# Now that we've got advanced CGI they should make... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037 "2009-11-26T15:56:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/21 "2009-11-27T04:03:43Z")
A trilogy of movies based on the entire tale of [Nausicaa of the valley of wind](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(manga)). Miyazaki even made the animated movie version of his manga, but it only covered about one third of the whole epic tale. I really want to see the god warrior in action and not wasted as it was in the animated movie. And so many giant bugs! Remember the attack of the giant bugs in King Kong? In Nausicaa those bugs are just the young ones. :eek: It should make that King Kong scene look like child’s renderings. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/22 "2009-11-27T07:25:18Z")
I’d love to see [Cordwainer Smith’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith) universe brought to life in a multi-part series. And/or **The Mote In God’s Eye**. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/23 "2009-11-27T11:33:45Z")
Brandon Lee as [Nightwing](http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/38220-5755-42916-1-nightwing_super.jpg) would be good, if they could do the voice. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/24 "2009-11-27T13:07:16Z")
C’mon. Are Lady Chance and I the ONLY ones hoping for PERN? You’ve got your intrigue, music, dragons fighting thread, and so forth. It would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/25 "2009-11-27T13:32:43Z")
I would love to see the [belisarius](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius_series) series, but done seriously like the [2007 version of Beowolf](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442933/) rather than like 300, though I liked 300. And yes, Pern would be good, Ringworld, as would a number of SF/fantasy books or series. however for the love of ghu, miniseries not movies … you cant do novels as a movie normally without losing stuff. Novellas and short stories are movie fodder. I seem to remember it being discussed in a thread that it turns into something like 1 to 1.5 minute per page of text when one makes a book into a movie. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/26 "2009-11-28T06:53:00Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > This thread was inspired by my reading that James Cameron had wanted to make **Avatar** ten years ago, but the graphics technology just wasn’t up to it at the time. It’s still not, IMO. Should’ve waited another 10 years, Jim! (of course, he’ll still make bucketloads of cash off it, so I guess he’s not going to cry himself to sleep over it)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/27 "2009-11-28T07:05:45Z")
> [@The\_Cleveland\_Steamer](#): > > CGI environments still look fake. King Kong didn’t exactly look real either but it’s a classic. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/28 "2009-11-28T07:11:31Z")
> [@Evil\_Jon](#): > > A **Warhammer 40,000** universe movie would rock. Like a Horus Heresy trilogy or something. Space Marines, deamons, Primarchs, aliens, it would be bad ass. > > (They are making a full cgi 40k movie about Ultramarines but I want a big budget, live action one.) It’s tough for most of us to relate to 8-10 foot tall supermen who spit acid. It might be better to focus on members of the Imperial Guard who are at least human. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/29 "2009-11-30T06:16:21Z")
The entire Robotech saga, especially Sentinels, Genesis, and Malcontent Uprisings ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/30 "2009-11-30T06:32:12Z")
Am I the only one who would like to see Powered Armor done right? I’d enjoy Starship Trooper by Robert Heinlein, with a plot that is 70% close to the book. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/31 "2009-11-30T08:48:07Z")
I want to see Great Cthulhu raising up from the ocean causing wanton destruction and the end of human civilization. Unlike 2012 or the Day After Tomorrow, mankind is utterly screwed with no hope for survival. Now this is one disaster porn flick which I will watch. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/32 "2009-11-30T13:19:47Z")
I’d like to see a movie based on Final Fantasy X. Perhaps something dealing with Auron up to his first death. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/33 "2009-11-30T14:54:22Z")
> [@The\_Cleveland\_Steamer](#): > > CGI environments still look fake. I think the issue is not that CGI has improved all that much over the years (it really hasn’t – you can just do more CGI – like an entire scene), but that people’s expectation of what good special effects look like have been lowered. Even a phony-looking CGI (like the clips I’ve seen from **Avatar** ) aren’t all that realistic. It’s odd. People claim they want more realism in their movies, yet are willing to accept amazingly fake-looking CGI. I still say that if the first thing you notice about a film is its special effects (CGI or otherwise), the film is a failure. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/34 "2009-11-30T17:02:17Z")
Lots of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Mars, Venus, Pellucidar. Robert Heinlein. _Starship Troopers,Space Cadet, The Rolling Stones, Red Planet._ I seem to be the only person on the planet who liked the TV miniseries version of _The Martian Chronicles_. Perhaps a big-budget remake would work. Arthur C. Clarke’s _Childhood’s End_. The plot is not very cinematic, but the visuals would be spectacular. How about some cast-of-thousands historical epics? Roman legions, knights in armor, some of the Chinese civil wars, samurai wars, Zulus. Mythology. _The Ten Commandments_, the Hindu epics. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/35 "2009-11-30T17:29:12Z")
The Book of Revelation- no commentary, no interpretation- just Seven-Horned Lambs, Six-winged Seraphim, Seven-Headed Leopard-Lion-Bear and Lamb-Horned Dragon-Mouthed Beasts, Blood-Drunk Whores, Falling Wormwood Stars, Celestials Brides, Crystalline-Bejeweled Cities, Blood, Fire, Bloody Fire, and Fiery Blood! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/36 "2009-11-30T17:34:46Z")
I’d like to see Fredric Brown’s short story **Arena** done properly. With CGI, you could definitely do it. I’ve fiolmed it in my head. That goes for a lot of SF films I’ve wanted to see done. I’d like to see **The Stars me Destination** filmed – the opening would be a killer opening, whether you liked SF or not. With a creative director I think you could do a helluva job on **The Demolished Man** , too – especially the telepathy scenes. In uncreative hands, though, it’d be worse than awful. I’d like to see them film Harlan Ellison’s script for **I, Robot** with CGI. Or maybe film some Heinlein _without_ rewriting it. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/37 "2009-11-30T17:38:10Z")
C. J. Cherryh’s _Chanur_ novels. Probably re-worked to be told from the perspective of Tully. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/38 "2009-11-30T18:10:30Z")
> [@phreesh](#): > > [Dragonlance Chronicles] is my favorite fantasy series ever, including LOTR. I’m actually kind of glad they’ve held off because it’s only now that the CGI is good enough to pull off an entire war of dragons. I hope they do it within my lifetime. Same here, and do it right this time. And by “this time”, I mean “for the first time”. [This](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Y7U996?ie=UTF8&tag=cinemagineltd&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000Y7U996) does not exist. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/39 "2009-11-30T18:28:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’d like to see **The Stars me Destination** filmed – Gully Foyle was Jamaican? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-weve-got-advanced-cgi-they-should-make/519037/40 "2009-11-30T18:30:56Z")
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