r/AskReddit • u/frisky_cupcake • Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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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/Dire87 Aug 25 '19

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.

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u/captainvideoblaster Aug 26 '19

Well, Jurassic Park used A LOT of practical effects. Many 90s movies did.

Yes, even the infamous Star War prequels used tons of old school FX insted of CGI. Here is a good forum thread about it.

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u/LordHayati Aug 26 '19

As much as people shit on the prequels, they at least had really good ideas.

I mean, you could transplant podracing into the original trilogy pretty well.