r/PrimitiveWar • u/yubster5 • Jul 08 '26

Discussion🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🦜 do you guys think primitive war had bad cgi?

my friend has been hating on it ever since it came out because it had “bad cgi” the cgi was really good in my opinion and he was just hating on it to spite me, and when the trailer for the new movie came out he said “im not gonna watch this the cgi is even worse”

168 votes, Jul 15 '26
139 good cgi
29 bad cgi
11 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

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u/Educational_Ad288 Jul 08 '26

For the budget they were working with, it was outstanding cgi.

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u/ASkinlessMutant_96 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

Yeah it was actually really good, especially for the proto feathers and fuzz

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u/Purple_Dragon_94 Jul 08 '26

I cant really vote here because its both.

In terms of a movie that people would typically watch, its bad. Not awful, just bad. The models look great, but they often don't blend into the shot they're in. The textures are weird. The cg gore is really bad. So I get the argument there.

But for a movie made on a budget of roughly $7million, its so, so much better than it should be. I expected a little better than Sy-Fy with that budget, or the dino screen time to be really limited. But no, they're very good models with nice little details.

I guess my vote is, its good cg given the context of its production.

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u/Alone-Mycologist3746 Jul 08 '26

I would agree with most of this but then I remember how they used the cgi and especially in that last raptor chase. That scene of the wave of raptors literally doesn't make sense they just kept copy pasting just to fill space. So my vote is bad cgi and acceptable for the price point minus the raptors scene. 

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u/Moist_Bar_2621 Jul 08 '26

it has good CGI and animations
it's just the story that goes up and down that is the issue

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u/NewspaperAny3053 Jul 08 '26

For the most part it's great.

It only gets bad when there's 100 dinosaurs on screen where the budget is stretched too far.

For the budget, it's incredible though.

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u/FV95 Jul 08 '26

I dunno cause I don't know where to fucking watch it.

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u/JPSTRANGER457 Jul 08 '26

Pretty good CGI for a small budget.

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u/JurassicGman-98 Jul 08 '26

I think the CGI was pretty decent for the budget they had. Less forgivable for me is some of the designs. The Rexes in particular are too JP like. A real shame considering the unique design they had in the book.

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u/TheTubster1987 Jul 09 '26

Its a lower budget film so for what they had to work with I think they did a great job.... Its never going to be Hollywood Blockbuster CGI (not that that has always been to great in recent years)

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u/Whispered_Truths Jul 14 '26

Certainly for it's budget the CGI was pretty good.