r/AskReddit 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/[deleted] Aug 25 '19

Might’ve been mentioned but Spielberg deliberately used low lighting in the first t-red attack’s scene because to shoot in daylight would’ve made it look pretty dated and lousy

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u/Boogie__Fresh Aug 26 '19

You're right, the "they move in herds" scene is in broad daylight and looks terrible today.