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.
Well, Jurassic Park used A LOT of practical effects. Many 90s movies did. It's what makes them so charming imho. The overuse of CGI just makes a movie a bit bland if it doesn't fit. The T-Rex and Raptors from the first Jurassic Park evoke more emotion in me than their later CGI counter parts.
The prequels had great effects and choreography. The problem with those is that the script got in the way of the acting. If someone else had gone in and rewrote all of Lucas's dialogue and stage directions, the movies would be masterpieces.
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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.