There’s a clear thread of human effort and presence from The Muppets to Space Jam to Dune that this Odyssey movie’s creators understood. People want Amelié, not Avengers. It’s fine to use so much CGI that your film can’t be re-exported in 4K (yes, that’s why) so long as you have people wearing stuff and standing in front of other stuff. It’s not fine to film your entire movie with mocap bodysuits on green backgrounds and having them perform to a tennis ball as co-actor that will be AI-generated from a dead actor later. I probably won’t watch the Odyssey but I will absolutely celebrate this aspect of it to others now that I know.
'The Odyssey' Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way
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#13It's one of the greatest stories of all time directed by Nolan. CGI or not, whatever.
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#15What we want are good movies, not fast food entertainment.
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#16Just to be clear, the top grossing movie so far this year: Super Mario Galaxy. And #3: Toy Story 5 In 2025 all the top 10 films were either 3D animation or CGI-heavy action, with one exception: F1 used a lot of practical effects. Maybe the problem with Moana and Mandalorian is that even lazy uninformed movie-goers recognized an empty cash-grab when they saw the trailer.
I think the article is omitting animated features as they’re treated as family/children’s films, and not really held to the same standards as dramatic movies for adult audiences
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#17Just to be clear, the top grossing movie so far this year: Super Mario Galaxy. And #3: Toy Story 5 In 2025 all the top 10 films were either 3D animation or CGI-heavy action, with one exception: F1 used a lot of practical effects. Maybe the problem with Moana and Mandalorian is that even lazy uninformed movie-goers recognized an empty cash-grab when they saw the trailer.
I think the article is omitting animated features as they’re treated as family/children’s films, and not really held to the same standards as dramatic movies for adult audiences
But Moana and the Mandalorian are family/children's films.
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#18Just to be clear, the top grossing movie so far this year: Super Mario Galaxy. And #3: Toy Story 5 In 2025 all the top 10 films were either 3D animation or CGI-heavy action, with one exception: F1 used a lot of practical effects. Maybe the problem with Moana and Mandalorian is that even lazy uninformed movie-goers recognized an empty cash-grab when they saw the trailer.
And there were plenty of movies made "the hard way" that tanked at the box office.
"Crime 101", "Mercy", and "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" are three prominent star-driven, big-budget live-action movies that failed to turn a profit at the box office so far in 2026.
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#19On the specific no/low-CGI bent — I find the obsession with using this (mostly false) claim so utterly disrespectful to the people in VFX that have poured thousands upon thousands of hours of their lives into the craft, only to be actively derided (or outright denied) by producers hoping to capitalise on whatever this weird obsession is.
For anyone that hasn’t seen it but is interested in the topic, this series is HIGHLY worth a watch:
“NO CGI” is really just INVISIBLE CGI - 1 https://youtu.be/7ttG90raCNo
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#20WE. JUST. WANT. GOOD. STORIES. WELL. TOLD.