Subj : Re: Prometheus
To   : jack phlash
From : esc
Date : Tue Jul 16 2024 09:53 pm

 jp> Man man! I've probably told this anecdote on here before, but I had a
 jp> very similar experience with The Matrix. My brother and I had always
 jp> kind of rooted for Keanu Reeves since Bill & Ted, and Johnny Mnemonic
 jp> from earlier in the decade is kind of a guilty pleasure. Saw the trailer
 jp> - didn't know WTF it was supposed to be, just a lot of action scenes, so
 jp> one day we just kind of randomly decided to go see it. Blown away. None
 jp> of my friends had seen it; like, no one was talking about it at first...
 jp> but that didn't last too long.

I consider that movie and Jurassic Park to be the pinnacle of using practical effects with some moderate CGI type stuff to produce a really breathtaking, suspension-of-disbelief cinematic experience. For both of those films, their direct sequels fucked up the equation and relied too much on CGI, like everything else since. It sucks. Those films were real standouts and will forever be heralded as near perfect representations of their respective genres.

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