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As someone who grew up with movies with CGI, older movies look fake to me. Puppet Yoda from the 1980s looks extremely cheesy and fake and really takes me out o
by JaceLightning 5y ago
As someone who grew up with movies with CGI, older movies look fake to me.
Puppet Yoda from the 1980s looks extremely cheesy and fake and really takes me out of the movie. You can tell he's a puppet so he doesn't look like he fits in the real world.
Similar with other practical effects. At the beginning of Star wars episode 1, the ship was blown up and it looks like it's made out of cardboard. To me that looks very fake. Metal doesn't explode like cardboard does.
- JaceLightning 5y agoHere is the video I'm talking about https://youtu.be/3RCYs0N5Wsc https://youtu.be/3RCYs0N5Wsc If a spacecraft is made out of metal with multiple decks, you'd expect it to bend and warp. Not explode like cardboard, ripping apart.
- spc476 5y agoSome years ago, I was at my cousin's house watching some movies on his HDTV. The first movie was "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," which I recall seeing in movie theaters when it was released in 1982 (as I date myself here). I think STII is the best of the Star Trek movies and still holds up to this day, but watching on that HDTV was painful! I could see the costumes. I could see the cheapness of the set. It just looked cheap, and not at all like the incredible spectacle I remember from the movie theater (or on repeated rewatchings on TV). The next movie was "Ronin" (1998). Great movie, but on HDTV, it looked like a cheap TV soap opera. Again, it was painful to watch. On the movie screen? Or a normal TV? Incredible. HDTV presents a level of fidelity that older movies can't properly deal with, which you may be picking up on (as someone who not only saw "Empire Strikes Back" in theaters, but still think the puppet looks much better than the CGI version).