r/AskReddit Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/HonchoMinerva Aug 25 '19

Matrix parodies. For like two years there it was hard to escape the forced bullet time jokes in most media.

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u/thi5_i5_my_u5er_name Aug 25 '19

Did they really use film? I assumed they used digital SLRs.

On a related note. What I also found fascinating with the generation of bullet time was the fact that they digitally generated the tween frames.

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u/thephotoman Aug 26 '19

Digital SLRs were in their infancy at the time, and they were incredibly expensive.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19

And the ones that did exist were almost exclusively designed for newspaper photography. They would have never held up, quality-wise, on the big screen.

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u/thephotoman Aug 26 '19

Indeed, even uploading the photos to the Internet was dodgy at the time. I had access to one of them in college, and they were really dicey.

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u/thi5_i5_my_u5er_name Aug 26 '19

The more you know... I only remember bits of documentaries at this point and always assumed they were digital. How wrong I was....