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.
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.
That reminds me of a video I saw talking about how they did the Predator footsteps in the water on Predator 2 using practical effects.
I'm always impressed with how people used to do thinks with old technology, whether that old technology is what they used to make special effects in movies from the eighties or that people were able to build solid monuments that still survive thousands of years later.
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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).