Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
by jacquesm on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:27AM
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Just go look at a 1980's science fiction movie and you'll see lots of really bad model shoots, dynamics all wrong and so on (even the big ticket ones like James Bond movies got it wrong routinely). But the audience wasn't as spoiled and likely never noticed, I only realized how cringy they were on re-watching with my spoiled 2021 eyes and mindset.
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Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
by officeplant on Monday November 15, 2021 @02:13PM
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I've really come around to appreciate the cringe. When you see obvious models or extremely bad painted backdrops edited in it makes me appreciate the attempt. Maybe I'll feel that way about bad CGI one of these days, but practical effects just hit different.
Re:The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI
by GekkePrutser on Monday November 15, 2021 @11:15PM
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I think what also doesn't help is that resolution is just much higher today. A lot of model clips would have been smoothed over by the low resolution but these days we all watch the 1080p or 4k remasters.
Some stuff that stands out to me was star trek tng where you can see the wood grain in things like doorways even though they're painted. No way that would have been visible on TV.