^^^ I too was amazed when I watched the behind the scenes feature to find out that the entire "forest" was just one massive set built from scratch. It looked extremely convincing, especially at the beginning of the movie during the daylight scenes. Some of the other locales were obviously set pieces like The Great Tree, but the main forest area looked as real as real can be.
And I feel the same way about modern CGI effects and how movie studios have an over-reliance on them. The biggest and most blatant example is the Star Wars "prequels", where like 98% of the entire movies are CGI and the "actors" all play out their scenes in sound stages surrounded by blue and green screens. It completely ruins the feel of the movie and makes the viewers' "suspension of disbelief" come crashing down to Earth. Give me the classic trilogy with its mini-scale models and stop-motion animation any day... at least it makes the films look much more believable and realistic.
On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.
