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Last time I watch Terminator 2, I stopped frame by frame during the mall shooting scene, and I realized how cheap some effects were, but how editing made it sub

Last time I watch Terminator 2, I stopped frame by frame during the mall shooting scene, and I realized how cheap some effects were, but how editing made it subtly perfect. It just conveys the blow to represent the T1000 liquid metal visually. No need to do more. I think today's era is obese.. too much power, too available .. no constraint.. the movie gets lost in the technology.

lifeisstillgood 4y ago
I believe there is one shot in the final steelworks where Arnie is wrestling with a guy wrapped in tinfoil. But it's quick, not obvious and you just accept it as part of "metal dude killing people". It's only in freeze frame that you go - oh yeah.
jimbob45 4y ago
I know exactly which scene you’re talking about and I haven’t seen that movie in decades. I thought the point was to subvert audience expectations though. Cameron would have the first real SFX on screen be practical so that you think you’re going to see something fairly run-of-the-mill. Then, the shrapnel shrinks digitally and you realize T2 is like nothing you’ve seen.
- agumonkey 4y ago
  Well even the first bullet impacts were suspiciously strange but yeah you don't fully get slapped until the body regenerate. I really wonder how these people (movies, tv or music) felt about things and what emotions made them operate / edit / select shots and tricks to use.
duxup 4y ago
In the ILM documentary, they talked about T2, and how they could do some amazing new effects, but they could not do a large volume of them due to the complexity. They were very careful about how they used their resources. They had a surprisingly short amount of high end effects time in that film…but it doesn’t feel like it. Th film moves very fluidly and the effects blend from one to another without being jarring.

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Last time I watch Terminator 2, I stopped frame by frame during the mall shooting scene, and I realized how cheap some effects were, but how editing made it sub

by agumonkey 4y ago

lifeisstillgood 4y ago
I believe there is one shot in the final steelworks where Arnie is wrestling with a guy wrapped in tinfoil. But it's quick, not obvious and you just accept it as part of "metal dude killing people". It's only in freeze frame that you go - oh yeah.
jimbob45 4y ago
I know exactly which scene you’re talking about and I haven’t seen that movie in decades. I thought the point was to subvert audience expectations though. Cameron would have the first real SFX on screen be practical so that you think you’re going to see something fairly run-of-the-mill. Then, the shrapnel shrinks digitally and you realize T2 is like nothing you’ve seen.
- agumonkey 4y ago
  Well even the first bullet impacts were suspiciously strange but yeah you don't fully get slapped until the body regenerate. I really wonder how these people (movies, tv or music) felt about things and what emotions made them operate / edit / select shots and tricks to use.
duxup 4y ago
In the ILM documentary, they talked about T2, and how they could do some amazing new effects, but they could not do a large volume of them due to the complexity. They were very careful about how they used their resources. They had a surprisingly short amount of high end effects time in that film…but it doesn’t feel like it. Th film moves very fluidly and the effects blend from one to another without being jarring.