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The overuse of CGI in the prequels have made them age badly. All the environments are starting to look like video games.
by vlunkr 11y ago
The overuse of CGI in the prequels have made them age badly. All the environments are starting to look like video games.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoYeah, but I'm not sure they looked good at the time either. Sure, they might have been impressive for CGI, but they don't look real to me, and I don't know if people thought they looked real at the time. I think that's probably because they used so much CG they weren't able to put the required work into each environment to achieve photorealism.
- ashark 11y agoThe touched-up "THX Enhanced" versions of the original three movies, where they digitally removed some of the matting artifacts and such, had more convincing and better-looking SFX than the prequels, for the most part. Movies like Jurassic Park and Independence Day that came out before the prequels (well before, in the case of JP) that used a blend of models/animatronics and CGI looked way better. The visuals in Ep. 1 were an obvious step backward the day it was released, no hindsight required.