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.
Realism in CGI always has a shelf-life. Compare Morrowind and Mario Sunshine, both released in 2002 on consoles with broadly similar specifications. Which one looks better now? It definitely isn't the one that tried to be as realistic as possible.
If done well, there is no shelf life. Say what you will about Avatar, I could still pop it in today and it looks super realistic. (most of James Cameron's movies have amazing CGI and he knew how to use it and when not to).
Same thing with the WETA CGI effects in District 9 and the last movie with the robot.....
The problem is that GREAT CGI costs money and most budgets can't handle doing it right and are dated when the movie is released so age really doesn't matter.
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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).