#645 – How CGI ruined movies (new episodes air 08/15/22)

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this free-for-all-Friday, Trent shares why he loved the realism of Top Gun: Maverick and bemoans the lack of realism in modern CGI-driven storytelling.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:07.0	You're writing checks, your body can't cash.
0:16.7	That's right, I'm talking about Top Gun, Maverick.
0:20.0	In 1969, the United States Navy created Fighter Weapons School, but they call it Top Gun.
0:25.9	Oh man, it's such a good movie.
0:28.4	It's so good, it made me realize why CGI, computer generated images are so bad, even though
0:35.5	they were so good at one point.
0:38.4	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:40.0	I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.
0:43.3	Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk of apologetics and theology.
0:46.1	We talk about defending the Catholic faith, but on Friday, we talk about whatever I want
0:49.8	to talk about because it is free for all Friday.
0:52.5	Anything I want to talk about.
0:54.1	I want to talk about this because I went and saw Top Gun, Maverick, and it was just such
0:58.4	a good movie.
0:59.4	It's sad, actually.
1:02.6	I can't remember the last time I went to the theaters to see a non-marvel movie.
1:09.0	Just because there haven't been a lot of movies that I thought were really interesting or
1:13.3	worth going out and seeing.
1:14.9	I know they had the pandemic, so that shut down movie theaters for a while.
1:19.4	I remember going out, I remember going with a friend to see Jurassic World, which we will
1:23.4	talk about.
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