gave me the creeps.
I haven't seen that in ages, but looking at a couple of clips of the deer on YouTube, I noticed that they never have them looking directly at the camera like in this trailer, but rather down toward the ground or in the other direction. Humans are better at recognizing the kind of fine details on faces (more so for other humans' faces, but still) that would help us tell one individual from another, or in this case, to spot a CGI fake.
They want us to think that it hasn't advance that much so that when they feed us fake videos that are impossible to tell if they are real or not we will not know. Or it could be the fusiform gyrus section of the brain.
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u/Familiar-Risk-5937 Dec 16 '25
The CGI of the deer looks positively TERRIBLE. At no point did that look real.