I bet the CGI was better in 300, though! The problem I have with Spartacus's cgi is that it's so over the top, the skies are so faked, that it makes me go "oh god" when I think that they want me to go "oooh!"
I did really enjoy the effects in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, though, which is similarly filmed on a soundstage and all done with cgi, possibly because it had a really unified feel and was consistently comic-booky. With Spartacus, I feel like they want me to believe that the pillars are real even as they're painting the sky just RIDICULOUS colors.
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I did really enjoy the effects in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, though, which is similarly filmed on a soundstage and all done with cgi, possibly because it had a really unified feel and was consistently comic-booky. With Spartacus, I feel like they want me to believe that the pillars are real even as they're painting the sky just RIDICULOUS colors.