Films a question on special effects?!
Question: In a film with special effects and all that do you think that they should make it as realistic to the laws of physic as possible or just forget it and make all kinds of s**t happen to make it look cool.
Answers: In a film with special effects and all that do you think that they should make it as realistic to the laws of physic as possible or just forget it and make all kinds of s**t happen to make it look cool.
It depends on the movie -- in things like The Matrix, Star Wars, etc., you discard logic and the laws of physics, and you go all out.
However, I would argue that the best looking visual effects, the ones that make people sit up and say "Wow, that was awesome!" are the ones that do obey the laws of physics. I'm not saying that they need to be unimpressive, or even plausible, but they need to look like they're really happening. You do an incredible amount of physics and optics in your brain, instantaneously, without knowing you're doing it. In a lot of movies when people say "that looked fake" they don't know why it looked fake. it just did: something about it wasn't right -- it's almost always because it violated the laws of physics: we know inherently how things fall, how things fly, how things interact with the world, how light acts, even if we could never describe these things and even if we don't know we know it. And when things don't look right, the effects look fake.
Too often, when filmmakers forgo the laws of physics for the purpose of "looking cool" they're doing themselves a disservice, because it ends up looking fake.
if they make it look real, then it usually looks like ***. BLOW ALL KINDS OF **** UP!!!! Worry about the reality of it later.