While many fans describe The Flash as one of the best DC movies, others are in doubt because of the “weird” CGI in some scenes. Director Andy Muschietti spoke about this and said that the visual effects design was done like this “on purpose.” Read more here!
Lately The Flash and Andy Muschietti They are on the lips of many. The new movie of DC It’s already in theaters and while it garnered (and continues to garner) rave reviews, there are some who leave with a sour taste in their mouths for the visual effects. The Argentine director, who will officially direct The Brave and the Bold, talked about the CGI”queer” of the delivery and explained why it looks like this.
Since the premiere of Flash at CinemaCon the film is gaining the approval of the public. However, as more people go to see it at the cinema, a lot of criticism of the CGI of the installment begins to accumulate, as if they had not been able to finish it on time. Unfortunately, this type of negative commentary on visual effects is becoming commonplace in superhero movies (or in live-actions of Disneysuch as The little Mermaid). However, with Flash seems to be a different case.
Let’s keep in mind that Flash He’s not your run-of-the-mill superhero. Precisely, his powers make Barry Allen see the world differently when you run at full speed. This is why, according to muschiettithe film has visual effects “rare”. Because we would be seeing everything from the protagonist’s perspective on multiple occasions.
An example is seen at the beginning of the film, when Barry runs to Gotham to help bruce wayne (the one of Ben Affleck) to stop a building that is about to fall. Here, Flash He has to act in milliseconds and save some babies that were in a nursery. The middle io9 just asked muschietti if it was intentional that in that scene the visual effects were seen “rare”.
“The idea, of course, is… we are in the perspective of Flash”, said the Argentine director. “Everything is distorted in terms of lights and textures. We enter this ‘aquatic world’ which is basically being in the POV of Barry. It was part of the design, so if it seems a little weird to you, that was the intention.”, he explained.
So now you know, if in some scenes it seems to you that the CGI looks strange, it is because you would be looking at it from the eyes of Barry Allen. It is a valid justification that surely many will not want to believe, especially knowing that the visual effects were not finished in the first screenings of the film.
We’ll see if Flash continues to accumulate negative feedback for the effects or if this explanation of Andy Muschietti reassures the audience. If you haven’t seen it yet, the new DC movie hit Argentine theaters on June 15.