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That said, there are a lot of bits in movies that have a lot of CGI where it would be easier and better looking to just shoot a puppet or something. Quite often you'll get a shot of a character's arm or head or a long shot where you don't see the character as much and they'll use a guy in a suit or a practical arm or leg or whatever. A lot of people will say "oh that CGI arm looked SO fake" when in reality it was an actual prop used in that shot. That sort of thing has been happening since Jurassic Park, and people have been calling out real props as fake and fake CGI bits as real. Micheal Bay gets slack a lot of times for having all this CGI mayhem in his movies, and while there's a lot of CGI in Transformers, there's a LOT of practical effects going on as well. More than a lot of directors would probably use. That's partly due to the budgets he's getting - it's cheaper to use CGI in most cases, which is why they use it - but it's mostly due to the fact that it looks better when you blow up a real car and have real sparks and all that. In this film people will call out the apes in most of the shots, but never even notice the fact that a lot of the shots in this are probably 100% special effects with layered plates, multiple takes, multiple shots blended into one longer shot, etc. Calling it all out is fine if you're studying how effects get made and interested in how films get put together, but in reality it makes about as much sense as calling out a stage play for having fake sets that look like painted plywood. They ARE painted plywood, of course, but you're missing the point if that's something that would detract from your experience too much. I think the CG thing is something that a lot of directors are starting to lay off of lately. You see a lot of practical effects being done now that would have been done with CG a decade ago. There are just certain things that you can't do with practical effects, and subtle movement and acting is one of them. There have been some really well done puppets and guys-in-suits in earlier films, but achieving that is really really hard in a film. It often costs a lot less time, effort and money to use CGI, and the results are often better than they would have been with a puppet, even if it still looks kinda fake. Just so you know, I'm not disagreeing or anything. I think CGI is over-used and I prefer practical stuff myself. I think a lot of people don't realize how often they use practical effects in more recent films, nor how much stuff they actually fake in films that most people never realize is fake. Plus, I like to write really long posts that only a few people will ever read.

wasn`t the reused phootage because of the accident and a last minute resort?