I always thought Terminator 2 was the turning point, which pre-dates both movies, not sure how’s it aged though - it could be that the 90s were a transitionary decade for vfx and didn’t get consistently good until the late 90s/Matrix timeframe
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T2 was good due to good art direction despite the tech I’d say, like most 80s classics
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But cf 2001: A Space Odyssey & Star Wars.... It took many years to get back to that level of solid realism in CGI special effects, and arguably we're still not there
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Though realism is not as much the point as artistic vision rather than tech being the bottleneck. Now bad effects can’t be blamed on tech. Like Michael Bay Transfornwes are just bad, but not because of unrealism because it’s not realist intent. It’s artistically I’ll-conceived
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Jurassic Park also was masterful in using contextual tricks to cover up its limitations. Eg making this scene rainy + night time with lights makes the CGI much less obviouspic.twitter.com/Fi39pmYFQO
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Also check out this thread about Contact, which also uses Independence Day as a negative example. They came out within a year of each other https://twitter.com/foone/status/1031272972227555328?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1031272972227555328 …
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jurassic park predated independence day but yeah digital vfx sucked as a rule until the late 90s if you think about it, rendering would have been $$$$ and moreover take a long time on the calendar (just think toy story)
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but like the there-is-no-spoon spoon in the matrix (1999) looks janky af there is also a wrench floating in zero-g in event horizon (1997) which ruined the whole movie for me
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The old bad fx are sometimes still good. Evil Dead 2 and John Carpenter's The Thing are good examples. Also Ghostbusters.
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I always considered T2 and especially Titanic to be the turning points.
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