CGI films seem to be suffering from the fact that some of them don't know what they want to be.
They all want to be kids movies or family films, that all ages can enjoy. Now, when that is a film's goal, I have nothing wrong with that.
But it comes across as a detriment to a film that would otherwise have had an interesting, mature premise.
Take Beowulf for example. It could have been a soaring epic, like the poem itself, but then they throw in the nude fight, to make it look "edgy". Then it just turns ridiculous. This is a problem that occurs when a film tries to over compensate, they put in pointless crap like this to show they're HARDCORE!
Or, you have a film like A Christmas Carol, the Jim Carrey one. So, you intend to make the most faithful adaptation of the book ever, right down to the Victorian Era syntax, and then you throw in some random action scenes that do nothing to advance the plot. They come off as distracting, and were obviously thrown in so the animators could show off their skills.
Why does this have to happen? Is it so hard to make an animated CGI film that is aimed squarely at older audiences? Why do most films that almost reach this result have to suddenly throw in something aimed at kids or lame jokes?
Now, despite my reservations against Anime, I will say this. The only CGI film I have seen that is aimed at older audiences and worked was Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. It knew what its target audience was, and it adapted accordingly to fulfill their expectations.
So why must all these Western CGI films that try to appeal to older viewers have to be bogged down in crap that only appeals to children?
They all want to be kids movies or family films, that all ages can enjoy. Now, when that is a film's goal, I have nothing wrong with that.
But it comes across as a detriment to a film that would otherwise have had an interesting, mature premise.
Take Beowulf for example. It could have been a soaring epic, like the poem itself, but then they throw in the nude fight, to make it look "edgy". Then it just turns ridiculous. This is a problem that occurs when a film tries to over compensate, they put in pointless crap like this to show they're HARDCORE!
Or, you have a film like A Christmas Carol, the Jim Carrey one. So, you intend to make the most faithful adaptation of the book ever, right down to the Victorian Era syntax, and then you throw in some random action scenes that do nothing to advance the plot. They come off as distracting, and were obviously thrown in so the animators could show off their skills.
Why does this have to happen? Is it so hard to make an animated CGI film that is aimed squarely at older audiences? Why do most films that almost reach this result have to suddenly throw in something aimed at kids or lame jokes?
Now, despite my reservations against Anime, I will say this. The only CGI film I have seen that is aimed at older audiences and worked was Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. It knew what its target audience was, and it adapted accordingly to fulfill their expectations.
So why must all these Western CGI films that try to appeal to older viewers have to be bogged down in crap that only appeals to children?