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Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI by russdill on Sunday November 14, 2021 @01:27PM (#29219249)
Seems like if you just wanted the side shot and not the straight on shot as well, you could of just pulled the helicopter on a low trailer using the median partition to block. The straight on shot would of required deleting the trailer which may have been difficult but certainly would look better than any CGI attempt
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Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI by capableweb on Sunday November 14, 2021 @01:33PM (#29219300)
Or just CGI. But as Cameron himself puts it (copied from the article linked in parent):

> we could’ve run a CG helicopter under the freeway overpass, but it was so much more fun to do the real thing.

I'm guessing the same applies from pulling a helicopter on a trailer. It's simply not fun.

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