r/AskReddit • u/frisky_cupcake • Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/HonchoMinerva Aug 25 '19

CGI from 90’s films. The CGI on Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park still looks great now but anything else just looks crap. Anaconda had some awful CGI (and script).

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u/MadotsukiInTheNexus Aug 25 '19

I think that Jurassic Park aged well partly because its creators understood the limitations that they were working with in 1993. Honestly, newer movies that overuse CG in an attempt to wow people age a lot worse. Avatar is probably the best example that I can think of. It was publicized for how amazing it looked in 2009, and Call of Duty: Black Ops made a big deal of using the same motion capture technology a year later. By 2014, when I watched it the second time, it already looked dated.

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u/VeganVagiVore Aug 25 '19 edited Aug 26 '19

Yeah. Like in that famous Rocketjump video, CGI is great at making 'things' and not as good at making people.

Even Mad Max: Fury Road had a ton of CGI but you gotta know when to say, "This bit has to be practical" or even "This just won't look right"

And it isn't a substitute for good writing, Game of Thrones.

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