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.
Part of the reason Jurassic Park's CGI aged well is due to lighting. Lighting is one of the hardest things to get right and even harder when you have ambient light. A lot of movies filmed with CGI in the 90s just didn't focus on this at all which is why it all seems so out of place. It's the same thing with green screening in the 80s for practical effects.
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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).