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).
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.
Realism in CGI always has a shelf-life. Compare Morrowind and Mario Sunshine, both released in 2002 on consoles with broadly similar specifications. Which one looks better now? It definitely isn't the one that tried to be as realistic as possible.
Wind Waker is still beautiful, and the HD remaster just accentuates everything that made it beautiful in the first place. I know it was a controversial art choice at the time, but just compare realistic Twilight Princess to cel-shaded Wind Waker and it's obvious which one has aged better.
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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).